INA URAL SC IING ies 
A Monthly Review of Scientific Progress. 
No. 13: VoL. I]. MARCH, 1893: 

NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
NATURAL SCIENCE AT OXFORD. 
EMUNERATIVE positionsaffording facilities for scientific research 
in Britain are so few, that all who are interested in progress will 
sympathise with every effort to retain, for purely scientific work, the 
services of those who have shown an aptitude for original investiga- 
tion during their University career. There must be Fellowships and 
Lectureships in the colleges to enable the graduate choosing science 
asa profession to pursue his work during the interval between the taking 
of his degree and a possible permanent appointment; and the more of 
these endowments there are, the greater is the inducement for young 
University men to aim at something higher than mere honours in an 
examination. In the interests of Natural Science, we thus desire to 
call attention to ‘‘ An Appeal to the Governing Bodies of the Colleges 
within the University of Oxford,” now being circulated by the Linacre 
Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Dr. Ray Lankester. Though 
primarily a matter for the University itself, the issues involved have 
so direct a bearing on the future progress of the biological and geo- 
logical sciences in this country, that the ‘‘ Appeal’? demands the 
support of all investigators. The University of Oxford is second to 
none in the repute of its Professors and Lecturers in Natural Science ; 
its laboratories, museums, and scientific libraries are among the 
finest ; but, if the governing bodies of the colleges continue practically 
to ignore the School of Natural Science, all these provisions and 
advantages are in vain. According to Professor Lankester’s state- 
ment, the graduates in Science ave ignored to an almost incredible 
degree, and hence the necessity for a vigorous protest. 
It appears that the total number of open Fellowships in the 
Oxford colleges is at present about 300, and that of these only thirty 
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