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TO encourage scientific investigation and to utilise the results of that investigation for the benefit of the community are problems of the deepest concern. As such they are to-day receiving the attention of the keenest of intellects, and herein lies the hope that from the turmoil of the Great War, with the suffering it has brought in its train, there may emerge a measure of good. Should the present hostilities bring home to the mass of the population a knowledge that with the future of the country is intimately associated the ability to prosecute scientific investigation with diligence, the mighty struggle in which we are engaged will not have been fought in vain.
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Patents and Scientific Research. Nature 100, 484–486 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/100484a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/100484a0