NOTEMBEB 22, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



695 



successful men— men who work earnestly 

 and produce useful results. Such results 

 were manifest as an outcome of all the 

 efforts Dr. Palmer put forth. While we 

 mourn him personally as a friend and col- 

 league, we realize the loss to the world of 

 chemistry and the industries, caused by 

 his death. But in this case particularly 

 we must realize that the oft repeated 

 adage, "The evil that men do lives after 

 them, ' ' must be modified, and we may say, 

 "The good he has done lives after him," 

 in the men he has trained, in the results of 

 his investigations, in. the publications of 

 his work now within our reach, in his influ- 

 ence upon the standing and position of the 

 university generally. We may congratu- 

 late the university and its corps of admin- 

 istration and instruction that so many of 

 her sons should have been so influential 

 and instrumental in establishing the splen- 

 did position she occupies in the eyes of her 

 graduates and the world at large. 



I have been invited at this time to dis- 

 cuss the relations of chemistry to the in- 

 dustries, and in this, to me, most interest- 

 ing duty, to occupy fifteen minutes. It is 

 fair to remind you and the committee hav- 

 ing these exercises in charge that this has, 

 more than once, been the subject of an 

 encyclopedia of many volumes, that it con- 

 stituted one of the most important depart- 

 ments of our late national census, reported 

 in several hundred quarto pages. To ade- 

 quately discuss the subject, therefore, I 

 should be forced to trespass upon your good 

 nature and the wishes of the committee; 

 the day would be all too short, and your 

 patience and strength, as well as my own, 

 would be sorely taxed. You may not ex- 

 pect me, therefore, to offer more than a 

 syllabus of what might be said in the sev- 

 eral hours or the several addresses which 

 should be allotted to the subject. 



The head of the department will, I hope. 



have many years to exploit it, for to be 

 fully successful he may not avoid these re- 

 lations omnipresent. The utilitarianism 

 of our age makes it important that theory 

 and practise, science and industry, shall go 

 hand in hand to insure progress on either 

 side. The good flowing from the relation 

 in question is reciprocal. If the science 

 of chemistry has furnished the industry 

 with knowledge and facts and suggestions, 

 the practise of chemistry in the industry 

 by its needs, by its diificulties, by its suc- 

 cesses, has furnished to the science sugges- 

 tions, facts and knowledge which have been 

 helpful, stimulating and inspiring. The 

 best that can be said of the relations of 

 chemistry to the industries is, the closer 

 they are the better for both. The necessity 

 arising from the large production of wastes 

 in the manufacture of illuminating gas, the 

 utilization of coal tar, which had become 

 an intolerable nuisance, led simultaneously 

 to the establishment of the great color in- 

 dustries, with eonseqtient stimulation of all 

 the allied industries, to the development of 

 the chemistry of the carbon compounds in 

 general, and furnished materials through 

 the study of which the laws of modern 

 chemistry could be worked out and con- 

 firmed. It is well known that many of 

 these materials could be produced only 

 when operating in a large way in manu- 

 facturing establishments and by methods 

 available only in the industries. It is in 

 this way, as well as others, that the indus- 

 tries have been helpful in the development 

 of the science. But reciprocally the sci- 

 ence and its methods, abstract research in 

 the laboratories, have been helpful, nay, 

 necessary to the industries. This is splen- 

 didly illustrated in the memorable address 

 of Professor Crookes before the chemical 

 section of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, in the meeting 

 in Bristol, in which, sounding the note of 



