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2. Some teaching is helpful, and therefore desirable, in connec- 

 tion with research work. 



3. Those should be encouraged who have shown their power by 

 independent research work and have shown persistence under 

 difficulties. 



4. One of the obstacles in the way of research work in Chemistry 

 in this country is the large amount of routine work that some of our 

 best men are required to do. 



5. Good work is most likely to be done as a result of individual 

 initiative. 



We therefore recommend, as suited to the needs of chemical 

 research, the establishment of a number of Carjiegie Research 

 Assistants/dps, the assistants to be appointed thus : 



A number of chemists now carrying on research work, who have 

 given clear evidence that they will continue to carry on such work, 

 are to be selected as worthy of the aid of such assistantships. 

 They are to have power to appoint their own assistants, under such 

 conditions of time and compensation as may be acceptable to the 

 Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institution. 



We recommend, further, that workers should, when necessary, 

 be aided by appropriations for the purchase of apparatus, material, 

 and books. In such cases the applicant should make a clear, but 

 not necessarily detailed, statement in regard to the character of the 

 work to be done and the kind of apparatus needed. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Ira Remsen, Chairman, 

 T. W. Richards, 

 E. F, Smith, 



Committee. 



October 14, 1902. 



