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3. It is clearly desirable that the scheme should operate over the Kingdom as a 
whole with as little regard as possible to the Tweed and the Irish Channel. The research 
done should be for the Kingdom as a whole, and there should be complete liberty to 
utilise the most effective institutions and investigators available, irrespective of their 
location in England, Wales, Scotland or Ireland. There must therefore be a single fund 
for the assistance of research, under a single responsible body. 
4. The scheme accordingly provides for the establismhent of — 
(a) A Committee of the Privy Council responsible for the expenditure of any new 
moneys provided by Parliament for scientific and industrial research; 
(b) A small Advisory Council responsible to the Committee of Council and 
composed mainly of eminent scientific men and men actually engaged 
in industries dependent upon scientific research. 
5. The Committee of Council will consist of the Lord President, the Chancellor 
of the Exchequer, the Secretary for Scotland, the President of the Board of Trade, the 
President of the Board of Education (who wiil be Vice-President of the Committee), 
the Chief Secretary for Ireland, together with such other Ministers and individual 
Members of the Council as it may be thought desirable to add. 
The first non-official Members of the Committee will be— 
The Right Hon. Viscount Haldane of Cloan, O.M., K.T., F.R.S., 
The Right Hon. Arthur H. D. Acland, and 
The Right Hon. Joseph A. Pease, M.P. 
The President of the Board of Education will answer in the House of Commons for 
the sub-head on the Vote, which will be accounted for by the Treasury under Class IV., 
Vote 7, ‘Scientific Investigations, &c.” 
It is obvious that the organisation and development of research is a matter which 
greatly affects the public educational systems of the Kingdom. A great part of all 
research will necessarily be done in Universities and Colleges which are already aided 
by the State, and the supply and training of a sufficient number of young person 
competent to undertake research can only be secured through the public system of 
education. 
6. The primary functions of the Advisory Council will be to advise the Committee 
of Council on— 
(i) proposals for instituting specific researches; 
(ii) proposals for establishing or developing special institutions or departments 
of existing institutions for the scientific study of problems affecting 
particular industries and trades; 
(iii) the establishment and award of Research Studentships and Fellowships. 
The Advisory Council will also be available, if requested, to advise the several 
Education Departments as to the steps which should be taken for increasing the 
supply of workers competent to undertake scientific research. 
Arrangements will be made by which the Council will keep in close touch with all 
Government Departments concerned with or interested in scientific research and by 
which the Council will have regard to the research work which is being done or may be 
done by the National Physical Laboratory. 
7. It is essential that the Advisory Council should act in intimate co-operation with 
the Royal Society and the existing scientific or professional associations, societies and 
institutes, as well as with the Universities, Technical Institutions and other institutions 
in which research is or can be efficiently conducted. 
