APPENDIX C 



CARNEGIE TRUST FOR THE UNIVERSITIES 

 OF SCOTLAND. 1 



IN the December 1917 number of the Journal was 

 printed a Report of a Special Committee of the Guild on 

 an article by Prof. F. Soddy, F.R.S., dealing with the 

 Carnegie Trust and Scientific Research. 



This report was forwarded to the Board of Trustees, 

 and the following excerpt from the Minutes of a meeting 

 of the Board, 7th January 1918, was communicated to the 

 Guild in reply : 



" A letter from the Executive Committee of the British 

 Science Guild, dated 6th November 1917, as also the 

 ' Report of the Special Committee of the Guild appointed 

 to consider the whole matter of the Financial Operations 

 of the Carnegie Trust as set forth by Prof. Soddy, F.R.S., 

 in his article published in Science Progress for January 

 1917,' were fully considered. 



" In the letter and Report criticisms of the application 

 made by the Trustees of the half of the Trust Income 

 under Head A. are put forward. These criticisms may be 

 divided under two heads, and it was resolved to reply for 

 the information of the Guild as follows : 



" (i) As to the first, the Executive Committee altogether 

 decline to admit the contention that the purposes to which 

 one-half of the Income of the Trust falls to be applied can 



1 Twelfth Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the 

 British Science Guild, July 1918. 



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