ABSTRACT
Research, of necessity, requires specialisation, often in a very minute field. The factual knowledge, the familiarity with particular circumstances, which we cannot leave to our ‘engineers’ but must ourselves acquire, is, moreover, only in part of the kind which can be ascertained by established techniques. Many students continue to do their specialised research in the field of their basic training. There ought to be opportunities for men who want to strike out in their own new field on some new combination of specialism or some other borderline problem. There is clearly an urgent need for a place in the University where the specialisms again meet, which provides the facilities and the climate for work which is not on well-established lines, and where requirements are flexible enough to be adapted to the individual tasks.
