﻿ACADEMY 
  OF 
  SCIENCES. 
  315 
  

  

  ern 
  States. 
  Professor 
  Morse, 
  in 
  speaking 
  of 
  the 
  earlier 
  efforts 
  of 
  

   our 
  Academy, 
  said 
  : 
  "In 
  the 
  East 
  we 
  are 
  familiar 
  with 
  your 
  publi- 
  

   cations 
  ; 
  I 
  wish 
  to 
  tell 
  you 
  that 
  when 
  the 
  first 
  ' 
  proceedings 
  ' 
  came 
  

   along, 
  we 
  were 
  somewhat 
  amazed, 
  and 
  thought 
  that 
  some 
  young 
  

   men 
  were 
  starting 
  it, 
  and 
  the 
  Society 
  would 
  only 
  last 
  a 
  year 
  or 
  so. 
  

   From 
  year 
  to 
  year 
  you 
  kept 
  on, 
  and 
  we 
  saw 
  that 
  the 
  papers 
  you 
  

   pubhshed 
  showed 
  reasonable 
  research. 
  We 
  saw 
  that 
  you 
  did 
  not 
  

   decay 
  and 
  were 
  getting 
  on 
  ; 
  but 
  we 
  never 
  dreamed 
  that 
  you 
  would 
  

   get 
  an 
  amount 
  of 
  money 
  more 
  than 
  that 
  all 
  of 
  our 
  Eastern 
  Socie- 
  

   ties 
  put 
  together." 
  

  

  He 
  then 
  spoke 
  of 
  the 
  different 
  scientific 
  societies 
  in 
  the 
  Eastern 
  

   States 
  and 
  their 
  pecuniary 
  resources, 
  enumerating 
  the 
  sums 
  of 
  

   money 
  given 
  to 
  the 
  prominent 
  ones, 
  and 
  said 
  : 
  " 
  Add 
  all 
  these 
  

   sums 
  together, 
  and 
  the 
  sum 
  given 
  to 
  the 
  Academy 
  of 
  Sciences 
  by 
  

   Mr. 
  Lick 
  exceeds 
  all 
  the 
  endowments 
  of 
  the 
  natural 
  history 
  socie- 
  

   ties 
  in 
  the 
  Eastern 
  States. 
  The 
  California 
  Academy 
  now 
  starts 
  

   with 
  a 
  sum 
  equal 
  to 
  all. 
  Mr. 
  Lick 
  has 
  gone 
  ahead 
  of 
  Peabody, 
  

   as 
  far 
  as 
  science 
  is 
  concerned, 
  for 
  Mr. 
  Peabody 
  endowed 
  educa- 
  

   tional 
  institutions 
  liberally, 
  but 
  gave 
  only 
  about 
  |300,000 
  to 
  purely 
  

   scientific 
  societies. 
  The 
  position 
  occupied 
  on 
  the 
  globe 
  by 
  the 
  

   California 
  Academy 
  is 
  a 
  fine 
  one, 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  only 
  endowed 
  society 
  

   on 
  the 
  Pacific 
  Ocean. 
  It 
  has 
  plenty 
  of 
  money 
  and 
  a 
  large 
  area 
  

   for 
  investigation." 
  

  

  Professor 
  Morse 
  in 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  his 
  remarks 
  said: 
  "Science 
  

   has 
  changed 
  a 
  great 
  deal 
  in 
  the 
  last 
  ten 
  years. 
  Our 
  old 
  proceed- 
  

   ings 
  of 
  societies 
  were 
  merely 
  technical 
  ; 
  now 
  they 
  are 
  broader. 
  

   As 
  your 
  President 
  said 
  in 
  his 
  last 
  report, 
  ' 
  There 
  is 
  no 
  money 
  in 
  

   this 
  country 
  for 
  individual 
  pursuits.' 
  In 
  Europe 
  this 
  is 
  done, 
  but 
  

   not 
  here. 
  There 
  large 
  sums 
  are 
  appropriated 
  to 
  assist 
  Professor 
  

   Blank 
  in 
  his 
  investigations. 
  In 
  this 
  country 
  our 
  naturalists 
  are 
  

   poor. 
  So 
  in 
  a 
  society 
  they 
  must 
  label 
  specimens, 
  and 
  do 
  miscella- 
  

   neous 
  work, 
  and 
  get 
  no 
  time 
  for 
  investigation. 
  The 
  primary 
  object 
  

   of 
  your 
  Society 
  is 
  to 
  furnish 
  original 
  investigators. 
  Now 
  you 
  have 
  

   ample 
  funds 
  to 
  employ 
  specialists, 
  and 
  you 
  must 
  impress 
  upon 
  them 
  

   that 
  they 
  must 
  give 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  their 
  investigations 
  to 
  you. 
  Do 
  

   not 
  let 
  them 
  be 
  too 
  practical. 
  Do 
  not 
  let 
  the 
  bread-and-butter 
  idea 
  

   preponderate. 
  There 
  are 
  other 
  things 
  for 
  men 
  to 
  do 
  beside 
  to 
  eat 
  

   and 
  drink 
  and 
  make 
  money." 
  

  

  