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1 began these somewhat detached observations with a reference to 
the beginning of our organization forty years ago. How will it be 
forty years hence ^ Will Dr. Matthew, Dr. Hay and Mr. Kain and 
Mr. Lovitt, and Mr. Banks, and Mr. Stead, and Mr. Shaw, and Mr. 
McIntosh, and Prof. W. F. Ganong, and all of our fellow workers and 
inspirers, have covered completely their chosen fields of labor, and 
reached the outer bounds of knowledge with respect to life organic 
and inorganic in this province. Will our provincial park and reserve 
be the happy home of our native fauna, innocent of the lumberman’s 
axe, and immune from the sportsman’s gun ? Will our museum be 
more completely housed and all of its treasures more effectively dis- 
played for our information and our pleasure? No doubt you will say 
that these are vain questions. Perhaps they are. 
We may only hope that the Chicago professor will so readily and 
so rapidly write out his theorem respecting the physical basis of life, 
so speedily develop the life-continuing elixir that we may all participate^ 
and thus have the opportunity to assemble here forty years from now 
and see for ourselves with our mortal eyes just how things are. The 
prolongation of our longevity, even by any physical, chemical, . or 
electrical appliance invented at Chicago or elsewhere, would not, I am 
sure, lessen our friendship or weaken our moral forces or dilute the 
•strength of our intellectual and spiritual consciousness. 
