90 MORRIS LOEB 



professor ordinarius, and but one professor extraordinarius, 

 receives nearly as much money as the university library for 

 running expenses. 



In Zurich the university chemical laboratory is voted 

 f .24,800 a year. This sum is approximately equal to the total 

 yearly appropriations for the laboratories of physics, bot- 

 any, zoology, anatomy, physiology, and pathology together 

 (f. 25,600). 



These facts indicate that a German or Swiss government 

 would, in a case like Harvard's, devote about $25,000 a year 

 to the maintenance of chemical laboratories. These data, 

 together with the confirmatory facts, also indicate that in 

 Germany and Switzerland the chemical laboratories are re- 

 garded as of equal importance with the university library, 

 about three times as important as physical laboratories, and 

 as equalling in importance the institutes of six other sciences 

 taken together. 



Speakers at meetings in America which have any bearing 

 on chemistry intimate that we are beginning to profit by 

 this lesson, and are using trained scientific knowledge in ever 

 increasing proportion, and that the results can be already 

 seen. 



The General Electric Company employs from twenty to 

 twenty-five physicists and chemists, and the Eastman Kodak 

 Company, which is highly successful, employs three or four 

 research chemists. The Pennsylvania Railroad has a large 

 staff of chemists assisting their research chemist in studying 

 the qualities of steel. 



If we admit as a principle that the funds should be distrib- 

 uted to each department of the University in due proportion, 

 then we think that the claims of the Department of Chemistry 

 should stand very high. Harvard has always been a leader 

 in university education in this country, and it is still aiming 



