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are ottered for competition each year to students, not 

 being royal exhibitioners, on the completion of their first 

 academic year. Of the National Scholarships, twelve are 

 open for competition annually to persons who have taken 

 a first or second certificate in the advanced stage in any 

 subject of science in the examinations of the Science and 

 Art Department, and who show that they arc bona-fide 

 science teachers. Holders of these may attend all the 

 day lectures gratuitously, provide! that they be examined 

 on in at least one subject, arid that they pay a fee of 1 for 

 each course in which they propose to be examined. 



The fees charged to associate students for lectures and 

 laboratories average 15 a year. Students wishing to 

 make one payment for the whole three years' course of 

 lectures are allowed to compound for 25 in addition to 

 the laboratory fees. The fees payable by non-associate 

 students are 2 for each separate course of lectures, with 

 charges for laboratory instruction, graduated in each class 

 according to the time attended. A non-associate student 

 taking a complete course of instruction is admitted at the 

 same fees as are charged to associate students ; and in 

 any case such receive certificates after examination, if 

 they have attended two-thirds of an entire course of 

 lectures. By these arrangements provision is made for 

 enabling students of limited means to meet the expense 

 of board and education without loss of self-respect. They 

 are similar to those carried out in London ; and if such 

 were made in connection with a School of Forestry in 

 Edinburgh they would bring the course of study 

 prescribed, in whole or in part as the student might wish, 

 within reach of a great number of intelligent young men, 

 who could not meet the expense of University life and 

 University fees, with the advantage suporadded that the 

 holder of the exhibition or scholarship would have the 

 satisfaction of knowing, and of having it known by his 

 fellow-students, that this he has secured by giving 

 evidence of his qualification for engaging in the studies to 

 which he aspires, which may be more than they could 



