Documents Of The Assembly Of The State Of New York Volume 133 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ..."Water, land and sea do not even suflice you any longer; you wish to know also the universe which surrounds us. Your astronomers do as your houses, they scrape the skies. No astral body has escaped their investigations or their computations. Using incomparable instruments furnished by generous donors, they announce each day discoveries which are denied to our feeble efforts. Your surveyors grqflfiht....... O a e bring us the most precious information by measuring with an activity e eg which knows no rest the immense extent of your territory. Of your naturalists no more could be said than that they are at the level Of the marvels of all kinds which your beautiful country offers them. "Gentlemen, no nation more than France is happy because of your success. The energy, the perseverance, the breadth of views are made to win us. The names of your learned men are familiar to us. We admire Langley and Newcomb, who, unhappily, are no more; but there remain to you such as Agassiz, Bell, Edison, George Hale, Hill, Pickering, Michaelson, Osborne, Loeb and many others still, who fortunately are living, and living indeed. "This admiration, mingled with sympathy which we feel for American science, goes back to a time already distant when your Franklin lived among us and was the object of a veritable cult on the part of Parisians. 'They have multiplied my bust so much, ' he wrote to his daughter, with his witty good nature, 'that if a price were set on my head, it would surely be impossible for me to escape.' "As you see, gentlemen, we still keep preciously the least remembrances of a great period. The recent struggles which we have undertaken with you on the fields of Bethany and Brescia have rendered them...