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sum of money to carry him along, and he was not required 

 to do a thing except to carry on investigations in the line 

 of original research ; and the outcome to the world are the 

 four magnificent characters named a little while ago, with 

 their grand results in chemistry, electricity, physics, and 

 natural sciences generally. 



That is an example for us in these days in this country. 

 There has been in this room to-night a man who ought to 

 have been the Pasteur of the United States if he had been 

 provided for, as those men were in the Royal Institution, 

 and it would have taken but little money to do it. There 

 has been a man here to-night if he had been taken care of in 

 the same way, and if he did not have to go through the 

 daily drudgery to earn money to take care of his household, 

 would have been, and has the ability to be the Faraday of 

 the United States. We do not provide as many of that 

 kind of men for the world as we ought to do in this country. 

 I am not unmindful that we have students in this country 

 who are very distinguished; I am not unmindful of the Le 

 Contes, Leidys, Copes, Marshes, Newcombs, Drapers, Mitch- 

 ells, Eutherfords, and others, but we do not give to the 

 world as many as we ought, and we do not do justice to the 

 men whose names ou^ht to stand in emulation with those of 

 men in other countries like Huxley, Pasteur, Helmholtz and 

 Tyndall in this day in England and on the continent of Eu- 

 rope. It would not take much money to do all this, very little 

 money indeed. The example set by Benjamin Count Rum- 

 ford is an example to be commended and remembered, that 

 ought to be made known far and wide as far as the influence 

 of the members of the American Philosophical Society can 

 reach. Endowed chairs for original research in which to 

 place our able men, are the equipment for our day — chairs 



