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A PAMPHLET entitled “The Place of Science in China” by Yap Pow-Meng, honorary secretary of the National Science Society of China, British Branch, published by the China Campaign Committee, 34 Victoria Street; London, S.W.1 (6d.), attributes the failure of the scientific method to establish itself in the intellectual tradition of China mainly to social and economic reasons. From the first, the makers of the revolution of 1911 seized upon science as a means of achieving their ideal of a progressive, industrialized China, and the pamphlet gives a brief account of the organization of education in science, of scientific research institutions, including the Academia Sinica, which is essentially an organization providing facilities for scientific research, the National Academy of Peiping, the Science Society of China, the National Science Society of China, the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, the Henry Lester Institute for Medical Research, and private technical research institutions, of which the most important is the Hangwai Institute of Industrial Chemistry.
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Science in China. Nature 153, 247 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153247c0
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