Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary. Ixxrii 



lines may fall on new planes of activity — I may, as a rep- 

 resentative of institutions of both the intensive and the ex- 

 tensive sort, and also as an anthropologist, previse for the 

 institution we delight to honor to-day a future even more 

 glorious than its past. 



The Toastm aster: — 



I take pleasure in calling upon the representative of the 

 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Dr. E. R. 

 Buckley. 



Dr. Buckley : — 



Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen: — I assure you 

 that it gives me very great pleasure to extend to you the 

 congratulations of the first scientific society of which I be- 

 came a member. I appreciate that more thoroughly because 

 you have with you to-night two of the gentlemen who have 

 done perhaps more for the success of that organization than 

 any other members with whom I am acquainted, — Professor 

 T. C. Chamberlin, of the University of Chicago, and Dr. E. A. 

 Birge, of the University of Wisconsin. I am not in a posi- 

 tion to give you the history of the Wisconsin Academy of 

 Sciences, Arts and Letters, and I feel as I look about this 

 room that possibly you are all very glad I am not going to 

 extend to you that courtesy. I can assure you, however, that 

 my association with the scientific work of the Wisconsin 

 Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, has done more to 

 bring about in my mind a thorough understanding of the re- 

 lations between the different branches of science than per- 

 haps any other society with which I have been connected. 



I came here to-night not only representing the Wisconsin 

 Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, but also to extend to 

 you the greetings of the Missouri Bureau of Geology and 

 Mines, of which I have the pleasure of being the Director. I 

 am a resident of the State of Missouri, and I am very proud 

 of the fact that the St. Louis Academy had among its found- 

 ers two of the foremost geologists whom the State of Mis- 

 souri has ever had, and two men who probably left a greater 



