688 SCIENCE PROGRESS 



throughout the teaching personnel that the return of value for 

 value expended would be most certainly assured. 



An Object-lesson. — The University of London is not altogether 

 without experience in the direction of intercollegiate centralisa- 

 tion on Faculty lines. The Physiological Laboratory, to which 

 some years ago it devoted a portion of the somewhat limited 

 space placed at its command in the Imperial Institute building, 

 can be appealed to as an object-lesson on a small scale of the 

 principles that should be applied to the more comprehensive 

 organisation. Its teaching personnel consists of a panel of 

 University lecturers, liable to be called upon, when convenient 

 to themselves and to the University, to deliver a course of 

 eight lectures upon a special department of science with which 

 they are acquainted at first hand, and in which they are 

 of recognised authority. The panel, at present composed of 

 thirty-seven persons, consists of (i) the recognised teachers of 

 the University, and (2) other distinguished experts in science 

 from the United Kingdom and from the Dominions. Of these 

 thirty-seven members, eighteen are recognised teachers of the 

 University of London ; six are distinguished specialists living 

 in London ; eight are teachers in the Universities of Oxford, 

 Cambridge, Liverpool, and Bristol ; and five are professors and 

 experts belonging to Toronto, Winnipeg, Johannesburg, and 

 Alexandria. 



The Committee of Management is a mixed Committee, com- 

 posed of (i) members of the Senate, (ii) other persons interested 

 in this particular aspect of University life. The category of 

 " other persons " includes members chosen by reason of their 

 knowledge of and interest in its subject-matter, as well as 

 members interested to the extent of fulfilling the functions of 

 the pious founder; and in this category of "other persons" are 

 to be found the most valuable servants of the University of 

 London. I think it may be permissible to name them in con- 

 nection with this particular object-lesson. Sir Lauder Brunton, 

 having no other official connection with the University, is the 

 Chairman of the Committee ; Sir Walter Palmer, as a graduate 

 in Science, interested in the welfare of Science and in the general 

 welfare of the University, defrayed the equipment expenses of 

 the Laboratory. Thus as regards administration, this depart- 

 ment of the University, while subject to the ultimate authority 



