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Science in this country. Sir J. J. Thomson expressed the thoughts of 
many investigators regarding this question at the deputation to the Lord 
President of the Council last year. The Advisory Council fully appreciate 
the strength and importance of these claims, but they point out the 
necessity at the present moment of arousing and developing an interest 
among manufacturers in the application of science to industry when the 
war has brought about conditions favourable to the assimilation of new 
ideas. Our universities and colleges have been the home of pure research, 
and we have been exceptionally fortunate in possessing many eminent 
men within their precincts with the power of initiating research in Pure 
Science which have led to discoveries of far-reaching importance. In 
this connection reference should be made to the volume of essays on 
Science and the Nation, by Cambridge Graduates, published this year. 
Its object is to enable the public to grasp in its true perspective the 
relation of Pure to Applied Science. It takes as its motto Huxley’s dictum, 
“ What people call Applied Science is nothing but the application of Pure 
Science to particular classes of problems.” In his introduction to this 
volume Lord Moulton states that he does not share in the fear that Pure 
Science is in danger of being neglected in the present renovation of 
industrial effort. This may be true ; at the same time it is right that the 
nation should realise the achievements in the whole realm of science 
resulting from research, and how the discoveries in Pure Science have 
been utilised for the benefit of mankind. This admirable series of essays 
is of inestimable value in disseminating this knowledge. 
Before closing I seize the opportunity of calling attention to the present 
position of the Oceanographical Laboratory in Edinburgh under Dr Bruce. 
There is no money available to carry on this institution for another year. 
A meeting of the Committee in connection with this laboratory was lately 
held under the chairmanship of Lord Strathclyde, when it was resolved 
to make a strong effort to meet this emergency. The claims of this 
institution have been considered by the Carnegie Trustees, and Sir William 
M‘Cormick has promised to bring them before the Advisory Council. One 
point is certain, that an appeal will be made to those interested in its 
welfare to raise part of the funds necessary for one year to give time 
for considering its future destiny. I am confident that the Fellows of 
this Society and others will do their part in trying to prevent the collapse 
of this institution in a country which is the home of oceanographical 
research. 
(Issued separately January 30 , 1918 .) 
