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The additional salary should be entirely in the form 

 of remuneration for labour, time, and materials, etc., 

 expended upon research in pure science, and not in 

 effecting inventions. The knowledge obtained should 

 be treated as public property, and be published in the 

 usual manner, and the investigator should not be per- 

 mitted to sell or patent it. It would be necessary to 

 provide that in case the investigator failed to make or 

 publish a reasonable amount of good research, the ad- 

 ditional salary should cease. Publication in the jour- 

 nals of the Royal Society, or in a leading scientific 

 magazine, might be considered a sufficient proof of the 

 satisfactory quality of the labour. 



It is very desirable that all the higher teachers and 

 professors of science in our educational institution 

 should devote a portion of their time to original research. 

 It would make their lectures more reliable, because re- 

 search yields experience in the detection of error ; 

 whilst there is usually only one way of succeeding 

 in making an experiment, there are always many 

 ways of failing, and in the directions given in 

 books, the latter are usually omitted. It would also 

 induce the students to take a greater interest in the 

 subject, and feel more respect for the teacher. The 

 special excellence of the German system of teaching 

 consists in the union of teaching and original research. 

 This plan of aiding research would induce some of our 

 teachers of science who have not yet made researches, 

 to attempt such labour, it would also develope a supe- 

 rior class of scientific teachers generally ; and produce 

 a supply of candidates for professorships of research. 



