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TWENTY years ago Prof. Tyndall delivered in New York and in other cities of this country a series of lectures upon light. The last of the series was an impressive plea for a more thorough prosecution of original research in pure science; and incidentally, for the need of endowments to maintain it. I was fortunate in having the opportunity to listen to that remarkable course of lectures, and to that plea for science. Its impression has never left me. The impression was the deeper, because Tyndall set upon it the seal of self-denial. Some 30,000 dols., nearly the entire net proceeds of his lectures in the United States—money for which he undoubtedly had abundant use in his own affairs, or at least in the prosecution of researches in his own country, and which by all precedent and the example of other lecturers he would have taken with him—this he has given to the science of this country, endowing there with, in 1885, three scholarships for the prosecution of original research in physics, one under the direction of Columbia College, one under Harvard, and a third at the University of Pennsylvania.
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"Smithsonian Report," 1878, pp. 150, 262
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Endowment for Scientific Research and Publication.2 I. Nature 51, 164–167 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051164a0
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