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The Organisation of Science

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I WONDER whether other readers of NATURE besides myself caught the interference fringes from three facets of this glittering subject in the issue of December 2? The first was the Royal Society's advertisement for applications for grants for scientific investigations from the Government fund; the second, the editorial contrast between the rates of pay for legal and for scientific services; and the third, the anniversary address of the president of the Royal Society, containing the suggestion that science does not take its place in the national organisation because the general public looks upon scientific investigation as a hobby.

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