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an unobstructed pathway or channel from the Mississippi 

 to the Gulf of Mexico ; Charles V. Riley, 46 the investigator 

 of the ravages and life history of the Rocky Mountain 

 Locust and the organizer and first head of the United 

 States Bureau of Entomology, the man who saved the 

 grape industry of Europe from the ravages of the Amer- 

 ican Phylloxera by grafting the susceptible European va- 

 rieties upon roots of the more resistant American spe- 

 cies ; Benjamin F. Shumard, 47 of the Missouri State Geo- 

 logical Survey, and later State Geologist of Texas; 

 George Clinton Swallow, who conducted the geological 

 survey of this state from 1853 to 1860 and made known 

 the vast coal beds of Missouri; Theodore C. Hilgard, 48 

 whose work on phyllotaxis and kindred subjects is well 

 known, and Abram Litton, 49 the first thoroughly trained 

 chemist west of the Mississippi. 



The act of incorporation declares the object of the 

 Academy to be the advancement of science and the estab- 



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