1902.] FAIRCHILD — HISTORY OF THE SOCIETV. 339 



perpetual. New generations of men and women will need its help. 

 Its work in the investigation and publication of the natural history of 

 Western New York may sometime be completed in the main, but now 

 that work is only begun. The future calls. Let us see that as men 

 and women interested in truth and beauty of nature we make this 

 Society, our society, fulfill the sentiment of its motto on the Seal, 

 capio lumen. 



A unanimous vote of thanks was tendered the retiring President 

 for the great interest he had shown in the welfare of the Academy and 

 for his untiring labors for the Society during the fourteen years that 

 he had occupied the presidential chair. 



