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of it might conic within the province of the Science Guild to 

 deal with. 



At the annual meeting Sir Ronald Ross gave a short address 

 on the encouragement of discovery, in which he emphasised the 

 point that the public omits the main consideration as regards 

 such encouragement by failing to pay men of science for benefits 

 received from them, and his address has been made the text 

 of a considerable correspondence in the lay press from writers 

 who very often agree with him. In the evening a banquet was 

 given at which many good speeches were made, especially a 

 very noble one from the President, who remarked to the effect 

 that after all religion was best served by a study of the beauty 

 of God's works. Sir William Patrick Byrne, K.C.V.O., C.B., 

 of the Home Office, made some very pertinent observations on 

 the subject referred to in our leading article in the April number, 

 of the employment of scientific experts by Government without 

 payment, and expressed his hearty concurrence in the opinion 

 that payment should in future be given whenever possible. The 

 time appears to be propitious for a general movement towards 

 the betterment of scientific work in Britain, and so far as we 

 can judge all workers are in favour of some reform in this 

 respect. 



Institut fur Schiffs- und Tropenkrankheiten 



On May 28 the Institut fur Schiffs- und Tropenkrankheiten 

 at Hamburg held a ceremony in connection with the opening 

 of its magnificent new buildings and hospital in Hamburg. The 

 ceremony was attended by many delegates from abroad, who read 

 or delivered messages of congratulation. Amongst these there 

 was a message from the Right Honourable the Secretary of 

 State for the British Colonies, one from the President of the 

 Royal Society of Medicine, and other messages from the 

 Liverpool and London Schools of Tropical Medicine. The new 

 buildings and organisation of the staff show how far Germany 

 exceeds Britain in its management of scientific affairs. The 

 laboratories and hospital exhibit the newest developments in 

 building and appliances — both for the treatment of the sick and 

 for scientific investigation — on a scale which leaves the original 

 British Schools entirely in the shade. This is only what is 

 to be expected, since the Hamburg institution is paid for and 



