In 1901, a “Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Relations of Human and Animal Tuberculosis” was established under the chairmanship of Sir Michael Foster, professor of physiology at the University of Cambridge, to determine whether the disease was the same in both species, and the extent to which they could infect one another. At this time, tuberculosis was one of the nation’s chief health problems. In Great Britain, it was in the mid- to late-nineteenth century that the predecessors of the Medical Research Council (MRC) developed. Contributing to the advancement of science in a significant manner, such support was limited and irregular (Frank 1980). In the earliest years of experimental investigation, the occasional King and other patron gave of their largesse to support the William Harveys and his ilk. To support the investigators who labor to advance knowledge in a given field of scientific research, a critical element is that of the financial resources for such endeavors.
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