THE 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
SEPTEMBER, 1880. 
report on scientific societies. 
By Dr. C. K. Akin. 
(Concluded from p. 493*) 
Pesth, July 5, 1870. 
My Dear Sir, 
t N my previous communications, at least as I take it, I 
have striftly kept to the terms under which the Royal 
Commission has been instituted, and in my interpieta 
tion of which I was mainly governed by the document 
minted among the reports of the British Association foi 
i860 and which, presented in the shape of a memoual to 
Government, led, if I am rightly informed, to the a PP°‘ nt ; 
ment of the Royal Commission. According to the document 
adduced, the objedts of the proposed Commission weie stated 
to be, to consider — 
The character and value of existing institutions and 
facilities for scientific investigation ; 
What modifications or augmentations of the means 
and facilities that are at present available tor the 
maintenance and extension of science are requisite ; 
“ 3. In* what manner these can be best supplied.” 
In the words of the report, also, in these points is 
“involved the whole question,” —to some discussion o 
which I may consequently, as I conclude, devote : this letter 
without being guilty of overstepping proper ^ limits, the 
“ question,” viz., concerning the mutual lelations 
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