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IT was the fear of some of those most interested in the renaissance of the University of London that the good effects of the transfer from Burlington House to the Imperial Institute would not become apparent until many years had elapsed. As scientific research is more and more taking its proper place as the highest duty that a university can perform, it is very gratifying to learn that the University of London has seized a favourable opportunity, and utilised its enlarged premises to this end. Even though this laudable endeavour must be at present regarded in the light of a preliminary experiment not yet included in any authorised programme, the physiological laboratory tentatively initiated by the University appears to be admirably adapted for the purposes to which it is applied, namely, for lectures on advanced physiology and for physiological research. But its chief value is as a concrete object-lesson of what the well-wishers of education in this country desire to see promoted by the University of London, and we are inclined to add, with bated breath, fed from the national exchequer. A municipal body may be expected to realise the importance of technical science, and to pay for its establishment. But it requires outlook towards a wider horizon to realise that apparently useless knowledge is in reality knowledge of which the reward is to be received by future generations.
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The Physiological Laboratory of the University of London . Nature 67, 441–442 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067441a0
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