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the three years, to assist him in bearing the expenses 

 of his researches on the skulls of vertebrate animals. 

 And the British Pharmaceutical Conference voted 

 the sum of ^80 from the Bell and Hills fund, during 

 the period of three years, in aid of research in connec- 

 tion with pharmaceutical science. A small fund for 

 the purpose of research exists also at the Royal 

 Institution. Fellowships also with a similar object 

 have been founded at the Victoria University. Dr. 

 Priestley also was aided in his researches by contribu- 

 tions from a small circle of friends. In recognition of 

 the same principle, nearly all of the most eminent scien- 

 tific men on the Continent have been assisted by their 

 respective Governments. The total amount of aid to 

 research in this country is however very small, and to 

 one acquainted with the great commercial and other 

 any valuable results of such labour, it is simply as- 

 tounding that we have not systematically organized a 

 powerful means of promoting discovery. 



A few scientific persons however still continue to 

 oppose aid to research ; quite recently, rcientific 

 investigators have been spoken of as a class of " men 

 amusing themselves without any result whatever." * 

 That idea however abundantly refuted in the fore- 

 going pages. It has also been remarked t that 

 " practically, endowment of research comes to the 

 creation of positions where there is payment without 

 corresponding labour." ' In England above all coun- 

 tries in the world, there will always be plenty of 



* Sir Edmund Beckett, *' English Mechanic", 1881, No. 830, p. 560. 

 t The Earl of Craufurd, " Engl sk Mechanic" 1881, No. 830, p. 560. 



