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it will also illustrate the remarkable developments that have taken place generally 

 in our scientific industries. In many of these, as a matter of fact, Great Britain 

 always excelled, and it is only our national quality of self-depreciation which has 

 prevented the public from appreciating the fact that we were able to export to 

 Germany apparatus and products embodying the highest scientific knowledge and 

 technical skill. 



The general scope of the exhibition has been set forth in a preliminary leaflet 

 which has been issued, from which it is noted that the exhibits will include : 

 chemical products ; thermal, electrical, and optical appliances ; glass, quartz, 

 and refractory materials ; photographic apparatus and material, surgical and 

 medical appliances, and papers and textile products. 



It is believed that the effect of the exhibition will be to have a most stimulating 

 influence upon scientific and industrial research ; and the exhibits, and the 

 demonstrations and lectures that will be given in order to explain them, will 

 undoubtedly bring home to manufacturers, as well as to the general public, the 

 great and growing part that science plays in industry. 



Further particulars may be obtained from the Organising Secretary, 82, Victoria 

 Street, London, S.W.i. 



Remarks on the Minute of the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust 

 for the Universities of Scotland, communicated to the British Science 

 Guild (Prof. Soddy, F.R.S.) 



I merely suggested as a reasonable interpretation of the Trust Deed of Mr. 

 Carnegie that the subjects included could be divided into primary and legitimate 

 ancillary, those not included being for the purpose termed illegitimate. The 

 interpretation may or may not be capable of strict defence. By concentrating on 

 this single point, the Executive Committee of the Trust seek to evade the real 

 criticism, fairly summed up and endorsed by the British Science Guild. 



Substantial and undenied examples were brought forward of just the same 

 neglect of, contempt for, and unfair discrimination against science which, operating 

 during the past century, mainly through educational channels, has now brought 

 about the position of national insecurity and peril, manifest to all, and which the 

 Founder of the Trust himself stigmatised in the heartiest manner in 1906. 



In an address entitled " Modern Needs in Universities," delivered at the 

 opening of the new Carnegie buildings of the Natural Philosophy and Engineering 

 Departments of the University of Edinburgh (Nature, 1906, 74, 648), Mr. Carnegie, 

 after referring to the millions being devoted to science and practical studies and 

 the progressive influences at work in the Universities of America and Canada and 

 of the five principal English cities, continued : 



"Scotland has to keep marching on. The progress of scientific departments 

 in British Universities, considerable as it has recently been, of which the schools 

 we are about to open here to-day are gratifying evidence, yet has not kept pace 

 with the startling progress of science itself and the wonderful discoveries that 

 threaten to revolutionise human conceptions. 



"The older branches of learning in our Universities may well welcome the 

 newer branch, cap in hand, not only as the foundation of material progress, but 

 also as one of the very highest agencies in the imaginative domain. 



" This mighty force of our day — science — has hitherto been the Cinderella of 

 the sisterhood of knowledge, but the Prince has appeared at last and taken 

 her by the hand. It is now the turn of the elder sisters to greet the once neglected 

 princess. She will more than justify the millions that are now being showered 



