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&c. The Clarendon building might be incorporated in Bod- 

 leian (cost, including site in a central position, 80,000/. : — ) ; 

 custody- of same, warming, lighting, cleaning ( — : 400/.) ; 

 stipend of librarian for departmental libraries ( — : 200/.). 



Examination Schools. — Installation of the electric light 

 (1000/. : — ). 



Theology. — Oriel professor of interpretation of Holy Scrip- 

 ture, stipend (the chair to be detached from the canonry at 

 Rochester) ( — : goo/.) ; Dean Ireland's professor, increase of 

 stipend ( — : 500/.) ; two additional professors, ecclesiastical 

 history ( — : goo/.). Christian archaeology ( — : 600/.); four 

 additional readers (joo/. each), ecclesiastical history, liturgi- 

 ology. Rabbinical Hebrew, Biblical archeology ( — : 1200/.); 

 Grinfield lecturer on Biblical Greek, increase of stipend, 

 making the lectureship equal to a readership, w-ith reader's 

 duties ( — : 230/.) ; [additional readers (not exclusively con- 

 cerned with theology) — Aramaic, .Armenian, Coptic, 

 Ethiopic] ( — : 1200/.) ; travelling fellowships (2) ( — : 400/.) ; 

 capital fund from which payment might be made for occa- 

 sional lectures (3000/. : — ). 



Greek, Xew Professor of Mediaeval and Mndcni Greek. — 

 Stipend ( — : goo/.). 



Classical Palaeography. — Stipends of new readers, Greek 

 and Latin (300/. each) ( — : 600/.). 



New chairs of Pali and Persian philology and literature 

 (700/. each) (— : 1400/.). 



Reader in Prakrit Philology and Literature. — Stipend 

 ( — : 300/.) ; increased stipend of 100/. to each of the 

 five teachers of Indian vernacular, and additional grant to 

 Indian Institute for purchase and care of Indian antiquities, 

 &c. (300/.) (— : 800/.). 



:\shmolean Museum. — Extension of site, increase of 

 museum, cases and fittings, including a numismatic depart- 

 ment and space for growth of the departments mentioned 

 below (30,000/. : — ) ; increased staff both for the museum 

 and common service of the Ashmolean museum and univer- 

 sity picture-gallery, and stipend of librarian ( — : 1000/.) ; 

 post-graduate studentship in archt-eologry, art. &c. ( — : 

 1000/.); purchase of specimens, books, &c. ( — : 1500/.). 



Classical .\rchaeology. — Increased stipend of chair, three 

 new readerships (— : 1500/.). 



Increase required for creation of new chairs of Greek and 

 Roman Efiigraphy and Inscriptions (700/. each), Egyptology 

 (700/.), .Assyriology (700/.), History of Religions (700J.), 

 Northern Archaeology (goo/.). History of .irchitecture 

 (gool.) (— : 5300/.) 



University Picture Gallery. — E.xtension of site, increase of 

 gallery (10,000/. : — ). 



Slade Professor of Fine Art. — Increased stipend for resi- 

 dent chair, wages of attendant ( — : 600/.) ; increase of sti- 

 pends, purchases, &c. ( — : 1000/.). 



PHt-Rivers MuscNm (Ethnology). — Increased space, build- 

 ing (8000/.), cases and fittings (4000/.), electric lighting 

 (250/.), (12,250/. : — ) : increase of stipend, a professorship 

 of anthropology might, at some future time, be combined 

 with the curatorship ( — : 700/.) ; assistants, service, general 

 expenses and purchase of specimens ( — : 700/.). 



Astronomy, Savilian. — Building and apparatus (10,000/. 

 : — ) ; annual grant to make up a moderately efficient and 

 well-equipped observatory with an income of 5000/. ( — : 

 3500/.). 



Increase required for creation of new chairs in scientific 

 subjects and the building and new laboratories, &c. Under 

 each chair the first-named sum represents capital expenditure 

 for a new building, or for adapting an existing structure; 

 the second sum represents the annual expenditure for the 

 stipend of the chair, provision of demonstrators and assist- 

 ants, the expenses of research and of service and main- 

 tenance ; 



Engineering (30.000/. : 3000/.) ; Organic Chemistry 

 (30,000/. : 3000/.) ; Physiological and Applied Botany 

 (20,000/. : 2000/.); Biochemistry (12,000/ : 2000/.); Experi- 

 mental Psychology (15.000/.:' 2000/.); Pathology ( — : 

 ijoo/. . allowing for existing readership): Phannacology 

 and Materia Medico (15.000/. : 1500/., allowing for existing 

 lectureship) ; .State Medicine and Hygiene (10.000/. : 2000/.). 

