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work which will prove of immeasurable interest in the near future, if not 

 at the present time. 



Let me close with the hope that this meeting may be all its promoters 

 have intended it should be — a feast not only of science but of friendship — 

 that it may result in the stronger cementation of the bonds which hold 

 the love of the loyal Hoosiers firmly to the State, and excite a pride in the 

 scientific work of Indiana which may rival that which so justly exists re- 

 specting its literary accomplishments. 



Sincerely. 



H. W. Wiley. 



Peofessor Dexxis : The Committee wishes to honor many more mem- 

 bers of the Academy by asking them to speak to you this evening, but on 

 account of the lateness of the hour we will have to restrict the number. 

 I will now call on our old comrade, Prof. W. A. Xoyes. of the University 

 of Illinois. 



Peofessor W. A. Notes : Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen : 

 I have been resting very quietly and easily all the evening, not seeing my 

 name on the program, and not having the slightest hint that I would be 

 called upon. It is surely a very great pleasure to be here, and I would 

 like to say just a word about the old times when the Academy started. I 

 believe I was one of the charter members, and one of the things I remember 

 of that time was the discussion in regard to the name that we should 

 adopt. It was finally agreed, if I remember correctly on the recommenda- 

 tion of Dr. Jordan, that we should call it the Indiana Academy of Science, 

 not the Indiana Academy of Sciences. I think that in his mind and in 

 ours, as we selected that name, was the thought that after all there should 

 be but one science, which is all-embracing, and I feel that as one of the 

 ideals of the Academy it has been of the greatest value to us. As we come 

 together in these meetings of the Indiana Academy, we feel that no mat- 

 ter how separated our lines of work may be. how different— so different 

 sometimes that we can understand but little of each other's language — 

 yet after all we are simply working in different parts of one great whole 

 of scientific knowledge, and that it is our place to look at our part, our 

 field, as merely one part, of the whole, all parts of which may in some way 

 or other touch our own. And this opportunity of seeing, of catching even 

 a little glimpse of this work that is so far removed, perhaps, from our own. 

 and the acquaintance of these men who are working in the different fields, 

 is, it seems to me. one of the features of greatest value in these friend- 

 ships and associations which we have made here in this Academy. 



