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NATURE 



[April 22, 1920 



Consultations with outside scientific institutions will 

 be resorted to, both to ensure against overlapping and 

 with the view of utilising such of their researches 

 and experiments as appear likely to prove of value 

 to the Naval Service. 



At present there exists under the Department a 

 naval research laboratory at Shandon. This estab- 

 lishment was set up during the war with the primary 

 object of investigating methods of counteracting the 

 enemy's submarine menace. It has performed, and 

 is performing, good service; but Shandon is a great 

 distance from the experimental schools, the various 

 scientific institutions, and the Admiralty, and it has 

 therefore been decided that, so soon as suitable 

 accommodation can be provided elsewhere, such of 

 the work as requires sea environment, together with 

 the scientific personnel associated with it, will be 

 removed to a suitable existing naval establishment, 

 and the remainder, which does not in its early stages 

 require a sea environment, will be transferred to a 

 naval research institute. This institute, under the 

 Director of Scientific Research, will adjoin the 

 National Physical Laboratory at Teddington. It will 

 be, entirely controlled by the Admiralty, but its close 

 association with the National Physical Laboratory will 

 offer exceptional facilities for co-operation, and the 

 staff of the research institute will have the advantage 

 of personal acquaintance with the work being carried 

 out a,t the laboratory. The Department of Scientific 

 and Industrial Research will be consulted in all cases 

 when the results of investigations are likely to be of 

 use to the general community. 



.To ensure effective co-operation and contact with 

 naval thought, naval officers will frequently visit the 

 research institute, and the scientific staff will work 

 for lengthy periods at naval establishments, and at 

 times go to sea 



Education and Science in the Civil Service 

 Estimates for 1920-21. 



THE Estimates for Civil Services for the year 

 ending March 31, 1921 (Class IV. : Education, 

 Science, and Art), have now been published. Among 

 the increased grants compared with those of last year 

 arfe : — Board of Education, 12,983,094/.; British 

 Museum, 74,519!.; Scientific Investigation, etc., 

 81,442!.; Scientific and Industrial Research, 246,845!.; 

 Public Education (Scotland), 2,200,000!. ; Public 

 Education (Ireland), 185,735!. ; and Science and Art 

 (Ireland), 20,917!. As the Geological Museum and 

 Geological Survey are now under the Department of 

 Scientific and Industrial Research, their grants of 

 7560!-. and 30,043!. respectively represent part of the 

 increase of 246,845!. to that Department. The grant 

 for scholarships, exhibitions, and other allowances to 

 students in technical schools and colleges is increased 

 from 17,460!. to 34,350!. In addition, there are new 

 grants of 15,000!. for scholarships tenable at universi- 

 ties, and expenses incidental to them, and 250,000!. 

 to local education authorities for maintenance allow- 

 ances at places of higher education. The total 

 arnount of the grants in aid of universities, colleges, 

 medical schools, and like institutions in the United 

 Kingdorn is about 1,000,000!.; there is also a' special 

 grant of .196,000!. for extraordinary expenditure. . The 

 gr'ant for assistance towards the higher education of 

 ex-officers and men of like standing is 3,000,000!., 

 comfyared with 2,000,000!. for 1919-20., The grant 

 under the Royal Society shows an, increase of 90Q0!., 

 and includes 2000!. for subscriptions to ^international 



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research associations. The subjoined summary and 

 details are extracted from the Estimates: — 



Synopsis, 

 United Kingdom and England. 



Board of Education ... 



British Museum 



National Gallery 



National Portrait Gallery ... 



Wallace Collection 



London Museum ... 



Imperial War Museum 



Scientific Investigation, etc. ... ... 



Scientific and Industrial Research 



Universities and Colleges, United King- 

 dom, and Intermediate Education, 

 Wales 



Universities, etc.. Special Grants 



Serbian Relief Fund (maintenance and 

 education of young Serbians in this 

 country) ... 



Scotland. 

 Public Education 

 National Galleries ... 



Ireland. 

 Public Education ... ... ... 



Intermediate Education ... 



Endowed Schools Commissioners 



National Gallery 



Science and Art 



Universities and Colleges ... ... 



45.755.567 



294.233 



29,956 



9,824 



15.953 



S.412 



50,000 



208,416 



518,298 



945.700 

 ,196,000 



Details. 

 Scientific Investigation, etc. 

 Roval Society : 



jC 



(i) Grant in aid of : — 



Scientific investigations under- 

 taken with the sanction of 

 a Committee appointed for 

 the purpose (including non- 

 recurrent grant of 5000!.) ...11,000 

 Scientific publications ... ... 1,600 



Subscriptions to international 



research associations ... 2,000 



6,877,220 

 11,661 



3.358,371 



90,600 



1 ,042 



4.650 



211,415 



86,000 



5'8;694,7i8 



(ii) Grant in aid of salaries and other 

 expenses of the Magnetic Observatory 

 at Eskdalemuir 



Total for Royal Society 



Royal Geographical Society 



Marine Biological Association of the 



United Kingdom 



Royal Society of Edinburgh 



Scottish Meteorological Society 



Royal Irish Academy 



Royal Irish Academy of Music ;.. 

 Royal Zoological Society of Ireland 

 Royal Hibernian Academy 



British School at Athens 



British School at Rome 



Royal Scottish Geographical Society 

 National Library of Wdles ... 



National Museum of Wales ... 



Solar Physics Observatory 



North Sed Fisheries Investigation 

 Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau 



14,000 



15,000 

 1,250 



1,000 



600 



100 



1,600 



300 



500 



300 



500 



500 



200 



12,000 



2^,500 



.3,000 



1,250 



10,750 



