Abstract
IT would be difficult to estimate the many excellent effects that are likely to result from the establishment of the Royal Naval College, which, as has been at last authoritatively intimated, is to be opened on February I, in those noble halls at Greenwich that for so long have been associated in another way with the British Navy. Her Majesty's Government deserve the highest praise for the wisdom—provokingly tardy though it has been—displayed in the thorough and handsome provision they have made for the scientific education of our naval officers. Much that is sarcastic, no doubt, might be said on this tardiness of a Government which seldom moves until it is driven; but as we fear this would do little good, we shall only express a hope that in future when they are compelled to take action in any matter, especially if it be scientific, they will do so as decidedly and sweepingly as they have done in the present instance.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
The Navy and Science . Nature 7, 217–218 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/007217a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/007217a0