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Caption: Booklet - Addresses from Inauguration of Noyes
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E LATIOTH OF VHKM1STKI INDUSTRIES TO TUB I AM gratified that an opportunity lias been given me to be present on this occasion and take part in the installation of the new head of the department of chemistry of this great university. To me it is a matter of no little significance, and to all of us, interested, as we are, in the promotion of the work of the institution and its material and scientific progress, it is almost the beginning of a new era in its development. We may congratulate ourselves that the officers charged with the duty of seeking out and appointing the new incumbent, should have had such good fortune in their search, and should have chosen so well. But I know you. will sympathize with me when I say that the pleasure and gratification which comes to us now must be tempered by the remembrance of the real cause which brings us together: the early and untimely removal of the late head of the department. To me it brought keen sorrow. I knew Dr. Palmer as a youth, just emerging into manhood. Earnest, enthusiastic, industrious and skilful, he came to his work with qualities of mind calculated to make him a leader among his Fellows, ind to cause him to quickly lake a high position in liis chosen profession. A persi flat reader of Hie literature even in his 1 student days, a deep and accurate thinker, a rapid manipulator, confident of the aecu racy of his results, he was able lo accoin pliih more within a given time than most men ; and all this, combined with a vivid
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