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great moment that I regret that I shall not be 

 able to give anything that could be properly 

 considered a worthy inaugural address. I shall 

 be obliged to ask your indulgence if I confine 

 myself specially to departments with which I am 

 personally familiar scientific laboratories. The 

 laboratory of a scientific man is his place of work. 

 The laboratory of the geologist and of the 

 naturalist is the face of this beautiful world. The 

 geologist's laboratory is the mountain, the ravine 

 and the seashore. The naturalist and the botanist 

 go to foreign lands, to study the wonders of 

 nature, and describe and classify the results of 

 their observations. But they must do more than 

 merely describe, represent, and depict what they 

 have seen. They must bring home the products 

 of their expeditions to their studies, and have 

 recourse to the appliances of the laboratory 

 properly so-called for their thorough and detailed 

 examination. The naturalist in his laboratory, 

 with his microscope and appliances for the 

 k< rncst examination, learns to know more than 

 can be learned by merely looking at external 



