Lord Wrottesley to Faraday   8 March 1854

Wrottesley | 8 Mar 1854

Dear Sir

The Parliamentary Committee of the British Association appointed to watch over the interests of Science have considered that it would greatly assist them in the due performance of that duty if they were occasionally favored with opinions from distinguished cultivators of Science in whose judgment and discretion confidence may be securely reposed, of a kind calculated from the subject matter to which they relate, to afford valuable information as to the objects, to which the labours of the Committee might be most beneficially directed.

I have therefore to request that you will be so kind as to send me at your earliest convenience a reply to the following query,

Whether any and what measures could be adopted by the Government or the Legislature to improve the position of Science, or of the Cultivators of Science in this country?-1

I remain | Yours truly | Wrottesley | (Chairman)

Professor Faraday

1
For the report of the committee on this see Wrottesley (1855). For the background see Layton (1981), 188-92.

Bibliography

LAYTON, David (1981): “The Schooling of Science in England, 1854-1939”, in MacLeod and Collins (1981), 188-210.

WROTTESLEY, John (1855): “Report of the Parliamentary Committee of the British Association to the Meeting at Glasgow in September 1855”, Rep. Brit. Ass., xlvii-lxiii.

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