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them being actually worth buying and reading. Newspapers 

 were comparatively few in number, but some of them were 

 edited by such men as Horace Greeley and William Cullen 

 Bryant, and there was no Sunday Supplement. It is not neces- 

 sary to extend the contrast. Out of the social and intellectual 

 class of the present must be evolved the Lockes, the Mitchells, 

 the Sullivants, Newberrys and Ortons of the future. I am not 

 claiming that existing conditions are not more desirable than 

 those of forty years ago; I leave that for others to discuss and 

 decide; but I cannot avoid the conclusion that they are inimical 

 to the development of intellectual virility and fecundity and that 

 unless there shall be a return to a more rational existence, the 

 candid' reviewer at the end of the twentieth century will con- 

 cede that it has failed to maintain, in the field of original inves- 

 tigation and discovery, the standard set for it by the nineteenth. 



Note — For the biographical data in the above address I have de- 

 pended upon standard Biographies, special memoirs, personal knowledge 

 and information kindly furnished by descendants or relatives of my sub- 

 jects ; and for many facts regarding the life of Leo Lesquereux I am 

 indebted to the late Dr. Edward Orton and to Dr. C. Leo Mees, Presi?!ent 

 of Rose Polytechnic Institute, to whom Lesquereux was godfather. To 

 Professor Cleveland Abbe, of the U. S. Weather Bureau of Washington, 

 I am indebted for information relating to Colonel Mansfield. 



