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THE lecturer spoke of the qualities by which the English men of science of the present day were characterised; he showed the possibility of defining and measuring the amount of any of those qualities, and concluded by summarising the opinions of the scientific men on the merits and demerits of their own education, and gave his interpretation of what, according to their own showing, they would have preferred. His data were obtained from a large collection of autobiographical notes, most obligingly communicated to him, in response to his requests, from the larger part of the leading members of the scientific world. He had addressed 180, who, being Fellows of the Royal Society, had, in addition, gained medals or filled posts of recognised scientific position; 115 answers had already been received, of which 80 or 90 were full and minute replies to his long and varied series of questions. He dealt with only a small part of his deductions from this valuable material, referring to a forthcoming work for the rest.
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Men of Science, their Nature and their Nurture * . Nature 9, 344–345 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009344d0
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