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THE opening addresses of the various London medical schools always form an interesting episode in the scientific year, and this session they have been even more interesting and have attracted more attention than usual. This is especially the case with the vigorous and trenchant address (published in full in the British Medical Journal of October 5) of Prof. Ray Lankester. On another page we reprint a remarkable article from the Lancet, in which it is plainly stated that without endowment of research the progress of medicine must soon become impossible in this country; that the work of scientific investigation demands practically the whole energies of a competent man and is incompatible with the necessity of earning a living in any other direction. It is somewhat remarkable that such an article should be published simultaneously with the outspoken address of Prof. Lankester, who aimed to show that the great Universities of this country are faithless to their duty and to the end for which they were established, in not providing for the pursuit of scientific research, in so far at least as that bears on the healing art.
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THE MEDICAL FACULTIES . Nature 18, 610–614 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018610a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/018610a0