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" Buildings for Faculty of Arts and Department of 

 Zoology," and Edinburgh 65 per cent, to "Chemical 

 Department and Arts accommodation." As regards St 

 Andrews and Dundee, the position in the main is between 

 that of Aberdeen on the one hand, and Edinburgh and 

 Glasgow on the other. But the practice of slumping 

 legitimate and questionable expenditure under one head, 

 illustrated above in the case of Glasgow and Edinburgh, 

 and the payment of debts previously incurred, make a 

 detailed analysis difficult to the outsider. 



In addition to payments to the four universities, and 

 relatively small grants to technical colleges and other 

 institutions, the Carnegie Trustees administer themselves 

 a scheme for the endowment of research. Of a total in 

 round figures of some 621,400 spent under Clause A to 

 30th September 1915, 86,000 or some 14 per cent, have 

 been spent on the research scheme, that is, 27,000 on 

 Fellowships, 30,000 on Scholarships, 21,000 on Grants 

 in Aid, and some 8000 on a Research Laboratory of 

 the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. One 

 might fairly have expected that something more than 

 14 per cent, would have been spent on the research 

 scheme. The answer may be that initially Scotland was 

 ill-equipped with scientific laboratories, and these had 

 first to be provided. But now that these laboratories 

 have been provided, the money is going to provide 

 buildings for Arts subjects to a very questionable extent, 

 instead of to promoting scientific study and research. 



But even what has been done has not been done for 

 research so much as for the teaching of research, a highly 

 important and worthy object enough, but only to be 

 confounded with scientific research by those who have 

 never done any or even been taught the methods. 

 Research Scholarships and Fellowships are excellent in 

 themselves, and will be even more so if, as a result of 

 the war, something less like starvation awaits the holders 

 at the end of their research training. Grants in aid of 

 research are again excellent, and would be more so if 



