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IN the words of its charter, repeated at the admission of each new fellow, the Royal Society is described as instituted “for Improving Natural Knowledge.” A main means for that “improving” is discovery? In the case of natural knowledge the main road to discovery must lie in research. There are several ways in which research can be encouraged, and one of them lies in providing suitable workers with the means to devote their time freely to investigation. The society is fortunate in possessing now, to a somewhat greater extent than formerly, funds that may be considered as permanently allocated to this fundamental object; for though its existence extends now to more than two and a half centuries, financial help directed to this eminently important aim has come only relatively recently. That it should have now begun may be a sign of the arrival of an Age in some respects new; the beginning of a trend towards wider public interest in and sympathy with research.
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SHERRINGTON, C. The Use of a Pancreatic Extract in Diabetes. Nature 110, 774 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110774a0
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