99 



fungus pests; the fountains of her wealth and greatness slowry 

 but surely dried up; her preeminence among common- 

 wealths lost. Illinois with Science? Soil fertility maintained, 

 products protected, the streams from the fountains of her 

 wealth kept up and even increased as the world's increasing 

 population makes added demands upon that which she has to 

 supply. This is the contrast." 



Prof. Blair:— 



"There was a man in a certain university in the department 

 of mathematics who was uniting the sciences there. He had 

 formulated a mathematical tablet. He wrote upon that tablet 

 certain propositions in geometry and when the time came for 

 the solution of a certain problem he claimed he based his so- 

 lution upon materia medica, physiology and mathematics. This 

 matter of bringing the sciences to act together, hand in hand, 

 is not new, but I am sure that from the Northwestern University 

 and the retiring Vice-president of the State Academy we can 

 hear new reasons for and on the relation of the sciences to 

 each other." 



