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The glass apparatus used in the laboratory was also, 
until recently, all made in Jena, Germany. British science 
and industry has been seriously handicapped since the beginning 
of the War by the lack of proper glass apparatus. The first 
specimens of English glass supplied to my laboratory were 
pathetic failures; more recent samples have shown a great 
improvement. I have no doubt in time we shall be able to 
supply perfect imitations of the German articles, though 
_ probably at a higher price. But this is not enough, we must 
surpass them. To accomplish this we must remember, as 
King Edward said six years ago at the opening of the Congress 
of Applied Chemistry, “that rule of thumb is dead and rule 
of science has taken its place... , those great industries 
which do not keep abreast of the advance of science must 
surely and rapidly decline.” 
It is httle short of a disgrace to a great nation that the 
best microscopes and glass apparatus, dyes, and chemicals, 
should be made in Germany. In my opinion the British, 
as a nation, are at present far less scientific than the 
Germans. We do not sufficiently appreciate the extraordinary 
importance of scientific methods and of scientific research, 
and of the application of results of scientific research to com- 
merce, to industry, to war, and to every department of life. 
Our national attitude towards science is illustrated by the 
following examples :—A Liverpool would-be V.A.D., whose 
name I can give, while waiting for her qualifying viva-voce 
examination, thought a patient’s temperature was taken with a 
barometer! A classic, whose name I can give, recently elected 
to a fellowship at one of the older Universities, was surprised, 
even interested to learn, that there are other Elements besides - 
those of Pythagoras, viz., Earth, Air, Fire and Water! During 
the present war the Research Department of the Royal 
Woolwich Arsenal advertised for University-trained Research 
Chemists, at wages of £2 Os. 6d. per week ! (italics mine). . A 
