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IN furtherance of its principal object of promoting the utilisation of the resources of the Empire, and in order to supplement its other activities in this direction, the Imperial Institute established in 1896 a scientific and technical department under the direction of Prof. Wyndham Dunstan. The history of the formation of that department and of its work in early years was told by the late Sir Frederick Abel, at that time Director of the Imperial Institute, in the preface to a volume of technical reports and scientific papers published by the institute in 1003. From that account it will be seen that the inception of scientific work at the institute received strong support from his Maiesty King Edward and from the Royal Commission of the 1851 Exhibition, whilst the late Lord Playfair was one of its most active supporters.
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The Scientific and Technical Department of the Imperial Institute . Nature 104, 263–264 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104263b0
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