Chemistry and Physics. 



natural distribution of subjects, the history of enterprise, discove 

 and conquest, and the growth of republics fell to America a 

 she has dealt nobly with them. In the wider and multifaric 

 provinces of art and science she runs neck and neck with t 

 mother country and is never left behind !" 



through 'illiterate" arrogance*; 'there are Tome \vho!' 'incited" 



it is in'contiici w'hVtl irit'.'teivM ' it > h.TLr. t'lu scrvL 



of science, who have dedicated ourselves to her, take counts 

 Day by day the number of those who hold her in disfavor 

 diminishing We can disre-ard their misrepresentations a 

 maledictions. .Mankind has made the great discovery that, she 

 the long hoped-for civilizing a-ent of the world. Let us contin 



' the 



f the 



The book of Nature ! shall not we chemists, and all our brotl 

 students, whethei I - rs.mathematiei: 



geologists, shall we not all humbly and earnestly read it ? Xatt 

 the mother of us all, has ig, her eternal rec 



on the canopy of the skies, she has put it all around us on 

 platform of the earth ! No man can tamper with it, no man i 

 interpolate or falsi tv it for hi- own ends. She does not eomrm 

 us what to do, nor order us what to think. She only invites us 



Thither are "rep y, but of their o 



been, in her m concord and uni 



13. Pnf/JD, I s.—Prot Draper's 



country! *We 14wm of the Pr, 



. of Arts and 



