Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary. xlv 



presentation of portrait. 



The Toastmaster: — 



These gentlemen who organized the Academy, certainly 

 worked with very great enthusiasm and self-denial. I have 

 been much interested in reading the proceedings of those early 

 meetings, and I find that they were full of zeal in carrying 

 out the project which they had started, and which we celebrate 

 to-night. We have made an effort, — the committee having 

 this in charge — to secure photographs of all members who 

 attended the first meeting and, with two exceptions, we have 

 succeeded. It is my pleasure, Mr. President, in behalf of 

 friends of the Academy to present to you for the Academy 

 the photographs of these gentlemen who formed the meeting 

 which we celebrate to-night. 



presentation of medal. 



The Toastmaster : — 



There is another presentation which friends of the Academy 

 also wish to make this evening, and I will call upon Dr. John 

 Green to make that presentation. 



Dr. Green : — 



Members and Guests of The Academy of Science of St. 

 Louis — Ladies and Gentlemen: — The Council of The St. 

 Louis Academy of Science has ordered the striking of a medal 

 in commemoration of the completion of its fiftieth year. The 

 obverse of the medal is a replica of the corporate seal of the 

 Academy, bearing the legend in Latin, " To human knowledge 

 and power," and a design in low relief , symbolical of different 

 branches of natural science, of instrumental aids to observa- 

 tion, of the orderly collation of observed facts, and of the 

 fundamental principles upon which scientific reasoning is 

 based. The reverse of the medal reproduces the features of 

 the distinguished founder of the Academy, its first President, 

 many times re-elected, the man of whom it may be said, 

 almost without exaggeration, that he was the Academy — Dr. 

 George Engelmann. 



