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versity to bring the public into closer touch with the new Museum 

 by formal dedicatory exercises. These took place in the Chancellors 

 Hall of the Education Building at Albany on the afternoon and 

 evening of Friday, December 29, 1916. The afternoon exercises 

 consisted of a series of addresses from eminent speakers, each 

 representing a special phase of community interest in the Museum. 

 The Hon. Charles B. Alexander, chairman of the Regents com- 

 mittee on the State Museum, presided, and the speakers were 

 President John H. Finley on behalf of the University and the 

 educational system of the State, Senator Henry M. Sage on 

 behalf of the state government. Dr Francis Lynde Stetson on 

 behalf of the people, the Hon. Charles D. Walcott, speaking as a 

 representative of science in its broadest sense, and Director John 

 M. Clarke on behalf of the Museum. In the evening the princi- 

 pal address was by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, who spoke under 

 the title " Productive Scientific Scholarship," and gave an extra- 

 ordinary and illuminating speech to a colossal audience. Colonel 

 Roosevelt was introduced by Governor Charles S. Whitman, who 

 very happily set forth the value of the research work of the 

 scientific corps attached to the Museum. The evening exercises 

 were felicitous and successful throughout, and were followed by 

 a reception in the halls of the Museum. Colonel Roosevelt's 

 address on this occasion, or the part of it that related especially to 

 his scientific theme, has been already printed in " Science," and 

 all the addresses of the occasion have been published together as a 

 bulletin of the University. 



