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politics is in urgent need of three or four lectureships, 

 to which definite duties in research should be attached, 

 in order to extend the present range of economic 

 study, and to bring it close to the great problems 

 of modern industry. While in the Universities of 

 Edinburgh, London, Manchester, Leeds, North and 

 South Wales, and Montreal, political economy is 

 taught by economists trained at Cambridge, their 

 alma mater is starved of the means necessary to 

 produce their successors. 



The anthropological collections are, for want of 

 space, in a chaotic state. The University is fortunate 

 in possessing many ardent workers; and its collections 

 are most valuable. The existing museum of archae- 

 ology and ethnology is, however, quite inadequate for 

 their display, or even for their storage ; and a disused 

 warehouse has been hired at Newnham to accommo- 

 date the further collections which generous donors 

 continue to present. To such an extent has it been 

 necessary to carry the economy practised in this 

 department that the shelves of the warehouse have 

 been made from old boxes. A site for a new museum 

 has been provided by the University, and plans have 

 been prepared ; but without the help of extraneous 

 benefactions it is impossible to build at present. An 

 adequate building would cost perhaps ^"25,000. The 

 removal of the museum to a new site would set free 

 space greatly needed for other purposes. The Disney 

 professor of archaeology and the curator of the archae- 

 ological museum plead also for the foundation of a 

 chair, or at least a readership, for the comparative 

 study of religions ; and, in view of the relations of the 

 Empire to every kind of cult, it is scarcely creditable 

 that neither of the older Universities makes any 

 provision for this study. 



The present staff consists of the Disney professor of 

 archaeology, and a lecturer on ethnology with a salary 



