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largest centres of industry. The objects of the 

 institution ; the branches of science to be inves- 

 tigated in it ; the number of professors, the mode 

 of selecting them, and of excluding unsuitable 

 candidates for the office ; the means by which 

 industry might be secured and jobbery prevented ; 

 the exclusion of invention, and of teaching and 

 lecturing ; the publication of results, removal of 

 professors, etc., have already been treated of under the 

 head of " State laboratories." The chief difficulties to 

 be overcome in this, as in all other plans of aiding re- 

 search, are to find a sufficient number of influential 

 persons acquainted with the subject to practically 

 carry out the plan ; to secure investigators of high 

 ability ; and to prevent the offices being filled by in- 

 competent persons. 



^th. A id to Professors of Science in Colleges. Another 

 way by which research might be promoted, would be by 

 giving assistance in the form of a definite amount of 

 additional salary, for the purpose of pure research, 

 to professors and teachers in colleges and insti- 

 tutions ; the money being supplied by the State 

 or from the funds of the Institution. In carrying 

 out this plan, it would be necessary to assist only 

 those persons who had already published a good 

 research, and thus proved their ability ; and who 

 would engage to devote a definite portion of 

 their time to the labour as a part of their -duty. 

 The selection of suitable men might be made with 

 the advice of the Council of the Royal Society. 



