NATURAL SCIENCE: 



A Monthly Review of Scientific Progress. 



No. 2. Vol I. APRIL, 1892. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



The Teaching University for London. 



THE Government must be congratulated on its action in regard 

 to the proposed Gresham University for its reference of the 

 Charter back to the Privy Council, with the understanding that it is 

 to be submitted to another Royal Commission. To some of the 

 opponents of the proposed Charter this has not given complete satis- 

 faction, though it is difficult to see what more could have been 

 expected. The new Commission is to be made even stronger than 

 the last, and to it (in the words of Mr. Balfour) is to be "referred 

 the question of estabHshing a teaching university for London iipon a 

 broad basis." This remark shows that Mr. Balfour and the edu- 

 cationaHsts in the Government fully realise the weak point in the 

 late scheme, and it is to be hoped that the friends of University 

 teaching will be content to work for the improvement of the scheme 

 in this respect, instead of continuing the theological protest against 

 King's College, which has already done so much to handicap the 

 agitation against the now rejected Charter. 



The Water Supply of London. 



The subject of Water Supply to towns and villages becomes 

 every year more important, and as local sources fail in amount or in 

 quality, the selection of sites for new supplies must engage serious 

 attention. It is often impossible for villages to undertake deep 

 borings or expensive reservoir works, and the time will probably soon 

 come when the whole country must be divided into separate and 

 co-operative districts to furnish drinking-water to groups of villages 

 or towns that need new or more copious supplies. 



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