I have been able to accumulate has not only been of immediate

value to myself but to many other investigators in the scientific

world , of which I have been so constantly assured .
I would earnestly commend to the younger generation of
workers in metallurgical research the vital importance of
experiments , not only in planning them , but in carefully
recording and carrying them out. In my own experiments I
can go back some forty -five years , and where specimens were
all
obtained these are carefully recorded the Works Museum

in
Laboratory my Company Messrs Hadfields
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and Research

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important emphasize not only utility but the

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necessity complete and reliable bibliographies the frame

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of

of
work the various branches science

.
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of

technicians and save the

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research workers which might otherwise

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spent un
of

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on

profitably work which has already been performed