Daily globe., 1883-08-16

perstition, science has incidentally
wrought his greatest service to man
kind in the publication oe religion.
The time is coming when grateful thanks
will be rendered by the ministers of re-
ligion for the emancip patton which science
has wrought for the faith, when the con-
f1cts of science and religion will only be
remembered as the antagonism of crude
theories on the one hand and crude super
stitions on the other. Grateful we are for
the knowledge which science has collected
and collated and perpetuated to our use.
All honor to the men who
are consecrated to truth in her
science. We may not know what marvels
far surprising all the gifts OF the past the
science of the future may reveal. Still we
must remember that the human mind is
finite, while truth Is infinite. The vast
unknown engirdles our little circle of
light. The mystery of life and death no
son of earth has ever penetrated. We'll
come then the faith which points to the
continuance of life in land
where study will be no WEAKNESS
to the soul, where no veil of flesh will cloud
their vision, where science and religion
shall forever be ,one-where men shall
know even as they are known
RESPONSE OF PRESIDENT YOUNG.
The welcome exhausted, Prof. Young,
Princeton, N. j., president elect made the
following general response
GENTLEMEN; On behalf of my fellow
members of the association I return YOU
our sincere thanks for the hearty welcome
we have received to this magnificent state,
this beautiful city, this vigorous, energetic,
warm hearted community. When you
first invited US here it was not in our
power to come, but your second invitation
we have accepted most gladly and hope
and believe that our meeting here will
prove benefit and pleasure to all con-
| cerned.
Some of Us have known you personally
before, and most of US have long been
more or less familiar at second hand with
your state and city, and yet think to
many of US it something like a new
revelation to see for ourselves what
so few years have accomplished
I am not enough of a Latin scholar to
quote my Virgil we'll, but I have been all
the time most forcibly reminded of the
passage in which Eneas first comes in
sight of rising Carthage-most emphati-
cally the work boils here. We see no
drones or sluggards, but every shoulder is
at the wheel and everything is moving.
1t may perhaps seem to you sometimes
when in our sectional meetings, we discuss
some questions about the stars, or some
| hypothesis as to the formation of rock
strata, or the structure of some worm or
insect, that we are out of the current of
life, and contributing nothing to the ad-
vancement of the world. But you know it
is not so, and your invitation to hold our
meeting here shows that you know
it. The world advances not one
line only, but on many-on lines material,
intellectual, spiritual. To some extent
the movements are indeed independent,
but not very far. Any true advance on
either line implies correspondent move
ment on each of the others, if not abso-
lutely simultaneous yet swiftly consequent.
There is no need to ask you how much
this city owes to modern science, when I
see on every side, on all your streets and
storehouses and mills, the practical ap-
plication of the highest engineering, me-
chanical and electric art. And in the
future, it is almost certain that science is
to contribute still more literally to busi-
ness. But not mainly for this reason do
claim your regard to science, but be-
cause, made in the image of God as we
are, knowledge and understanding are as
truly wealth and power as lands, and food,
and money.
will not add that as you have invited
us here, do we on our part most cordially
invite you to attend all our meetings, to
listen to the papers and their discussion
We cannot promise that every paper will
be interesting to all. but each one I think
will be able to select certain ones he will
be able hear, and if any of you choose to
| join US, and enrol themselves as promo
tiers of the advancement of science, our
membership is open on easy terms.
Once more, gentlemen, we thank you
for your cordial welcome and address our
selves to our business in hopeful conf
dence that our meeting here is to be in
the highest degree pleasant and success
full.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Following the general secretary, J. B..
Eastman, of Washington, announced the
following committee on interchange of
courtesies: Prof. Dawson, President
Young, Prof. Hunt, Prof. Morse and Prof.
Mendenhall, which he followed by the an
nouncement of addresses by vice-presi-
dents of sections for the afternoon, as ap-
pears below. This was fol-
lowed by reading list of
applicants for membership, aggregating
about hundred, which, upon motion,
were elected by the secretary casting an
affirmative ballot.
TIE DEAD.
The list of deceased members, not be-
fore announced at session of the conven-
ton, was then read as follows:
Stephen Alexander, of Princeton, N. j..
Joined the association at the first meeting,
past president. Born Sept. l, 1906, died
June %, 1888.
Louis Anfrecht, Cincinnati, O., Joined
at the last meeting.
Sir Redmond Barry, Melbourn, Australia,
joined at the twenty-fifth meeting.
G. W. Belfrage, Clifton, Texas, joined at
the twenty -nineth meeting. Died Dec. Z,
1888.
Robt. Briggs, Philadelphia, Joined at
the twenty -nineth meeting.
Horace Brown, Salon, Mass, Joined at
the twenty-seventh meeting. Died July,
1888.
Paul A. Claiborne, Amherst, Mass.
Joined at the twelfth meeting. Died Feb.