The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-12

l ted that the projected series was car
 ried no farther.
 During its first twenty years of ex
 istence, the academy held it's annua
 meetings a. the state house in New 1 Haven, and it's others at the residence! l of it's members in succession. An ora l ton by some person of distinction WaE | q feature of the annual meeting, anC | at those held at private houses some 1 paper of a less formal character was l generally presented or topics of gen. eral interest discussed. If one of the members was writing book, some o1 the chapters would be likely to pass ir this way, while in manuscript, Detofe the academy, and the views presented
 receive it's friendly criticism Presl- dent Dwight's defence of the common language of New England, and of the
 pronunciation of English by her peo- pie, contained n a letter to an lmagln-
 ary Englishman, published after ms
 death in the fourth volume of his
 travels in New England and New
 York, was presented in this way as
 communication to the academy in lSl3.
 In 1918 a report was adopted from
 committee. of which Prof. Silliman was
 the chairman. urging the importance of
 a proper geological survey and map
 of the state. This was the beginning
 of an effort to press the supJect upon
 the attention of the legislature, which
 resulted in 1885, in the appointment by
 the state of two members of the acad-
 emy, Dr. Charles upham Shepard and
 Dr. James G. Percival, to undertake the
 work. Dr. Shepard's report, which
 was mainly confined to mineralogy,
 was published in 1887 in thick pam
 phlet of 1SS pages and Dr. PercivaPs,
 with the geological map, followed five
 years later in volume of much larger
 dimensions.
 The published transactions of the academy, aside from the statistical ac- count of the state which was designed to stand by itself as separate work,
 begin with Part 1 of volume l, printed in 1910. The second part followed in 1s11, the third in 1913, and the fourth and last in 1S16 The range of subjects discussed was broad. Two papers read by Noah Webster in 1799 and 1906 had the place of honor, and treated of the supposed moderation in the tempera- ture of winter in modern times. It was his opinion that the spread of popula- tfon over the earth, and the attendant alterations in the face of the ground occasioned by clearing and cultivation, had resulted in a less equal and uni form distribution of heat and cold among the several seasons, but that the cold of winter was in the aggregate as great as ever, though less steady. Judge Daggett narrated the history of a law suit brought for destroying a dam across the Housatonic river, in which the defense was that bonding the water had been the cause of fever and ague. A lengthy paper by Dr. Benjamin w. Dwight of Catskill, N. r., a son of the president, on Chronic De- bility of the Stomach excited wide at tention, and was republished in Eng land. One of it's positions might well it to English readers Wine, and wine only" he wrote, is recom- mended in holy writ for dyspeptic "A little wine for thy sake, and thine often infirmi- ties was the direction of the Apostle Paul to Timothy. The words thy stom- ach's sake, and thine often infirmities' prove the disease to have been chronic debility of that viscus, with a numerous rain of morbid sympathies. and no of Hippocrates could have been better"
 Another son of the president, Sereno 2. Dwight, then member of the New Haven bar, contributed a dissertation ,n the Origin of Springs" The vol I mo r1nG Ia 1, ( ,nstra tion of Stewards Properties of he Circle, by Prof, Strong of Hamilton 'ollege. It contained also number of papers on subjects of natural philoso- ,hy, and two from the pen of President Dwight, the more important one being | Observations on Language" the theme | if which was that the intelligence of | my nation may be exactly estimated | rom it's vocabulary
 The year after the completion of Vol.
 of the Memoirs of the Academy which was the style of the title adopt d) President Dwights death sent the presidency of the college and with it aturally that of the academy, into he hands of Dr. Day.
 His horizon was not so broad as that f his predecessor in these offices, nor is executive powers of equal energy. mother circumstance also now occur ed to weaken the position Of the acad- my as an active force in the cultiva- ion of the arts and sciences. In ISIS rof. Silliman undertook the arduous ask of editing and publishing scien- f1c periodical of a general character. nd in July of that year the first num- CT of the American Journal of Science nd Arts appeared from the New Ha- en press. He had made important to the first volume of the cademy's Memoirs. and had always cen one of it's leading spirits Such, ldeed, he continued to be for many ears, but his main interest henceforth 5 to scientific publications was nat rally centered in the Journal for )onsible and which was soon called,
 common parlance, by his name. To lpport his undertaking vote had 1 zen passed in February that the com ittee of publication may allow such
 the academy's papers as they think 'oper to be published in MT. Silli lan's 'ientific Journal" Free use was made of this authority. Id large part of the contents of the Iurnal was for many years drawn om this source. In some cases this ct was noted in publication, but in I