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considerable extent, and would have done so to a much 

 larger degree had the funds placed at Professor Dunstan's 

 disposal i)een on the scale that Germany would have given 

 him to carry on the work in which he and his staff has 

 been so strenuously engaged. Now that the Institute has 

 passed under the control of the Colonial Office, it is to be 

 lioped that money, both during and after the War, will 

 How more freely into its coffers to help on the good work. 

 If this does not turn out to be the case, we shall suffer 

 again in the future as we have done in the past, and the 

 great lesson of the War will have been lost. It is not only 

 that the Imperial Institute has done much work at home as 

 well as having trained a goodly-sized army of enthusiastic 

 men to carry it on throughout the Empire, but it is the 

 example and atmosphere of sound, useful work that the 

 Institute offers, and which has gone so far to encourage 

 others to join in the movement. It is the same with an 

 art school or hospital, the surroundings in which urge the 

 students by the mere spirit of rivalry and by the interest 

 generated by watching each other's work, not only to do 

 likewise, but to go one and even two or three times better; 

 and, when this occurs, who is more pleased when one 

 student scores a big success than his fellow-workers? 

 Far from feeling jealous, they are the first to blazen forth 

 to the world that Jones or Smith of " Ours " has " licked 

 creation." Every student is encouraged to go and do 

 likewise either at home or abroad, and the country and 

 Empire at large, benefits immeasurably, far beyond the 

 cost of causing such results to be called into being. 

 Without the training colleges or centres of training such 

 an atmosphere and the emulation it engenders is non- 

 existent. To call it into being, to bring about and 

 encourage scientific research in connection with the 

 Empire's economic resources, is but one of several more 

 reasons why the work of the Imperial Institute, its 

 Director, and staff should be much better known and 

 appreciated by the public, especially at home, and much 

 more liberally supported from the public funds in the 

 future, the near future especially, than has been the case 

 in the past. 



Since the previous chapter was written I have had the 

 advantage, on March 13, 191 8, of hearing Mr. Octavius 

 Beale, ex-President of the Associated Chambers of Manu- 

 facturers, Australia, read his paper on •' The Production 

 and Financing of Prime (or Raw) Materials," before the 



