In IslO Mrs. Isal)ella (Jibbs discovcn-fl the Isaltelhi grajx-, ami this 

 discovery is said to have turned attention f<t the culture of Anu-rican 

 grapes. Four years later Adluni discovered the Catawba. " A woman 

 discovered it growing wild," and we have a vig(jrous new blaekbi-rrv. 

 the Blowers, added to the American list. .Judg«' Logan diseovers a 

 (diance seedling, and the Loganberry is saved t<> llit- world. Mr. Hull 

 works a few years, and the Conc(nvl grape. ;iiid with it a ut-w iudiisti'v. 

 is added to Anicrican horticulture. Mended works eight years in his 

 garden, and dhscovers his law of heredity, tlenncr and Darwin each 

 work twenty years, and the ideas of vaccination and the origin of 

 species are placed at the service of mankind for all time. 



Importance. ' ( )iu' single idea may liave more value iban all 

 llu^ labor <d" all the men, animals, and eni^ines for a century." 

 Here are ^' mines," free to all alike, tliat dwarf our Kinihei- 

 leys, Nomes, and Ivlondikes to the small changi' of the [)a.ssini;- 

 hour, whose output is as much above gold and diamonds 

 as mind is hioher than matter. What kind of progress shall 

 we make when all the })eo[)le of the nation appreciate this 

 point of x'u'w and beo-in to 'know enough to work together" 

 in pushing forward needed discoveries? 



We are approaching this degree of ci\ ic organization, as is 

 evidenced by the growth of research departments in our uni- 

 versities, by our experiment stations, and by tlu' state and 

 national scientific departments and the endowed private re- 

 search foundations. All these are reaching down to search 

 out talent, and ouo-ht to be insnirin*'* excrv i)ov and girl to the 

 mt)st careful seeinof and thinkino- (d' w hi( h thc\ are capabh*. 

 II is often said that Pasteur rc[)aid to I'rancc the entire 

 cost of her svstem of ])ublic education, from ]»!'imary sch»x)ls 

 to universitv and from the In'o-iunino- down to his time. b\ 

 his one discovery of the cau.se and prevention ol silkworm 

 disease. So, as such values arc being ai)preciatcd. the country 

 and world are beincf searched for abilitv to discover. As its 

 discoveries are the most i)riceless pos.sessions ot the race, 

 and since advance in cverv field waits upoii the discoverer 



