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Academy who were present a year ago have not forgotten the 

 words of warning contained in the closing paragraphs of that 

 memorable presidential address, — the conclusion from a con- 

 trast of the rugged conditions of the days of Locke and Mitchell 

 and Sullivant and Newberry and Orton in Ohio with the com- 

 fortable and depressing luxury of science at the beginning of 

 the Twentieth Century that "on the whole, conditions are not 

 as favorable for the development of scientific ability of a high 

 order as they were forty or fifty years ago, and that in relative 

 proportion to the number of students of science, then and now, 

 fewer men possessing talent of the first rank are likely to appear 

 during the present century than we know to have lived in the 

 nineteenth"". 



But the survey of our quarter century of zoology shows an 

 enthusiasm for research, an almost Viking lust for struggle, and 

 a plodding willingness to follow a problem to the last tedious 

 detail of its solution which bid fair to overcome the dangers 

 of luxury as the men of the preceding generation met the dif- 

 ficulties of privation. The type of warfare has changed ; but the 

 character of the fighters is the same ; and the present drive along 

 the whole broad battle front cannot fail in the next quarter 

 century to penetrate deeply into the trenches of the unknown. 



