288 A BRIEF HISTORY O.F THE CHAIR OF 



however, on the same subject was appointed, and the work of 

 the laboratory was carried on by him and Walter Heape. 

 In 1890 Mr Sedgwick was made Reader, a post equivalent to 

 assistant professor. He was succeeded in 1907 by Mr Bate- 

 son, who a year later was made Professor of Biology, whilst 

 Dr A. E. Shipley succeeded him as Reader. On Professor 

 Bateson's transference to the Experimental Gardens, Mr R. C. 

 Punnett, former assistant and lecturer in St Andrews, was 

 appointed Professor of Biology in 1910. In 1874 Mr Osbet 

 Salvin was made Strickland Curator of Birds, and he was 

 succeeded by Dr Hans Gadow in 1883, and he discourses on 

 the advanced morphology of vertebrates. 



Cambridge has thus made remarkable advances in natural 

 science during the last half century, and the vigour with which 

 both teaching and research are carried out is well known. 

 Much of this was due to the influence of Sir Michael Foster 

 of Trinity College and to his pupil Francis Maitland Balfour. 

 Moreover, the fund founded in his memory, viz. the Balfour 

 Travelling Fellowship, has been of great service, and has 

 contributed to the making of many able zoologists. Further, 

 most of the colleges now have scholarships in natural science, 

 such as Caius, King's, Christ's, St John's, Trinity, and 

 Downing Colleges, and from time to time they have elected 

 men to fellowships on account of their proficiency in zoology. 

 The natural history museum of Cambridge is a valuable one, 

 and contains many interesting forms in every zoological group. 

 A special zoological keeper, who is not the Professor of Zoology, 

 is appointed, an arrangement which is, perhaps, open to 

 some objections. 



THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM 



Associated with the Chair of Natural History in each of 

 the Scotch universities is a more or less extensive museum of 

 natural history. 



