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Merchant Tavlors', Ironmongers', and Vintners' Companies. 

 Lord Reav, Hon. W. F. D. Smith, M.P., Lord Edmond 

 Fitzmaurice, M.P., Sir William Hart Dyke, M.P., Mr. 

 James Bryce, M.P., Sir Donald Currie, and Lord Stanley 

 of Alderley. The principal of University College (Dr. Carey 

 Foster), the principal of King's College (Dr. Headlam), 

 Lord Macnaghten, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of 

 Rochester, Sir John Wolfe-Barry, K.C.B., F.R.S., Mr. 

 A. H. D. Acland, and Mrs. James Bryce. 



Durham University was represented by Lord London- 

 derry, Earl Percy, the Bishop of Durham, the Dean of 

 Durham, Principal Gurney, Lord Armstrong, Hon. C. A. 

 Parsons. F.R.S., and Sir E. Grey, Bart. 



The Chancellor of Victoria University, Manchester (Earl 

 Spencer, K.G.), the Lord Mavor of Manchester, Sir J. T. 

 Hibbert, K.C.B., Sir William Houldsworth, Bart., M.P., 

 Sir James Fergusson, Bart., M.P., Sir J. Hoy, Sir Frank 

 Forbes Adam, Prof. Schuster, Prof. Dixon. 



The Chancellor of Leeds University (Marquis of Ripon, 

 K.G.), Lord Wenlock, chairman East Riding Council; Mr. 

 Herbert Gladstone, M.P. 



The Chancellor of Liverpool University (Earl of Derbv, 

 K.G.), Prof. Boyce, F.R.S., Sir J. T. Brunner, Bart., M.P. 

 The Chancellor of Birmingham University (Mr. Chamber- 

 lain), Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir A. Hickman, M.P., Lord Cecil 

 Manners, M.P., Sir P. A. Muntz, M.P. 



The Bishop of Hereford, president of University College, 

 Bristol; Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, F.R.S., the Right Hon. 

 Lewis Frv, Sir Frederick Wills, Bart., M.P., and Mr. 

 C. E. Hob'house, M.P. Alderman J. Bright, J. P., chairman 

 of council of University College, Nottingham ; Lord Henry 

 Bentinck, M.P., and Sir F. A. Milner, M.P. Mr. J. H. 

 Benyon, president of University College, Reading. The 

 Dul<e of Norfolk, K.G., president of University College, 

 Sheffield; Sir Fredk. Mappin, Bart., M.P., Dr. Hicks, 

 F.R.S., Sir W. H. Holland, .M.P., and Sir Howard Vincent, 

 >LP. The Duke of Wellington, K.G., president of 

 Hartley University College, Southampton ; and Lord North- 

 brook, chairman Hampshire County Council. 



The Head Masters' Conference, Rev. Dr. Gow. The Head 

 Masters' Association, Canon Bell, Dr. McClure. The 

 .Assistant Masters' Association, the chairman, Mr. G. F. 

 Daniell ; vice-chairman, Mr. R. F. Cholmeley ; and others. 



The British Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 the president. Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., and 

 the treasurer. The Royal Academy of Arts, the 

 president. Sir Edward Povnter, R..'\. The Society of 

 Arts, Sir W. de W. Abnev, 'K.C.B., F.R.S. Institution of 

 Civil Engineers, Sir William H. White, K.C.B., F.R.S. 

 Iron and Steel Institute, the president. The Societv of 

 Chemical Industry, Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S. 

 Associated Chambers of Commerce, the president. Associ- 

 ation of Municipal Corporations, Sir Albert Rollit, M.P. 

 County Councils Association, Sir John T. Hibbert, K.C.B. 



The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales (Principal 

 Griffiths, F.R.S.), Lord Rendel, Sir Lewis Morris, the Right 

 Hon. Lord Kenyon, Prof. R. W. Phillips, Prof. W. Rhys 

 Roberts, the Lord Lieutenants of many counties, the Right 

 Rev. the Lord Bishop of Llandaff, the Right Rev. the 

 Lord Bishop of St. David's, and the president of the Miners' 

 Federation. 



The principal of the University' of St. Andrews (Dr. 

 James Donaldson), the president of University College, 

 Dundee (Earl of Camperdown), and Sir John Long, M.P. 

