The Scientific Basis of National Progress, Including that of Morality. Gore George

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СКАЧАТЬ statement: – "Scientific research has now an Institute of its own in Birmingham, without being indebted to the public funds. A fund has already been collected for carrying on the work. The building is called 'The Institute of Scientific Research.'" See Nature, January 7th, 1881, p. 366; the Athenæum, February 5th, 1881, p. 204; the English Mechanic, p. 537, February 11th, 1881.

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Professor Bache left 50,000 dollars, and Smithson bequeathed 541,000 dollars to this Institution.

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Respecting the Members of our Houses of Legislature, a former Postmaster-General remarked to me, that a dose of scientific research would be too much for them.

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The Victoria University has recently become a partial exception to this statement.

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See "Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers," vol. 5, pp. 719 and 890; and vol. 8, p. 1,010.