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Excerpt from Address of Professor A. D. Bache, President of the American Association for the Year 1851, on Retiring From the Duties of President
The generation which grew up during our revolutionary struggle, and after our independence was acknowledged, naturally did not succeed to these connections or friendships. The prosecution of mathematics and physical science was neglected indeed barely kept alive by the calls for boundary and land surveys of the more extended class, by the exertions necessary in the lecture room, or by isolated volunteer efforts. AS the country was explored and settled, the un worked mine of natural history was laid Open, and the attention of almost all the cultivators of science was turned towards the develop ment of its riches. Descriptive natural history is the pursuit which emphatically marks that period. As its exponent, may be taken the admirable descriptive mineralogy of Cleveland, which seemed to fill the measure of that day, and be as it were its chief embodiment, appearing just as the era was passing away.
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