(i) Note by Sir Frank Heath, KCB, on the Proposed Research Institute for China

• Author: Heath, Frank
• Pages: 194

(i) NOTE BY SIR FRANK HEATH, K C B, ON THE PROPOSED RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CHINA

A careful reading of the evidence of Dr Ts'i and of Dr V K Ting, on which the recommendations of the Willmgdon Delegation on Scientific Research are largely based, indicates that both these distnguished Chinese men of science had m mmnd the applications of science to practical problems as the main purposes of the proposed Research Institute rather than the pro secution of research in pure science Dr Ts'ai says 'It will be set up m order to create a spirit of reverence for science and idustrial arts,' and proposes it should include a museum as an important if not predominant feature His ideas are curiously parallel to those of the late Prince Albert, who thought of the South Kensington estate, purchased from the profits of the Great Exhibition, as the home of the apphed sciences and the industrial arts-as it has indeed become Dr Ting, who is a geologist, defines geology, zoology and botany in hs draft estimate (p 125) m terms that indicate his grasp of the importance of the practical side of the work He is most specific in hs own science, and only less so m the two sciences which lie nearest to his own But m dealing with physics, chemistry and the social sciences he naturally...