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money which can be expended by the professor on 

 the encouragement of research is much needed. 



The department of agriculture is fairly well staffed, 

 but at present is obliged to carry on its indoor 

 work in four rooms in the basement of the chemical 

 laboratory. The amount of research carried on by 

 the staff has fully justified them in establishing the 

 Journal of Agricultural Science, which appeared for the 

 first time in 1904. This is the only periodical in the 

 country devoted entirely to scientific agriculture. A 

 laboratory for agriculture is a most pressing necessity ; 

 a site is available, but at present there is not sufficient 

 money for the building, which, including provision 

 for maintenance, would cost 20,000. The Drapers' 

 Company has generously promised a conditional 5,000 

 towards this sum, and some 12,000 has been collected 

 from other sources. 



Besides numerous smaller needs, there are two of 

 primary importance which have not yet been men- 

 tioned. The first is that for the provision of exam- 

 ination rooms. The University examinations are at 

 present held in the Guildhall, the Corn Exchange, and 

 other hired rooms, often badly lighted, badly heated, 

 and badly ventilated, and in no case well adapted to 

 the purpose of conducting examinations. The hiring 

 and arranging of the rooms costs the University at 

 least 450 a year. 



The other great need is some adequate provision 

 for that priceless national treasure, the University 

 library. Mr. J. W. Clark has himself inaugurated an 

 appeal on its behalf. The list of donors which he is 

 already able to print is headed by His Majesty the 

 King; and a sum of over 18,000 has already been 

 collected. This sum includes a donation of 5,000 

 from the Goldsmiths' Company, and 2,700 assigned 

 by Lord Rayleigh from the Nobel prize ; to the 

 remainder, resident masters of arts have largely 



