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staff of workers for the preparation of samples not other- 

 wise available. In the analysis of samples submitted as offi- 

 cial standards, we should have the beginning of that Che- 

 mische Reichsanstalt which is now the chief object to which 

 German chemists are directing their attention. 



The past twenty years have seen the construction of in- 

 numerable teaching laboratories in our vicinity. They have 

 seen an undreamt-of development and growth of chemical 

 industry, and, above all, they have seen the coming together 

 of the scattered chemists into a large and powerful society. 

 Now is the time when we should make every effort to direct 

 these forces that we have marshaled toward the attainment 

 of definite objects, and coordinate all our enterprises in those 

 directions that will make for the improvement of the intel- 

 lectual as well as the material conditions of our beloved city. 



