Correctness of the principle of aiding Research. 1 7 1 



of the Privy Council, and of both Houses of Parlia- 

 ment, and from other eminent persons, confirm this. 

 It has also been adopted as a chief part of the pro- 

 gramme of the " Association for the Organization of 

 Academical Study." * 



" M. de Candolle, Corresponding Member of the 

 Academy of Science, Paris, is a strong advocate for 

 the encouragement of a class of sinecurists like the 

 non-working Fellows of our Colleges, who should 

 have leisure to investigate and not be pestered by 

 the petty mechanical work of continued teaching and 

 examining." " The modern ideas of democracy are 

 adverse to places to which definite work is not 

 attached, and from which definite results do not 

 flow. This principle is a wise one for the mass of 

 mankind ; but is utterly misplaced when applied to 

 those who have the zeal for investigation, and who 

 work best when left quite alone." 



The correctness of the principle of promoting re- 

 search is also recognised by our Governments in their 

 yearly grants of money to the Royal Society, and to 

 the Royal Irish Academy ( to aid research, also by 

 the Council of the Chemical Society, which has estab- 

 lished a fund for the same purpose ; and by the 

 British Association in their annual grants for the 

 promotion of scientific enquiry. The Fishmonger's 

 Company also presented to Mr. W. R. Parker, F.R.S., 

 the sum of 50, followed by an annual gift of 20 for 



* See pages IDO and 101. 



t "Nature," April 3rd, 1873, p. 431. 



