MICROBIOLOGY AND INDUSTRY 



I wish to address a special message particularly to the prospective 

 chemical engineers. My presence in Delft will probably remain un- 

 noticed by many of you. But to those who, impelled perhaps by an 

 inborn love of living nature, should decide to include in their program 

 the study of microbiology I want to say that, whenever possible, I shall 

 ever try to aid and guide you. 



I have already briefly alluded to my sojourn in the beautiful tropical 

 Netherlands. In that environment I have acquired many good friends 

 who will be gratefully remembered. Apart from that, however, I must 

 stress another point. Whoever has been so favoured as to spend, as it 

 was my lot, a number of years in that enchanted state of symbiosis be- 

 tween Europeans and Orientals, recognizes at the time of departure 

 that he has incurred a mental debt of honour. I consider it my duty 

 emphatically to acknowledge this. May it be vouchsafed me to redeem 

 part of this debt by awakening in some of my future pupils an interest 

 in the growing and fermenting communities of the Far East, an in- 

 terest that at some time will express itself in deeds. And I shall ex- 

 perience a feeling of exultance if their pursuits in that part of the world 

 were to give them a degree of satisfaction such as I was privileged to 

 taste, and if their efforts were to accrue to the benefit of that com- 

 munity. 



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