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Show oo I SCIENCE AND COMPETITION. Ir If wo consider the current prices for J inemical analyses, one is prono to ihlnk that In one field, at least, com- , Petition haB hnd full play. It were, of '. loursc, rank heresy in this good city I ' a suggest restraint, and yet It seems 1 ull time that something should be .' lone, lest the day might come when ' io chemist would have to pay the I Manufacturer for the privilege of taking analyses for him. How can m analytical chemist hopo to maln-aln maln-aln his professional standing when Hb charges for Individual analysis Ken when done In quantity are such '.hat, unless ho 13 to count his own Jmo as without value (and sometimes ivon under such nn assumption), ho iannot possibly do roliablo work flthout an actual financial loss? I do lot wish to draw any unpleasant or mfalr Inferences as to which horn of iuch a dilemma the commercial an-dytlcal an-dytlcal chemlste choose; for tho most f them are, no doubt, trying to make ho best of a dlftiult situation. Un-brtunatcly, Un-brtunatcly, I have no specific remedy o propose, but It la all too evident iat theBo conditions tend to bolittlo lis branch of our science, to result in large output of inferior work, and o creato a distrust which spreads un. luij-.prof. H. P. Talbot in Science. |