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work which will prove of immeasurable interest in the near future, if not 
at the present time. 
Let me close with the hope that this meeting may be all its promoters 
have intended it should be—a feast not only of science but of friendship— 
that it may result in the stronger cementation of the bonds which hold 
the love of the loyal Hoosiers firmly to the State, and excite a pride in the 
scientific work of Indiana which may rival that which so justly exists re- 
specting its literary accomplishments. 
Sincerely, 
H. W. WILEY. 
PROFESSOR DENNIS: The Committee wishes to honor many more mem- 
bers of the Academy by asking them to speak to you this evening, but on 
account of the lateness of the hour we will hive to restrict the number. 
I will now call on our old comrade, Prof. W. A. Noyes, of the University 
of Illinois. 
Proressor W. A. Noyes: Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen: 
I have been resting very quietly and easily all the evening, not seeing my 
name on the program, and not having the slightest hint that I would be 
called upon. It is surely a very great pleasure to be here, and I would 
like to say just a word about the old times when the Academy started. I 
believe I was one of the charter members, and one of the things I remember 
of that time was the discussion in regard to the name that we should 
adopt. It was finally agreed, if I remember correctly on the recommenda- 
tion of Dr. Jordan, that we should call it the Indiana Academy of Science, 
not the Indiana Academy of Sciences. I think that in his mind and in 
ours, as we selected that name, was the thought that after all there should 
be but one science, which is all-embracing, and I feel that as one of the 
ideals of the Academy it has been of the greatest value to us. As we come 
together in these meetings of the Indiana Academy, we feel that no mat- 
ter how separated our lines of work may be, how different—so different 
sometimes that we can understand but little of each other’s language— 
yet after all we are simply working in different parts of one great whole 
of scientific knowledge, and that it is our place to look at our part, our 
field, as merely one part of the whole, all parts of which may in some way 
or other touch our own. And this opportunity of seeing, of catching even 
a little glimpse of this work that is so far removed, perhaps, from our own, 
and the acquaintance of these men who are working in the different fields, 
is, it seems to me, one of the features of greatest value in these friend- 
ships and associations which we have made here in this Academy. 
