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WE welcome the appearance of another report of the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, that for the year 1926-27, which will doubtless be received as an encouraging document in progressive political circles. For one thing, it represents the credit side of a balance sheet on the debit side of which there stands an item of some £450,000 of public money. In these days of necessary economy—and of even more necessary judgment in its incidence—a recital of the kind of goods that an outlay of half a million pounds will buy in the scientific market is an education by itseK. For another, it gives some indication of the dimensions of the quarry in view. The Department performs the dual function of taking a part in assuring a supply of trained and experienced research workers, capable of applying themselves in their respective spheres to the solution of problems confronting British industry, and of instituting and co-ordinating the researches themselves for the benefit of the community.
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Team Work. Nature 121, 525–527 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121525a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/121525a0