376 ERECTION OF A PHYSICO- TECHNICAL IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. 



research, if the Empire would undertake the cost of 

 building and the future maintenance of the institute. 

 My proposal was accepted by the Government, con- 

 firmed by Parliament, and on this foundation the 

 physico- technical Imperial institute at Charlottenburg 

 has grown up, which now forms a German home for 

 scientific research under the guidance of the first 

 physicist of our time, Privy Councillor von Helmholtz. 



