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LITTLE enough is done by the State in this country in the matter of aiding scientific research, and this is especially true of biological science. To this attitude of indifference, or aloofness, we have grown accustomed; abroad it is a subject for uncomplimentary comment. This attitude cannot be due to the conviction on the part of our ministers that “science is bankrupt,” since when some great industry is threatened by injuries which legislation is powerless to check, or some pest is threatening the welfare of the community, the aid of the man of science is at once invoked.
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P., W. The Ceylon Pearl Fisheries 1 . Nature 71, 395–397 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/071395a0
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