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Systematic Promotion of Research. 



Prof. R. H. Thurston, Vice-President of the 

 American Association, chose as the subject 

 of his address to Section A, " The Science 

 of the Advancement of Science." Having 

 asked, " Why is the advancement of science 

 to-day so apparently difficult and irregular 

 and toilsome ? " he attributed this state of 

 things to the lack of systematic encourage- 

 ment of scientific studies. The right men, 

 he said, in substance, have never been 

 sought out, and trained for this work. 

 Men of science themselves have chosen 

 rather to pursue their own favorite lines of 

 research instead of investigating in the di- 

 rections which would yield the best results. 

 The endowment of research has not been 

 urged with sufficient persistence. The ma- 

 terials and the apparatus placed in the hands 

 of men of science for the prosecution of 

 their labors have been too incomplete to 

 permit the most effective application of their 

 efforts. For these and other reasons we are 

 not to-day, as we have not been in the past, 

 prepared to do all that we should in the ad- 

 vancement of science and of the arts. By 

 what practical measures, then, is scientific 

 research to be promoted ? The " science 

 of the advancement of science" dictates 

 that we shall seek : 



1. To determine what are the most 

 promising and most important directions of 

 exploration in the great universe of the 

 knowable. 



2. That we shall endeavor to find young 

 men fitted to become successful observers, 

 discoverers, and philosophers ; aid them to 

 gain positions in which their talents may 

 have full scope, and assist to make useful the 

 results of their labor. 



3. That we make it a part of our work 

 to obtain for these investigators the means 



