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directly or indirectly pay in the largest degree for it, 

 are the great manufacturers, capitalists, and land- 

 owners. Whilst the question is being settled as to 

 what class of persons shall primarily bear the expense 

 of research, discoverers themselves are suffering 

 .great injustice, and our manufactures and com- 

 merce are passing into the hands of foreign nations. 

 What the amount of loss and disadvantage suffered 

 by this nation, through want of encouragement of 

 .scientific enquiry is, cannot be estimated, but it is 

 certainly enormous. Had even a very moderate am- 

 ount of payment been made for such labour, and the 

 .expenses out of pocket paid in full, the amount of 

 research performed would have been greatly increased. 

 Under present circumstances, many promising 

 young men, fitted to become good investigators, have 

 been driven out of science althogether. I have found 

 by long experience and persistent enquiry, that there 

 ,are many young men distributed over this country, 

 who are very desirous of engaging in scientific re- 

 search, and likely to make good investigators, but are 

 entirely prevented by the non-remunerative character 

 of the labour , every one wishes to know " what will 

 it lead to " ? Even amongst our most able discover- 

 ers, scarcely one who has not possessed private means 

 has continued research beyond the middle age of life, 

 because such labour enables no provision to be made 

 for old age ; and all those who have left have devoted 

 themselves to less important but more lucrative 

 occupations. Most of these gentlemen have been 



