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Granting the importance of this pioneering research, how can it best be promoted? The method of direct endowment will not work, for if you pay a man (sic) a salary for doing research, he and you will want to have something to point to at the end of the year to show that the money has not been wasted. In promising work of the highest class, however, results do not come in this regular fashion, in fact years may pass without any tangible results being obtained, and the position of the paid work...