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institutions of learning within our borders, so that her scientific 
men may enjoy wider opportunities for productive work. Our 
ambition must extend beyond our individual work, and must 
especially include the advancement of the best interests of the 
state Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. It should be the 
inspiration of every scholar in the state to have within our 
borders a better Academy than is found in any neighboring state. 
Our printed Transactions appear upon the shelves of practically 
every library in the learned world. ~No publication within our 
state has so wide a circulation, the original of a citation from 
an Academy paper being instantly accessible in almost any seat 
of learning in the world. It should be our pride, therefore, 
that this society, which is the intellectual ambassador of the 
state of Wisconsin to the learned world, should be maintained in 
the highest possible position; that its dignity should be com¬ 
mensurate with the honor of science as well as with the honor of 
a great commonwealth. With such a purpose in his mind, let 
every member of this Academy renew his allegiance and his ac¬ 
tivity. Let all the productive intellectual forces of the state be 
united in this society as an instrument for the advancement of 
investigation and the spread of knowledge. 
