;2OO Professorships of Research in the Universities. 



ment of the State, the erection of State laboratories, 

 .and the payment of discoverers for the national work 

 vof research. 



2nd. Professorships of Research at the Universities. 

 Most of the remarks already made respecting the 

 .appointment and maintenance of professors of research 

 in State laboratories, would apply equally to those 

 proposed in connection with the Universities. Amongst 

 the reasons which may be adduced in favour of the 

 establishment of such professorships the following 

 may be selected. Because the advancement of learn- 

 ing is peculiarly the function of a University, and one 

 ,of the chief objects for which such institutions were 

 founded. The word University implies a seat of uni- 

 versal knowledge, and it is reasonable to assume that 

 Universities should act as fountains of new theoretical 

 knowledge, as well as perform the function of dif- 

 fusing it ; such an addition would also raise their 

 intellectual position, and make them much more 

 jespected, both at home and abroad. 



With regard to such professorships, the " Associa- 

 tion for the Organization of Academical Study," con- 

 sisting of a number of learned men belonging to the 

 Universities, the Royal Society, and other learned 

 foodies, adopted the following resolutions : 



" That the chief end to be kept in view in any re- 

 .distribution of the revenues of Oxford and Cambridge 

 is the adequate maintenance of Mature Study and 

 Scientific Research, as well for their own sake as with 

 :the view of bringing the higher education within the 



