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medical and sanitary institutes ; national institutes for 

 Anthropology, for Botany and Forestry, for Biology, for 

 Zoology and for Fisheries — all these of course, and others 

 in less known or less appreciated branches of Science will 

 doubtless follow as knowledge advances and practical 

 applications develop. 



This demand for a serious and adequate recognition 

 of Science by the State has been made recently from 

 several influential quarters. It was emphasised by Sir 

 Norman Lockyer in his address at Southport as President 

 of the British Association, and was welcomed and 

 re-echoed with remarkable unanimity by most of the 

 leading journals of the country. I for one should not be 

 surprised to see any day a very considerable change in 

 the attitude of our rulers towards Science and in the 

 measure of its appreciation by the general public. 



Sir Philip Magnus, speaking in Liverpool the other 

 day, said that " our very existence as a nation depended 

 " upon our continued educational advance. There was a 

 " startling contrast (he said) between the liberal 

 " expenditure in America and Germany upon specialised 

 " University research and the small sums spent here " 

 . . . and again, " what we could and must learn if we 

 " were to recover lost ground was a changed attitude 

 " towards education itself." Sir Norman Lockyer in his 

 Southport address on " The Influence of Brain-Power on 

 History " puts our need for new scientific institutes or 

 universities at 24 millions sterling. It is significant that 

 the Trust Deed of Mr. Carnegie's Eesearch Institution at 

 Washington, endowed with ten million dollars, states that 

 the chief purpose of the founder is " to secure if possible 

 " for the United States of America leadership in the 

 " domain of discovery, and the utilisation of new forces for 

 " the benefit of man," 



