Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-10
SCIENCE CONGRESS.
British Association Holds It's
 First Session.
SIR \. LOCKYER'S OPENING ADDRESS
Says Englnnd's Position as n Nation and It's Success as n NfercantfleT Power Are HApertRed by Neg-
 feet o9 Scientific RSsearch.

Power Are TMpertFed by NeS-
 feet o9 Scientific. Research.
 SOUTHPORT, England, Sept. 10.-l The British Association For the Ad- vancement of Science has opened its session here. Sir Norman Lockyer de livered his presidential address, enti- tied ''The Influence of Brain Power on History" During the course of his re- marks the president referred at length to the struggle for existence in modern communities showed that British in- dustries were suffering from interna- tional competition, dwelt on the neces- sity for body such as the British as sociation dealing with the organization of science and said:
 "Our position as q nation, our sue oess as merchants, are insperil chiefly dealing with preventable causes-be cause of lack of completely efficient universities and our neglect of re- search.
 i've in Great Britain have eleven universities competing with 134 state and privately endowed in the United States and twenty-two state endowed in Germany. The German state gives to one university more than the British government allows to all the uniwersi- ties and university colleges in Eng land, Ireland, Scotland and Wales put together.
 "These are the conditions which reg uiate the production of brain power in the United States, Germany and Great Britain respectively, and the excuse of the government is that this is matter fpI "a nr% TAn 5nn oiYoic ters of state know that other civilized countries grant efficient state aid, and further, that private effort has pro vided in Great Britain less than 10 per cent of the sum thus furnished in the United States in addition to state aids
 .'What are the facts relating to pri- vate endowment in this country? Tn spite of the munifcence displayed by small number of individuals in some localities, the truth must be spoken. Tn dependfng in our country upon this form of endowment we are trusting to a broken reed. If we take the twelve English university colleges, the fore runners of universities unless we are to perish from lack of knowledge, we find that private effort during sixty years has found less than f4,000, ,000- that is, f2,oOO,000 for buildings and E40,000 a year income This gives us an average of f166, 900 for buildings and f3,3oO for yearly income.
 what is the scale of private effort we have to compete with in regard to the American universities?
 ''in the United States during the last few years universities and colleges have received more than E4O,000O00 from this source alone Private effort supplied nearly fT,ooo,ooo in the years 1S9S-1aDO.
 < Next consider the amount of state aid to universities afforded in Germany. The buildings of the new University of Strasburg have already cost nearly E1,- COG, 000-that is, about as much as has yet been found by private effort for buildings in Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle and Sheffield. The government annual en- dowment of the same German univer sity is more than f49,00O."
 The president then compared the vast sums spent by the British government on s'sea power and the small amounts expended on 4brain power" and advo cated duplicating the navy bill of 18SS-9, $120,DoO,0OO and devoting that amount to the increase of Great Brit aims brain power, adding:
 "Let this sum ba assigned and bor4 rowed as it Is wanted. There will be capital sum for new buildings to be erected in the next five or ten years, the interest of the remainder tO % tn- ward increased annual endowments."