The claims of science to public recognition and support : a reprint from the Journal of the Statistical Society, with a retrospect of the efforts made by the Society to provide itself and cognate societies with suitable house accommodation : and an appendix containing sundry plans and elevations / by Dr. Guy.

  • William Augustus Guy
Date:
1882
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Credit: The claims of science to public recognition and support : a reprint from the Journal of the Statistical Society, with a retrospect of the efforts made by the Society to provide itself and cognate societies with suitable house accommodation : and an appendix containing sundry plans and elevations / by Dr. Guy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ON THE CLAIMS OF SCIENCE TO PUBLIC RECOGNITION AND SUPPORT; WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SO-CALLED “SOCIAL SCIENCES” By William A. Guy, M.B. Cantab., F.R.S., One of the Honorary Vice-Presidents of the Statistical Society. [Reprinted from the Journal of the Statistical Society, Vol. XXXIII., Part IV., p. 433, Year 1870.] CONTENTS. PAGE I.—Of Science 6 II.—Of the Science called “ Social” 8 III. —Of Scientific Societies and Associations 10 IV. :—Of the Claims of Science to Public Recognition and Support 14 V.—Of Precedents 18 VI.—Claims of the Statistical Society; a Building Site 20 PAGE Appendix, containing Plans I., II., and III. Also, The Prospectus of the Scientific Societies’ House Company Limited; 46 and, The Memorial addressed to the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P., Chan- cellor of the Exchequer 4S In treating of the claims of Science, I have two objects in view, the one general, the other special. I wish to show, in the first place, that Science, as distinct from Learning and Art, is eminently deserving of the support and patronage of the public ; and, in the second place, that the branches of know- ledge now generally known as the “ Social Sciences” have special claims of their own. And I desire so to handle my subject in these its two divisions, as to promote an object our President has long had at heart,* and in which * See Mr. Newmarch’s communication to the Society on the occasion of his resigning office as Editor of the Journal and acting Honorary Secretary, vol. xxvi., p. 78 (March, 1863); also his inaugural address for the Session 1869-70, published in the December number of the Journal for 1869, P- 382.