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II. IN a former article1 we referred at some length to the new Navy scheme, pointing out that in our opinion the scientific education of naval officers, and therefore the whole naval service of the country, must be vastly improved by its provisions. Since this article appeared there have been debates in both Houses of Parliament, including a most important one on May 9, in which Lord Selborne in an admirable speech gave some new information concerning the proposed scheme of education, and on the 15th inst. a circular letter was issued relating to the selection, training, and advancement of navigating officers. There has also been much discussion in the public Press; in this, as was to have been expected, scientific questions have been only lightly touched; and when the engineer question has been broached, its relation to the Admiralty practice regarding the other officers who must possess high technical knowledge has not, in our opinion, been pointed out.
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Science and the Navy: . Nature 68, 169–171 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068169a0
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