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Professor Dennis : We shall now hear from Professor Charles W. 

 Greene, of the Uinversity of Missouri. 



Prof. Charles W. Greene : Mr. Toastmaster : It seems rather un- 

 fortunate that a man such as I. of no ability as a speaker, should be 

 called upon, but I will do the best I can to express the feeling of enthusi- 

 asm and encouragement this meeting has given me. It has been a great 

 pleasure to meet so many friends and to recall old times when the Aca- 

 demy first began, the time when at DePauw, through the genial personality 

 of Professor Jenkins, we began to catch the scientific spirit. I remember 

 my first meeting with the Academy was at Greencastle. We went out on 

 a field excursion and we younger men were brought into intimate con- 

 tact with the stimulating personal enthusiasm which always characterizes 

 Indiana scientists. 



I think one of the features of this meeting has been the showing of 

 the great tolerance that has been developed in our scientific lines of 

 thought. Dr. Coulter showed us that this morning. It is certainly very 

 encouraging to the physiologist to learn that in the life of the plant. In 

 its growth from the Plasmodium, it is not predestined to go through any 

 fixed and inflexible schedule of development. I felt at the time that prob- 

 ably the calm cold conservatism of morphology was yielding to the seduc- 

 tive charms of physiology as expressed in environment, that a new era in 

 botany was still possiblie to us. That was not the old botany but a 

 glimpse of the new. 



Professor Dennis : Dr. Evermann for a long time a member of the 

 Academy is with us and will tell us what members of the Academy are 

 doing in Washington. He represents the Atlantic here as Dr. Jordan the 

 Pacific. He gave us last night an account of a fishing trip to the "Tiptop 

 of the United States" but he did not produce his "records or his instru- 

 ments" or even his fishes ; he gave us only fish stories. Perhaps he has 

 the real article with him this evening. Dr. Barton Warren Evermann of 

 the U. S. Fish Commission. 



Dr. Barton W. Evermann : Mr. Toastmaster and Amos Butler — or 

 the Indiana Academy — they mean the same thing. I have been looking at 

 this program ever since I came into the room, and I notice what my friend. 

 Dr. Coulter, also noticed, and mentioned in his remarks — the toast imme- 

 diately following my name, which I fear bears some relation to what I 

 have already said or what I may say in this meeting. "Lord, Lord, how 



