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Dedicatory Exercises May 30, 1914

Dedicatory Exercises May 30, 1914.       339

 

who were following us in the retreating continental Ice Sheet in

Ohio as the Eskimo are still doing in Alaska and Greenland.

Thus geology and archaeology join hands in our state to shed

light on the earliest conditions under which man struggled to

maintain his existence in this world of thorns and thistles, of

earthquakes and volcanoes, and of waxing and waning ice sheets.

The contrast between those conditions and those in which we

live is such as to make us pause and give thanks that our lines

have fallen in such pleasant places and that we have so goodly

an heritage.

REMARKS OF SECRETARY RANDALL.

Following President Wright's address, Mr. Randall, Secre-

tary of the Society, spoke impromptu, giving, in brief, some of

the main facts and incidents connected with the origin and

history of the Society. He related

how in the early months of the year

1875, Isaac Smucker, Stephen D.

Peet, Roeliff Brinkerhoff and perhaps

one or two others, met at the home

of General Brinkerhoff and organ-

ized the Ohio Archaeological Asso-

ciation. Professor John T. Short,

of the Ohio State University, and

author of "Prehistoric Man in

America," was made Secretary of the

Society.

The origin of this organization

arose from the impulse given to

archaeological and historical study by

the then approaching American Centennial Exposition to be held

at Philadelphia in the year 1876. It was proposed by the new

Ohio Society that an exhibit of Ohio Archaeology be made at the

coming exhibition. In the prosecution of this purpose appear

the names of R. B. Hayes, then governor, Dr. N. S. Townshend,

professor O. S. U., Gen. R. Brinkerhoff, M. C. Read, distin-

guished writer on Archaeology, John H. Klippert, State Geolo-

gist, C. C. Baldwin and Charles Whittlesey, respectively president

and secretary of Western Reserve Historical Society. These