BY THE ENGLISH SCIENTIFIC COMMISSION. 801 



point I would rather not decide. The Institution has been 

 formed under peculiar circumstances, and it has so happened 

 that the funds are in charge of men who are not scientific, 

 and it must always be so; but they are now men who are 

 in favor of science, and they trust to the Secretary the man- 

 agement of the establishment. But I think that the appro- 

 bation of a sum of money expended in the way you men- 

 tion is of vast importance, and I am only surprised, excuse 

 my saying so, that a nation of the wealth and intelligence 

 of Great Britain should appropriate so small a sum. 



1574. You have doubtless heard that small as that sum is, 

 it is not all expended ? — No, I have not heard that. There 

 are various fields of research in which twenty times that sum 

 might be readily expended. 



1575. {Chairman.) Are there any other points on which 

 you would like to give the Commission any information? — 

 I do not think I can give any of importance. 



51 



