UTAH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 145 
Industry, the Bureau of Animal Industry and the Forest 
Service have to do with our very national existence. The 
Bureau of Chemistry, by its relation to the pure food laws 
touches our daily lives and protects the manufacturer from 
unfair competition. The work of this bureau also stimu- 
lates manufacturers of foods to produce better products, and 
therefore these companies are beginning to see the real need 
of establishing research departments in connection with 
their business. The work of this bureau is supplemented by 
the work of the state and city boards of health. 
So we may say that through the combined efforts of 
the Department of Agriculture, the experiment stations, ag- 
ricultural colleges, manufacturers of farm implements, is 
devoted a greater amount of scientific research than any 
other business in the world. 
Then there is the bureau of fisheries, which spend 
$40,000 on a highly specialized field of biology, the bureau of 
geological survey spending about half a million, a great deal 
being spent for original research, the bureau of mines 
spending over $300,000 for technical research on problems 
pertaining to our mining industry. The bureau has done 
a great deal for mining in the way of finding new and bet- 
ter explosives. All coal used by the government costing 
$8,000,000 is purchased only upon the recommendations of 
this bureau. Then we have the Bureau of Standards. So 
we see at the present time, the government is doing a great 
deal in industrial research, but I think it is only a fair be- 
ginning and in the future we will see a rapid growth in the 
line of work, especially in some departments. 
Just as Germany has become a great industrial nation, 
so will the United States when she realizes the necessity of 
a close co-operation between the University laboratory and 
the industrial plant. 
It is comparatively recent since any of the large cor- 
porations have maintained a research department with the 
exception of a few individual chemists, and there are a great 
number who still do not see the necessity of maintaining such 
a department. I mention particularly some of the achieve- 
ments of some of the corporations whose research depart- 
ments are, we might say, just in the making. 
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