Aid to Research by founding State Laboratories. 



Research Funds, and making grants of money there- 

 from to recognised investigators. %th. By aid to local 

 scientific investigators by Municipal bodies out of the 

 rates. And tyh. The support of Institutes of Scientific 

 Research by private munificence, Aid to research, in 

 Germany, has^ chiefly been made by the State, by 

 affording means to the Professors in the Universities; 

 in America, more by munificence of wealthy individu- 

 als; and in this country, chiefly in the form of Gov- 

 ernment grants of money to investigators. The 

 greatest difficulty to be surmounted in carrying out 

 any of these schemes, is the very general ignorance in 

 this country of the value and necessity of research; 

 and this can only be overcome by scientific men 

 themselves performing their duty of enlightening the 

 public on the subject. 



1st. By founding State Laboratories. One of the 

 first duties of a Government is to protect its subjects 

 in the enjoyment of their property ; but as no law 

 reserves to discoverers the fruits of their ability, it is 

 clearly a duty of the State to protect them in other 

 ways. It is believed to be a duty of the State to- 

 provide and pay for pure scientific research, for the 

 following reasons : because research is eminently 

 national work ; because the results of such labour are 

 indispensable to national welfare and progress, and 

 are of immense value to the nation, and especially to 

 the Government ; because nearly the whole pecuniary 

 benefit of it goes to the nation, and scarcely any to 

 the discoverer ; because research is not sufficiently 



