OF INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION.

As the world's supply of materials essential to life and comfort become exhausted, the importance of a knowledge of their chemical properties and relations grows. Never before in history, to take a familiar example, has the loss of metals to the world been accomplished so rapidly as today in the great war. And in proportion as these substances are used up, advance must be made toward the acquisition of suitable substitutes.

Harvard's new Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory for chemical research is building up a reputation for the University through its various publications, mentioned in the article by Professor Richards. Since the building is possessed of all the latest appliances, the most careful investigations are possible, and hence the results obtained are of much practical value.

The director of the laboratory, Professor T. W. Richards, has acquired unusual distinction by winning the Nobel Prize with his table of atomic weights. Such an example should serve as a spur toward further accomplishments from this department of the University.