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Chairman's Address. 
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deep lochs by means of a steam vessel and the most recent apparatus 
for sounding, dredging, and taking temperatures ; the consequence 
is that such scientific investigations cannot he undertaken even by 
scientific men with private fortunes, and hence follows the necessity 
for Government assistance. 
From the estimates it appears — 
1. That the Royal Society of London and five or six other learned 
societies are accommodated in Burlington House free of rent. 
2. That the Royal Geographical Society receives a grant of <£500 
annually. 
3. That there is an annual grant of £15,000 for meteorological 
purposes, administered by a committee of the Royal Society of 
London, £1000 of which is to be devoted to original investigations. 
4. That a sum of £4000 is administered by the Government 
Grant Committee of the Royal Society of London for scientific 
research, and although that society is, in a sense, the representative 
society of the United Kingdom, still its Council and Committees are 
of necessity composed of Fellows resident in, or within accessible 
distance of, London, the Fellows resident in Scotland being practi- 
cally excluded from active participation in the management of the 
Society. 
5. That the Marine Biological Association has recently received 
£5000 from the Government, and the promise of an annual grant 
of £500 for five years, towards the establishment of a laboratory of 
research in England. 
6. That in Ireland the Royal Irish Academy receives a grant in 
aid of £2000 annually, in addition to free accommodation and 
about £400 annually for allowances and maintenances ; the Royal 
Zoological Society of Ireland receives a grant in aid of £500 
annually ; and the Royal Dublin Society appears, during the past 
ten years, to have received considerable sums of money from public 
funds; in addition there is a large sum granted annually for a 
national library in Dublin. 
7. That, with respect to Scotland, the only grant for scientific 
purposes in aid of learned societies is £300 annually to the 
Royal Society of Edinburgh, which is repaid to a department of 
the Government in the form of rent. 
One might well ask what Scotland had done that her learned 
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