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rendering even tliis splendidly equipj)C'd hall of science inadequate. 

 The physiological laboratories are many, they are completely fur- 

 nished with appliances, and a large number of students are there 

 trained annually under the supervision of one of England's most 

 eminent living scientists, Michael Foster, and his scarcely less able 

 associates — Langley, Hardy, and Gaskell. Chemistry, zoology, bot- 

 any, anatomy, and geology have each their well-appointed halls 

 and masterly exponents. The names MacAlister, Liveing, Dewar, 

 Xewton, Sedgwick, Marshall Ward, and Hughes are not easily 

 matched in any other one institution. Indeed, it is when one stops 

 to consider the intellects at 

 Cambridge that it becomes a 

 dangerous matter to insti- 

 tute comparisons, and to say 

 that this discipline or that 

 is most rich in eminent in- 

 terpreters. In science, at 

 any rate, and in all branches 

 of science, Cambridge stands 

 alone. Not even Oxford 

 can be considered for a mo- 

 ment as in the same class 

 with her. And of all the 

 sciences it is undoubtedly in 

 mathematics and astronomy 

 that the supremacy of Cam- 

 bridge is most pronounced. 

 The names of Profs. Sir G. 

 G. Stokes and Sir R. S. Ball 

 will be familiar to every 

 reader, while those of Profs. 

 Forsythe and G. H. Dar- 

 win and Mr. Baker will be 



familiar to all mathematicians. In classics Cambridge, while not 

 possessing a similar monopoly of almost all the talent, still holds 

 her own even with Oxford. Professors Jebb, Mayor, and Ridge- 

 way, and Drs. Yerrall, Jackson, and Frazer constitute a group 

 of men second to none in the subjects of which they treat. Pro- 

 fessor Jebb is also one of the university's two representatives 

 in Parliament. In philosophy Cambridge has two men, Henry 

 Sidgwick and James Ward, the former of whom is perhaps by 

 common consent the first living authority on moral science, while 

 the latter ranks among the first of living psychologists. These 

 men, while representing very different philosophical standpoints. 



Sir G. G. Stakes, Bart., M. A.. LL. D.. Se. D., 

 F. E. S., Pembroke. Lueasiau rmfessor of 

 Mathematics. 



