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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN NAVAL MATTERS. 
For more convenient reference, we reproduce here the section of the 
report of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Jellicoe on the Naval Mission to 
the Dominion of New Zealand which relates to scientific research. It 
appeared in N.Z. Parliamentary Paper A.-4, 1919, Chapter IV, section M, 
pp‘ 49-50. 
(M) Organization of Scientific Research. 
1. It is very necessary that the fullest use should be made by naval officers 
of the advances of science. 
A copy of an Admiralty Memorandum of 31st December, 1918, on 
“ Organization of Scientific Research and Experiment,” is appended. 
2. It is recommended that the Admiralty should be asked to keep the 
New Zealand Naval Board advised as to the progress made by the Scientific 
Research and Experiment Department. It is also recommended that an 
organization on similar lines should be provided in New Zealand when 
practicable. 
From the existing New Zealand Institute, which has technological' 
sections and which can undertake investigation in general physical and 
chemical problems, a nucleus of a Naval Scientific and Research Department 
could be formed. 
A number of the best scientists should be selected to form the Depart¬ 
ment, under the presidency of the C.N.S., New Zealand Naval Board. 
A scientist of wide experience should be appointed as Vice-President. 
3. A Department so constituted should be supplied by the Admiralty 
with confidential publications and information, and should keep in touch 
with the Scientific Research and Experiment Department of the Admiralty, 
otherwise overlapping will occur. 
4. In the first instance the work of the scientists of the proposed 
Scientific Research and Experiment Department of the New Zealand 
Division of the Royal Navy might be carried out at Victoria University 
College, Wellington. 
5. Until the proposed Department conies into being, the C.N.S., New 
Zealand Naval Board, should personally keep in constant touch with the 
Admiralty (Scientific Research and Experiment Department), bringing 
forward for investigation problems demanding attention. 
[Enclosure to Chapter IV, Section M.] 
Organization of Scientific Research and Experiment. 
1. The following have been approved as the general lines on which scientific 
research and experiment for naval purposes will be organized after the war :— 
2. The Board of Invention and Research, with its Central Committee and Panel 
will be dissolved as from the 1st January next, as, in view of the termination of hostilities, 
the Admiralty no longer feel justified in availing themselves regularly of the services 
of the distinguished scientists belonging to the Board. 
3. The present Director of Experiments and Research, and the Deputy Director 
of Experiments and Research, will be released from Admiralty service as from the 1st 
January next, the circumstances in which they consented to give their valuable services 
having now ceased to exist. 
4. The Department of Experiments and Research will thereafter be known as the 
Scientific Research and Experiment Department (short title “ S.R.E. Department 
and will include as part of its organization-the Admiralty Central Research Institution 
(when the scheme for that institution is proceeded with), and the Shandon Experimental 
Station. 
