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latter can obtain, within twenty-four hours, any preparation 

 that is catalogued, while the former must allow six weeks for 

 obtaining anything that is not so commonly known as to be 

 literally a "drug on the market"? By enabling the private 

 investigator to supply his needs quickly and at a reasonable 

 cost, without the unjust discrimination of " duty-free" impor- 

 tation, a stimulus would be given to private research, inside 

 and outside the college laboratory. Who can estimate the 

 amount of time frittered away in this country through the 

 lack of ready access to the mechanical adjuncts to investiga- 

 tion? Workshops to supply these would not only improve our 

 immediate condition; but, if properly organized, they might 

 serve to educate a body of mechanicians and preparators, 

 whose help would be invaluable in the various scientific in- 

 stitutions of the country. 



If these suggestions should illustrate the view that the 

 Carnegie Institution can do measurable harm by seeking to 

 supplant private initiative with artificial stimulus, but can do 

 immeasurable good by clearing away the obstacles that now 

 trammel the general growth of the scientific spirit in America, 

 they will best express the opinion of 



MORRIS LOEB. 



