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Description of Chemical Works. Trained Chemists Employed, 



Sugar Works and Refineries 300 



Starch, Dextrine, etc 50 



Oil, fat, tanning, and dye works lOO 



Smelting works 400 



Laboratories and Agricultural Stations 700 



Government works 100 



Apothecaries (Qualified) loo 



Various Chemists 100 



4000 



The total number of chemists who had been trained in Germany in 

 1897 was: — 



Technical Chemists in Works in Germany 4000 



Technical Chemists in foreign countries 1000 



Professors, lecturers, etc. of Chemistry: 



In Universities 150 



In Technical Schools 250 



Mining, Veterinary and Agricultural Schools 100 



Building, Engineering and Industrical Schools 200 



Chemists employed by the States lOO 



Private Chemists 400 



Apothecaries (qualified) 300 



Various Chemists 500 



7000 

 Thus thinking men are saying to-day — we need better elementary 

 education, better High School training, more practical University Sci- 

 ence, more men who know the principles and reasons of things. Especi- 

 ally do we need more Science in our Industries. Look at the wasted 

 opportunities. Out of many letters, relating to from fifty to a hundred 

 fields of Industry which I have received from keen sighted and intelli- 

 gent scientific men in Canada, I may give examples of the tremendous 

 waste of valuable things, and of unused opportunities. Nature has 

 given us great resources in Canada and we do not know how to use them. 

 All these problems are suggested to us by experts: 



1. In our Silver Ore regions the great heaps of metallic Cobalt and 

 Cobalt Oxide for which we have found no use. 



2. We need a plan to separate out nickel from low-grade ores. 



3. Investigation as to qualities of Illuminating Gas. 



4. Investigation of Anhydrite. 



5. Remedy for Sulphur in Coal. * &;. ^ , 



6. To find cause of explosibility of Coal Dust. 



