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ilar arrangements with others and so add to the extent and amount of 
scientific matter that each member would receive. Such an arrange- 
ment, if it could be made, would be an additional inducement to join 
the Academy. 
Scattered over the State are a considerable number of science teachers 
who would be desirable members, a larger number of engineers and a 
still larger number of medical men, together with other workers in 
applied science, who could be brought into the membership very soon 
and by so doing the usefulness of the organization would be greatly 
increased. The number of workers in applied science in the State, while 
large in comparison with the number of those engaged in pure science 
research, is small in comparison with what it must be at the end of the 
next twenty years. The number in each branch scarcely justifies special 
technical organizations, and the scope of the Texas Academy is surely 
broad enough to include them all. As we grow in numbers there can 
be divisions into special sections, as has been done in the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science, as necessity requires and in a 
few years a very respectable showing can be made. It rests with us to 
further any movement looking to an upbuilding of the Academy and an 
increase in its efficiency. 
There are many meritorious investigations that can not now be under- 
taken because they require too great an expenditure of time and money to 
be attempted by individuals and yet which would be of material benefit to 
the State, for which, if our organization can not itself assist financially, 
we may yet arouse sufficient interest in other quarters to secure the 
required assistance. We should look forward, then, to a future growth 
that shall make the Academy something of which the whole State may 
be proud; which shall benefit the whole State and which shall some day 
receive official recognition and perhaps financial assistance in some of 
its investigations, and which, acting directly upon the individual mem- 
bers, and indirectly upon thousands of others, shall bring a better under- 
standing of the objects and methods of science and a broader measure 
of tolerant intelligence to all, aiding thus the great cause of education 
generally and making for betterment of cultural as well as economic 
conditions. 
