REPORT OF THE SCIENTIFIC EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE. xlv 



APPENDIX A. 

 I. Oxford, 



The Natural Science School at Oxford was established in the year 1853. By 

 recent changes the University allows those who have gained a first, second, 

 or third class in this school to graduate without passing the classical school, 

 provided they have obtained honours, or have passed in three books at least, at 

 the second classical examination, viz., moderations (which is usually passed 

 in the second year of residence) ; honours in this school are thus placed 

 on an equality with classical honours. The first classical examination, ' re- 

 sponsions,' is generally passed in the first term of residence. Arithmetic and 

 two books of Euclid, or algebra up to simple equations, are a necessary 

 part of this examination. 



The University offers ample opportunities for the study of physics, che- 

 mistrj^, physiology, and other branches of natural science. At present only a 

 few of the Colleges have lecturers on this subject ; while for classics and mathe- 

 matics every College professes to have an adequate staff of teachers. At Christ 

 Church, however, a very complete chemical laboratory has been lately opened. 



A junior studentship at Christ Church and a demyship at Magdalen College, 

 tenable for five years, are, by the statutes of those Colleges, awarded annually 

 for proficiency in natural science. A scholarship, tenable for three years, 

 lately founded by Miss Brackenbury at BalUol College for the promotion 

 of the study of Natural Science, will be given away every two years. "With 

 the exception of Merton College, where a scholarship is to be shortly given 

 for proficiency in natural science, no College has hitherto assigned any 

 scholarships to natural science. The number of scholarships at the Colleges 

 is stated to be about 400, varying in annual value from £100 to £60. 

 "With these should be reckoned College exhibitions*, to the number of at least 

 220, which range in annual value from £145 to £20, and exhibitions awarded 

 at school, many of which are of considerable value. 



The two Burdett-Coutts geological scholarships, tenable for two years, and 

 of the annual value of £75, are open to all members of the University who 

 have passed the examination for the B.A degree, and have not exceeded 

 the 27th term from their matriculation. Every year a fellowship of £200 a 

 year, tenable for three years (half of which time must be spent on the Con- 

 tinent) on Dr. RadclifFe's foundation, is at present competed for by candidates 

 who, having taken a first class in the school of natural science, propose to 

 enter the medical profession. 



At Christ Church two of the senior studentships (fellowships) are awarded 

 for proficiency in natural science : at the examination for one of these, che- 

 mistry is the principal subject, and for the other physiology. 



At Magdalen College it is provided that, for twenty years from the year 

 1857, every fifth fellowship is assigned to mathematics and physical science 

 alternately. In the statutes of this and of every College in Oxford (except 

 Corpus, Exeter, and Lincolnf) the following clause occurs :— " The system of 



* At Magdalen College there will be twenty exhibitions tenable for five years, and of 

 the value of £75 a year, to be held by persons in need of support at the University ; in the 

 election to these, " the subjects of examination, for one exhibition at least in each year, shall 

 be mathematics and physical science alternately." 



t These Colleges exercised the powers of making statutes granted to them by the Oxford 

 University Act of 1854, 17 and 18 "Vic. cap. 81. In the statutes of Exeter College it is 

 provided that, in the election of Fellows, "preference shall be given to those candidates in 

 whom shall be found the highest moral and intellectual qualifications, such intellectual 

 qualifications having been tested by an examination in such subjects as the College from time 



