272 Address of Sir William Thompson. 
except at the expense of volunteers, or securing that volunteers 
shall be found to continue even such little work as at present is 
carried on. 
chester) requires two professors of Natural Philosophy—one 
who shall be responsible for the teaching, the other for the 
eirancemens of science by experiment. 
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of Cambridge with a splesiiit laboratory, to be constructed 
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the British Association], I hope, will be the means of impressing 
on the Government the conviction, that the love of scientific 
and they remain permanently useful as landmarks in the history 
of science. Some of them have led to vast practical results; 
others of a more abstract character are valuable to this day ® 
trate the two kinds 
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