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nology as that part of the curriculum known 

 as Litterx Humaniores. As was characteris- 

 tic of his methods, the mere address itself 

 did not suffice, but he prepared for the 

 occasion in other ways. Thus he collected 

 from the various Oxford colleges and placed 

 on exhibition an array of historical objects 

 illustrating the important part Oxford had 

 once played in science and natural philoso- 

 phy in days antedating the Royal Society 

 which had its seeds of origin there. In ad- 

 dition, and as a possible offset to this, he 

 exhibited from his own collection of books 

 those volumes which constituted in their 

 original editions the outstanding classics in 

 Science and Medicine. A small pamphlet 

 concerning them reads as follows : 



Faced with a bewildering variety and ever- 

 increasing literature, how is the hard-pressed stu- 

 dent to learn — 



1 . The evolution of knowledge in any subject ; 



2. The life and work of the men who made the 

 original contributions t 



