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The Cavendish laboratory, owing to the position it 

 has for years taken in the promotion of physical 

 research, is overcrowded with students and researchers. 

 Lord Rayleigh has most generously given to the 

 University the Nobel prize gained by him in 1904. Of 

 this benefaction, ;£'s,ooo have been assigned as a con- 

 tribution towards the desired new wing ; but money 

 will be required for maintenance ; and the professor 

 estimates that a sum of £7,^00 is now wanted for 

 instruments, machinery, and laboratory fittings. The 

 professor of chemistry asks for more apparatus and 

 higher stipends for his teachers. He draws attention 

 to the need for a metallurgical laboratory, the provision 

 of which, in view of the recent establishment of a 

 diploma in mining engineering, is urgent. Mineralogy 

 asks only for a trained attendant and £3$ a year; but 

 for meteorology there is no real provision. 



The Sedgwick museum, in which the department of 

 geology is now housed, has involved much expense in 

 furnishing. Although the existing furniture was all 

 retained, there is still a demand for more cabinets; 

 and Professor Hughes would like to spend ;£^2,8oo on 

 these alone, while a large sum should be set apart for 

 maintenance, wages, and the increase of stipends. 

 The demands of botany are not yet completely satis- 

 fied. A readership to deal with the newly recog- 

 nized study of scientific forestry has recently been 

 created. 



In zoology, if we leave out of account the need 

 for higher stipends for teachers and higher wages for 

 attendants, which runs like a thread through all the 

 departments, there are two chief requirements. The 

 first is for a new or, at any rate, a greatly enlarged 

 museum. It is doubtful if the existing site is large 

 enough to allow an adequate increase to the present 

 structure ; and to build a new building on another 

 site would probably cost ;^3o,ooo ; nevertheless, with 



