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ON Thursday evening, May 4, the first “James Forrest” Lecture was delivered at the Institution of Civil Engineers, by Dr. William Anderson, F.R.S. The subject was “the interdependence of abstract science and engineering.” After briefly explaining the origin of the lecture, Dr. Anderson proceeded:—The theme which has been prescribed is “The Interdependence of Abstract Science and Engineering,” and I imagine that the subject has been chosen because of an uneasy feeling, which possesses many thoughtful men, that this country is not keeping pace with its neighbours in engineesing progress, and that we shall, in the future, have to pay more attention to abstract science and its application to practice, than we have been, so far, in the habit of doing.
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The Interdependence of Abstract Science and Engineering. Nature 48, 65–69 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048065a0
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