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to these ends ; and the discussion of the relations of the pure 

 and appHed sciences which our representatives for the year are 

 to hold tomorrow forenoon is an excellent example of what 

 1 now have in mind. I hope that we may make even more than we 

 have done of the symposium idea ; and that we may select and as- 

 sign our topics for discussion with great care and early in 

 the year, that those chosen for this service may have ample time 

 for the careful preparation which its importance demands. 



I have spoken of the Academy on the one hand, and the 

 people of the state as its "constituents on the other; but from 

 another point of view we are the representatives of the peo- 

 ple and the immediate constituents of the scientific institutions 

 of the state. We have in our membership not only the mana- 

 gers and the workers of these institutions, but a select group 

 of citizens also, especially concerned in their work and especial- 

 ly intelligent with respect to it. Our geologists and geogra- 

 phers and certain of our biologists follow the operations and 

 study the reports of the Geological Survey with an interest at 

 least as great as that of the miners and quarrymen, the clay 

 men and the oil promoters, for whose benefit its work is pri- 

 marily done. The Soil Survey concerns not only the farmer, 

 but the botanist and the zoological ecologist as well, and so of 

 most of these departments of state activity. Although not 

 established, as a rule, for our purposes, but with some economic 

 end in view, each of them is of great interest and importance 

 to one or the other group of us, and virtually all of them 

 contribute materials highly valuable to those of us responsible 

 for scientific teaching of whatever grade. Our interest in the 

 work of these institutions is mainly scientific, while that of 

 their other constituents is merely economic, and it goes 

 almost without saying that we may have, and ought to have, a 

 strong and helpful influence over it. There is nothing that 

 is more needed by any active department of economic work 

 than an intelligent, watchful, and appreciative scientific con- 

 stituency. Its more immediate beneficiaries and supporters are 

 commonly in a position to criticise only its more practical re- 

 sults, and can usually know but little of the scientific wisdom 



