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their line who should through this channel help themselves, help the asso- 

 ciation, help you and help the public by contributing what they possess. 

 We must learn that, taking all the departments of science, "in union there 

 is strength." 



Another important factor is this : For a time in scientific medicine, 

 on account of the number of medical institutions in this State, the in- 

 terests were varied ; but during the past year, for the first time in forty 

 years, there has not only been an amalgamation of scientific medical in- 

 terests, but there is complete unity. And now with the medical college we 

 have here that is under the control of one of your best Universities, Indi- 

 ana University, with its opportunities and facilities, we take it you will 

 soon hear us rapping at your door, and we trust that the latch-string will 

 be out. 



We fully appreciate, as we congratulate you and bring our greetings, 

 all that you have done and are doing for scientific medicine, and that it 

 is valuable beyond price. Again I say. as I bring you our greetings, that 

 we congratulate you most heartily. 



FROM THE INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



By J. P. Dunn. 



1 bnve been delegated by the Indiana Historical Society to extend its 

 greetings to the Academy of Science. This is therefore an historic greet- 

 ing; just what a scientific greeting should be, I am not quite certain. In 

 the good old days that Dr. Coulter told about, I should think the proper 

 thing was, "Have something with me," but in the course of the great 

 progress that has been made in the last twenty years in the Pure Food 

 Department, I do not know whether that would be safe. I judge that 

 scientific people believe all the awful revelations that have been made, 

 and that they are all on the water-wagon now. 



There is one thing in which I think this society and the other learned 

 societies of the State should be at a unit. We have a centennial in 1916. 

 There has been some talk of having an exposition, but everybody knows 

 that the recent expositions have been failures, and it would be a failure 



