THE 
AMERICAN NATURALIST 
VoL. XXXI. September, 1897. 369 
BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE! 
By Wittram H. Weron, M. DL LL. D. 
It is a great pleasure to bring hearty congratulations to the 
University and the city of Chicago upon the completion of 
the Hull Biological Laboratories. This University, the off- 
spring of unexampled private munificence, marvellous in its 
birth and infancy, and clearly destined to great achievements 
for education, for science and for humanity, may well rejoice 
upon this occasion, but Miss Culver, by her beneficent gift, 
has earned the gratitude not of this University alone, but of 
all interested in the progress of the biological sciences. A 
gift of such magnitude as this one, devoted to “the increase 
and spread of knowledge within the field of the biological 
sciences ” is of far more than any local significance. It must 
awaken the cordial interest far and near of those who under- 
stand the scope and meaning of the sciences of organic nature. 
What is here planned and has already been accomplished, 
gives assurance that the wishes of the donor and the expecta- 
tions of others will be amply fulfilled, and that in these labor- 
atories in unusual measure will knowledge of the forms and 
activities of living things grow and hence be diffused. 
‘Address delivered at the dedication of the Hull Biological Laboratories at 
the apg of Chicago, July 2, 1897. 
