224 APPENDIX C 



Soddy, regarding the " Excerpt " from the Minutes of the 

 Board of Trustees : 



Remarks by Professor Soddy on the Minute of the Executive 

 Committee of Carnegie Trust for the Universities of 

 Scotland, Jth January 1918, communicated to the 

 British Science Guild. 



I merely suggested as a reasonable interpretation of 

 the Trust Deed of Mr Carnegie that the subjects included 

 could be divided into primary and legitimate ancillary, 

 those not included being for the purpose termed illegitimate. 

 The interpretation may or may not be capable of strict 

 defence. By concentrating on this single point the 

 Executive Committee of the Trust seek to evade the 

 real criticism, fairly summed up and endorsed by the 

 British Science Guild. 



Substantial and undenied examples were brought 

 forward of just the same neglect of, contempt for, and 

 unfair discrimination against, science, which, operating 

 during the past century mainly through educational 

 channels, have now brought about the position of 

 national insecurity and peril, manifest to all, and which 

 the founder of the Trust himself stigmatised in the 

 heartiest manner in 1906. 



In an address entitled " Modern Needs in Universities," 

 delivered at the opening of the new Carnegie buildings of 

 the Natural Philosophy and Engineering Departments of 

 the University of Edinburgh {Nature, 1906, 74, 648), 

 Mr Carnegie, after referring to the millions being devoted to 

 science and practical studies and the progressive influences 

 at work in the universities of America and Canada and of 

 the five principal English cities, continued : 



" Scotland has to keep marching on. The progress of 

 scientific departments in British Universities, considerable 

 as it has recently been, of which the schools we are about 

 to open here to-day are gratifying evidence, yet has not 

 kept pace with the startling progress of science itself and 



