July 10, 1903.] 



SCIENCE. 



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scientific discoveries which he has made, 

 aud which are of great importance in the 

 hygienic history of his time. The promise 

 that he then gave has been more than re- 

 deemed up to the present time, so that not 

 only is his name well known and the name 

 of the medical department of the univer- 

 sity through him well known in this coun- 

 try, but also in all European countries. 



I am sure there is no one here and no 

 one ever connected with the university who 

 does not feel grateful to him for the ser- 

 vices he has rendered. Still more are we 

 glad, notwithstanding his twenty-five years 

 of service, to look into his face and see that 

 he is still a young man and doubtless has 

 a long career yet before him, and we shall 

 be very glad to come here— some of you 

 will have a better chance than I— twenty- 

 five years hence to have another and more 

 imposing celebration. 



I am sure you all rejoice with us on this 

 occasion, and I shall not detain you from 

 the pleasiire of enjojang the services which 

 have been more especially appointed. I 

 have risen merely to speak an official word, 

 and also to have the plea.sure of speaking 

 a personal word of congratiilation to one 

 whom I delight to count as one of my most 

 cherished friends. 



Professor Albert B. Prescott, of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, made the presentation 

 in behalf of the contributors. 



ADDRESS OF PROFESSOR ^VLBERT B. PRESCOTT. 



Fellow Alumni and Friends: I am hon- 

 ored surely in being asked to say some- 

 thing in this presentation of a gift to-day. 

 It is a privilege as well as an honor to 

 speak on the part of such men as those 

 who are making this gift, men who are 

 the most cherished and most influential of 

 the medical alumni of this univei-sity. 



For gifts there are returning times and 

 sea.sons. For a gift there is now and then 

 a period standing almost alone by itself. 



Of gifts there are various kinds and vari- 

 ous meanings. Whatever a gift may be, 

 it means more than it is. It is a mode of 

 speech, a form of expression, a record of 

 events. In the making of this gift a 

 memorial volume has been wrought out 

 piece by piece in the unwearied toil of 

 strenuous life. For the making of this gift 

 we have a quarter of a century, a period 

 in the lifetime of an alumnus, an era in 

 the history of this university, a memorable 

 period in the advancement of a great sci- 

 entific profession. The occasion is one 

 that touches all our hearts. 



This Festschrift is a symposium of sci- 

 entific learning, a production of lasting 

 import, an essential record of the advance- 

 ment of science and of the profession of 

 medicine. It consists of thirty-four sep- 

 arate investigations, each one conceived in 

 faith and wrought in patience, each one 

 the chosen product of its author's personal 

 power. In such a piece of research work 

 as is undertaken in the making of any one 

 of these papers we can but imagine how 

 advances are gained step by step, finding 

 out what is right by pro\'ing what is 

 wrong, reaching forward in this direction 

 and then in that, assured that every result 

 of truth adds something, may add much, 

 to the sum of the knowledge and power 

 and good of mankind. 



If I were competent to speak of these 

 records of researches in the domain of 

 medical knowledge, I should not have time 

 now even to enumerate them, but I recog- 

 nize that they are from men who have 

 become authorities in the world, by their 

 several investigations and through their 

 experience in scientific pursuits. As I 

 look over the titles of these papers I 

 see that they form a symposium of re- 

 search, embracing certain fundamental 

 principles, and presenting a series of dis- 

 coveries, which unite together naturally 



