. The Forest products laboratory; . comes from individual initiative, and the resourcefulness of theconcerns. Commercial laboratories are filling a very real need. Manymanufacturers who can not afford to establish research laboratoriesand whose research problems are not receiving the attention of asso-ciations find these laboratories very useful and necessary. The Bureau of Standards, the Bureau of Chemistry, the Bureauof Mines and many other of the forty Government bureaus devoted toscientific research must, of course, be mentioned as factors in estab-lishing our high position in research. In
. The Forest products laboratory; . comes from individual initiative, and the resourcefulness of theconcerns. Commercial laboratories are filling a very real need. Manymanufacturers who can not afford to establish research laboratoriesand whose research problems are not receiving the attention of asso-ciations find these laboratories very useful and necessary. The Bureau of Standards, the Bureau of Chemistry, the Bureauof Mines and many other of the forty Government bureaus devoted toscientific research must, of course, be mentioned as factors in estab-lishing our high position in research. In the estimation of our foreignfriends they rank high. It often seems, as Mr. Everest has told us,that the funds are not as large as they should be, but the total appro-priations for scientific work constitute a sum which is not inconsider-able, and I think we are probably doing more than any other Govern-ment. Other Governments have accepted our research results andthese institutions have added much to our fame abroad as well as at. A Decennial Record 168 home. But we are not doing enough and have not enough money atour disposal. The industrial fellowship plan of the Mellon Institute carrieswith it the idea of developing men for a particular field and at the sametime solving the given problem. The success has been marked. Allin all, we have reason to believe that we do stand high in industrialresearch. The present condition is very promising for eventual andundisputed leadership. A list of nearly 300 industrial research laboratories has been pub-lished by the National Research Council and this does not include allin the United States. The scale on which certain of our investigationsare handled is now a very hopeful sign. In the National ElectricLamp Association we find something like 2,000 men on developmeni^work, 600 of them being highly trained technical men. The AmericanTelephone and Telegraph Company have 1,300 giving their time toindustrial research. In the Du Pont Company
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