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its action almost exclusively to scientific instruc- 

 tion, and fatally neglects the advancement of 

 science, my informant tells me that, in German}-, 

 " professors, preceptors, and teachers of secondary 

 " schools are engaged on account of their skilfulncss 

 "in teaching; but professors of universities are 

 " never engaged unless they have already proved, 

 "by tJicir own investigations, that they are to be 

 "relied upon for the advancement of science. There- 

 " fore every shilling spent for instruction in 

 " universities is at the same time profitable to the 

 "advancement of science." 



The physical laboratories which have grown up 

 in the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, 

 and in Owens College, Manchester, show the want 

 felt of Colleges of Research ; but they go but 

 infinitesimally towards supplying it, being abso- 

 lutely destitute of means, material or personal, 

 tor advancing science except at the expense of 

 volunteers, or for securing that volunteers shall 

 be found to continue even such little- work as 

 at present is carried on. 



The whoN- . >f Andrews' splendid work in Queen's 



