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by the traditions of the past, the enthusiasm 

 and devotion of our teachers, the generosity 

 of our founders and benefactors. Funds, it is 

 true, will be needed and must be supplied. A 

 man whose researches may produce a bene- 

 ficial revolution, whose discoveries may prove 

 of untold benefit to mankind, should not 

 depend for a scanty livelihood on the proceeds 

 derived from his yearly cycle of tutorial 

 lectures. Means must be found to increase 

 the endowments of the University for pure 

 research, and funds so expended will in time 

 produce a full harvest. 



Let me, however, endeavour to say some- 

 thing as to the steps to be taken to give 

 science its due place in the education of every 

 man. Have we attacked this question in the 

 right manner, and by we I mean teachers of 

 science generally? 



It is nearly 40 years since the present 



