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in the United States by Prof. Duncan in connection with 

 the Universities of Kansas and Pittsburg. Prof. Armstrong, 

 in pessimistic vein, regarded the vocation of the academic 

 chemist as completely atrophied under the present con- 

 ditions of remuneration, and pressed for a development of 

 purely technical training centres. Sir Thomas Holland, in 

 his presidential address to the Conference of Delegates of 

 Corresponding Societies of the British Association, affirmed that 

 Government support is urgently needed, remarking that in 

 this country scientific organisations, like the universities, 

 are largely dependent on private charity. And again, at the 

 Annual Meeting of the British Science Guild, Sir William 

 Ramsay outlined a scheme of scientific organisation, making 

 the Royal Society the basis of a general advisory committee 

 in conjunction with which there would be sub-committees of 

 the various other scientific societies in the country. 



In July a scheme very similar to the above was adopted by 

 the Chemical Society to render immediate service to over- 

 worked Government Departments during the present crisis. 

 The Council of this Society has constituted itself a consultative 

 body to consider, organise, and utilise all suggestions from its 

 Fellows, reporting on the same to the proper authorities. Spe- 

 cial committees of the following societies are co-operating in 

 the scheme and to each committee are to be referred the 

 suggestions with which it is the most competent to deal : 



Royal Society of Agriculture Institution of Mining and 



Biochemical Society Metallurgy 



Society of Chemical Industry Pharmaceutical Society 



Society of Dyers and Colourists Physical Society 



Faraday Society Society of Public Analysts 



Institute of Metals 



This emergency scheme now stands constituted, and if it 

 should prove of real service to the nation in this crisis, it is 

 not too much to expect that it should be linked up to the 

 National Advisory Council and placed on a firm financial 

 basis. 



C. Scott Garrett. 



Government Grants for Scientific Research 



In April last, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, replying to 

 some remarks in Parliament, intimated that the Estimates for 



