Joseph Needham, the author of Science and Civilisation in China and founder of the Needham Research Institute, was originally an embryologist and founded the institute with donations received mainly from abroad.
李約瑟學的是胚胎學，他窮半世紀的中國科學研究和論著，並沒有得到過劍橋的支持，他研究所的經費多數來自國外的捐獻。