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America and even now the gp 3 is not lourishinj; it is 1 Ing starved to death, by

low salaries. hYom presidents who arc

chemists down to th least of us, we all have our troubles in securing just one of them; the demand Por two would perhaps prostrate the authorities. And 3 t it would he the economic thing Dot to limit ur in\ atigators to one assistant, for men like Nef, Richards, Hie two Noyi can direct half a dozen assistants as well as one, and by the pi al system their productive years are. to a large extent, simply being wasted. But, unless we secure conditions tor a large measure of success and productiveness, chemical research in our universities will never attract our best Americans

in sufficient numbers to satisfy the minimum demand of our country for able investigators in academic and in industrial

lint —ami that is the point of my argument. The last condition I ought to refer to in this connection is one that has caused a wid( rpread sentiment of uneasiness in all our universities—the question o( the financial side of an academic existence. This us question, common to all branches of academic research work, is receiving careful attention Prom our ablesl university

presidents, and I will leave it entirely in their Wiser bands. I t is an important

factor iu regard to the very point raised, the necessity of attracting our able young manhood to supply the country's need of

invest 1 iters.

I have tried to point out what I consider tbc tlnvr most essential needs Eor the de velopment of American chemical research