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THE Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory, established and equipped by Dr. Ludwig Mond, was opened by the Prince of Wales on Tuesday, December 22. We have already expressed our appreciation of this generous gift to British science, and have described the accommodation and equipment of the new laboratories (vol. liv. p. 200). With a munificence which we hope will find many imitators, and a just regard of the value of scientific research, Dr. Mond has established a place where investigations can be carried on without interruption, and with the best appliances. He has not only furnished the laboratory with the most modern instruments and appliances for researches in pure and physical chemistry, but has also given an ample endowment, so that the laboratory may be maintained in a state of thorough efficiency, his object being to give every assistance and encouragement, within the¦limits of the endowments, to scientific workers. To accomplish this has cost a hundred thousand pounds, of which sum 38,000/. is sunk in the building and its equipment, while the remaining 62,000/. constitutes the endowment fund. For the very practical way in which Dr. Mond has shown his interest in the promotion of material knowledge, men of science cannot express too warm a sense of gratitude. We look to the workers in the laboratory to repay the generosity of the founder by their contributions to knowledge, and so induce other benefactors to follow the example set by Dr. Mond.
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The Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory. Nature 55, 208–209 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/055208b0
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