ri30 ENDOWMENT FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. 



The University oi Peimsylviinia lias the Tyndall Fe]h>wship, before 

 referred to; and, m the Department of Hygiene, an admirable hibora- 

 tory fitted up by Mr. Henry C. Lea, with a fellowship of $10,000 en- 

 dowed by Mr. Thomas A. Scott, at present applied to original research 

 in bacteriology. 



At Harvard, besides the three Bullard Fellowships of $5,000 each, 

 established in 1801, to promote original research in the medical school, 

 there are two post-gradnate fellowships restricted to science exclu- 

 sively; namely, the Tyndall Fellowship of about $500 annually, and 

 the income of the recently established Joseph Lovering Fund, the prin- 

 cipal of which IS now about $8,000. There are also eleven other gen- 

 oral fellowships, viz : The Parker, the Kirkland, and the Morgan Fel- 

 lowships, available for promising graduate students in any branch, of 

 which about five have been usually assigned to science. These fellow- 

 ships give an income of from $450 to $700 a year. Harvard has also 

 forty-six scholarships available for graduate students, varying in in- 

 come from $150 to $300 each, of which about seventeen are assigned 

 to science. During the last year, according to the report of Prof. 

 Pierce, the dean, there Avere 193 applications for those post-graduate 

 fellowships and scholarships, seventy-one of which were in science. 

 Onh^ one-third of the applicants could receive the aid. The Dean adds : 



"The number of apjioiutinents is still very insujficient to meet the 

 demands of promising students who wish to enter the graduate school 

 and are unable to do so without assistance."* The tables i)ublished 

 by him indicate that a considerable number of those not aided with- 

 drew from science; and that many others who Avere entered for the 

 first year in the graduate school, would, if not aided, afterwards leave. 

 It is gratifying to observe the furthei' fact, so encouraging also for the 

 young graduates who wish, if possible, to enter upon a scientific career, 

 that all wdio had enjoyed these fellowships for the full term of three 

 years, and did not continue their studies further abroad, at once 

 received honorable positions. 



From the above synopsis it appears that in all these colleges (and 

 I know of no other similar fellowships elsewhere) there are only about 

 twenty-six adecjuately endowed post-graduate fellowships in science. 

 As these should be continued for at least three years, there is provision 

 altogether for only about nine per year — not one fouitli the number 

 required to supply the annual loss in our 150 colleges, to say nothing 

 of the in<'i<'asing demand through the growth and imiu^ovements in 

 the colleges themselves. As it is from such specially trained students 

 that the great professors of the future must be drawn, the need of 

 much greater endowments forncM' recruits is apparent. 



In England the aids afforded by fellowships in their universities are 

 familiar to all. Sir Isaac Newton, Avho is to modern science, what 

 Shakespeare is m literature, Avas sustained from his student days suc- 

 * Report Harvard Col., 1891, p. 92. 



