THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION GRANT 



for manual labor for the carrying forward of 

 a single test through a long series of years 

 is large in the aggregate, especially so since 

 the manual labor for his service must be 

 backed up by keen intelligence and sound 

 judgment, a combination not always easy to 

 be obtained. There have been very many 

 tests, hundreds sometimes, under way at the 

 same time, and it was inevitable that some 

 must fall by the way. So great has been the 

 demand for funds for the maintenance of 

 major tests that many of the minor ones, 

 which might easily have been advanced to 

 the higher position, have, like a neglected 

 plant, died for want of support. 



It is of special interest in this connection 

 that Mr. Burbank's work has been cumulative 

 from the very inception. With each new 

 triumph the way has opened to others, so 

 that at no time in his life had there been 

 so many great opportunities before him as 

 when this grant was proposed. Best of all, 

 as the years had come and gone, he entered 

 upon each new experiment fuller of interest 

 in the outcome, deeper in his zest over the 

 developments. Couple with this maturity of 



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