Ten N INE years ago Mr. Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie Institution at Washington, a scientific bureau without a parallel in the, world. A few weeks ago he added ten million dollars to the original ten million given at the time of the institution's founda tion, and to the five million given since then. The total is a larger sum than most of us can conceive. An endowment of twenty-five million dollars means an income to the institution of $2.37% for every min ute of the year, day and night,

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... Sundays and holidays included. And all for Science! There are two types of mind that marvel at this vast sum, and then wonder that good money should be spent apparently so recklessly. Two .types of peopH� there are who do not quite see the use of it. There are those who are oppressed by the conscious ness of so much suffering of all kinds that is in crying need of relief, those who see poverty and sickness and the mental misery that follow in their train, the dis-. tress that is caused by moral sickness too, and who know how hard it is to abate a fraction of it all without the means; those who see in a large, round sum of money great possibilities in the way of food and fuel and shoes and medicines and comforts and, opportunities. And then there are those who flatter themselves that they are "practical" and have no need for theory, those to whom theory means just the impracticable and the ineffectual. To both of these classes science means a certain intellectual The 60.inch reflecting telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory.