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very beginning of School life, to reduce Science to an 

 optional subject, and to require no knowledge of any 

 Modern Language, would grievously lower the character 

 of the London Degree and exercise a most disastrous 

 effect upon the education of our country. 



It is thus very evident that though Lord 

 Avebury had been obhged, when becoming a 

 peer, to cease representing the London Univer- 

 sity in ParUament, he continued to take a 

 zealous interest in its concerns. It is an interest 

 which, in a certain sense, has been even post- 

 humously continued, for shortly after his death 

 the following appeal was issued by the Governors 

 of the Bank of England. 



LORD AVEBURY FUND 



Appeal for the Foundation of Scholarships 



We have received from Mr. Walter Cunliffe, Governor 

 of the Bank of England, the following copy of a letter 

 dated from the Bank of England on January 17 : 



" The late Lord Avebury was so closely connected 

 with both the world of business and of science that it is 

 evident that subscriptions to any memorial to be raised 

 to his memory should not be confined to any particular 

 class, but should be representative of all his varied 

 interests. 



" To establish such a memorial, a small committee 

 has been formed under the chairmanship of the Governor 

 of the Bank of England, with representatives from the 

 Royal Society, the University of London, the London 

 Chamber of Commerce, and the Clearing Bankers. 



" This committee is of opinion that there can be no 

 more suitable memorial than the foundation of scholar- 

 ships in economics, and in some other branch of scientific 

 research in which Lord Avebury was especially inter- 

 ested, at the University of London, of which he was, 

 as Sir John Lubbock, appointed a member of the Senate 

 in 1865, Vice-Chancellor from 1872 to 1880, and member 

 for the University from 1880 till he was raised to the 

 peerage in 1900. 



