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probably be largely met by the more directly interested indus- 

 trial concerns. 



The Institute of Baking may serve to illustrate cooperation 

 among the consumers of research. The big industrial concern 

 can often afford to establish its own research laboratory, and 

 many instances of such procedure might be cited. But the 

 small manufacturer cannot afford this luxury, and he must 

 either go without it or join with other small concerns to estab- 

 lish a cooperative research enterprise. The National Research 

 Council has been carrying on an active campaign to introduce 

 the formation of such cooperative arrangements in a consider- 

 able group of industries, and thus far with very encouraging 

 success. The Instittfte of Baking is one in which the Council, 

 through its Research Extension Division, has had some part. 



The Institute has secured the use of an admirably equipped 

 laboratory, has engaged a scientific director, who has entered 

 into advisory relations with the Council, where he can command 

 suggestions from the ablest men in the country in the various 

 problems of physics, chemistry, bacteriology, etc., involved in 

 the industry. The 28,000 members of the baking trade in this 

 country will be the direct beneficiaries of this work, and in- 

 directly the entire community will profit by it. 



Many other instances of research work inaugurated by the 

 Divisions of Science and Technology might be adduced, but 

 these must suffice, and may serve to convey some impression 

 of the character of their activities. 



Through its system of publications, to which reference has 

 already been made, the Council attempts to give some publicity 

 to its own work and to the scientific results which accrue from 

 it, although the extant agencies for scientific publication will 

 no doubt care for the larger part of such requirements. In 

 addition, however, to this attempt to bring its work before the 

 public, the Council has entered upon a system of exhibits, which 

 deserves brief mention. 



In a new building, which will serve as a permanent home for 

 the National Academy of Sciences as well as for the Council, 



