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THE publication by the Association of Scientific Workers in the Scientific Worker of the final draft of a memorandum on the financing of research, a preliminary draft of which has already been discussed in a leading article in NATURE (138, 51; 1936) focuses attention once more upon the provision of finance for, and organization of, research, and the arguments of the memorandum itself and the observations of the Advisory Council upon them deserve close study by scientific workers. A brief survey of the way in which the present position has developed appears elsewhere in this issue (p. 146). The comments of the Advisory Council on the scheme put forward by the Association indicate, indeed, complete agreement with the general thesis that there is need—and urgent need for much greater application of science by industry. Disagreement with much in the memorandum is based on special knowledge of the difficulties to be overcome, for it is stated that some of the premises upon which the conclusions of the memorandum are based are incomplete and inaccurate.
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Finance for Scientific Research. Nature 143, 131–133 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143131a0
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