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acknowledging how small is their personal share 

 in the total of progress. 



The Darwin Buildings, that is to say, the three 

 new laboratories which are open to-day, were 

 absolutely needed to carry out the Head Master's 

 plan of giving every boy in the School a chance of 

 learning science. When I say that at the present 

 time 270 boys under five masters are at work in the 

 laboratories, you will realise to what good use 

 they are being put. As I happen to represent the 

 Royal Society on your Governing Body it is 

 especially satisfactory to me to know that science 

 is here taught on the principle expressed by the 

 motto of the Society : "Nullius in verba," that is to 

 say, not in other people's words, but in your own 

 observation lies the path of Science. 



