intimate personal friend of Professor Agassiz, and Professor F. W. 

 Putnam, of Harvard University, and remarks were made by Professor 

 Addisson E. Verrill of Yale University and Dr. C. D. Walcott, Director 

 of the U. S. Geological Survey; 



James Dwight Dana, by Dr. Arthur Twining Hadley, President, Yale 

 University, New Haven, Conn.; 



Spencer Ftjllerton Baird, by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Deputy Commissioner, 

 Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, D. C; 



Joseph Leidy, by Professor William Keith Brooks, Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, Baltimore, Md.; 



Edward Drinker Cope, by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Curator, Depart- 

 ment of Vertebrate Palaeontology, American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



The addresses as delivered were as follows: 



BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 

 By S. Weir Mitchell. 



We are here, as I understand, to unveil memorial busts of Americans 

 distinguished in science, and I am honored by the privilege of speaking of 

 Benjamin Franklin. This man, the father of American Science, was 

 possessed of mental gifts unequalled in his day. Even yet he holds the 

 highest place in the intellectual peerage of a land, where, in his time, 

 men had few interests which were not material or political. But no 

 man entirely escapes the despotic influences of his period. Thus in 

 every life there are unfulfilled possibilities, and so it was that, para- 

 phrasing Goldsmith, we may say that Franklin to country gave up what 

 was meant for mankind, when with deep regret he resigned in middle 

 life all hope of whole-souled devotion to science. When most productive, 

 his scientific fertility was the more remarkable because of the other 

 forms of dutiful activity which, in a life that knew no rest, left small 

 leisure for those hours of quiet thought without which science is un- 

 fruitful of result. 



There is a Hall of Fame not built by the hand of man. It is the 

 memory of mankind. In many of its galleries this man's bust could 

 with justice be placed. Diplomacy would claim him as of her greatest. 

 For him would be the laurel of administrative wisdom. Among- states- 

 men he would be welcomed. Who of the masters of English prose 

 shall in that hall of fame be more secure of grateful remembrance, and 

 who more certain of a place among men of science ? 



