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nations in T of Terence. The point I want to get at is that this is not 
advanced work, and the student will net gain enthusiasm. I do not think 
we ought to mistake for advanced study this very elemental work, the 
things that are of no consequence, and just so far as we allow our young 
men to do this elementary work, so far will we find them going out as 
teachers without enthusiasm, and saying that it is impossible in this 
country ever to see another Darwin. (Applause. ) 
Mr. DENNIS: The next speaker is a member of the Academy, and has 
been for eighteen years. He came to us from the neighboring State of 
Ohio, and we expect him this evening to bring the greetings of his native 
State to the Academy. He is the gentleman who in his earlier scientific 
career invented the torsion balance. At the present time his specialty is 
fermentation. 
Dr. Alfred Springer, of Cincinnati. 
Dr. ALFRED SPRINGER: Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen: It 
certainly affords me great pleasure to be here with you this evening, and 
no little gratification to be permitted to address a body of men, many of 
whom have carved their names deeply in the records of scientific achieve- 
ment. The achievements of those of you who have remained at home have 
become household words, and the fame of those who have left the State 
to spread such brightness as only science can convey, has loomed up con- 
spicuously among many brilliant lights. Twenty years ago the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, in looking over its list of 
eligible candidates, selected from your members T. C. Mendenhall as the 
man worthy to represent it as President. Chairmen for the various 
sections of the American Association have frequently been selected from 
the Indiana Academy on account of the good work they have done. As 
for the General Secretary of the American Association, where could a 
better and more popular one be found than in our own Amos. W. Butler? 
Ile graced that position in 1892, and ornithologically speaking, he was a 
“bird.” (Laughter.) This year the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science has honored itself in selecting one of your past presi- 
dents for its President. No one who knows Dr. David Starr Jordan doubts 
but that he will add additional lustre to its already bright pages. 
Permit me, as a delegate from the Cincinnati Section of the American 
Chemical Society, to congratulate you on the twenty-five years of your 
existence, and to bespeak for the future, if such a thing be possible, 
greater success than in the past. (Applause.) 
