384: STUDY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
whether any respectable bookseller will undertake 
the risk of publishing them. ‘The French are well 
aware of the necessity of national patronage to such 
works; and with that munificent liberality which 
characterises all their proceedings regarding science, 
they annually set aside a considerable sum for this 
exclusive purpose. It has been solely owing to 
this liberal spirit, worthy of a great nation, that the 
splendid zoological discoveries made in the voyages 
of Dupery and other navigators have been published 
in a style of beauty and completeness, which is no 
less valuable to science than honourable to the 
nation. : 
(264.) But let us proceed regularly ; and give to” 
each of those means by which an enlightened ad- 
ministration can encourage science, a separate con- 
sideration. These appear to be as follows: — 1. 
The appointment of scientific men to those offices 
wherein their acquirements can be made subservi- 
ent to the public good. 2. By aiding and assisting 
our universities in the establishment of professor- 
ships. 3. By condescending to consult, on all 
such questions as relate to science, those scientific 
institutions of the country which are the proper tri- 
bunals for deciding such questions. 4. By removing 
all those impediments and regulations which press 
upon the authors of illustrative works on natural | 
history, and for the general encouragement of such 
works. 5. By bestowing honorary or pecuniary re- 
wards upon those whose discoveries or researches 
reflect honour upon the nation. 
(265.) I. The first subject which demands the at- 
tention of any administration desirous of placing the 
