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extension of scientific professional appointments 

 and professorships, by assimilating in some cases 

 the English system of teaching to that of the 

 Scotch, and by creating travelling and other 

 fellowships which shall enable their holders to 

 view nature in various aspects, and to work 

 with foreigners whose habits of thought are 

 fruitful in themselves, but of a different kind 

 to our own. 



I will take this opportunity of drawing at- 

 tention to what appears to me one of the 

 greatest of desiderata of this kind in the pre- 

 sent day, namely, the establishment of medical 

 fellowships amply sufficient to enable the best 

 youths, who intend to follow medicine as a 

 profession, to spend their early manhood in 

 prosecuting independent medical researches. I 

 appeal to capitalists, who know not what use, 

 free from abuse, to make of their surplus wealth, 

 to consider this want. They might greatly im- 

 prove the practical skill of the English medical 

 profession by affording opportunities of pro- 

 longed study. They might perhaps themselves, 

 reap some part of the benefit of it. A young 



