﻿WHO 
  WILL 
  PROMOTE 
  SCIENCE? 
  — 
  ABBOT. 
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  Kesearch 
  has 
  enhanced 
  the 
  Nation's 
  strength 
  and 
  glory. 
  Let 
  it 
  be 
  

   fostered 
  as 
  it 
  deserves. 
  People 
  of 
  great 
  wealth 
  may 
  do 
  this 
  in 
  a 
  

   large 
  way 
  without 
  strain, 
  and 
  yet 
  provide 
  liberally 
  for 
  their 
  heirs. 
  

   Or 
  great 
  numbers 
  of 
  people 
  of 
  moderate 
  means 
  may 
  share 
  the 
  enter- 
  

   prise, 
  in 
  full 
  confidence 
  that 
  the 
  outcome 
  will 
  help 
  the 
  world 
  of 
  the 
  

   future 
  to 
  a 
  richer 
  life. 
  

  

  What 
  would 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  do 
  if 
  it 
  had 
  a 
  large 
  

   endowment 
  ? 
  

  

  1. 
  Draw 
  to 
  itself 
  the 
  wisest 
  counselors, 
  and 
  fix, 
  with 
  their 
  concur- 
  

   rence, 
  on 
  the 
  most 
  needful 
  projects, 
  not 
  being 
  worked 
  by 
  others, 
  and 
  

   manageable 
  with 
  its 
  endowment. 
  

  

  2. 
  Pay 
  sufficient 
  salaries 
  to 
  its 
  staff 
  so 
  that 
  it 
  could 
  justly 
  com- 
  

   mand 
  all 
  their 
  time. 
  

  

  3. 
  Procure 
  young 
  investigators 
  of 
  promise. 
  

  

  4. 
  Broaden 
  its 
  output 
  of 
  publication. 
  

  

  If 
  an 
  illustration 
  of 
  what 
  this 
  might 
  accomplish 
  is 
  demanded, 
  

   consider 
  the 
  record 
  of 
  the 
  Carnegie 
  Institution. 
  Founded 
  20 
  years 
  

   ago, 
  it 
  set 
  up 
  eight 
  principal 
  projects, 
  namely 
  : 
  The 
  Mount 
  Wilson 
  

   Solar 
  Observatory; 
  the 
  Department 
  of 
  Meridian 
  Astrometry; 
  the 
  

   Department 
  of 
  Terrestrial 
  Magnetism 
  ; 
  the 
  Geophysical 
  Laboratory 
  ; 
  

   the 
  Laboratory 
  of 
  Experimental 
  Evolution; 
  the 
  Marine 
  Biological 
  

   Laboratory 
  at 
  Tortugas 
  ; 
  the 
  Desert 
  Botanical 
  Laboratory 
  at 
  Tucson 
  ; 
  

   the 
  Nutrition 
  Laboratory 
  at 
  Boston. 
  In 
  each 
  case 
  the 
  director 
  was 
  

   a 
  man 
  with 
  a 
  passionate 
  zeal 
  for 
  his 
  job, 
  and 
  a 
  sound 
  program 
  for 
  

   its 
  accomplishment. 
  Subordinates 
  hardly 
  less 
  zealous 
  and 
  competent 
  

   were 
  employed. 
  The 
  results 
  have 
  been 
  so 
  rich 
  that 
  if 
  the 
  accom- 
  

   plishments 
  and 
  the 
  very 
  remembrance 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  these 
  eight 
  

   Carnegie 
  Institution 
  departments 
  were 
  now 
  to 
  be 
  blotted 
  out, 
  our 
  

   total 
  knowledge 
  of 
  astronomy 
  would 
  be 
  cut 
  in 
  half, 
  the 
  magnetic 
  

   charts 
  of 
  the 
  sea 
  would 
  be 
  unfit 
  for 
  navigation, 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  

   Army 
  and 
  Navy 
  would 
  have 
  wanted 
  unobtainable 
  essentials 
  in 
  the 
  

   World 
  War, 
  sociology, 
  biology, 
  botany, 
  and 
  the 
  science 
  of 
  nutrition 
  

   would 
  have 
  lacked 
  many 
  of 
  their 
  most 
  valuable 
  data. 
  Besides 
  this 
  

   there 
  has 
  been 
  in 
  these 
  20 
  years 
  a 
  rich 
  flow 
  of 
  publications 
  too 
  costly 
  

   for 
  the 
  private 
  publisher 
  to 
  undertake, 
  and 
  many 
  great 
  pieces 
  of 
  

   research 
  by 
  exceptional 
  investigators 
  outside 
  the 
  Institution 
  have 
  

   been 
  subsidized. 
  Such 
  is 
  the 
  record 
  of 
  a 
  well-endowed 
  research 
  

   institution. 
  Such 
  ought 
  to 
  be 
  made 
  possible 
  as 
  the 
  record 
  for 
  the 
  

   next 
  20 
  years 
  of 
  the 
  national 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution. 
  

  

  