i ' SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
Now that the effort is being made to repair the neglect of the past, 
it is found that there is a shortage of trained men, whose services are 
essential to the attaiiment of industrial efficiency and to the restoration 
of lost trade. The present situation, however, merely furnishes another 
example of the working of the law of supply and demand. The 
restricted demand for the scientist in industry in pre-war days, and 
the beggarly pittance grudgingly given him, very effectually stopped the 
supply; and so it comes to pass that, in the new-born zeal for scientific 
research, there is a serious lack of men capable of doing the work 
waiting to be done. Owing to the small number of scientific men of 
high standing working for the advancement of special industries, it has 
become necessary in several instances for the research associations to 
make their own experts. To meet the immediate necessities of the 
situation, the best men ayailable are being obtained, so that their 
scientific skill may be applied to industrial practice. To make provi-. 
sion for the future, the establishment of industrial research fellowships 
is being considered. 
In Australia, the position, as regards.the past, is much the same as 
obtained in Great Britain. In regard to the future, however, it is 
not so comforting. There is not yet in this country a general realization 
of the necessity for the utilization of the services of trained scientists, 
and the fact that their number is strictly limited passes without notice 
and without regret. Two years ago, the Institute of Science and 
Industry formulated a scheme for the establishment of research fellow- 
ships, and the main principles were warmly approved by specialists to 
whom it was submitted. Owing to the long-delayed establishment of 
the Institute it was impossible to do more than draft a scheme and await 
the time when its adoption by the permanent organization became 
permissible. 
It may, therefore, be of interest, and perhaps of value, if the main 
provisions of that scheme are published. ‘The principal object in view 
was to enable graduates who have passed through a university or higher 
technical school course in applied science, and who have shown promise 
of capacity for original research, to continue the prosecution of science 
with a view to— 
(a) aiding its advance or its application to the industries of 
Australia; 
(b) providing a supply of. properly trained and qualified investi- 
gators. : 
At the time the idea was put forward it was suggested that the 
fellowships should be each of the value of £150 per annum; that they 
should be awarded, in the first instance, for one year only; and that 
their continuation for a second year should be dependent on the work 
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