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science. I have endeavored to combat the unappreciative views 

 so often held concerning pure science in the universities, and at the 

 same time I have urged the great practical usefulness and profit 

 to be derived from scientific research conducted within the in- 

 dustries. Above all it has been my purpose to show that our 

 future progress in the industries, in commerce, in medicine and in 

 surgery, and in all the practical arts and sciences depends upon 

 fundamental discoveries yet to be made by workers in pure science 

 in our universities and other scientific institutions. 



For many years friends of the Albany Academy have tried in 

 vain to raise the few thousand dollars necessary to erect at Albany, 

 where Henry did his early work, a monument to his memory. 

 Once the American people have been made to understand the 

 marvelous contribution which their scientist made to human 

 welfare, their sense of duty and their unfailing generosity will stir 

 them to action. Then, I am sure, they will erect a worthy memorial 

 through which American art will express to American science the 

 gratitude of our people for the discoveries of Henry. 



Also, through their generosity, through their gratitude and 

 their feeling of enlightened self-interest, they will relieve the 

 necessities of Princeton, which lacks only pecuniary aid to enable 

 the successors of Joseph Henry there, to carry out in a worthy 

 manner the high traditions which he established at that uni- 

 versity. 



Even at the Smithsonian, where Henry its first Secretary labored 

 so successfully, many of the wonderful scientific projects of his 

 distinguished successor, Dr. Walcott, are sadly impeded for lack of 

 funds. In this case also, when the truth is known, I am sure that 

 the generosity of our people will not fail. 



For these institutions, forever associated with the name of our 

 great American scientist, and for all the universities and other 

 organizations devoted to science, these old magnets wound by the 

 patient hands of Henry himself, have come to speak. Here at the 

 Smithsonian, in the capital of the Nation, the scene of his many 

 triumphs, these venerable relics speak to the American people and 

 plead the cause of science. 



The message which they bear expresses much more than the 

 indebtedness of the electrical industry to Henry and Faraday, vast 

 though that is ; it expresses the debt of every industry to all laborers 

 in scientific fields. Every age and nation has had its Henrys and 



