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14 and useful imagination, made possible for him splendid progress in research and opened for him a career which must certainly have placed him in the forefront of the profession, and made him a ] tding chemist in his country and in the world. As a teacher the same qualities made him successful. Students respect and follow successful men—men who work earnestly and produce useful results. Such results were manifest as an outcome of all the efforts Dr. Palmer put forth. While we mourn him personally as a friend and colleague, we realize the loss to the world of chemistry and the industries, caused by his death. But in this case particularly we must realize that the oft repeated adage, "The evil that men do lives after them," must be modified, and we may say, "The good he has done lives after him," in the men he has trained, in the results of his investigations, in the publications of his work now within our reach, in his influence upon the standing and position of the university generally. We may congratulate the university and its corps of administration and instruction that so many of her sons should have been so influential and instrumental in establishing the splendid position she occupies in the eyes of her graduates and the world at lame. I have been invited at this time to dis cuss the relations of chemistry io the industries, and in this, to me, most in: resting duty, to occupy flfteeil minutes. It is fair to remind yen and the committee hav ing these exercises in charge that tin ha more than once, been the subject of an encyclopedia of nuiny volumes, that it eon