AMERICA'S INFERIOR POSITION 



in the world of science as they are so proud to hold 

 industrially, commercially, and perhaps in a social 

 and literary way as well, there is a very articulate 

 need for institutions like those of Paris, and like 

 the Royal Institution which an American refugee 

 founded, with such large results, in London. 



It would require but the co-operation of those 

 who are broadly interested in scientific progress, 

 and who have a desire to keep abreast of the 

 swiftly advancing knowledge of their day, to 

 achieve the beginnings of a great institution which 

 should be at once a scientific society, a forum where 

 the chief notables alike of Europe and America 

 might be gathered and heard, and a seat of scien- 

 tific research. It would be a work worthy of any 

 man to undertake the founding of such an institu- 

 tion in the chief city of the New World. 



