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funds which could be or are used to promote scientific 

 research. Amongst all these variously arranged in- 

 stitutions there is an extraordinarily small amount of 

 provision for biological research. In London there is 

 one professorship only, that at the Normal School of 

 Science, which is maintained by a stipend paid by 

 the State, and has a laboratory and salaried assistants, 

 similarly maintained, in connection with it. The 

 only other posts in London which are provided with 

 stipends intended to enable their holders to pursue 

 researches in the domain of biological science, are the 

 two chairs of physiology and of zoology at University 

 College, which, through the munificence of a private 

 individual (Mr. Jodrell), have been endowed to the 

 extent of £250 a year each. (See Appendix C.) To 

 these should be added, in our calculation, certain posts 

 in connection with the British Museum of Natural 

 History and the Royal Gardens at Kew, maintained 

 by the State ; though it must be remembered that a 

 large part of the expenditure in those institutions is 

 necessarily taken up in the preservation of great 

 national collections, and is not applicable to the sub- 

 vention of investigators. We may, however, reckon 

 about six posts, great and small, in the British 

 Museum, and four at Kew, as coming into the category 

 which we have in view. Li London, then, we may 

 reckon approximately some fourteen or fifteen sub- 

 sidised posts for biological research. In Oxford there 

 fall under this category the professorship of anatomy 

 and his assistant, that of physiology, that of zoology, 

 that of botany. The Oxford professorships are well 



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