The Academia Sinica, of which Chancellor Tsai Yuan-pei is the President, used to be known ax the National Research Council, and is one of the independent agencies of the Government, It a scientific research institute under the direct control of the Government but under the management of a group of scholars and scientists, who, through it, find an opportunity for the pursuit of—their particular vocal Academia, when fully organizes will have the tolley i Physics, Chemistr Astronomy, Geology, Meteorology, Engineering, Payeholog: History and Philology and Social Sciences. It also plans to have two museums, Natural Sciences and a Historical museum. functions in three centres:
Nanking and Peking. ug a useful ce, particularly the sphere of weather reporting.
It is di ult for one who is not a scientist ud who does not quite understand why there should be so much dupli jon of effort in science along national lines,.to grasp 4 the importance of the technical institutes of the Academia, for. after all, research in iron and steel and chemistry and physics must involve tremendous ex: penditures'of funds and are now
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