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grand scheme of scientific research 'I It should come from those 

 generous and public spirited men and women who desire to dispose 

 of their Avealth in a manner well calculated to advance the welfare 

 of mankind, and it should come from the industries themselves, 

 which owe such a heavy debt to science. While it can not be shown 

 that the contribution of any one manufacturer or corporation to a 

 particular purely scientific research will bring any return to the 

 contributor or to others, it is certain that contributions by the 

 manufacturers in general and by the industrial corporations to pui-e 

 scientific research as a whole will in the long run bring manifold 

 returns through the medium of industrial research conducted in the 

 rich and virgin territory discovered by the scientific explorer. 



It was Michael Faraday, one of the greatest of the workers in 

 pure science, who in the last century discovered the princij)le of the 

 dynamo electric machine. Without a knowledge of this principle 

 discovered by Faraday the whole art of electrical engineering as 

 we know it to-day could not exist and civilization would have been 

 deprived of those inestimable benefits Avhich have resulted from 

 the work of the members of this institute. 



Not only Faraday in England, but Joseph Henry in our own 

 country and scores of other workers in pure science have laid the 

 foundations upon which the electrical engineer has reared such a 

 magnificent structure. 



What is true of the electrical art is also true of all of the other 

 arts and applied sciences. They are all based upon fundamental 

 discoveries made b}' workers in pure science, who were seeking only 

 to discover the laws of nature and extend the realm of human 

 knowledge. 



By every means in our power, therefore, let us show our apprecia- 

 tion of pure science, and let us forward the work of the pure 

 scientists, for they are the advance guard of civilization. They 

 point the way which we must follow. Let us arouse the people of 

 our country to the wonderful possibilities of scientific discovery 

 and to the responsibility to support it which rests ujwn them, and 

 I am sure that they will respond generously and effectively. Then I 

 am confident that in the future the members of this institute, 

 together with their colleagues in all of the other branches of en- 

 gineering and applied science, as well as the i^hysician and surgeon, 

 by utilizing the discoveries of pure science jet to be made, will 

 develop without number marvelous new agencies for the comfort 

 ana convenience of man, and for the alleviation of human suffering. 

 These, gentlemen, are some of the considerations which have led me 

 here in my presidential address to urge upon you the importance of 

 a proper understanding of the relations between pure science and 

 industrial research. 



