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PHYSICAL LABORATORY OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



maintained. Contrast this with the expenditure on the Reiehsanstalt a 

 or with the proposals in America where the > > i 1 1 for the establishment 

 of a laboratory has just passed, and an expenditure of £60,000 on 

 building and site and £9,000 a year has been authorized. * * * 



Science is not yet regarded as a commercial factor in England. Is 

 there no one who. realizing the importance of the alliance, will come 



Engineering Laboratory, ground plan. 



forward with more ample funds to start us on our course with a fair 

 prospect of success ? One real friend has recently told us in print 

 that the new institution is on such a microscopic scale that its utility 

 in the present struggle is more than doubtful. Is there no statesman 

 who can grasp the position and see that, with, say, double the income, 

 the chances of our doing a great work would be increased a hundred- 



:i Capital expenditure on the Reichsanstalt, 



DIVISION I. 



Site, the gift of Dr. Siemens £25, 000 



Cost of buildings 34, 275 



Fittings and furniture 2, 700 



Machinery and instruments 4, 100 



£66, 075 



DIVISION II. 



Site £18, 600 



Buildings 88, 000 



Fittings and furniture 5, 400 



Machinery and instruments 23, 550 



135, 550 



201,625 



VNNI'AI. K\ PENDITURE. 



Salaries and wages £10, 300 



Maintenance of buildings, apparatus, etc 6, 350 



16, 650 

 See description, with illustrations of the Reichsanstalt, by Henry S. Carhart, printed 

 in the Smithsonian Report for L900, pages 403-415. 



