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structive  help  in  the  scientific  preparation  of  effective  remedial 
agents  and  their  standardization,  thus  allowing  uniform  results  to  be 
obtained  under  specific  conditions.  None  but  physicians  and  pharma- 
cists realize  how  much  of  this  work  yet  remains  to  be  done.  The  lack 
of  constructive,  co-operative  work  in  this  direction  has  been  produc- 
tive of  much  of  the  therapeutic  nihilism  of  the  recent  past. 
3.  The  institution  of  research  departments  which  shall  aid  the 
manufacturing  interests  allied  to  pharmacy.  While  a  number  of  the 
larger  pharmaceutical  manufacturing  establishments  have  well- 
equipped  and  efficient  research  departments,  there  are  hundreds  now 
without  such  service.  It  is  to  supply  this  evident  need  and  to  sup- 
plement existing  work  that  such  departments  are  to  be  instituted  and 
maintained. 
4.  The  founding  of  laboratories  for  the  express  -purpose  of 
serving  the  City  and  State  in  an  impartial  solution  of  problems  such 
as  the  quality  of  supplies,  the  wholesomeness  and  purity  of  foods, 
the  purity  of  drugs  and  chemicals,  and  other  scientific  questions 
affecting  the  public  welfare. 
These  proposed  benefits  are  self-evident.  It  is  of  tremendous 
value  to  any  community  to  have  available  a  corps  of  scientific  work- 
ers capable  of  helping  to  solve  routine  problems.  Such  an  organiza- 
tion in  times  of  stress  and  emergency,  as  of  war  or  epidemic,  might 
be  invaluable  as  an  insurance  against  calamity  due  to  lack  of  scien- 
tific preparation. 
5.  The  development  of  pure  scientific  research.  The  lessons 
taught  during  the  World  War,  as  regards  the  value  of  pure  science, 
were  tremendously  convincing.  Pure  science  is  only  relative.  The 
pure  science  of  today  becomes  the  applied  science  of  tomorrow,  and 
the  nation  that  falls  behind  in  pure  scientific  research  will  surely 
perish,  if  there  ever  comes  another  world  war,  which  God  forbid. 
6.  The  development  of  a  public  museum  of  drug  and  chemical 
products  and  pharmaceutical  and  chemical  manufactures,  which  will 
be  distinctive  for  its  breadth  and  modernity,  as  well  as^  unique  in  its 
exhibits  of  historic  value,  for  the  College  collections  are  especially 
rich  in  illustrative  material  of  this  kind,  which  now  lack  space  for  ex- 
hibition. With  our  present  collection  as  a  nucleus,  adequately  housed 
and  under  efficient  full-time  curatorship,  such  a  museum  could  be 
