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State of twenty-five nature study leaflets conspicuously adapted to the 
wants of our great rural population. 
In our educational centers we note with pleasure the extension of 
laboratories, the growth of cabinets and library facilities. Attention is 
also called to the gratifying fact that recently the ofhce of State Ento- 
mologist has been created and worthily filled. 
An event of unusual significance to those who have occasion from 
time to time to consult the scientific publications in the State Library is 
the fact that during the year ‘9S the large and growing science accumula- 
tions of the Academy of Science and of the Brookville Natural Science 
Club have been made available to the general public by being placed 
upon the shelves of the State Library. 
Two thoughts are suggested here as a conclusion: 
1. Such valuable results as we are now securing in works like the 
birds and the phanerogams of the State, its clays and coals, have been 
reached only by the organization of our scientists, and through their in- 
crease and their development of ideas and enthusiasm, resulting certainly 
in a marked degree from the «thirteen years’ influence of the Academy of 
Science. 
2. The official relation which we sustain to the State has brought the 
feet of our scientists to the ground and the economic aspects of their 
studies are being emphasized as never before. 
' At best this is but an imperfect and rapidly dissolving view of the 
teeming and multiplying scientific progress within Indiana’s borders. A 
wise choice of topics would perhaps have given the whole time of this 
address to a review of progress in Indiana since 1885, but I must leave 
that inspiring theme to some future historian. 
To-night, fellow-workers, I greet you and congratulate you upon work 
worthily done. Fame may not always follow endeavor, but. whether 
public recognition of work attempted and results accomplished ever comes 
or not, the true scientist knows that his highest compensation is in the 
opportunity for service, and he is at peace with his environment. 
SERVICES OF MATITEMATICS,. 
Of the twelve gentlemen who have preceded me in addressing the 
Indiana Academy of Science on occasions similar to the present, three 
might have interested vou with a mathematical topic, but they did not. 
