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THE uniformity with which recent reports on scientific and industrial research have insisted that provision for scientific research in Britain was dangerously small before the outbreak of the present War has been taken in some quarters as a disparagement of British achievements. Only the most desultory reading of the reports in question could afford any support for that contention; on the contrary, there is general agreement as to the ability of scientific men in Great Britain and the merits of their achievement, as emphatically as there is agreement that the per capita appropriation in Great Britain, both for industrial and for public research, has been far below that in the United States of America and the U.S.S.R. It was a disappointing feature of the report of the Larke Committee on Industry and Research that it provided such meagre information under this head, but there can be no doubt that, had such information been incorporated in that report, it would have corroborated the evidence submitted by the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee.
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Scientific and Industrial Research in Great Britain . Nature 153, 293–296 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153293a0
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