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cannot fail to be gratifying to themselves and assuring to the 
public.” * * * 
The remainder of the President’s address was occupied with 
reference to some of the American institutions he visited during 
his recent tour, followed by some remarks on the flora. These he 
gave in more of a narrative form than characterized the formal 
case as to the natural history museums generally. In fact his 
whole time was given to field-work in the region west of the Great 
Plains. The commendation of the U.S. scientific surveys would 
one here so highly and justly praised was the only one which the 
President had had the opportunity to become personally acquainted 
wi 
tinued,—The most important scientific results hitherto derived 
from the labors of Dr. Hayden and his parties are unquestionably 
the geological: such as the delineation of the boundaries of the 
a De 
retaceous an rtiary seas and lakes that a fee more than 
mains oO Oo g, ’ 
things, referable to so many orders of sponte and animals, and 
often 
States, with museums vastly larger than our own, are at a loss 
fectionery and fruit at the stalls of the railway stations, from the 
eastern base of the Rocky Mountains all the way to California, 
ing. i : 
over many hundred miles, observes that the character of its sok 
Ontological, as well as of its strictly geological contents is such, 