 The Regius professorship of medicine might perhaps be com- 

 bined with one of the suggested new chairs of medicine. 



Increase required for building new^ or adapting old 

 laboratories and other capital expenditure, for existing chairs 

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in scientific subjects, &c., for increase of the stipend of the 

 chairs, for additional demonstrators and assistants, and for 

 the expenses of research and of service and jT\aintenance. 

 The capital expenditure is placed first, the annual second, 

 under each chair : 



Experimental Philosophy, Clarendon. — Light and Sound 

 (25,000/., to include provision for elementary students and for 

 examinations : 2000/.) ; Electricity and Magnetism, Wyke- 

 ham (30,000/. : 2000/.) ; Heat, Lee's (30,000/. : 2000/., allow- 

 ing for Lee's readership) ; Inorganic Chemistry, Waynflete 

 (30,000/., old laboratory for extension of mineralogy, geology, 

 and the Radcliffe library : 2200/.) ; Physical Chemistry. 

 Lee's (30,000/. : 2000/., allowing for Lee's readership) ; 

 Mineralogy, Waynflete (15,000/. : 2200/., including an assis- 

 tant chair of metallurgy): Geology (20,000/. : 3000/., includ- 

 ing two assistant chairs) ; Comparative .inatomy, Linacre 

 ( — : 1000/.) ; Zoology, Hope (7000/., chiefly for cabinets ( — : 

 2500/., including the maintenance of a tropical biological' 

 laboratory) ; Systematic Botany, Sherardian ( — : 1000/.) ; 

 Animal Physiology, Waynflete (6000/.: 1000/.); Human 

 Anatomy ( — : 1000/.). 



.Secretary of the Museum Delegates and of the Scientific 

 Departments. — Increase of staff for the general purposes of 

 the museum and to enable the secretary to collect all fees of 

 the scientific departments ( — : 400/.). 



Sites for Scientific Departments. — For purchase of land in 

 the neighbourhood of the present museum (50.000/. : — ). 



Geography. — Stipend of new chair ( — : 700/.) ; assistant 

 lecturers ( — : 750/.). 



University Chest. — Increased income to meet expenses in 

 connection with additional buildings ( — : 2000/.). 



Modern History. — New chairs of economic history, 

 colonial history, and military history (goo/, each) ( — : 

 2700/.); "seminars." maintenance and equipment of (100/. 

 for each of the chairs) ( — : 500/.); Lectureships — additional 

 payment of existing lecturers and appointment of new lec- 

 turers, class expenses ( — : 1500/.). 



Political Economy. — Increased stipend of chair (200/.), see 

 also the new chair of economic history proposed under 

 Modern History ; lecturers in economic theory, in statistics 

 and applied economics, and in economic geographv (200/. 

 each) ; expenditure on examinations, &c. (50/.) ; secretary and 

 clerk (150/.), ( — : 1000/.). 



English Language. — Two assistants in English language 

 (- : 600?.). 



English Literature. — Increased stipend of chair (400/.); 

 two assistant lecturers in English literature (150/. each); 

 one reader in rhetoric and criticism (300/.) ( — : 1000/.). 



Modern Languages. — Increase of stipends of Taylorian 

 teachers to 600/. each ( — : 1600/.) : assistant lecturers ( — : 

 1000/.). 



New Chair of Phonetics. — Stipend ( — : goo/.). 



Total (546,250/. : g3,88o/.). 



PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE DEPART- 

 MENTAL COMMITTEE ON THE ROYAL 

 COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ROYAL 

 SCHOOL OF MINES. 



To THE Most Honourable the Marquess of London- 

 derry, K.G., President of the Board of Education. 

 My Lord Marquess, 



We, the Departmental Committee appointed by Your 

 Lordship in April last to inquire into the present and 

 future working of the Royal College of Science (including 

 the Royal School of Mines), and into questions connected 

 therewith, have the honour to submit a Preliminary Report. 

 I. In conducting the inquiry referred to us. we have held 

 17 meetings, at which we have e.xamined 21 witnesses, 

 the remainder of the time having been devoted to con- 

 sideration of the information thus supplied to us. The 

 evidence which we have received has been largely con- 

 cerned with the history of the Royal College of Science 

 (including the Royal School of Mines), with the character 

 of the instruction now given therein, and with the possi- 

 bility of attracting students more advanced in their educa- 

 tion than the majority of those who now seek admission. 

 On this branch of our inquiry we should be prepared to 

 submit recommendations which we think would conduce 



