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made by the following: Mr. William H. Crocker, President of 

 the Board of Trustees; Mr. C. E. Grunsky, President of the 

 Academy; Mr. Edward Rainey, for the Mayor; Mr. George 

 Haviland Barron, Curator of the Memorial Museum, San 

 Francisco, for the Board of Park Commissioners ; Dr. David 

 Starr Jordan, Chancellor Emeritus, Stanford University ; Dr. 

 Barton Warren Evermann, Director of the Museum. 



Mr. Crocker spoke feelingly of his long connection with the 

 Academy, as President of the Board of Trustees continuously 

 since 1898, or 18 years. Before him his brother, Charles F. 

 Crocker, had occupied the same position for a number of years 

 and his father, Charles Crocker, was deeply interested in the 

 Academy. 



As president of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Crocker formally 

 dedicated the new Museum building to the advancement of the 

 biological and physical sciences and the educational interests of 

 the city of San Francisco and the state of California. He then 

 turned the building over to the Academy. 



Speaking of the history and the aims and ambitions of the 

 Academy, President Grunsky said, in part : 



Organized in 1853, the California Academy of Sciences has now for 63 

 years been conducted along broad lines for public service. Membership in 

 the Academy at a nominal annual fee is open to all who are interested in 

 the study or advancement of science. Its activities are directed mainly 

 along educational lines in providing the material and opportunity for secur- 

 ing information on matters pertaining to the natural sciences ; and second, 

 along lines of research and study in the various subdivisions of the natural 

 sciences. 



There are those present today who will recall, and some who were active 

 in, the activities of the Academy while it was quartered in a building at 

 the southwest corner of California and Dupont streets, and there are many 

 here who have enjoyed and who have profited by the natural history 

 museum and its accessories maintained for many years prior to the great 

 disaster of 1906 on Market between Fourth and Fifth streets. 



It would be needless to present at this time a review of the history of 

 the Academy and of the work done by it. Those who desire will find much 

 of interest and of value in the published records of the Academy's Pro- 

 ceedings. 



It would be futile to give a due meed of credit to those heretofore con- 

 nected with the work of the Academy whose contributions have borne fruit, 

 and whose achievement is expressed in some measure in the Museum 

 plant now to be brought closer to the general public. It must suffice to say 

 that at all times in the history of the Academy there was a group of 



