No. 22. \From The Morning Post, October 15, 1909.] 



LORD MILNER AND IMPERIAL 

 SCHOLARSHIPS 



I HAVE not had the opportunity of reading Mr Vaile's 

 article in the Fortnightly, but I have read with interest Lord 

 Milner's letter in reference to it in the Morning Post of 

 October 4. In it Lord Milner deals only with the Rhodes 

 bequest in so far as it applies to British subjects in the 

 Oversea Dominions, and affords to a certain number of them 

 opportunity of studying at the University of Oxford. But 

 the bequest was cosmopolitan, and offered the same oppor- 

 tunity to the subjects of foreign Governments. With this 

 qualification I agree with Lord Milner's words : " It would 

 be a true analogy if, as he (Rhodes) gave money to enable 

 Canadians, Australians, etc., to know the Homeland, wealthy 

 men in these countries were to enable men born on this side 

 to become better acquainted with the Oversea Dominions." 



Having had the good fortune many years ago to be 

 selected as chemist and physicist of the "Challenger" expe- 

 dition, I was able in the years 1873 and 1874 to become 

 acquainted with the important Oversea Dominions, South 

 Africa and Australia, and I well remember stating the im- 

 pression which they made on me in conversation with some 

 prominent public men in New Zealand during our short stay 

 there. The gist of my remarks was that in both South Africa 

 and Australia I had seen lands of the greatest fertility and 

 mineral wealth, but with so small a population that, if all 

 the inhabitants had been distributed uniformly over the 

 whole area, the curvature of the earth alone would have 

 been sufficient to hide every individual from his neighbour ; 



