The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-22

not been for T. Sterry Hunts nodding, Prin-
cipal Dawson's address might have been
somewhat dry to fickle-minded hearers.
At the head of the extreme evoiutionists
is +. d, Cope, whose daily papers in the sec
ton OF biology Away attract attention, and
whose exceedingly rapid delivery and clean
cut, incisiye sentences show him to be a man
OF very unusual power.
Indiana has but few members in attend
ance, but they are very active in the matter
OF papers and committee work. In the or
der Of the catalogue they are: Prof. +. r.
Cox and daughter, of New Harmony: A. w.
Butler, ~BrookYllle; Prof. J. Nj. Coulter,
Charlottesville; Lille ]. Martin, Indlanapo-
lis, and Henry f. and Lucia E.
Blount, Evansville. Prof. II. W.
Wiley might also be still counted
as an Indiana man, although he registers
from Washington. Saturday is a day always
given up to excursions, and so the whole as
ISOLATION, with all the friends they had made,
were taken to Lake Minnetonka, the famous
Minneapolis watering-place. After being
dlned and wined at one of the lake hotels
they were taken aboard one of the large lake
steamers as guests of Ex-Governor Wash
burn. And, by the way, eX-governOrs are
so wonderfully abundant in this region that
we have concluded that a new governor must
be elected every half year. The lake is sure
ly very beautiful, and a three hours ride
about its shores and among its many islands
was most delightful. As was to be expected,
we were landed at one point, led unsuspect-
ingly to some high ground III a lonely forest,
and-heard some more speeches. The only
satisfaction was that we heard 1gnatius DON
nelly, who is surely inimitable in a short
speech. The weed men and the slug
and bug men were wandering at loose ends
all day, and if the treasures they found were
to be measured by their excitement they
must have been very great.
OF course the great mills of MinnpaDOliS
were visited, and l might give you their
size, and the number of barrels of flour they
turn out in a day; and also the number and
cost of the bridges and public buildings; and
maybe the prospects OF the harvest up here
and the price of land; but unfortunately [
do not belong to the section of statistics ING
do not own a guide book.
On Monday the rival city of ST. Paul is to
entertain the science of America, and Min
nehaha will on the same day laugh at their
presence. In short, it has occurred to a
new conner that two or three DAYS are given
to sober work and the rest of the time to
junketing.
The meeting of next year will probably be
held in Philadelphia, at which time there
will be a union meeting with the British as
ISOLATION, which is to meet in Montreal, and
the way that log-rolling is INDUCED in for
the offices OF that important meeting would
astonish even a politician. Your CORE
spondent happens to be upon a nominating
committee, and the amount of beer and
cigars that he has had the pleasure of de-
clining can only be exceeded by the number
of warm friends he seems to have made. But,
fippancy aside, it is a grand place for a
scientific man to come. Scores Of people
have met here for the first time who have
always known of one another, and whose
acquaintance, through correspondence, has
ripened into warm friendship. Plans for
cooperation in work have been made that
has put new life into many a worker who
tolls alone and unappreciated in his home.
The leaders in science are found to be men,
after all-genulne. hearty, sociable men. The
beginners are encouraged and feel free to
apply for help, the veterans have enlisted a
new following, and the cause of science has
received a new impetus for another year of
work. J. NJ, c.