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providing salaries and laboratories for investigators 

 who are carrying on the line of research in regard to 

 Bacteria commenced by Pasteur, the Institute pro- 

 vides the preventive inoculation against hydrophobia 

 discovered by Pasteur to all comers free of charge. 

 Two hundred and fifty persons have gone from Great 

 Britain and Ireland to be treated for dog-bite by M. 

 Pasteur in Paris. The British Government has not 

 made the smallest attempt to safeguard the public 

 health by providing for the maintenance of such a 

 laboratory as the Institut Pasteur in the United 

 Kingdom. On the contrary, it has placed vexatious 

 and ill-considered restrictions upon the conduct of 

 experimental inquiries by competent physiologists in 

 this country. These restrictions, without any doubt, 

 prevent the discovery of new remedies for deadly 

 disease and suffering. 



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THE question of State aid to science discussed in the 

 preceding address is one which, although of the very 

 greatest importance, does not make much progress. 



There is at present a persistent confusion in 

 the public mind, and even in the minds of statesmen 

 and leading publicists, between the question of State 

 aid to education and that of State aid to the produc- 

 tion of new knowledge. It is no doubt true that if 

 the professorships in provincial colleges and in Uni- 

 versity and King's Colleges are endowed by the State 

 or other benefactor, the holders of those posts will 



