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to examine the advertisements of vacancies which appear in 

 scientific and technical journals — and we have already men- 

 tioned some figures. Dr. W. Makower has made a study of 

 this kind from the reports of the Board of Education for the 

 year 1911-12, and has published his analysis in the following 

 table : l 



He explains that " the figures for the different institutions 

 are not in all cases exactly comparable since the subjects are 

 grouped differently in the reports from the different universities, 

 but they relate, as far as possible, to the ordinary science 

 subjects taught at the universities, and include data for mathe- 

 matics and engineering, but not for the medical sciences. The 

 figures taken from the reports include the salaries of ' part-time ' 

 professors and lecturers, but as the figures for these are not 

 given separately it has been found necessary to include them in 

 drawing averages." We think that the average salaries are 

 likely in some cases to be based upon selected professorships, 

 and therefore to be probably much over the correct figure ; but 

 according to the table the average salary of a professor in 

 Britain is only £628 per annum, and that of lecturers and 

 demonstrators only £137 per annum. We hear that in one 

 British university, out of two hundred members of the junior 



1 Morning Post, June 4, 1914. 



