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Dk. H. E. Barnard (Indianapolis) : Mr. President and Members, i 

 cannot but feel that it is presumption for me, whose name was enrolled 

 in the Academy but yesterday, to attempt to give advice to you who were 

 at Brookville, and who have guided the Academy from its infancy through 

 youth to manhood. But if there is a word I can say this morning it Is 

 to the older members, whom I would urge to give of their Wisdom and 

 advice to these young men, not only in lectures, but in heart-to-heart 

 talks and fraternity with them. I wish to express my thanks to Dr. Coul- 

 ter for his admirable toast last evening. More fraternity and fewer 

 scientific papers I believe will be the key-note of the future of the society. 

 Some of the papers stand a poor chance of being appreciated, because 

 they are not understood : but we all want to know the men who write the 

 papers, not for the papers, but for themselves. One may gain quite as 

 much inspiration in the company of the worker in other fields as in asso- 

 ciation with his fellows, not in their papers, but iu the social hour. 



So I would urge more and more this fraternity among the members, 

 especially at the spring meetings. That first gathering at the swimming 

 pool has taken hold of me; it gives us a glimpse of an esprit de corps 

 that will carry the Academy far. and make an Academy that we will be 

 as proud of twenty-five years hence as we are today. (Applause.) 



President W. E. Sioxe : Mr. Chairman and Members of the Academy, 

 perhaps what I have to suggest will not permit of practical application, 

 and yet as I have been in attendance upon this meeeting I am impressed 

 with this thought about the Academy. It has become in a sense a child 

 of the State; it owes something to the State as an organization. It rep- 

 resents a body of men who certainly have a great deal of influence in 

 shaping the future of the State. Now. it occurs to me that the particular 

 thing which this Academy can do is in the direction of shaping public ap- 

 preciation of scientific methods and scientific spirit. You can not formu- 

 late that policy for immediate action, but I submit to you if it would not 

 be a very valuable thing if the public at large, the press, business men and 

 public officials, had a better conception of what scientific methods and the 

 scientific spirit stand for. How much we should be spared in the press 

 of the sensational talk of scientific attainment ; how much we should 

 economize in the administration of the affairs of city and state; how 

 much more it would mean to the private affairs of our citizens if there 



