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Russia, ten in the United States, one in Copenhagen, 

 one in Paris, one in Geneva, and one in Canada. It is 

 not that psychophysics is not studied in Cambridge, 

 for Dr. Rivers, the lecturer on the subject, and 

 Dr. Myers, have formed a school there which is second 

 to none in Great Britain ; this school has recently 

 supplied a reader to Oxford. But the work is done 

 under most discouraging circumstances. The labora- 

 tory is at present established in a dilapidated cottage 

 in Mill Lane and in an adjacent disused granary. 

 Further and better provision for this growing subject 

 is urgent ; and the present lectureship should be con- 

 verted into a readership. The interest which is taken 

 in the subjects under the control of the Board of Moral 

 Science is shown by the successful launching of the 

 Journal of Psychology, the first number of which was 

 published by the University Press in 1904. Lecture- 

 rooms and a departmental library are wanted ; and the 

 establishment of a readership in pedagogy should not 

 be long delayed. 



In mathematics two new professorships are needed, 

 one in pure mathematics and one in applied mathe- 

 matics ; two of the present lecturers should be made 

 readers ; and the salaries of all the lecturers should be 

 raised to ;ioo a year. One pressing need is that for 

 two lecture-rooms, with an adjacent library and a 

 museum of mathematical models. Cambridge is per- 

 haps the most renowned mathematical school in the 

 world ; yet its provision for the accommodation of 

 the staff is far behind that of the chief American 

 Universities. A munificent benefactor has recently 

 left a sum of 5,000 for repairs, etc., to the Newall 

 telescope ; but there is no stipend forthcoming for 

 Mr. Newall, who for sixteen years has discharged 

 the duties of observer without remuneration. The 

 Lowndean and Plumian professors pay the salary of a 

 demonstrator. 



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