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tion; and the Director issues from time to time bulletins informing 
physicians of the diseases chosen for investigation. No charge is 
made to patients treated at the Hospital. The positions on the staff 
are supposed to engage the full time of the incumbents. No pro- 
vision is made for classes or formal instruction, research and not 
teaching being the purpose of the Institute. Grants are made each 
year for carrying on investigations at other institutions. The 
Institute issues monthly two scientific publications,’ “The Journal of 
Experimental Medicine” and ‘‘The Journal of Biological Chemistry.” 
It also publishes ‘‘Studies from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical 
Research”? and ‘‘Monographs of the Rockefeller Institute for 
Medical Research.” Possibly the most outstanding researches of the 
Institute have been the investigation of infant paralysis, the discovery 
of a curative serum for cerebro-spinal meningitis (Flexner’s), and the 
work by Negouchi on syphilis of the brain and spinal chord. 
I have been at pains to set forth with some detail the character 
of these two institutions as being the best endowed and destined to 
become, if not so already, the most efficient and productive research 
institutions in the world. In a sense they are ideals to be imitated 
elsewhere. A great deal has been said about tainted wealth: it is 
a question whether these two institutions alone will not give back 
to the American people full value for all the Carnegie and Rockefeller 
millions. “If wealth were evenly distributed, and this uniformity 
were to be maintained, such movements (as these institutions represent) 
in the line of intensive progress could not be made except through 
the consent of all to contribute equally thereto: under present con- 
ditions practically an impossibility.” 
That the scientific world approves of institutions exclusively 
devoted to research is fully attested by the number of such. In 
medicine there are the Brompton Cancer Hospital, the Lister Institute, 
and others in England; in the United States there are, in addition 
to the Rockefeller Institute, the Albany Bender Hygienic Laboratory, 
the Buffalo Gratwick Laboratory for the Study of Malignant Diseases, 
the Chicago Memorial Institute for the Study of Infectious Diseases, 
the Phipps’ Institutes of Philadelphia and Baltimore, and the Massa- 
chusetts Cancer Research Institute. In physics there are the National 
Physical Laboratory, the Davy-Farady Laboratory, etc., in England; 
in the United States there are, in addition to the Carnegie Institution, 
the Pittsburg Mellin Institute, the Washington Bureau of Standards, the 
Edison Laboratories, the Physical Laboratory of the General Electric 
Company, the Laboratory of the Western Telegraph and Telephone 
Company, devoted largely to long-distance telephony, and the Labora- 
tory of the Eastman Kodak Company, devoted to photography, etc. 
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