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would have no motive to pursue.” This spirit, 
clearly shown in the early cotton industry, is 
now to be revived for the common benefit. 
The woolen and worsted manufacturers of 
Great Britain are also drafting the constitu- 
tion of a research association, and the Irish 
flax spinners and weavers are about to do like- 
wise. Research associations will be established 
by the Scottish shale oil industry and the 
photographic manufacturers, while various 
other British industries are looking in the 
same direction. Thus a national movement 
for research, directly resulting from the war, 
has already made marked headway. The re- 
search councils in various parts of the British 
Empire, actuated by the same spirit, are 
rapidly extending the advantages which an ap- 
preciation of the national importance of re- 
search will afford. 
The National Research Council, aided and 
supported by the Engineering Foundation, is 
just entering upon an extensive campaign for 
the promotion of industrial research. In ad- 
dition to a strong active committee, compris- 
ing the heads of leading industrial laborator- 
ies and others prominently identified with sci- 
entific methods of developing American indus- 
tries, an advisory committee has been formed 
to back the movement. This already com- 
prises the following gentlemen: Honorable 
Elihu Root; Mr. Theodore N. Vail, president 
of the American Telephone and Telegraph 
Company; Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president 
of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- 
ment of Teaching; Mr. Edwin Wilbur Rice, 
Jr., president of the General Electric Com- 
pany; Mr. George Eastman, president of the 
Eastman Kodak Company; Mr. Pierre S. 
duPont, president of the E. I. duPont de 
Nemours Powder Company; Mr. A. W. Mel- 
lon, founder of the Mellon Institute for In- 
dustrial Research; Judge E. H. Gary, presi- 
dent of the United States Steel Corporation; 
Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge, of the Phelps-Dodge 
Corporation, and Mr. Ambrose Swasey, of 
The Warner and Swasey Company. 
We are indeed fortunate to have the aid of 
men whose experience and standing are so 
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certain to command public recognition of the 
claims of scientific and industrial research. 
Science is in the air, keen competition is in 
prospect, and the industries are more favor- 
ably inclined than ever before to the wide- 
spread use of research methods. Their great- 
est leaders, moreover, are unanimous in their 
appreciation of the necessity of promoting re- 
search for the sake of advancing knowledge, 
as well as for immediate commercial advan- 
tages. Only thus can the most fundamental 
and unexpected advances be rendered possible, 
and continued progress in all directions as- 
sured. 
GEORGE SCHRADER MATHERS 
Caprain Grorce ScurapeR Maruers, M.C., 
U. S. Army, a member of the staff of the Me- 
Cormick Institute for Infectious Diseases, 
Chicago, died October 5, 1918, at the age of 
thirty-one. 
Captain Mathers took his college work in 
the University of Texas and the University of 
Chicago, and received his medical degree from 
Rush Medical College in affiliation with the 
University of Chicago in 1913. Having served 
one year and one half as interne in the Cook 
County Hospital he began work in the Mc- 
Cormick Institute under a grant from the 
Fenger Memorial Fund, but before long he 
became associated fully with the institute. 
During the three and one half years of this 
-association he accomplished much fruitful 
work and published important papers or lobar 
pneumonia, epidemic poliomyelitis, acute re- 
spiratory infections in man and in the horse, 
and on epidemic meningitis. He demonstrated 
that a streptococcus-like microorganism occurs 
apparently constantly in the central nervous 
system in persons that have died from epi- 
demic poliomyelitis. Early last spring he was 
commissioned as first lieutenant and placed 
in charge of the laboratory of the embarkation 
hospital at Camp Stuart. In May he was pro- 
moted to captain and given charge of the 
laboratory of the base hospital at Camp Meade. 
He gave himself completely to his work. In 
the course of his duties and while intensely 