 University of Glasgow, Prof. G. G. Ramsay, Prof. Thomas 

 McCall Anderson, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Bart., M.P., 

 Sir Herbert E. Maxwell, Bart., M.P. University of 

 Aberdeen, Sir George King, K.C.I.E., F.R.S. University 

 of EHinburgh, the Vice-Chancellor and principal, Sir 

 William Turner, K.C.B. 



The Chancellor of the University of Dublin and Trinity 

 College (Earl of Rosse, K.P., F.R.S.), Lord Rathmore, and 

 the provost of Trinity College (Dr. Traill). The Vice- 

 Chancellor of the Royal University of Ireland (Right Rev. 

 Monsignor Molloy). The president of Queen's College, 

 Belfast (Dr. Hamilton), the Lord Mayor of Belfast. The 

 president of Queen's College, Cork (Sir Rowland Blenner- 

 hassett, Bart.). The president of Queen's College, Gal way 

 (Dr. Alex. Anderson). The president of University College, 

 Dublin, Catholic University of Dublin (Rev. W. Delany, 

 S.J.). 



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Principal Petersen, the McGill University, Montreal. 

 Prof. A. Liversidge, University of Sydney. 



Limitations of space will not permit the publication 

 of a complete report in these columns, but the sub- 

 joined extracts from the speeches will convey an idea 

 of the points raised. .After the deputation had been 

 briefly introduced by Sir Norman Lockyer, Prof. 

 Pelham, speaking on behalf of the Hebdomadal 

 Council of the University of Oxford, said : — 



We are here to e.xpress our entire sympathy with the 

 main object of this deputation. The older universities 

 welcome this opportunity of standing in line with the newer 

 universities which are growing up around us. 



The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 

 (Dr. Chase) said : — 



The council of the Senate of the University of Cambridge 

 is deeply conscious, as, indeed, everyone must be who 

 looks thoughtfully on the events of the time, how much 

 that higher culture and that thorough scientific study and 

 research which it is the province of a university to promote 

 are needed for the service of the English nation. 



It appears to us that the universities, in view of the 

 increasing work which they are doing on behalf of the 

 nation, are justified in asking for the sympathy and the 

 cooperation of the State. We heartily join in the prayer 

 that the Government would be pleased to regard the work 

 of universities as of supreme national and imperial import- 

 ance, and to give such aid as the several universities need 

 and as wider considerations of national finance render 

 possible. 



Mr. Chamberlain, as Chancellor of the L'niversity 

 of Birmingham, speaking on behalf of the new uni- 

 versities, said : — 



Let me take Birmingham as an example and as a parallel 

 to what is being done in Liverpool, Manchester, Wales, and 

 Leeds. We have had to prepare the plan of a new scientific 

 university, to deal only with that side of our work, at an 

 estimated cost of 1,000, oooi. sterling. Even then we shall 

 not have fulfilled all our objects, for there will be many 

 branches of higher scientific and practical education for 

 which we have made no sufficient provision. In the case 

 of Birmingham local subscription has produced about 

 450,000/., and on the basis of that subscription we have put 

 in hand what will amount to little more than one-third of 

 the university requirements. We have called in aid the 

 local rates, and the three counties of which Birmingham 

 is the centre each contribute the sum of 500/. a year, and 

 the corporation of the City of Birmingham has offered in 

 aid a rate of \i. in the pound, which will produce some- 

 thing between 6000L and 7000/. per annum. Now, what- 

 ever may have been done, it is not enough, and we recognise 

 that by our own unassisted resources alone we cannot 

 provide the kind of education we believe the country re- 

 quires. .Already the State pays something like 13,000,000!. 

 a year for primary education. Only a few thousands a 

 year are found for the higher education to which we have 

 learned to attach so great a value. I am not speaking 

 merely as a Chancellor, but I have had some practical 

 experience of the advantage which every statesman finds 

 in discovering sources from which funds may be provided 

 for all the admirable objects brought to his notice, and I 

 do not press on you any particular figure or method of 

 dealing with the important matter we have brought before 

 you, but I hope we may have some crumbs from your table. 

 I hope at least the present Government may be able to 

 make a satisfactory beginning in recognising these new 

 necessities. Possibly that beginning may not be wholly 

 satisfactory to us, but we shall be always ready to take 

 half a loaf until the time comes when we can get the 

 whole, and I believe the initiation of such a policy on the 

 part of any Government will be one of its best claims to 

 the gratitude of the people of this country. 



Sir William White, K.C.B., F.R.S., speaking as 

 president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and 



