Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-09-10
Especial Correspondence of the Grant Co. HERALD)
American Association for the Adj
vancement Of Scienc9-Twenty-
first Annual Session, at
Dubuque.

This yearly gathering Of large
number of the most earnest search
ers for scientific truth is past, and
its transactions are already before
the people in all the leading news
papers. Nearly all parts of the
Union were represented Veteran
STANDARD authors and youthful pro-
lessons were there to compare notes,
and hear or relate the discoveries of
the past year The first evening in
the Congregational church was a
rare and appreciated treat. And
yet comparatively few Dubuquers
troubled themselves to attend it.
Looking down on the assembled
scientists, a comrade whispers that
be "never saw so many men togeth-
er each with skating rink on top
of his head" and our first scientific
discovery is that intense study or
great talent produces badness. We
next note the amiable, benevolent
look that prevails the kind, noble
and unselfish cast Of countenance,
that makes one wish to know all
those college presidents and profess
ors; look that seems to say "Take
my yoke upon you and learn of me,
for | am meek and lowly in heart"
So the next discovery is that scien-
tiic pursuits and long study of ma
ture make men philanthropic and
pleasant looking. A day or two La
ter, one may learn by experience
that men who stand at the head of
some branch of learning and have q
national or still wider fame, are affa-
BILE and communicative to all who
come TO them in quest Of knowledge.
As one looks in those kindly faces
that have for o lifetime scanned
Gods truths as revealed in his work
Longfellow's lines on Agassiz chime
in:
And Mature, the old nurse, toek >
Tie child upon her knee,
Saying here il astOry book
Thy Father hath written for thee.
Come wander away she said
Into regions yet untrod,
And read what is still unread
In the manuscripts OF God.
SO she keeps him still child
Aud will not let him so, etc,
The main attraction of the even
ing was the admirable address of
Prof. Asa Gray, who has for TWEEN.
ty five or thirty years been the
standard author in Botany, and
whose works are the universal text
books in schools of all grades. He
seemed q plain Supplemented man,
aged but vigorous, and of great susvi-
W of manner. In his address rs the
retiring President of the Society, he
embodied the facts Of botany and
science gathered this summer in his
first visit to the Pacific states His
conclusions on the Big Trees were OF
especial value.
Among the listening throng are
several whose names may not be
new to readers of the Herald. That
portly, digniGed, handsome old man
is Col. J. w. Foster, of Chicago
whose scientific works on the Missis.
sippi Valley and our mineral wealth
are well known.
Prof A. II. Tuttle, lately OF the
Platteville Normal School, and now
Professor of Microscopy, &c. a
Harvard College, has familiar look
Prof. Alex. Winehell, lately OF Ann
Arbor, now President of Syracn-
College N. Y. whose Sketches o.
Creation" are becoming so generally
known as the best and most admira-
Bile work on that subject, is a young
man apparently of thirty years, and
of singularly noble snd elegant ex-
terror.
Prot. Benjamin Pierce, SCperin.
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