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lamented Barnes—and to go on at length, but where could I end it? 
Besides it is not my function to deploy the Golden Age of the Acad¬ 
emy, but merely its founding. The other source of change came even 
closer to the hearts of the founders, the coming of choice youth of 
the state into productive membership in the Academy, the children 
of the Academy. They were equally and perhaps more the children 
of the educational institutions of the state, but we claim them as 
children of the Academy none the less. Very notable among these 
was President Van Hise, who rapidly rose to leadership in the state, 
in the nation, and beyond. It would be a delight to name many 
others, but how could the parental affection of a founder permit him 
to stop short of naming all the children of the Academy? The di¬ 
lemma is in itself evidence that the formative stage of the Academy 
had already passed away. The founding of the Academy had really 
taken place. 
At the close of the address Professor Chamberlin was pre¬ 
sented to President Birge by Professor Charles K. Leith for the 
degree of Doctor of Science. President Birge conferred the 
degree in the following words: 
Dr. Chamberlin: 
I assume today the privilege of adding to the official formula which 
it is at once my pleasure and my duty to pronounce; and my words 
are of a personal character rather than a supplement to the review 
of your scientific achievements so well set forth by Dr. Leith. 
I can not forget that our friendship began at a meeting of the 
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, something more 
than forty-four years ago; nor will either of us ever forget the friend 
through whom we were brought together—the lamented Irving. You 
were then a young professor in Beloit College, just entering on your 
first great scientific task—the direction of the Wisconsin Geological 
Survey; I was a still unfledged instructor, beginning my teaching at 
the University. 
Through all the years that have passed since 1876, my life and 
my work have lain close to yours, as a teacher and student in a 
cognate department of a neighboring college, and, not least, during 
five happy years, as a member of the faculty over which you presided. 
I have therefore been so placed that I have not only known the long 
record of your labor and success in the fields of education and 
science; I have seen and I have in some degree shared the influences 
which for so many years came to this state through your presence 
here as a living and working personality. 
And when the central place of your work was removed from our 
university to its next great neighbor, when your scientific outlook en¬ 
larged so as to include not only the earth but the heavens, I could 
still appreciate, perhaps more justly than younger men could do, the 
