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FOR the plain man and, even more, for the scientific worker and many Empire industries, it is extremely desirable that some authoritative pronouncement should be issued detailing the raison d'être and the lines of work of the several institutions and research centres in Great Britain which are endowed or supported by Government grants. Even the scientific worker of the present day may be pardoned if he finds it difficult, amongst an apparently bewildering number of institutes and research centres, to pick out the one at which he can obtain the most authoritative information upon the work in which he is interested; for the industrial inquirer the position is even more difficult; whilst the farmer is often hopelessly lost, when all he requires to know is the reason why a portion of his crop is failing. The farmer wants the answer at once: he has lost all interest (having lost that part of his crop) six months later, when an answer may arrive, after he has been sent from pillar to post.
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Rationalisation of Research. Nature 126, 121–122 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126121a0
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