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engineers, designers, &c. ; (6) the number of British subjects 
employed in similar positions abroad : (a) the number of aliens 
holding curatorships, professorships, &c., in British universities, 
colleges, museums, &c. ; (b) the number of British subjects filling 
similar posts abroad: («) the number of British subjects studying 
at foreign universities, &c. ; ( b ) the number of aliens studying 
at British universities, &c. 
If, when these returns are obtained, the values a are found to 
be comparatively large and increasing, whilst b are small and 
decreasing, then Professor Galloway is right, and the Committee 
of Council on Education, with its appendage the Department of 
Science and Art, is wrong. If a is relatively small and de- 
creasing, then Prof. Galloway is mistaken. 
As one crumb of fadb I may mention that in the year 1858 
there was in the Lancashire alkali distridl one foreign chemist 
employed. Now it would be easy to count up a dozen ! 
Looker-on. 
A PLEA FOR CRAM. 
Though you are the persistent and indefatigable opponent of the 
English system of education, your well-known candour will, I 
think, induce you to give space to the following considerations : 
— It often happens, in various walks of professional life, that a 
man has to get up a subject for some particular occasion, and 
that at a very short notice. He is not required to produce any 
original research on the subject, but merely to have at his com- 
mand a fair summary of the present state of human knowledge 
in that department. When the occasion is over he may never 
want this information again, and if he forgets it he is therefore 
no loser. 
Now if a considerable part of a man’s education has consisted 
in qualifying himself for examinations, and in passing them, he 
will, I think, find the task easier and more congenial than if his 
early training had, as you recommend and as the Germans seem 
to practise, consisted in qualifying himself for profound original 
research. 
E. L. N. 
