Présentation de l'éditeur
Carnegie Institution of Washing ton, which made an appropriation of SI,000 toward the clerical and office expenses. It is hoped that the publication will be a contribution to the organization of science in A merica. There is here given for the first time a fairly complete survey of the scientific activity of a country at a given period. As a reference book for the field it covers, it may be even more useful in academic circles than Minerva or Who sW ho in A merica. But the chief service it should render is to make men of science acquainted with one another and with one anothers work. There scarcey exlists among scientific men the recognition of common interest and the spirit of cooperation which would help to give science the place it should have in the community. It is fully as important for the nation as for men of science that scientific work should be adequately recognized and supported. We are consequently in the fortunate position of knowing that whatever we do to promote our own interests is at the same time a service to the community and to the world. There are included in the directory the records of more than four thousand men of science, and it is believed that the entries are tolerably complete for those inN orth America who have carried on research work in the natural and exact sciences. Some are admitted who are supposed to have advanced science by teaching, by administrative work, or by the preparation of text-books and compilations. There are also some whose work has been chiefly in engineering, medicine or other applied sciences, and a few whose work is in education, economics or other subjects not commonly included under the exact and natural sciences. But the book does not profess to cover these fields. The names are included because they are supposed to represent work that has contributed to the advancement of pure science the term being
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