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that the annual income, as previously limited, falls short of
twice the estimated rental or upon breach of any of the
covenants.
A detailed sheet of receipts and expenditure to be pub-
lished each year by every Society, and copies to be transmit-
ted to the Secretary of State and laid before Parliament.
No vested right to accrue to any Society from the pos-
session, however long, of any apartments.
By such, or similar regulations, the property of the build-
ing would always remain with the Government.
I should, in addition, suggest that Government should
continue to afford those facilities for making important ex-
periments, which it has hitherto granted at Woolwich and
other public establishments, where the machinery and in-
struments at command are of that power, variety and extent
which it is impossible for individuals, or Societies even, to
possess.
Supposing such a building to cost even £100,000., the
interest in the funds would be little more than £3,000. per
annum, and this would perhaps be one-tenth of the amount
yearly contributed by Associations for the advancement of
science. Is this too great a proportion to expect from the
Government ? And this is not the only estimate by which
to measure the exertions of such Institutions to effect their
purpose. How many have their members, not in the course
of professional occupation, but from an abstract love of
science and instigated by a sense of their duties as fellow
laborers in the field, traversing foreign lands, visiting inhos-
pitable regions, enduring cheerfully privations and fatigues;
while others are immersed in the investigations of the labo-
ratory, the patient and continuous labors of the observatory,
or the solitary and profound meditations of the study. Can
that the annual income, as previously limited, falls short of
twice the estimated rental or upon breach of any of the
covenants.
A detailed sheet of receipts and expenditure to be pub-
lished each year by every Society, and copies to be transmit-
ted to the Secretary of State and laid before Parliament.
No vested right to accrue to any Society from the pos-
session, however long, of any apartments.
By such, or similar regulations, the property of the build-
ing would always remain with the Government.
I should, in addition, suggest that Government should
continue to afford those facilities for making important ex-
periments, which it has hitherto granted at Woolwich and
other public establishments, where the machinery and in-
struments at command are of that power, variety and extent
which it is impossible for individuals, or Societies even, to
possess.
Supposing such a building to cost even £100,000., the
interest in the funds would be little more than £3,000. per
annum, and this would perhaps be one-tenth of the amount
yearly contributed by Associations for the advancement of
science. Is this too great a proportion to expect from the
Government ? And this is not the only estimate by which
to measure the exertions of such Institutions to effect their
purpose. How many have their members, not in the course
of professional occupation, but from an abstract love of
science and instigated by a sense of their duties as fellow
laborers in the field, traversing foreign lands, visiting inhos-
pitable regions, enduring cheerfully privations and fatigues;
while others are immersed in the investigations of the labo-
ratory, the patient and continuous labors of the observatory,
or the solitary and profound meditations of the study. Can