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among those students who, having completed the full course of train- 

 ing for the associateship, desire to study for another year at the col- 

 lege. It is understood that the fourth year is to be employed in re- 

 search in the subject of the associateship. 



The gaining of one of the Remanet scholarships, not more than 

 two on the average annually, referred to, furnishes really the only 

 means by which deserving students are enabled to pursue research 

 in the college; as, although a professor has the power to nominate a 

 student to a free place in his laboratory, very few of the most de- 

 serving students are able to avail themselves of the privilege owing 

 to want of means. 



The department only very rarely sends students up as teachers in 

 training for research work, but only those who intend making teach- 

 ing their profession are eligible for these studentships. 



I trust that at some future day, when we get our new buildings — 

 it is impossible to do more than we do till we get them — more facili- 

 ties for research may be provided, and even an extension of time 

 allowed for it if necessary. I see no reason why some of the 1851 

 exhibition scholarships should not be awarded to students of this col- 

 lege, but to be eligible they must have published a research. Re- 

 search should naturally form part of the work of the teachers in train- 

 ing who are not brought up here merely to effect an economy in the 

 teaching staff. 



Such, then, in brief, are some of our normal-school attributes. I 

 think any one who knows the facts must acknowledge that the organi- 

 zation has justified itself not only by what it has done, but also by the 

 outside activities it has set in motion. It is true that with regard to 

 the system of examining school candidates by means of papers sent 

 down from London, the department was anticipated by the College 

 of Preceptors in 1853, and by Oxford and Cambridge in 1858; but 

 the action of 1861, when science classes open to everybody, was 

 copied by Oxford and Cambridge in 1869. The department's 

 teachers got to work in 1860, but the so-called "University Exten- 

 sion Movement " dates only from 1873, and only quite recently have 

 summer courses been started at Oxford and Cambridge. 



The chemical and physical laboratories, small though they were 

 in the department's schools, were in operation long before any prac- 

 tical work in these subjects was done either at Oxford or Cambridge. 

 When the college laboratories began, about 1853, they existed prac- 

 tically alone. From one point of view we should rejoice that they 

 are now third rate. I think it would be wrong of me not to call your 

 attention to the tenacity, the foresight, the skill, the unswerving pa- 

 tience, exhibited by those upon whom has fallen the duty of sailing 

 the good ship " Scientific Instruction," launched, as I have stated, 



