for the year 1874. xxiii 



research, and giving the results freely to the world ; but the 

 fields selected seldom include Medicine, Physiology, or 

 Sanitary science. The endowment therefore of an institu- 

 tion for systematic investigations into the cause, prevention, 

 and cure of disease involving necessarily investigations in 

 Physiology and Physiological Chemistry by the best men 

 obtainable, whose whole undivided time should be devoted 

 to the work, is a matter demanding the consideration of 

 every well-doing people as a duty owed to themselves, the 

 community generally, and to posterity. 



