APPENDIX B 



REPORT OF A COMMITTEE OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE 

 GUILD UPON THE CARNEGIE TRUST AND SCIEN- 

 TIFIC RESEARCH. 1 



THE Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland was 

 founded by Mr Andrew Carnegie in 1901, with a gift 

 of two million pounds. One-half of the annual income 

 from this fund has to be devoted to the payment of 

 students' fees in Scottish Universities, and the other half 

 is to be applied " towards the improvement and expansion 

 of the Universities of Scotland, in the Faculties of Science 

 and Medicine ; also for improving and extending the 

 opportunities for scientific study and research, and for 

 increasing the facilities for acquiring a knowledge of 

 History, Economics, English Literature, and Modern 

 Languages, and such other subjects cognate to a technical 

 and commercial education as can be brought within the 

 scope of the University curriculum." 



The annual income of the Trust has amounted in the 

 past to rather more than 100,000; and after defraying 

 the expenses of administration there has been left about 

 99,000 as the net revenue available for distribution under 

 the two main heads of the scheme, or 49,500 for the 

 part of it referred to above. In the future a very 

 appreciable increase of revenue is to be anticipated. 



In the article contributed to Science Progress for 

 January 1917, Prof. F. Soddy, Professor of Chemistry in 

 the University of Aberdeen, analysed the operations of 



1 Published in the Journal of the British Science Guild, December 

 1917. 



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