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THE address which Mr. Herbert Morrison, the Lord President of the Council, delivered to the Conference of Industrial Research Associations on October 15 (see Nature, October 23, p. 645) should be studied carefully by all who are concerned with the conduct of scientific research and, in this time of stringently limited man-power, with the most effective distribution of the available scientific man-power between industry, the universities and the Government services in Britain. The development of the industrial research associations, with which the Lord President was ostensibly concerned, cannot wisely be considered apart from the general research effort of the country. As the recent report of the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy indicated, approximately ten per cent of the qualified scientific workers engaged in Great Britain‘s research effort are already employed by the research associations. At the present time, any appreciable increase in their numbers must be at the expense of those employed in research in industry, in the universities or in other Government departments.
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Scientific Research and Man-Power. Nature 162, 711–713 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162711a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162711a0