VII 

 PHYSIOLOGY 



THE problem of all others which is com- 

 mon to Physiology and to the majority, 

 if not the totality, of the sciences, is 

 money. Research has been endowed to a com- 

 paratively limited extent in this country, and many 

 of us who have been across the Atlantic have 

 watched enviously the millions of dollars bestowed 

 upon the universities there. During recent years 

 expenditure by our Government has necessarily 

 been reckless, and there is now a tendency to 

 economise ; but one feels hopeful that economy 

 will not begin with education and research. 



Science played a part in our recent difficulties, 

 and, for the first time, I think, in the history of 

 the subject, physiologists were actually called into 

 council to help the nation out of some of those 

 difficulties. The late war has been very aptly 

 described as the * war of the Sciences ' Chemistry, 

 Physics, Engineering, and others, all had a share 

 in it. It was mainly in connection with the feed- 

 ing of the nation that physiologists found their 

 opportunity and exercised it, I trust with bene- 

 ficial results. 



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