Abstract
IN 1789 the American Philosophical Society made the first organized effort to encourage scien tific research on behalf of our nation. And in his annual address the following year President Washington said: is nothing which can better deserve patronage than the promotion of science. Subsequently the sentiment grew that the support of natural science would contribute to the welfare and security of the country. There evolved a great capacity for adaptation, a persistent willingness to meet new conditions with new methods, and a remarkable creativeness that have produced the American tradition of natural science research. In the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY this background has proved to be a powerful incentive. It was at the beginning of Washington's second term that Joseph Priestley decided to emigrate from England to America, and in 1794 he and his family took up residence in Northumberland, Pa., where he lived until his death in 1804, working peacefully and happily ...
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