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can avert the withdrawal from scientific pursuits of many young 

 men of high promise, whose genius and tastes and ambition 

 strongly incline them to science, and who would be secured to it 

 if this temporary support were afforded." 



At the University of Sydney, at the present time, " besides 

 this [the Dalton Fund], the James King of Irrawang Scholarship 

 of £130 per annum, and the Frazer Scholarship for History are 

 the only scholarships for post-graduate work in the gift of the 

 University. The Royal Commissioners of the Exhibition of 

 1851, at Kensington, have, however, on six occasions awarded 

 Science Research Scholarships of £150, tenable for two years, to 

 graduates in science."* The Dalton Fund now provides for the 

 Woolley Scholarship of £150 per annum, tenable for not more 

 than two years, and is intended to encourage post-graduate study 

 of one or more subjects falling under the heads of Language, 

 Literature, History and Philosophy. The James King of Irra- 

 wang Travelling Scholarship is of the annual value of £130, is 

 tenable for not more than two years, and is intended to foster 

 post-graduate study in Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, or 

 Natural History. The Frazer Scholarship is of the value of £70, 

 and in part is awarded for historical study or research during at 

 least one year after graduation. The Science Scholarship of 

 H.M. Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 is of the value 

 of £150, is tenable for two years, and is awarded for " the pro- 

 secution of study and research in some branch of Science with a 

 view of developing the manufactures and industries of his [the 

 scholar's] country." (See Note, p. 31.) 



The interests of Natural Science in relation to post-graduate 

 study certainly cannot be said to have been lavishly provided for 

 in New South Wales, up to the present. 



Reverting to the subject of the endowment of research, it is 

 to be noted that^we have no record of any very explicit expositions 

 of Sir William Macleay's views upon such questions as the impor- 

 tance of research work, or the best way of improving its prospects 



* Barlf, " Short Historical Account," &c., p. 94 



