Abstract
The death of Sir Otto Beit on December 7, 1930, deprived the world of the services of one of the most enlightened benefactors of scientific research in the British Empire, a man with remarkably wide and generous views as to the paramount importance of furthering, in the interests of humanity, our knowledge of the phenomena of nature. It may truly be said that his aims were singularly akin to those of the founders of the Royal Society, who laid down the precept that the purpose of the Society should be the advancement or furtherance of natural knowledge. Although in the carrying out of the numerous specific endowments that he founded, he necessarily had advisers, nevertheless he himself always maintained a very close touch, not only with the institutions that he equipped, but also with many of the individual workers, the holders of the many research fellowships founded by him. He took a real personal interest in their work and in the results obtained through their researches, and was remarkably conversant with the nature and objects of these researches.
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