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THE Science Department of the Committee of Council on Education was instituted twenty-two years ago. At that time the general public was far from being alive to its advantages, and for the first seven years it achieved very little. The second term of seven years showed a considerable increase in the number of science schools throughout the country; but it was only during the third septennial period (1867 to 1874) that the importance of such an educational agency became in any sense duly appreciated; and it is not too much to say that it is now one of the most important scientific organisations in this or any country.
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Science Education from below . Nature 12, 203–206 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012203a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/012203a0