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they were given when they were wanted ; whereas, to 

 suit the conditions laid down by the Trustees, the money 

 has to be applied for before a definite date in the year 

 before it is wanted. But of the three indispensable 

 requirements for getting research done, these two, the 

 training of the apprentice and the provision of money 

 for instruments, are preliminary. The third indispensable, 

 letting the trained man with the instruments do the 

 research, is the one this country has not yet thought 

 much about 



At the bottom of the ladder, the Research Scholar or 

 Fellow at the end of his training has had to abandon the 

 work for which he was training and seek a livelihood. If 

 he is lucky he will get a teaching position, and if, again, 

 he is lucky he may find odd moments to continue his 

 researches. If he is not so lucky he has to begin late in 

 life the study of the art of earning a living. The Professor 

 at the top, nowhere more than in Scotland, finds that he 

 must now be content to do his research by deputy, and 

 the most he can hope for is to train clever apprentices. 

 Some subjects, naturally, lend themselves to this require- 

 ment very much better than others, and what is possible 

 in them is not possible in general. The real business for 

 which the Professor is paid, again nowhere more than in 

 the land to which Mr Carnegie gave his millions, is to 

 teach. Instead of being treated as a life-business, requir- 

 ing years of devoted training and study for the preparation, 

 and equally devoted and uninterrupted application for its 

 pursuit, research is treated as a hobby to be followed by 

 busy teachers in the intervals of their regular duties. 

 This is not the way to foster perhaps the most important 

 and repaying of all the State's numerous activities. The 

 Carnegie Trustees have not even attempted to meet this 

 difficulty. 



The Annual Reports issued by the Carnegie Trust do 

 not contain the names of the Trustees. The original list 

 in the Trust Deed consists of fourteen nominated members, 

 two of them, Lord Kelvin and Sir Henry Roscoe, having 



