IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 
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GREETINGS PROM VISITING ACADEMIES. 
FKOM THE ST. LOUIS ACADEMY, BY L. H. PAMMEL. 
The S. Louis Academy of Science, the oldest academy west of the Mississippi, 
sends greetings to the Iowa Academy, its younger sister. We trust that the 
Iowa Academy of Science will in the future do as commendable work as it has 
in the past quarter of a century. 
We therefore send congratulations and hope that it may fill a large place in 
the science of this great commonwealth. 
GREETINGS FROM THE DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, BY C. C. NUTTING. 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 
It gives me peculiar pleasure to be honored with the duty of bearing 
greetings to the Iowa Academy of Science from what is probably the oldest 
scientific organization in the State, as well as one of the oldest represented at 
this table. 
Dr. Ward has represented himself as the bearer of good wishes from a com- 
paratively young Academy, the Illinois Academy of Science; but I remember 
that, as a boy, I used to hear of an Illinois Academy of Sciences that met at 
Springfield. I suppose that the organization represented by Dr. Ward is a 
lineal descendent of the one I remember. 
The Davenport Academy was organized in the sixties, I believe, and has 
a long and honorable history. It is unique, in certain respects. For one thing, it 
was organized and for many years mainly supported through the efforts of a 
woman and as an expression of a mother’s love for her son, and to this woman, 
Mrs. Putnam, the State of Iowa and the scientific interests of Iowa, owe much. 
This organization stands unique, in this State at least, in being an academy 
of science which exists apart from any college or institution of learning, and 
it occupies an important place in the civic life of the city of Davenport. It has 
published many important contributions to knowledge by eminent men, and 
these publications, in the shape of the Proceedings of the Davenport Academy 
of Sciences, have been maintained at a high level of excellence for many years 
and constitute an honorable literary and scientific monument to the founders,, 
officers and members of the Academy. 
This Academy has also gathered and cared for collections of inestimable 
value, particularly in the line of the archaeology and anthropology of Iowa and 
the Mississippi Valley. These collections can not be duplicated anywhere, and 
many of the specimens are among the most important evidences of the life 
and works of prehistoric man that have been found in North America. 
I take great pleasure in reporting that the Davenport Acadamy is now on 
an excellent basis from both a scientific and financial standpoint, and enjoys a 
munificent endowment of something like a half a million dollars. Its perpetuity 
and continued good works are thus assured. 
