702 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences , Arts, and Letters. 
increasing fruit of your labors for our state and our university and 
the continued presence with us of your personality. 
In you, Sir, the Wisconsin Academy recognizes eminence and dis¬ 
tinction in science; we take pride in the achievements of a fellow cit¬ 
izen; we are grateful to him for increased knowledge, for a wider vis¬ 
ion, for a deeper insight into nature. But today and on this occasion 
there is something more: We look back on a half-century of your 
life among us; we see not only new fields won for science during 
those years; we see also in you constantly present with us the spirit 
and temper of science; and as you spoke to us just now we heard 
not merely, or indeed chiefly, the record of scientific work told us 
by one of the workers, we hear rather the voice of one through whom 
science had for a half-century been exerting a vital influence among 
us; we felt, as we have felt so often before, the presence of the man 
and the influence of his life. 
Such thoughts and such feelings were present when the Wisconsin 
Academy proposed that some special recognition be made of the com¬ 
pletion of your half-century in the Academy which you helped to 
found. With this sense of personal gratitude the University acted— 
the University so greatly advanced and enriched by you. 
It is therefore with a peculiar pleasure that I now comply with the 
request of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, with 
the recommendation of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, 
and the vote of its regents. By the authority committed to me, I 
confer upon you the degree of Doctor of Science, and in testimony 
thereof, I present you with this diploma. 
Second Session, 2:30 P. M. 
University Armory. 
This session was also a University Convocation, which was 
addressed by President Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia 
University, New York City. 
Third Session, 4:00 P. M. 
Room 301, Biology Building. 
President Birge took the chair and introduced Professor John 
M. Coulter, of the University of Chicago, who spoke on the re¬ 
lations of the local Academy to the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science. 
Professor Charles E. Allen, of the University of Wisconsin, 
reported on the plan for the affiliation of the local Academies 
