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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIII, No. 1115 



The program of papers presented at the 

 general sessions was given on page 421 of 

 Science of March 24, 1916. The paper by- 

 Admiral Pillsbury was read by title only, 

 as he was ill and not able to appear. Each 

 of the papers presented some particular 

 phase of the survey's activities and in a 

 number of cases there was shown how its 

 work was related to that of some of the 

 other organizations of the government. 



The address by President Wilson at the 

 banquet, the paper of Dr. George Otis 

 Smith and abstracts of the other papers 

 and addresses follow this brief account of 

 the celebration. 



A very interesting feature of the celebra- 

 tion was an elaborate exhibit of the instru- 

 ments, charts and publications of the sur- 

 vey, some of them dating back to the earli- 

 est years of its history. A series of en- 

 larged photographs showed in a very clear 

 and impressive way the modern field opera- 

 tions of the survey. 



The proceedings at the celebration, in- 

 cluding the addresses delivered, will be 

 published in one volume by the survey. 



William Bowie 



ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE 

 UNITED STATES 



Mr. Minister, Mr. Superintendent, Ladies 

 and Gentlemen: I had another reason for 

 asking to come last. I remember reading 

 with appreciation in the preface of a vol- 

 ume of essays written by a very witty Eng- 

 lish writer a passage to this effect: The 

 pleasure with which a man reads his own 

 books is largely dependent upon how much 

 of them has been written by somebody else ; 

 and I have found that my enjoyment of 

 making speeches after dinner is almost 

 directly in proportion to the amount of in- 

 spiration that I can derive from others. 



It was manifestly impossible for me to 

 make such preparation for addressing you 



to-night as I should have wished to make in 

 order to show my very great respect and 

 admiration for this service of tke govern- 

 ment. I 'can only say that I have come here 

 for the purpose of expressing that admira- 

 tion. I have been very much interested in 

 the speeches that I have heard to-night, not 

 only because of what they contained, but 

 also because of many of the implications 

 which were to be drawn from them. I was 

 very much interested indeed in the excel- 

 lent address of the representative of the 

 free and admirable republic of Switzerland. 

 He reminded us of what we must constantly 

 remember, our very great intellectual debt 

 to Switzerland, as well as to the many other 

 countries from which we draw so much of 

 our vitality and so much of the scientific 

 work which has been accomplished in 

 America. 



As he was speaking, I was reminded (if 

 there are Pennsylvanians present, I hope 

 they will forgive this story) of a toast mis- 

 chievously offered at a banquet in Phila- 

 delphia by a gentleman who was not him- 

 self a Pennsylvanian. He said he proposed 

 the memory of the three most distinguished 

 Pennsylvanians, Benjamin Franklin, of 

 Massachusetts; James Wilson, of Scotland, 

 and Albert Gallatin, of Switzerland. I 

 dare say that in many American commu- 

 nities similar toasts could very truly and 

 with historical truth be offered. And I 

 myself had the privilege of sitting under 

 one of the distinguished Swiss scholars to 

 whom reference was made. Dr. Arnold 

 Guyot, under whom I pretended to study 

 geology. Doctor Guyot was not responsible 

 for its not being carried beyond the stage 

 of pretence. 



I feel myself in a certain sense in famil- 

 iar company to-night, because a very great 

 part of my life has been spent in association 

 with men of science. I have often wished, 

 particularly since I entered public life, that 



