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Professor H. B. Ward proposed a vote of thanks to 

 President Fearing and the other officers of the Society 

 for their efficient work during the past year. Carried. 



President Fearing then introduced Hon. Charles A. 

 Vogelsang, former Chief Deputy of the California Fish 

 and Game Commission, and Member of the Board of 

 Directors of the Panama-Pacific International Exposi- 

 tion, who addressed the meeting. 



Address of Mr. Vogelsang. 



"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen'. I have to ask your 

 indulgence for appearing somewhat late, because I hap- 

 pened to be at another meeting. But I am nevertheless 

 very glad to be here and meet you gentlemen who have 

 to deal with one of the great economic problems not 

 only in all the States of the country, but of the world. 

 You have chosen to come here to California, to this Ex- 

 position which happens to be, in this year of 1915, the 

 meeting ground of the nations of the world. In sharp 

 contrast to things that are occurring elsewhere, San 

 Francisco has this unique distinction : It is the one great 

 peace capital of the world, where men from all nations 

 are sitting down in friendly intercouse, exchanging 

 ideas, giving from each country, and each state, that 

 which makes for the general betterment of mankind. 



"The Exposition, after all, is simply the tearing down 

 of that sort of imaginary fence that stood between you 

 and your neighbor. You would hear his talk ; you would 

 know something about what he was doing, but he was 

 over there somewhere, and you wondered what sort of 

 a peculiar fellow he might be. When that fence was 

 removed, you would say, 'Why, he is quite the same as 

 ourselves. He was born, perhaps, in a little different at- 

 mosphere, reared under a somewhat different environ- 

 ment, his training might have been different, but his 

 hope and his desire is for the betterment of his fellow- 

 men.' It has been my opportunity, and I appreciate very 

 much the great opportunity I have had, to come into 

 close contact with men from every part of the civilized 



