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G. INFLUENCE AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF 

 TUTORS. 



This group of 13 cases refers to the influence 

 and encouragement of masters, tutors and pro- 

 fessors. It is a small one ; not because persons 

 in those positions are incapable of exerting much 

 salutary influence, but because the scientific men 

 on my list seldom had the advantage of receiving 

 congenial instruction. This is clearly proved by 

 a comparison of the replies referring to Scotch 

 and to English tuition. In Scotland the uni- 

 versity programme and the general method of 

 teaching is much more suited to men of a scien- 

 tific bent of mind than those in England ; 

 consequently the influence of tutors has been 

 testified to far more abundantly by those men 

 on my list who have been educated in Scotland 

 than by the rest. The proportions are striking 

 and instructive. I find that about one-sixth of 

 those from whom I have received returns have 

 studied in Scotland ; hence, if professorial in- 

 fluences had been equally efficacious on both 



