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notes of the stenographer are turned into the text which appears in 
the newspaper article of the next day or the magazine article of the 
next month, the ponderous chapter of the history of inventions, or 
the treatise on mathematics or chemistry or geology or any other 
of the kindred sciences; how the text is reduced to printed matter, 
the type set up, the matrix in which a whole cylinder of matter can 
be at once developed, formed and put on the whirling cylinders of 
the press and printed and sped on the wings of the wind throughout 
the universe. 
Such, my friends, is the simple tribute that I am able to pay to 
this intelligent audience, and the testimony which I am constrained 
to bear that this earth is gradually growing better and wiser, and 
that men are beginning to understand more fully the objects for 
which they were created and to be more helpful to their fellowmen, 
to prepare us for that higher and more blessed immortality which is 
promised to the faithful. 
President Fraley then presented Prof. Alpheus Hyatt, of 
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, Mass., 
and spoke as follows: 
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, at Boston, is the 
sister of this institution, ours having been established in 1743 and 
the Boston Academy in 1780. They celebrated their centennial in 
1880, and no doubt will emulate us in celebrating their one hun- 
dred and fiftieth anniversary in 1930; and when that time comes 
around they will make up the glorious record more fully of that 
which has been accomplished and also realize the truth of the 
motto which they bear on their seal. 
Prof. Alpheus Hyatt, of the American Academy of Arts 
and Sciences, Boston, Mass., addressed the Society as fol- 
lows: 
Mr. President and Members of the American Philosophical So- 
ctety -—I came this morning intending, of course, to listen to the 
two gentlemen who had been announced to speak, with no antici- 
pation whatever that I should be called upon to give anything 
more than perhaps a mere statement of the subject of my paper. 
PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XxxII. 148. D. PRINTED NOV. 22, 1893. 
