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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Not 
  for 
  an 
  instant 
  has 
  the 
  attitude 
  of 
  the 
  chief 
  educational 
  

   officer, 
  judicially 
  reflecting 
  the 
  underlying 
  sentiment 
  of 
  the 
  

   State, 
  intimated 
  a 
  purpose 
  to 
  restrain 
  or 
  curtail 
  investigations 
  

   in 
  those 
  lines 
  of 
  pure 
  and 
  applied 
  science 
  here 
  carried 
  on; 
  on 
  the 
  

   contrary 
  this 
  influence 
  has 
  substantially 
  favored 
  and 
  apprecia- 
  

   tively 
  encouraged 
  all 
  this 
  work, 
  in 
  geology, 
  paleontology, 
  miner- 
  

   alogy, 
  botany, 
  entomology, 
  zoology 
  and 
  archeology; 
  the 
  proper 
  

   fields 
  of 
  science 
  which 
  this 
  division 
  covers. 
  Such 
  indeed 
  has 
  

   been 
  the 
  historic 
  attitude 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  toward 
  this 
  work 
  and 
  

   such 
  without 
  question 
  it 
  is 
  likely 
  to 
  be. 
  

  

  This 
  Division 
  of 
  Science, 
  during 
  its 
  long 
  existence 
  of 
  seventy- 
  

   five 
  years, 
  has 
  rolled 
  up 
  a 
  monumental 
  record 
  of 
  the 
  varied 
  

   scientific 
  resources 
  of 
  the 
  State, 
  embodying 
  facts 
  and 
  factors 
  

   which 
  have 
  modified 
  and 
  added 
  to 
  the 
  total 
  body 
  of 
  science 
  in 
  

   ways 
  that 
  it 
  would 
  now 
  be 
  difficult 
  to 
  estimate. 
  The 
  State 
  of 
  

   New 
  York 
  has 
  become 
  classic 
  ground 
  of 
  these 
  scientific 
  branches 
  

   and 
  its 
  fund 
  of 
  records 
  is 
  in 
  keeping 
  with 
  the 
  vastness 
  of 
  its 
  

   natural 
  wealth. 
  There 
  could 
  be 
  no 
  justification 
  for 
  any 
  cessa- 
  

   tion 
  in 
  these 
  activities, 
  whether 
  they 
  pertain 
  to 
  pure 
  or 
  to 
  applied 
  

   science. 
  The 
  mining 
  production 
  of 
  this 
  State 
  has 
  increased 
  by 
  

   3000 
  per 
  cent 
  since 
  the 
  inception 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Survey. 
  

   The 
  control 
  of 
  insect 
  depredations 
  upon 
  the 
  agricultural 
  and 
  

   forest 
  crops 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  becomes 
  annually 
  of 
  greater 
  moment 
  to 
  

   the 
  people 
  with 
  the 
  yearly 
  enlargement 
  of 
  the 
  crops 
  themselves. 
  

   The 
  conservation 
  of 
  all 
  our 
  native 
  fauna 
  and 
  flora 
  is 
  a 
  problem 
  

   of 
  growing 
  concern. 
  

  

  These 
  are 
  but 
  items 
  in 
  the 
  progress 
  of 
  results, 
  but 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  

   said 
  with 
  security 
  that 
  never 
  in 
  its 
  history 
  has 
  this 
  division 
  been 
  

   of 
  more 
  immediate 
  usefulness 
  to 
  the 
  progress 
  of 
  the 
  people 
  nor 
  

   its 
  contributions 
  in 
  pure 
  science 
  of 
  more 
  moment 
  to 
  the 
  philos- 
  

   ophy 
  of 
  life. 
  The 
  solution 
  of 
  every 
  problem 
  of 
  science 
  brings 
  

   with 
  it 
  new 
  and 
  larger 
  problems. 
  The 
  bell 
  never 
  rings 
  on 
  

   scientific 
  progress 
  and 
  research 
  — 
  if 
  it 
  does, 
  in 
  a 
  State 
  like 
  this, 
  

   it 
  is 
  a 
  knell 
  that 
  tolls 
  for 
  death 
  and 
  decay. 
  There 
  lie 
  before 
  us 
  

   today 
  in 
  these 
  various 
  fields 
  of 
  research 
  larger 
  problems, 
  more 
  

   deeply 
  fraught 
  with 
  the 
  welfare 
  of 
  the 
  Commonwealth, 
  more 
  

   intimately 
  concerned 
  with 
  the 
  inspiration 
  and 
  uplift 
  of 
  the 
  

   citizen, 
  than 
  there 
  have 
  ever 
  been. 
  

  

  But 
  in 
  an 
  evident 
  and 
  pregnant 
  sense 
  we 
  have 
  now 
  come 
  to 
  

   a 
  turn 
  in 
  the 
  road. 
  This 
  division 
  is, 
  and 
  has 
  long 
  and 
  properly 
  

   been, 
  a 
  part 
  in 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  and 
  the 
  Department 
  

  

  