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endowment fund provided. ‘To-day there are 94 full-time and 116 part- 
time students on the College rolls. 
It should be noted that during the year 1931-32, from the city alone, 
11g secondary school pupils obtained exemption from the London 
Matriculation and 21 passed the Intermediate Examination for the 
B.A. Degree. 
Since its opening the Vaughan College has been the centre of education 
conducted in the spirit of its founder. In 1930 the Board of Governors 
handed the buildings and endowment over to the University College 
as a home for the extra-mural classes conducted under the latter’s zgis. 
The development of extra-mural work has been in consequence very rapid. 
Half the building was let to the Education Committee for the holding of 
adult classes in connection with the Evening Institutes. This adult 
Vaughan Institute has proved extraordinarily popular. 
In connection with the great developments referred to above, one 
name must be mentioned, that of Alderman Sir Jonathan North, D.L., 
J.P., who for 26 years has been chairman of the Education Committee, 
and (from its earliest days) chairman of the University College Council. 
It is believed that in very deed the way to the top by any recognised 
route is open to every Leicester child. By free places, maintenance 
allowances, scholarships, and loans the travelling along this route is 
made possible to the poorest. 
X. 
MEN OF SCIENCE IN LEICESTER 
AND LEICESTERSHIRE 
BY 
F. B. LOTT, M.A. 
Individual Scientists in Early Days—William Lilly, 1602-1681—William 
Ludlam, 1717-1788—Robert Bakewell, 1725-1795—-Richard Pulteney, 
1732-1814—Richard Phillips, 1767-1840—Henry Walter Bates, 1825-1892 
—tThe Scientific Sections of the Leicester Literary and Scientific Society— 
Geology, Botany, Zoology, Meteorology, Chemistry and Physics, Ento- 
mology, Economics, and Astronomy—tThe Leicester Museum, 1849—-1914— 
Brief Sketch of more Recent Changes and of Present Conditions. 
Tuis chapter gives a short account of men born in, or connected with’ 
Leicestershire who did notable work in science. 
The first of these is that of one widely known and important in his 
lifetime—William Litty (1602-1681). He was born at Diseworth and 
educated at the Grammar School, Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Early in his life 
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