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eiple that any sort of work whicli has once 

 been satisfactorily performed is to be re- 

 garded as definitely finished for the whole 

 science, and that such work be ever at the 

 disposal of the entire science. 



BOOMS FOR TEANSITOEY WOEKERS 



Finally a special division of the institute 

 must be mentioned, the necessity for which 

 must often have occurred to any one who 

 has attentively followed these considera- 

 tions. It is the building in which simple 

 rooms for the accommodation of transitory 

 workers in the institute will be provided. 

 The incomparable services which the insti- 

 tute would soon be in a position to render 

 would not only offer opportunities to the 

 regular assistants for pursuing their inves- 

 tigations, but would attract voluntary 

 M^orkers who wished to make use of the 

 aids offered by the institute for their par- 

 ticular problems. The most liberal oppor- 

 tunities should be afforded them, for the 

 institute is to stand at the service of the 

 public. 



Such people should be able to reside for 

 a longer or a shorter time in the institute. 

 The provision for them can be the simplest 

 possible. A sufficiently large sleeping 

 room with the necessary toilet arrange- 

 ments is quite enough, for the work will be 

 carried on in the different departments of 

 the institute and the rooms need not be 

 equipped for that purpose. Provision for 

 serving meals should also be made so that 

 the assistants can remain at the institute 

 through the entire working day and obtain 

 warm food when desired. This is an ar- 

 rangement more advantageous to brain 

 workers like those of the institute than it 

 is to manual workers. 



OEGANIZATION OF CHEMIC SCIENCE 



Only the most important divisions have 

 been mentioned, the development of which 



must be considered by the International 

 Institute. 



When these first, more important depart- 

 ments have become active, the other sides 

 of the problem for the thorough organiza- 

 tion of the institute must be taken up. 

 Opportunity is afforded here for individual 

 donors to endow parts of the work to which 

 they are specially devoted. 



This holds especially for the numerous 

 and versatile fields of applied chemistry, 

 which have not been mentioned in this 

 paper. From this it is by no means to be 

 inferred that they would be excluded from 

 the institute. They have been omitted from 

 the paper because the purely scientific field, 

 being fundamental, must precede; and be- 

 cause the author is much less conversant 

 with them than with pure science. 



In the directing bodies of the Interna- 

 tional Institute (to be explained later) are 

 to be representatives of applied chemistry 

 and from their suggestions proper atten- 

 tion will be paid to these sub.jects. 



In chemistry the pure and applied sci- 

 ences are so happily affiliated that exem- 

 plary arrangements can be attained to 

 more easily than in most other fields of 

 applied science. 



DIEECTION OF THE INSTITUTE 



Again emphasizing the fact that the fol- 

 lowing is merely a suggestive plan evolved 

 after long meditation and discussion, and 

 is not at all to be regarded as a fiLsed un- 

 changeable arrangement, I conceive of the 

 International Chemical Institute being 

 directed in the following way: 



The higher direction of the institute will 

 be entrusted to a triple presidency, one 

 member of which will direct the scientific, 

 another the economic and financial activ- 

 ities while the third will be the president 

 of the International Association of Chemic 

 Societies. The separation of the scientific 



