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THE years during the war and after were not very favourable to our scientific investigations. The grants for the scientific institutions were reduced by the late Austrian Government in the same degree as the prices of instruments, etc., increased; many a young man of science has left the High Schools and never returned again. We are now enjoying the fourth year of our liberty and independence, but our country was bled by Austria, so that in order to keep our liberty, which we owe to the magnanimous support (moral only, alas!) of the Allied Powers, our Republic had to start its life from the very beginning. Paper and printing became so enormously expensive that the two chief scientific societies, the Royal Society of Bohemia, founded in 1770, and the Bohemian Academy of Science and Art, founded 1890, are able to print only very short scientific communications.
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BRAUNER, B. Science in Bohemia. Nature 109, 625–627 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109625a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/109625a0