140 Dr Lauder Lindsay on the Place and Power of 
Zealand will gradually, more and more than at present, be 
selected as the residence of our successful Australians, and East 
Indians. Its climate will be in request as one better suited to 
the physical training of youth than the climates of more tropical 
countries. Did good educational establishments, of the higher 
kinds especially, exist in the Middle Island of New Zealand, this 
would probably prove a great attraction, from the excellent op- 
portunities offered for the education of youth, to many who 
might not otherwise have thought of emigrating, or of sending 
their sons or families hither. For many reasons, it appears to 
me the Middle Island will be preferred to the north as a place of 
residence, and a place of education, And further, it seems to me 
that the first of the New Zealand Provinces, which will establish 
a University, will, ceteris paribus, attract towards itself the 
classes of persons above referred to, Iam glad to find the same 
view has occurred to the late Dr Arthur Thomson, in his “ Story 
of New Zealand,” the most recent and best work on New Zealand, 
with which I am acquainted. His remarks are so apposite and 
brief, that I make no apology here for introducing them. ‘“ 4 
University of the highest order is urgently required in New 
Zealand, Such an establishment would draw within its walls 
large numbers of the Australian aristocracy, as Anglo-Saxons 
born and reared on that continent are occasionally destitute of the 
bodily energy requisite for the full development of the mind. 
Two generations in Australia change the children of the broad- 
shouldered emigrants into a lithe race, more nervous than 
muscular. ‘Sydney corn-stalks,’ as the youths of that city are 
denominated, are no match in intellect against men brought up 
in colder countries. For this reason, Australian settlers will 
strive to give their children a few years’ residence in climates 
more invigorating than that in which they were born; and it is 
already discovered that the best period for this is on the approach 
of maturity, when youth is rising into manhood, and the mind is 
developing itself for the future battle of life. Whichever province 
in New Zealand, therefore, can found a University, where youth 
can be taught as the youth of England are taught, will acquire a 
name and an influence in the Southern hemisphere, not to be — 
measured by money or the figures of the statist.” |Vol, iL, 
p.230.] So far, at least, as the study of Natural History is con- 
cerned, I can scarcely conceive a more fitting site for an 
“ Academe” than Dunedin. In the midst of magnificent scenery, 
with a rich and varied geological and botanical field before him, the 
student’s natural advantages are great ; and these advantages would 
be enhanced, had he access to Museums and Botanic Gardens, 
Libraries and Class-rooms, as already described. If a Museum or 
Botanic Garden appear to you necessarily expensive, I fear a 
