ABSTRACT
Sir Ronald Ross has for some years supported the idea that scientific workers who have made important discoveries should, as a routine, receive pecuniary rewards from the State—of course, the State—on a scale comparable with those of successful generals. It is a commonplace that the wealth of modern societies is in a large degree the creation of scientific research, and it is therefore often suggested that scientific workers should share in this wealth on a scale more or less comparable with that in which labour and capital are rewarded. Scientific discovery should be paid for on a system of credit rather than of cash down. At present research in pure science is mainly performed by professors and lecturers at universities in the intervals of the teaching and administration for which they are paid. Our research worker are faced with the choice of deserting their calling on marriage or drastically limiting their families.
