AMERICA'S INFERIOR POSITION 

 IN THE SCIENTIFIC WORLD 



IT cannot be said that America has produced no 

 great men of science. It was the discoveries of 

 Franklin that gave an impetus to the early study 

 of electricity. The work of Benjamin Thompson, 

 Count Rumford, was done chiefly in Europe; but 

 he was born in Massachusetts. In a sense, Joseph 

 Henry was the co-discoverer with Faraday of elec- 

 trical induction, from which the dynamo and the 

 greater part of our vast electrical industries have 

 sprung. Cope, Leidy, and Marsh were potent fac- 

 tors in establishing the truth of evolution. To 

 whomsoever one may care to ascribe the discovery 

 of anaesthesia Morton, Wells, or Long they were 

 all Americans. Draper was the first to photograph 

 the stars. The calculation of Professor Newton, of 

 Yale, first drew attention to the importance of me- 

 teorites ; they may yet give us a clew to the origin 

 of worlds. 



The number of men of parts is to-day greater than 

 they are to be found in every field. Simon 



