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Geological Survey, the British and South Kensington 

 Museums, the Geological Museum, &c., and the 

 National Gallery of Art, which have received the 

 greatest degree of support from our Governments. 



That discoverers are not treated by us as we treat 

 other valuable members of the community is quite 

 clear ; either a physician, a judge, divine, lawyer, or 

 railway superintendent of high ability, obtain from 

 one to many thousand pounds a year, but a discoverer 

 in pure physics or chemistry is, in scarcely any case, 

 paid anything for his labour. That most eminent 

 discoverer, Faraday, received for his scientific lectures 

 at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, only 200 

 a year and apartments, during many years, and 

 absolutely nothing for his great discoveries ; and 

 during the remainder of his life he only received a 

 few hundred pounds per annum, including a pension 

 f 3 pounds a year from Government. In con- 

 trast with this, the general manager of the Midland 

 Railway has 4,000 a year. A General of our army 

 receives 2,000, and a Field Marshal 4,000 a year 

 (See " Whitaker's Almanack," 1873, pp. 121 and 

 138). A Head Master of either of the great public 

 schools obtains from 3,000 a year upwards. An 

 Archbishop of Canterbury receives 15,000 a year, 

 besides a great amount of influence and power in the 

 form of patronage to 183 livings, a palatial residence, 

 and a seat in the House of Peers. A Bishop of 

 London has 10,000, the patronage of 98 livings, 

 and a seat in the House of Lords. I do not, how- 



