AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
Vol. VII.— OCTOBER, 1873.— No. 10. 
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SCIENCE IN AMERICA AND MODERN METHODS 
CIENCE.* 
BY DR. J. LAWRENCE SMITH. 
Fellow-associates :— We meet again at a point far distant from 
the one where we gathered last year, to interchange social greet- 
ings and scigntific thoughts, and to form plans for future labor 
and usefulness. Fifteen hundred miles divide Dubuque from 
Portland, as the bird flies, and yet that extent of country and 
much more are all our own. Its living and dead treasures, with its 
rocks and its soil, furnish abundant study for our men of science, 
from which to draw rich stores of knowledge, and to direct the 
capital of the country to new sources of wealth. 
As the members of the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science hold their session for a few days only, and 
occupy a portion of their time in interchange of social greetings 
among themselves and with the inhabitants of the city where they 
meet, that critical examination of papers communicated to the 
Association cannot be entered upon that otherwise would be, nor 
can the length of the communications and discussions be easily 
limited. In fact, while ‘it would be desirable to supervise these 
matters more fully, such supervision is surrounded with so many 
difficulties that those whose business it is are forced to content 
themselves with an imperfect discharge of their duty. 
* An Address to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, by the 
Retiring President. Delivered at Portland, Maine, August 22, 1873. 
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