Excerpt from Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories of Denison University, Vol. 10: Memorial Volume, Illustrated; August, 1897 The development of these public laboratories under governmental patronage has in no way checked the investment of private wealth for the still larger growth of science and scientific instruction. It will probably always be true that the advance steps will be taken in the future as in the past through the patronage of liberal minded men and women of large fortune. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.