SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.- 
The Institute is designed to supply the wants of the United King- 
dom, but its influence on the quality of seed exported will be as notice- 
able in Australia as elsewhere. : 
In regard to our own crops, the State Agricultural Departments 
are doing a great deal for the production of new varieties and the main- 
tenance of a high quality of seed. There is, at present, no system for 
the registration of new varieties, but the Seed Improvement Committee 
of the Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry is working on 
the classification of the varieties of cereals, and the control of the 
number of synonyms. 
—E.A, 
The important requisites for industrial research are often 
unconsidered by manufacturers, who, in endeavouring to select a 
research chemist, are likely to regard every chemist as a qualified 
scientific scout. The supply of men capable of working at high 
efficiency as investigators is well below the demand; and chemists 
having the requisites and spirit of the researcher are indeed 
difficult to find by ones experienced in the direction of research. 
All research professors know that the finding of a skilled private 
assistant—one who possesses not only originality, but also sound 
judgment and intellectual honesty—is not easy, because it frequently 
involves the gift of prophecy on the part of the searcher. It has 
been truly said that the “seeds of great discoveries are constantly 
floating around us, but they only take root in minds well 
prepared to receive them.” 
—RAYMOND F, BACON. 
“The Administrator of Industrial Research Laboratories.”’ 
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