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And it is ordered that the Committee may, out of funds provided by Parliament 
or otherwise available for the purpose, pay such remuneration to the Members of the 
Advisory Council and such salary to the Administrative Chairman thereof as the 
Treasury authorise, and defray to such an amount as may be sanctioned by the Treasury 
any other expenses incurred by the Council in or in connexion with the performance of 
its duties, and may enter into any contracts incidental thereto. 
And it is ordered that the Committee shall in every year cause to be laid before 
both Houses of Parliament a Report of their proceedings and of the proceedings of the 
Advisory Council, during the preceding year. 
ALMERIC FITZROY. 
APPENDIX II. 
SCHEME FOR THE ORGANISATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF 
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH IN 
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 
I. There is a strong consensus of opinion among persons engaged both in science 
and in industry that a special need exists at the present time for new machinery and for 
additional State assistance in order to promote and organise scientific research with a 
view especially to its application to trade and industry. It is well known that many of 
our industries have since the outbreak of war suffered through our inability to produce 
at home, certain articles and materials required in trade processes, the manufacture of 
which has become localised abroad, and particularly in Germany, because science 
has there been more thoroughly and effectively applied to the solution of scientific 
problems bearing on trade and industry and to the elaboration of economical and im- 
proved processes of manufacture. It is impossible to contemplate without considerable 
apprehension the situation which will arise at the end of the war unless our scientific 
resources have previously been enlarged and organised to meet it. It appears incon- 
trovertible that if we are to advance or even maintain our industrial position we must 
as a nation aim at such a development of scientific and industrial research as will place 
us in a position to expand and strengthen our industries and to compete successfully 
with the most highly organised of our rivals. The difficulties of advancing on these 
lines during the war are obvious and are not under-estimated, but we cannot hope to 
improvise an effective system at the moment when hostilities cease, and unless during 
the present period we are able to make a substantial advance we shall certainly be 
unable to do what is necessary in the equally difficult period of reconstruction which will 
follow the war. 
2. The present scheme is designed to established a permanent organisation for the 
promotion of industrial and scientific research. 
It is in no way intended that it should replace or interfere with the arrangements 
which have been or may be made by the War Office or Admiralty or Minister of Muni- 
tions to obtain scientific advice and investigation in connection with the provision of 
munitions or war. It is, of course, obvious that at the present moment it is essential 
that the War Office, the Admiralty, and the Ministry of Munitions should continue to 
make their own direct arrangements with scientific men and institutions with the least 
possible delay. 
