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nations in T of Terence. The point I want to get at is that this is not 

 advanced work, and the student will not gain enthusiasm. I do not think 

 we ought to mistake for advanced study this very elemental work, the 

 things that are of no consequence, and just so far as we allow our young 

 men to do this elementary work, so far will we find them going out as 

 teachers without enthusiasm, and saying that it is impossible in this 

 country ever to see another Darwin. (Applause.) 



Mb. Dexxis : The next speaker is a member of the Academy, and has 

 been for eighteen years. He came to us from the neighboring State of 

 Ohio, and we expect him this evening to bring the greetings of his native 

 State to the Academy. He is the gentleman who in his earlier scientific 

 career invented the torsion balance. At the present time his specialty is 

 fermentation. 



Dr. Alfred Springer, of Cincinnati. 



Dr. Alfred Sprixger : Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen : It 

 certainly affords me great pleasure to be here with you this evening, and 

 no little gratification to be permitted to address a body of men, many of 

 whom have carved their names deeply in the records of scientific achieve- 

 ment. The achievements of those of you who have remained at home have 

 become household words, and the fame of those who have left the State 

 to spread such brightness as only science can convey, has loomed up con- 

 spicuously among many brilliant lights. Twenty years ago the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, in looking over its list of 

 eligible candidates, selected from your members T. C. Mendenhall as the 

 man worthy to represent it as President. Chairmen for the various 

 sections of the American Association have frequently been selected from 

 the Indiana Academy on account of the good work they have done. As 

 for the General Secretary of the American Association, where could a 

 better and more popular one be found than in our own Amos. W. Butler? 

 He graced that position in 1S92, and ornithologically speaking, he was a 

 "bird." (Laughter.) This year the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science has honored itself in selecting one of your past presi- 

 dents for its President. No one who knows Dr. David Starr Jordan doubts 

 but that he will add additional lustre to its already bright pages. 



Permit me, as a delegate from the Cinciunati Section of the American 

 Chemical Society, to congratulate you on the twenty-five years of your 

 existence, and to bespeak for the future, if such a thing be possible, 

 greater success than in the past. (Applause.) 



