THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUND- 
ING OF THE DENISON SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION 
On the evening of April 12, 1912, a special meeting of the 
Denison Scientific Association was held in commemoration of its 
twenty-fifth anniversary, Prof. Theodore S. Johnson presiding. 
The following program was arranged for the occasion: ^^A statis- 
tical study of the contributions published in the Bulletin of the 
Association,’^ Prof. Frank Carney; ^ ^Greetings from the Board of 
Trustees of the University, and reminiscences of C. L. Herrick,” 
Prof. A. D. Cole; ^The early years of the Association,” Mr. Wal- 
lace H. Cathcart; ^The Foundations of Culture,” Prof. C. Judson 
Herrick. 
In opening the exercises. President Johnson explained the pur- 
pose of the Association in the life of the college, commenting 
felicitously on its sustained growth and the present outlook. 
Dr. Carney reviewed, by tabular classification, the contribu- 
tions of the several laboratories to the sixteen volumes of the 
Bulletin published by the Association. When Clarence Luther 
Herrick, founder of the Association, established the Bulletin, but 
two departments of science were maintained by the University, 
Natural History and Physics; in a short time the former was 
divided into Geology and Zoology; for many years the courses 
in Botany and Chemistry were given by the professors of Geology 
and Physics respectively; a department of Botany was organized 
in 1904, of Chemistry in 1905; partly for these reasons there is 
considerable range in the number of contributions by the several 
laboratories. 
The Board of Trustees was represented by Prof. A. D. Cole, 
head of the department of Physics at Ohio State University, who 
for several years, while professor of Physics at Denison, was an 
active member of the Association, and for a period acted jointly 
with C. L. Herrick in editing the Bulletin. Professor Cole ex- 
pressed the greetings of the Trustees, and their satisfaction in, 
and approval of, the Association’s activities. The greater part 
of his time was given to a narrative of incidents connected with 
the work of C. L. Herrick during the early period of the Associa- 
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