CHAPTER XLI 



HOW TO PROMOTE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY 

 BY MONEY 



THE fact that five years ago Mr. Otto Beit, the brother 

 of the late Mr. Alfred Beit, not only carried out the 

 latter's intention of giving ;^ 5 0,000 to the promotion of 

 research in connexion with the study of disease and the 

 mastery of its causes, but added ;£■ 150,000 on his own 

 account to the amount originally proposed, produced 

 great satisfaction among scientific men, and also in that 

 large body of the public which, at the present day, 

 understands something of the importance to the com- 

 munity of the minute and thorough study of disease, of 

 its mode of access to man, and of the possibilities, which 

 every day become brighter and clearer, of getting rid of 

 it altogether. All honour and gratitude are due to Mr. 

 Beit for his generous gift and for his wise appreciation of 

 the good which can be done by proper application of 

 such a fund. I have reason to know and to value 

 the large-minded interest in science which was shown 

 by the late Mr. Alfred Beit, since he gave me ;^iooo, 

 some twelve years ago, towards the expenses of 

 expeditions which I was organizing for the investiga- 

 tion of the natural history of Lake Tanganyika, — 

 expeditions which have yielded important scientific 

 results, and have but recently exhausted the fund then 

 collected. 



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