THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION GRANT 
for manual labor for the carrying forward of 
a single test through a long series of years 
is large in the aggregate, especially so since 
the manual labor for his service must be 
backed up by keen intelligence and sound 
judgment, a combination not always easy to 
be obtained. There have been very many 
tests, hundreds sometimes, under way at the 
same time, and it was inevitable that some 
must fall by the way. So great has been the 
demand for funds for the maintenance of 
major tests that many of the minor ones, 
which might easily have been advanced to 
the higher position, have, like a neglected 
plant, died for want of support. 
It is of special interest in this connection 
that Mr. Burbank’s work has been cumulative 
from the very inception. With each new 
triumph the way has opened to others, so 
that at no time in his life had there been 
so many great opportunities before him as 
when this grant was proposed. Best of all, 
as the years had come and gone, he entered 
upon each new experiment fuller of interest 
in the outcome, deeper in his zest over the 
developments. Couple with this maturity of 
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