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science. At present, only a few of the colleges have lecturers on 

 this subject; while for classics and mathematices every college 

 professes to have an adequate staff of teachers. At Christ Church, 

 however, a very complete chemical laboratory lias been lately 

 opened. 



A junior studentship at Christ Church and a demyship at 

 Magdalen College, tenable for five years, are, by the statutes of 

 those colleges awarded annually for profiency in natural science. 

 A scholarship, tenable for three years, lately founded by Miss 

 Brackenbury, at Balliol College, for the promotion of the study of 

 natural science, will be given away every two years. With the 

 exception of Merton College, where a scholarship is to be shortly 

 given for proficiency in natural science, no college has hitherto 

 assigned any scholarships to natural sciences. The number of 

 scholarships at the colleges is stated to be about 400, varying in 

 annual value from £100 to £60. With these should be reckoned 

 college exhibitions, to the number of at least 220, which range in 

 annual value from £145 to £20, and exhibitions awarded at 

 school, many of which are of considerable value. 



The two Burdett-Coutts geological scholarships, tenable for two 

 years, and of the annual value of £75, are open to all members of 

 the university who have passed the examination for the B.A. 

 degree, and have not exceeded the 27th term from their matricu- 

 lation. Every year a fellowship of £200 a year, tenable for three 

 years (half of which time must be spent on the continent) on 

 Dr. Radcliffe's foundation, is at present competed for by candi- 

 dates, who, having taken a first class in the school of natural 

 science, propose to enter the medical profession. 



At Christ Church, two of the senior studentships (fellowships) 

 are awarded for proficiency in natural science. At the examina- 

 tion for one of these, chemistry is^ the principal subject, and for 

 the other physiology. 



At Magdalen College, it is provided that, for twenty years from 

 the year 1857, every fifth fellowship is assigned to mathematics 

 and physical science alternately. In the statutes of this, and of 

 every college in Oxford (except Corpus, Exeter, and Lincoln) the 

 following clause occurs : — " The system of examinations shall 

 always be such as shall render fellowships accessible, from time to 

 time, to excellence in every branch of knowledge for the time being 

 recognized in the schools of the university." This clause, so far 

 as it relates to the study of natural science, has been acted on 



