THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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Photograph by Elliot ami Fry 



Sir Richard Strachey. 



that a scientific journal should be sup- 

 ported by the subscribers. Yet there 

 is reason to believe that a good popu- 

 lar scientific journal would accom- 

 plish as much for the instruction and 

 entertainment of the public as one of 

 our leading museums, whereas the cost 

 of conducting a museum for a single 

 year would give the journal an ample 

 permanent endowment. But it is by 

 no means certain that it would be an 

 advantage for our scientific journals 

 to be supported by endowments or 

 subsidies. A public spirited and en- 



lightened individualism, which would 

 lead people in large numbers to sub- 

 scribe to journals of educational value, 

 to pay the entrance fees to museums 

 and for tickets to scientific lectures, 

 would in some ways be more satis- 

 factory than the amplest endowments. 

 Valparaiso University and Harvard 

 University, Mr. Edison's laboratory 

 and the Carnegie Institution, stand for 

 diverse methods of solving problems 

 of momentous importance. It may be 

 that Valparaiso University and Mr. 

 Edison's laboratory are the more 



