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IT is well to turn from time to time to what is doing in the cultivation of Science in other lands. We are able to give the following details of the progress of Science, or rather of the machinery for the cultivation of Science, in Vienna, from a letter addressed by Prof. Haidinger to Dr. E. Döll, the editor of the Realschule, in the December number of which periodical the letter appeared. It was written by Prof. Haidinger in commemoration of the establishment, on the 8th November, 1845, of the first Viennese association for the cultivation of pure science, the twenty-fifth anniversary of which the writer thought deserving of celebration even in the midst of the exciting events of the disastrous war then waging between two of the most advanced of European nations; events the results of which, as he justly remarks, do not constitute the highest objects of human life, but on the contrary, evils, originating only from our still imperfect civilisation.
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Science in Vienna . Nature 3, 382–383 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003382a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/003382a0