154 THE ADDRESSES, LECTURES, ETC., OF 



KEMAKKS ON 

 THE HOUSE OF APPLIED SCIENCE, 



B-Y C. WILLIAM SIEMENS, D.C.L., F.E.S. 

 President of the Iron and Steel Institute. 



THE PRESIDENT * (DR. SIEMENS) said their discussion of the 

 papers had been rather interrupted, as it had been thought 

 important by some of the members of the Institute that the 

 suggestion, which he threw out in his address, with regard to 

 obtaining a building for themselves and for other societies devoted 

 to applied science, should be advanced a step by asking the 

 members of the Iron and Steel Institute to endorse it with their 

 approval ; and as the time drew near when they would have to 

 adjourn, Mr. Samuelson had kindly taken the matter in hand, and 

 proposed the resolution that was now before them. Mr. Brogden 

 had alluded to an attempt which had been made some years 

 ago to attain a similar object, suggesting that its having failed 

 then would perhaps be against the probability of better success 

 now ; but if Mr. Brogden would permit him, he (the President), 

 would point out one essential difference between the two schemes. 

 It was then intended to invite a few other societies without 

 regard to the objects' they had in view to join the Institute in 

 the erection of a building, and the most important society the 

 Institution of Civil Engineers was, he believed, left entirely out 

 of consideration ; therefore, he (the President), did not wonder 

 that that attempt failed. If they were going to have a building 

 in which several societies should join, it was necessary that that 

 building should represent something, and that something he would 

 propose should be " Applied Science." He would object abso- 

 lutely to the admission of societies into that circle that might be 

 excellent in themselves, but which were devoted to objects foreign 

 to applied science. They must have applied science represented, 

 and represented by all the institutions that cultivated its main 

 branches. At the head of their number stood the Institution of 



* Excerpt Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, 1877, pp. 102-103. 



