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stituted one of the mosl importanl deparl menta of our Late national i msus, reported in several hundred quarto pages. To adequately discuss the subject, therefor I should bo forced to trespass upon your pood

nature and the wishes of the committee; the day would be all too short, and your patience and strength, as well as my own, would be sorely taxed. You may not expect me, therefore, to offer more than a syllabus of what might be said in the several hours or the several addresses which should be allotted to the subject. The head of the department will, I hope, have many years to exploit it, for to be fully successful he may not avoid these relations omnipresent. The utilitarianism of our age makes it important that theory and practise, science and industry, shall go hand in hand to insure progress on either side. The good flowing from the relation in question is reciprocal. If the science of chemistry has furnished the industry with knowledge and facts and suggestions, the practise of chemistry in the industry by its needs, by its difficulties, by its successes, has furnished to the science suggestions, facts and knowledge which have been helpful, stimulating and inspiring. The best that can be said of the relations of

chemistry to the industries is, the closer they are the better for both. The necessity

ui ing from the large production of wastes in the manufacture of illuminating gas, the iilili/ lion of coal tar, which had become 1 Sn intolerable nu nee, led simultaneously t.o l.he ( lablishmenl of the great r<Aov industries, with con <|umt Stimulation of all tl died industries, to the development f