September 13, 1895.] 



SGIENGE. 



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in the English language. Dr. Samuel H. 

 Scudder is known for his work on the 

 bibliography of science, and for his many 

 labors in entomology; this Association has 

 published a memoir of his on fossil butter- 

 flies. Professor Henry A. Ward is again 

 here making an exhibit of mineralogical 

 and geological specimens, which is a source 

 of much pleasure to many of our own 

 number and of the public. Of those whom 

 we have lost I may mention Henry B. 

 Mason, of Troy; Lewis M. Rutherford, of 

 IsTew York, and James Craig Watson, of 

 Ann Arbor. 



The number of our members in attend- 

 ance at that meeting was large; we may be 

 sure that when such officers presided and 

 such men became members, the meeting 

 cannot but have been a successful and 

 profitable one. 



Your welcome was especially grateful to 

 us, because it exhibited an appreciative in- 

 terest in us and in our work. Such an 

 appreciative interest has been exhibited in 

 other ways. On eight dates during the 

 summer I have been where I read a Spring- 

 field morning paper. Four of these papers 

 contained articles, of at least a half a col- 

 umn, written with dignity, with adequate 

 information, not without literary graces of 

 style, which were devoted to this Associa- 

 tion ; therefore, in the judgment of a prac- 

 ticed editor, many of those who I'cad your 

 daily papers have some intelligent interest 

 in our Association, its history, its object, its 

 methods, in the history of our sister Asso- 

 ciations in other countries. 



Your words of welcome express the same 

 appreciative interest; they confirm the same 

 favorable impression we have received, and 

 fill us with pleasurable anticipations. 



We know something of Massachusetts, 

 and of what sort of welcome we might rea- 

 sonably expect. We know of Massachu- 

 setts, though not many of us are its citizens 

 or its children. In the intention of its 



founders, our Association includes the whole 

 of this continent ; in accomplished fact our 

 membership represents perhaps every State 

 of this Union and every province of the 

 great Dominion north of us, and a few from 

 countries or islands to the south of us. 

 Many of us have, therefore, grown up under 

 other influences than those of Massachu- 

 setts. We come from other strains of col- 

 onization. We owe allegiance to other local 

 institutions. We have learned to revere 

 other local traditions. 



But we all cordially agree in saying that, 

 in all those things in which the citizens of 

 a Commonwealth ought to feel the highest 

 pride, Massachusetts is unsurpassed. IS"© 

 contributions to political thought have been 

 greater or better than hers; no moulding of 

 poUtieal or social institutions has been 

 wiser than hers; nowhere on the continent 

 has literature touched a higher level than 

 on her shores or her western hills; nowhere 

 has high thinking been better combined 

 with living made subservient to the intel- 

 lectual life. 



We see these things; we admire, but we 

 do not wonder, for we know the stock which 

 first settled Massachusetts Bay. Putting 

 religion in a place, some think, too high for 

 mortal powers, they came from school and 

 college in the old world, and brought to the 

 new a profound sj'mpathy with learning 

 and scholarship and literature. These men, 

 their spirit, their foundation of universi- 

 ties, their keen intellectual life have made 

 this Commonwealth one whose guests we 

 are proud to be, sure of welcome, sure of 

 appreciative welcome, which receives us for 

 what we are. 



We are an association for theadvancament 

 of science. Some of us advance science 

 chiefly by expressing our interest in it. 

 Some of us, burdened with much teaching, 

 find in that the limit of our opportunities. 

 But some of us trj^ to enlarge the borders 

 of science and to add to the world's stock 



