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Alfred D. Cole 



Ohio State University 



ADDEESS OF TEE BETIBING VICE-PBESI- 

 DENT OF SECTION F OF TSE AMEBICAN 

 ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- 

 MENT OF SCIENCE 



Before proceeding to the special sub- 

 ject of this evening's address, which will 

 be upon the research work of the Tortugas 

 Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington, your retiring vice-president 

 begs permission briefly to plead the cause 

 of the Zoological Section of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence. 



Our grandfathers founded this associa- 

 tion and during our fathers' day, in that 



tense period wherein the foundations of 

 established beliefs seemed crumbling into 

 chaos before the onslaught of Darwinism, 

 the Zoological Section of the association 

 was a vital force in bringing order out of 

 the confusion of doubt and fear that beset 

 the America of the seventies. 



Then, in after years, there came the 

 special societies, zoologists, anatomists, 

 physiologists, ornithologists, entomologists 

 and psychologists of America ; and our Sec- 

 tion F, having lost its appeal to the inves- 

 tigator as a clearing house for his ideas, 

 has sadly languished. 



However, let us not forget that the Brit- 

 ish Association which two generations ago 

 was active in forming intelligent opinion 

 in England, once also languished from a 

 similar cause. 



Then to our British cousins there came 

 the light of a great idea. The field of 

 their association expanded to embrace the 

 whole imperial realm. Great meetings were 

 held in Canada, South Africa and Aus- 

 tralia, and the colonies became intellec- 

 tually one with the mother country in a 

 sense never known before. 



The British Association is no longer a 

 mere gathering of scientists, it is a mighty 

 power in preserving that world-wide sym- 

 pathy with ideals of democracy and fair 

 play upon which the very existence of 

 Britain's vast empire must depend. For 

 England's strength is neither in acres nor 

 in gold, but in the hearts of her sons who 

 toil at many a stubborn task in many a 

 distant land. 



As servants of civilization, let the mem- 

 bers of our own association meet the mil- 

 lions of America in a similar spirit. 



At these meetings, let us speak with 

 rather than to our countrymen. 



Too often we may have looked upon the 

 public as something colossal, crude and 

 struggling, something far and apart from 



