384 Scientific Intelligence. — Miscellaneous. 



times the amount of salary which is thought liberal for a professor of 

 a college. If an eminent barrister is appointed to some place, less 

 than £1000 a-year would not be offered him, and even the obscure 

 members of the legal profession can readily obtain from £500 to 

 £700 per annum ; but the moment a scientific man is in question, 

 £300 is considered to be the equivalent of his services, no matter 

 how brilliant, while the junior members are considered to be suffi- 

 ciently paid if they receive a salary of a draper's assistant. We 

 have selected the Government rewards for scientific and literary 

 service*, not because they are exceptions to those conferred by the 

 public, but because they shew the standard by which the latter 

 judge of the value of education ; and as long as that remains, such 

 as it is, we can scarcely believe that the public is seriously desirous 

 of either intellectual or industrial education. We ask of our readers 

 to consider calmly and earnestly the above points. One false step 

 made in the beginning would precipitate us again into the slough 

 from which we have already made some successful efforts to escape. 

 Let them ponder well over this fact, that to be an educated people 

 is to be respected, to be prosperous, to be independent. — (The Dub- 

 lin Monthly Journal of Industrial Progress, No. 11, p. 44.) 



38. The Earl of Rosse, K.P.M.A., on Education. — " I do not 

 contend," says the Earl of Rosse, " that science can in a moment in- 

 crease our success in the arts, upon which the greatness of this 

 country depends. If we were to say to the mathematician, give us 

 the best lines for a ship suited to a given purpose, however profound 

 his mathematical knowledge might be, he would fail ; practice must 

 be combined, but in due subordination with theory. It is where in 

 a nation science is cultivated profoundly by a large class of persons, 

 and circumstances exist tending to direct it to practice, that some 

 men will always be found gifted with the faculty of applying it 

 whatever way the interests of the country may require. 



Popular science, however, will not do ; it has its uses, subordinate 

 as they are. It must be science of a high order ; science as taught 

 at our universities. There, a power is created capable of effecting 

 great objects, but in too many cases it is not applied at all, and it 

 now passes away without useful results. Were it possible to enlist 

 that gigantic power into the service of the country, by making our 

 scientific associations more inviting, by placing science in this metro- 

 polis in a position more attractive, a result would be obtained which 

 the meanest utilitarian would consider of immense value. — (Pro- 

 ceedings of the Royal Society, London.) 



