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with the peculiar relations to the universities in which 

 they were thrown, but the difficulties have proved the 

 master. The nation should look for something more real 

 in the promotion of scientific study and research in the 

 future from the million pounds which Mr Carnegie gave 

 for the purpose. 



It would not be fair to saddle the Carnegie Trustees 

 with the responsibility, at least before it has been pointed 

 out to them ; but their attention and that of the public 

 may be directed to a very important cognate question. 

 How much of the grants from the Carnegie Trust 

 nominally given to science is diverted from that object? 

 Special information, not contained in every case in the 

 financial statements of the universities presented to 

 Parliament, is needed in this inquiry, and this must 

 excuse the writer's inability to consider any but his own 

 university, and indeed little more than his own depart- 

 ment, of which naturally he has the fullest information. 



The one scientific post in Aberdeen endowed by the 

 Carnegie Trust is the Lectureship in Geology. The 

 endowment, ;i 2,632, and an annual grant of ^"1000 

 towards equipment of the laboratories, practically exhaust 

 the Trust's scientific allocations in this university. In 

 the early years a total sum not exceeding ^"2500 in 

 addition went in small increases of from 7$ to $o in the 

 salaries of some half-dozen science lecturers and assistants. 

 In the published accounts, the interest of the Geology 

 endowment to the extent of .400 is stated to have gone 

 to the payment of the Lecturer's salary, and the part 

 payment of that of an assistant. But, taking 1913-14, the 

 year before the war, the students' class fees, 505 

 mainly derived from the second Carnegie million, 

 administered under Clause B alone, without counting 

 an equivalent proportion of examination and degree fees, 

 more than paid the total salaries of the Geology staff, 

 475. If the examination and degree fees are included 

 and the external examiner's salary deducted, there remains 

 a balance of ^173, which is more than enough to wipe out 



