684 SCIENCE PROGRESS 



best years of his life. Not to speak of the Colleges and Schools 

 of the University, there are at present in the Polytechnics alone 

 upwards of sixty recognised University teachers. Can it be 

 doubted that the allocation of £1,000 in the form of twenty 

 " minor research fellowships " would be hardly less valuable in 

 the interests of the University and of the community than that 

 of the same sum to a single University Professorship ? Excellent 

 as has been the allocation of the County Council Grant of 

 £10,000 per annum to University Professorships, it is extremely 

 desirable that it should be expanded and extended over a wider 

 area. No one acquainted with the relations between the Uni- 

 versity of London and its several Colleges, Schools, and Insti- 

 tutions can doubt that the return to the University in the form 

 of real influence and power, through the good-will and loyalty 

 of its recognised teaching staff, would become incalculably 

 extended by the carefully administered distribution of research 

 fellowships among a teaching personnel that includes the picked 

 men of what is actually a corps d 1 elite of capable and ambitious 

 young men throughout the Metropolis. These picked men 

 have proved their value and capacity under often adverse con- 

 ditions, and against obstacles that have served to test their 

 mettle ; they are marked as eligible for further promotion by 

 the fact that they have received recognition as teachers of the 

 University. And looking forward to the future in the light of 

 the past, is it not a wise policy that the University should 

 broaden its base in the community and cast its net wide ? Is 

 not the Faraday of the future as likely to be found among the 

 ranks of the ambitious young teachers of Polytechnic schools as 

 among those of the equally ambitious if more favoured and less 

 strenuously tried teachers in the Schools and Colleges of the 

 University? But I do not desire to imply that any distinction 

 of class or kind is to be admitted between recognised teachers 

 of school, college and institution, when the status of recognised 

 teacher is in itself a distinction and a token that the person so 

 distinguished has excelled his fellows in ability and in working 

 power. I would have accessible to all such teachers alike, not 

 only minor research fellowships of the University on a lower 

 scale of emolument, but full fellowships on a higher scale. I 

 would have ordinary as well as minor fellowships, fellowships 

 of £200 as well as fellowships of £50, from which, in corre- 

 spondence with the higher scale of remuneration, a correspond- 



