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tions and voluntary generosity, althougli will- 

 ing, are less able to be found and less capable 

 at this time; already gauged as inadequate of 

 themselves alone before the war, they obvi- 

 ously can not alone cope with the necessary 

 undertakings now. The present is a time when 

 a large-scale withdrawal of the government's 

 financial support must prove most formidably 

 cripiDling. Such crippling will be greater than 

 the actual measure of the sum withdrawn would 

 entail in ordinary times. 



To pull down under emergency what has been 

 built up through years of careful experience 

 and is proving efficient can scarcely be ultimate 

 economy. It is to unlearn a useful lesson 

 learnt. Curtailment of the state aid — relatively 

 small in this country- — given to scientific re- 

 search mast harm the scientific production of 

 the country. Some curtailment, however, at 

 this time seems unavoidable. Though extension 

 of buildings and equipment and personnel is 

 wanted, it may be necessary to withhold that 

 extension at this time, maintaining broadly the 

 . status quo ready for expansion when that is 

 ence more feasible. But if research be an 

 indispensable factor in the rebuilding of the 

 national life, sacrifices should not be required 

 from it disproportionately greater than from 

 other services of a similarly essential kind. 

 Reduction of the state's support on a scale to 

 entail ruin to the existent organization would 

 be a wastage rather than an economy. Calmly 

 viewed, what more reminiscent of the wastage 

 of the war itself than for machinery actually 

 constructed, assembled, and producing what is 

 needful for a nation's strength as a pillar in 

 the industrial and intellectual temple of the 

 world, to be now under temporary change aban- 

 doned or broken up ; and at a time when indus- 

 try as a whole stands convinced of scientific 

 research as a necessity for its recovery and 

 well-being. 



My hope would be that scientific research on 

 its present maintenance will be considered part 

 of the intellectual bread of the community, part 

 of the bed-rock on which rests the efficiency, 

 not to speak of the industrial equipment, of 

 the nation; that it will be treated as such in 

 the measure of state-support continued to it ; 

 that the state will remember that that support 

 has to embrace at least both the universities on 



one hand, and, on the other, the research insti- 

 tutions administered by the state, for this rea- 

 son, namely, that the country's organization for 

 research, complex in origin, yet economical and 

 effective, stands as an integral system to the 

 entire existence of which is essential an ade- 

 quate state provision for both these constituent 

 elements, indispensable, since they are, to the 

 whole structure of the system. 



C. S. Sherrington 



HENRY MARION HOWE 



In the death of Professor Howe the world 

 lost both a great scientist and a great teacher. 

 There has been recorded in various places the 

 account of his life and life work, of his honors 

 and of his publications. When in 1917 he was 

 presented with the John Fritz medal of the 

 United Engineering Societies a complete record 

 of his work as a metallurgist, as a teacher and 

 as a writer was given, together with a list of 

 his professional papers, of which there are 

 over 300 titles {Monthly Bulletin A. I. M. E., 

 July, 1917, p. 30). 



Henry Marion Howe died on May 14, 1922, 

 at his residence in Bedford Hills, N. Y., af?ter 

 an illness of over a year. He was born at 

 Boston, Mass., in March, 1848, the son of Dr. 

 Samuel G. and Julia Ward Howe. His father 

 was noted for his philanthropy and distin- 

 guished services in the Greek war for inde- 

 pendence, while his mother, the author of the 

 "Battle Hymn of the Republic," was a leader 

 of many reforms, from the abolition of slavery 

 to woman's suffrage. As Dr. Raymond at the 

 pre.sentation of the John Fritz medal said, "It 

 was a good stock on both sides, making him 

 heir to intellectual keenness and refinement, 

 the capacity for both enthusiasm and perse- 

 verance, a passion for the pursuit of knowledge 

 and a gift of clear and felicitous statement." 

 For he was imbued with the spirit of scientific 

 research, the love of investigation, a striking 

 power of observation and of interpretation, to 

 which was added his wonderful clearness in 

 expressing bis thoughts not alone in his 

 writings but more especially in his lectures 

 and in the presentation of his papers at scien- 

 tific meetings. 



Graduating from the Boston Latin School in 



