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the present year made increased provision for scientific re- 

 search and for promoting certain special manufactures which 

 this country had neglected in the past. On May 6 a deputa- 

 tion from the Royal Society and the Chemical Society waited 

 on the Presidents of the Boards of Trade and Education. After 

 calling attention to the want of application of scientific know- 

 ledge to manufactures and to the lack of organisation among 

 the chemical and associated industries, the deputation urged 

 the Government to give increased help to research for industrial 

 purposes. The President of the Board of Education said that 

 the matter had been under consideration by his Board for 

 some time and that a scheme for the administration of Govern- 

 ment grants for scientific research had been approved. At 

 the end of July, the Board of Education issued a Memorandum 

 entitled Scheme for the Organisation and Development of 

 Scientific and Industrial Research. 



The following is a brief summary of its provisions : — 

 i . The scheme is designed to establish a permanent organisa- 

 tion. 



2. It is to operate over the United Kingdom as a whole, 

 so that there may be " a single fund for the assistance of re- 

 search, under a single responsible body." 



3. It provides for the establishment of — 



(a) a Committee of the Privy Council responsible for 



the expenditure of any new moneys provided by 

 Parliament for scientific and industrial research ; 



(b) an Advisory Council responsible to the Committee 



of the Privy Council and composed mainly of 

 eminent scientific men and of men engaged in 

 industries dependent on research. 



4. The Committee of (the Privy) Council will consist of the 

 Lord President, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secretary 

 for Scotland, the Presidents of the Boards of Trade and Educa- 

 tion, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and other Ministers and 

 Members, of whom the first will be Lord Haldane, the Right 

 Hon. A. H. D. Acland, and the Right Hon. J. A. Pease, M.P. 



5. The Advisory Council will consist, to begin with, of the 

 following members : Lord Rayleigh, Dr. G. T. Beilby, Mr. W. 

 Duddell, Professors B. Hopkinson, J. A. M'Clelland and R. 



