§ Sir WILLIAM COLLINSasked whether it is proposed to fix a scale of salaries for research chemists employed at the Royal Arsenal similar to that obtaining in the establishment of the Research Department at the Royal Gunpowder Factory for chemists engaged on similar work?
§ Mr. HALDANEThe chemists of the Research Department are employed on special work. The chemists of the Ordnance Factories are not a research department, but are concerned with the chemistry of manufacture, and not with experimental work. There is no intention therefore of assimilating the salaries of the former class to those of the latter.