Excerpt from The Development of Research in the United States: An Address Delivered Before the Association of Land-Grant Colleges at Chicago, November 13, 1919 It may contribute to a just estimate of the problem which confronts us in this country to survey briefly the conspicuous characteristics of the major agencies available for the conduct of research.* These I take to be. 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.