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that the geology and the mineralogy, the botany, the zoology, 
the anthropology, etc., of Wisconsin should be investigated, elu¬ 
cidated and made known. This seems to be a duty: a duty to 
the state, a duty to the nation, a duty to science. But it can¬ 
not be done by legislative enactment nor altogether by official 
commission, much as it may be aided by official investigation, 
encouragement, assistance and direction; but it must rather be 
done, in large part, by the volunteer efforts of loyal sons and 
daughters of Wisconsin working each in his or her more or 
less restricted field. I take it to be one of the functions of 
the Academy to find, encourage and assist those who have the 
willingness and the ability to aid in this work as well as to bind 
together the workers in the various fields. And, withal, Wis¬ 
consin should do its full share in the general upbuilding of 
science and in the investigation of those phenomena that do 
not vary locally but are the same the world around or the uni¬ 
verse through. 
But knowing is not all; there is something beyond, something 
higher—-that wide sense of relationships, that fine sense of 
harmonies that we may call feeling. At its best, this is based 
upon knowings The shepherd, gazing upon the starry heavens, 
feels, but the astronomer, looking upon the same objects, feels, 
C take it, more widely, more deeply, more truly. He who 
mows but does not feel may be a bad citizen; he who feels but 
does not know may be fully as dangerous ; he who both knows 
md feels is the ideal citizen. The promotion, then, of know¬ 
ing and feeling, of knowledge and culture, of the sciences, the 
arts and letters, is the work of the Academy—a work worthy of 
its best endeavors and worthy as well of the earnest co-opera¬ 
tion of the state, as such, and of its individuals. 
The papers presented to the Academy are submitted to a 
publication committee, and those deemed worthy are printed 
in its Transactions ; the test of worthiness being whether they 
are actual, original contributions to knowledge. I have looked 
over the Transactions and have attempted some classification of 
these contributions. I do not vouch for the absolute accuracy 
of the figures that I have obtained. It is doubtful if they are 
