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English editions, and also been translated into French and Italian. Most of his 

 contributions to scientific literature, though covering a wide range, were of a 

 technical nature, either arising out of the routine of the Office, such as the occur- 

 rence of heavy rainfalls at the various observatories, or the classification of fogs, or 

 dealing with some exceptional phenomenon reported to the Office for explanation. 

 His two Presidential Addresses to the Meteorological Society, dealing respectively 

 with the Climatology of the Globe and of the Ocean, were very thoughtful and 

 complete studies of the state of the science at the time. 



The need for a more extensive set of stations, and the inelastic nature of the 

 Government grant, made the help of volunteer observers of great importance, and 

 Scott's official connection with the Royal Meteorological Society led to a determined 

 effort by the Society in that direction, of which the Meteorological Record, 1881 to 

 191 1, is a memorial. Its recent discontinuance, on the sound ground of wasteful 

 duplication, may be regarded as evidence that, greatly as Scott differed in essentials 

 from his predecessor, he was almost equally removed from his successor. In fact, 

 it would appear that he was by temperament inclined to evade personal responsi- 

 bility if work could be delegated to others, so that it is not surprising that matters 

 did not always run smoothly between him and his subordinates, who failed to find 

 the kind of support that a fag expects from his master. An apparent lack of 

 appreciation by a new superintendent of the work of those who are already in 

 possession, and in whose appointment he has had no voice, is, however, too 

 familiar a phenomenon to be emphasised. 



In private life Scott is said to have been of a kindly and humorous disposition, 

 though somewhat opinionated. He retired at the end of February 1900, and soon 

 afterwards had the misfortune to lose his wife, a daughter of the Hon. W. Stewart, 

 Island Secretary of Jamaica, and in January 1903 he had a serious fall on the 

 staircase leading to the Royal Meteorological Society's rooms, and suffered an 

 injury to his head. He still continued to be a regular attendant at council, com- 

 mittee, and society meetings, but frequently left before the close, and took less and 

 less active part in discussion. He died on June 18 last, and was buried at Peper 

 Harrow, near Godalming, the seat of the Brodrick family, to which his mother 

 belonged. 



The Education Problem (Sir Harry Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B.) 



The Editor of this review has kindly permitted me to cross the t's and dot the 

 i's in the writings and speakings of myself and several other people on this subject. 



As occasionally happens when a person is much interested in a discussion, he 

 receives unfair treatment at the hands of both reporters and printers, his argument 

 being weakened by Press errors or reporters' mistakes not always due to careless- 

 ness on his own part. 



When invited to attend the meeting summoned by Sir E. Ray Lankester on 

 May 8, I prepared in typewriting the substance of what I wanted to say, and was 

 careful that my sentences should contain no inaccuracies of statement. But the 

 excessive number of speeches arranged for and other conditions of the assembly 

 made it impossible for me to read what I had to say. I had, therefore, to make 

 a hurried statement based on a recollection of the contents of my typoscript. 

 Consequently, according to the reviewers and listeners, I was wrong on two 

 points (not consciously, because I knew better): (1) as to compulsion in classical 

 studies, and (2) as to the total amount of marks which could now be obtained in 

 certain Government examinations for Greek and Latin studies. I was made to 



