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THE case for the establishment of a National Physical Laboratory is very simple. The Kew Observatory began in a humble way, but became famous in the last generation for the work done there in connection with terrestrial magnetism. As the President of the Royal Society remarked, in his last annual address, the late Sir William Grove, more than thirty years ago, expressed the hope that Kew might become “an important national establishment.” “And if so,” he added, “while it will not, I trust, lose its character of a home of untrammelled physical research, it will have superadded some of the functions of the Meteorological Department of the Board of Trade, with a staff of skilful and experienced observers.”
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The National Physical Laboratory. Nature 55, 385–386 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/055385a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/055385a0