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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 Chem- 

 istry, 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 University. 



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 and country. I 

 mean the proper support and encouragement of origi- 

 nal research. 



The other day, an emphatic friend of mine commit- 

 ted himself to the opinion that, in England, it is better 

 for a man's worldly prospects to be a drunkard, than to 

 be smitten with the divine dipsomania of the original 

 investigator. I am inclined to think he was not far 



