December 24, 1935] 



SCIENCE 



893 



might be given annually, provided the use 

 made of the money was satisfactory and it 

 proved convenient for the donor to spare it. 

 "We may assume that these conditions have 

 been fulfilled, for from that day to this, 

 or for eighteen successive years, this gener- 

 ous gift has been received. It has come 

 to us quietly, promptly and without solici- 

 tation during all this time. 



It has been administered in the same 

 quiet way, and not one penny has been used 

 for anything except to aid in research, or 

 the publication of its results. 



The influence of this gift has been as 

 gentle and persuasive as the spring sun- 

 shine or summer shower. Nearly a score of 

 special papers have been prepared and pub- 

 lished by the academy through its aid. As 

 many more have been published elsewhere. 

 All honor to this scholarly, efScient, large- 

 hearted, high-spirited man. I trust he be- 

 lieves that ' ' the reward of a good deed is to 

 have done it," if not, I don't know how he 

 is to be paid. 



"We are here to-day in a spirit of con- 

 gratulation. We congratulate our academy 

 upon what it has accomplished. "We con- 

 gratulate Emerson McMillin on what he has 

 done for the academy. 



"We congratulate the universities, col- 

 leges and high schools of Ohio that so large 

 a number of their instructional force are 

 active workers in our academy. Our an- 

 nual meetings have confirmed and strength- 

 ened a spirit of good will between the edu- 

 cational institutions of the state. They 

 have cultivated the amenities, and devel- 

 oped a feeling of brotherhood among our 

 members. Our academy since its inception 

 has stood for good scholarship, good fellow- 

 ship and good citizenship. The essentials 

 of a great landscape are unity and variety. 

 These are likewise the great attributes of an 

 association for the promotion of science. 

 Unity in the spirit and ideals of the work to 



be accomplished, and variety, infinite vari- 

 ety, in the means by which these ideals may 

 be developed. "We come together on the 

 basis of commanding interests and diverse 

 experiences. This devotion to the varied 

 phases of science detracts nothing from the 

 pursuit of the older humanities, but adds 

 materially to the effectiveness of any study 

 that puts the student in closer touch with 

 his environment — in closer touch with na- 

 ture — and nature's law. This spirit was 

 in Orton and Kellicott and Claypole, who 

 were among the founders of the academy. 

 "What a fine influence these men exerted! 

 What fine lives they led! It was a happy 

 blending of the strenuous, the simple and 

 the abundant life. 



Strenuous, because in addition to the en- 

 forced and exacting labors of a teacher were 

 added the self-imposed tasks of the investi- 

 gator; simple, because they lived close to 

 nature and her laws were the rule and guide 

 of their daily conduct. They had neither 

 time nor means for luxury. And most of 

 all their lives were abundant ; abundant in 

 opportunity, abundant in accomplishment, 

 abundant in honors, abundant in friend- 

 ship. Demanding little, they received 

 much. They are of those who, losing their 

 lives, save them. 



We are together to celebrate an epoch, 

 not alone in the promotion of science, but in 

 the attainment of the ideals of education; 

 ideals for which the academy will stand m 

 the future as in the past. 



William R. Lazenby 



Ohio State XJnivebsitt 



THE NAVAL CONSULTING BOARD OF THE 

 UNITED STATE Si 



The so-called "five-million laboratory," 

 proposed by the Naval Consulting Board, 



1 From an address made before the joint meet- 

 ing of the New York Section of the American 

 Chemical, the American Electrochemical Society, 

 and the Society of Chemical Industry, by Dr. L. H. 



