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IN July 1915 the Government announced the appointment of a special committee of the Privy Council and the establishment of a permanent official organisation for the promotion of scientific and industrial research. As an integral part of the organisation “a small Advisory Council, composed mainly of eminent scientific men and men actually engaged in industries dependent upon scientific research,” was established by Order in Council. There already existed large national responsibilities for the conduct of scientific inquiry in connexion with the fighting services, agriculture, fisheries, and medicine, but save for the last, these were subordinate activities of ministries with many other responsibilities. The unique feature of the new organisation lay in the fact that it definitely put the scientific man in the saddle, for all proposals for allocating the funds placed at the disposal of this body stand referred to the Advisory Council.
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The State and Industrial Research. Nature 119, 589–591 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119589a0
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