July 13, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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fraternity houses have also thrown them 

 open. Our members will be ready, as the 

 announcement explains, to take excursions 

 to different parts of the surrounding coun- 

 try. We believe that we have here the 

 most beautiful and most romantic college 

 or university campus in the world. What 

 lies in our power we are anxious to do. 

 Our trustees have arranged for a luncheon 

 to be served to you daily in the University 

 Armory during your stay. I hope, Mr. 

 President, you will not expect too much of 

 us. We have done the most we could in 

 the way of entertainment, and we hope you 

 will accept the will for the larger deed 

 which might have been possible in Wash- 

 ington, Baltimore or New York. 



Ladies and gentlemen, once more I ex- 

 press the great pleasure we feel in having 

 you with us, and in the name and on behalf 

 of Cornell University I put what we have 

 at your free disposal. 



President Welch then introduced the 

 Hon. Bradford Almy, mayor of Ithaca, 

 who welcomed the association to the city in 

 the following address: 



Mr. President, and Ladies and Gentle- 

 men: The people of this city rightfully 

 feel that this is an important event with 

 them. They feel that Cornell University, 

 the institution in which they take so much 

 pride, is the cause of their having the pleas- 

 ure of your visit to our city at this time. 

 That an organization so eminently distin- 

 guished as the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, composed of 

 individual leaders in thought, labor and 

 achievement along all the lines that lead 

 to the progress, welfare and happiness of 

 our people, should assemble in Ithaca for 

 their deliberations is a compliment which 

 we sincerely appreciate and for which we 

 are very glad. 



The profound sense of gratitude which 

 we all feel for the heroes, self-sacrificing in 

 their labors as pioneers of science, who 



caused a ray of light to shine here and 

 there in the utter darlmess, may perhaps 

 be a measure of the feelings which we have 

 for you men and you women who are labor- 

 ing along lines of work so persistently fol- 

 lowed and so diligently wrought out for 

 the benefit of mankind and the civilization 

 of the world. We can all remember, for it 

 was not so very long ago, when science and 

 religion were believed to be at war with 

 each other. That thought delayed its prog- 

 ress for a time, but science has made great 

 advance during the years since that idea 

 has left the minds of men. Happily, those 

 times are past, and to-day science is re- 

 garded as more than the handmaid of re- 

 ligion. In bidding you the hearty welcome 

 to our little city, which I have the honor 

 and pleasure of extending to you on behalf 

 of our people, I bid you Godspeed in the 

 noblest work that can engage the thoughts 

 and energies of mankind. At the same 

 time, while we are conscious that the ad- 

 vancement in the last fifty years has been 

 so great and so strengthens the courage and 

 inspires the zeal for future work, we realize 

 how diminutive are the regions of the 

 known compared with the vast, untrodden 

 wilderness on the border land of which you 

 stand. 



In closing, let me express the wish that 

 you may have as prosperous a congress 

 here as you have expected, that you may 

 enjoy your visit as much as we hope you 

 will and that you may go away with pleas- 

 ant recollections of us and of Ithaca. 



President Welch made response to the 

 addresses of welcome, as follows : 



Ladies and Gentlemen: In behalf of the 

 members of the association, of our guests 

 and all here present, I wish to express to 

 you, President Schurman and Mayor Almy, 

 our very cordial appreciation of the words 

 of welcome which you have given us. This 

 is the first meeting of the association in 

 Ithaca. It is also a renewal of an old 



