ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT, AUGUST 9, 1892. 309 
men from a distance desirous of taking advantage of the instruction offered, 
and in this way to enable them to support themselves during the period of 
study. The wage obtainable would be 17s. per week in this establishment, 
and about 2s. 6d. per day in nurseries, 
The advantages of the opportunities of study afforded by the scheme are 
so evident that they will probably be sufficient to induce good men to accept 
employment in Edinburgh at the rates mentioned, even although some 
diminution in their earnings is thereby involved. There is, however, the 
possibility that a deserving man might be called upon to make a pecuniary 
sacrifice in taking such employment which circumstances would not allow 
him to contemplate, and he might thus be precluded from attending the 
course. 
To meet such cases, and to supplement the wage obtainable, it has been 
suggested that the County Councils and other bodies having control of the 
administration of funds which could be allocated to such a purpose might, 
in different localities, see their way to making small grants, in the form of 
bursaries, to aid men desirous of working through the curriculum, and that 
many individual proprietors would be glad to give some additional pecuniary 
help to young men from their neighbourhood who wished to reap the 
benefit of the education offered. 
I therefore take the opportunity, whilst bringing under your notice the 
course of instruction proposed, to ask for your consideration of the sug- 
gestions I have mentioned, and to solicit your aid to give practical effect 
to them.—I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, 
Isaac BAYLEY BALFour. 
