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in the past contributed to the advancement of natural 

 knowledge, four ex-officio members (the Secretary of 

 State for Scotland, and the Lord Provosts of Edinburgh, 

 Glasgow, and Dunfermline for the time being), and four 

 members elected by the universities. The vacancies in 

 the nominated members are filled up by the Trustees 

 remaining. 



The nominated Trustees apparently hold office for life, 

 and consist almost entirely of eminent public men, more 

 or less universally known, many of them distinguished in 

 History, Literature, Philosophy, and the Law, that is, in 

 the ancillary or illegitimate rather than the primary group 

 of studies. Moreover, the branches of the ancillary subjects 

 in which they are distinguished are not those cognate to 

 a technical or commercial education. The two original 

 scientific members are dead, as also is Sir Arthur Rucker, 

 who replaced one of them. In the case of all three, their 

 career of active scientific investigation had practically 

 closed before they were appointed. In no case, so far as 

 the writer is aware, has an active scientific investigator 

 been a Trustee. At the present time there does not 

 appear to be a single scientific man on the Trust. 1 Of the 

 four Trustees elected by the universities, two are 

 distinguished members of the medical profession ; a third, 

 Sir William Turner, having lately died. The legal 

 profession, past and present Cabinet Ministers, and public 

 administrators supply the whole of the present nominated 

 members. Sir Henry Roscoe's death removed the only 

 scientific member. The others are : Earl of Elgin and 

 Kincardine, Earl of Rosebery, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, 

 Lord Kinnear of Spurness (ex-Senator of the College of 

 Justice), Lord Reay of Reay, Rt Hon. A. J. Balfour, 

 Viscounts Bryce and Morley, Lord Shaw, Rt. Hon. H. H. 

 Asquith, and W. J. Dundas (Crown Agent for Scotland). 

 It is mere hypocrisy to expect from a body so constituted, 



1 Between the time of writing and publication Sir Alfred Ewing 

 became a member of the Trust, as the representative of the Edinburgh 

 University Court. 



