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any but the very gravest considerations of the public 

 welfare. 



And I should like, further, to call your attention 

 to the important circumstance that, in thus proposing 

 the exclusion of the study of such branches of know- 

 ledge as Zoology and Botany, from those compulsory 

 upon the medical student, I am not, for a moment, 

 suggesting their exclusion from the University. I 

 think that sound and practical instruction in the 

 elementary facts and broad principles of Biology 

 should form part of the Arts Curriculum : and here, 

 happily, my theory is in entire accordance with your 

 practice. Moreover, as I have already said, I have 

 no sort of doubt that, in view of the relation of 

 Physical Science to the practical life of the present 

 day, it has the same right as Theology, Law, and 

 Medicine, to a Faculty of its own in which men shall 

 be trained to be professional men of science. It may 

 be doubted whether Universities are the places for 

 technical schools of Engineering, or Applied Chemis- 

 try, or Agriculture. But there can surely be little 

 question, that instruction in the branches of Science 

 which lie at the foundation of these Arts, of a far 

 more advanced and special character than could, with 

 any propriety, be included in the ordinary Arts 

 Curriculum, ought to be obtainable by means of a 

 duly organised Faculty of Science in every Uni- 

 versity. 



The establishment of such a Faculty would have 

 the additional advantage of providing, in some 

 measure, for one of the greatest wants of our time 



