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EDINBURGH, May 31, 1889. DEAR SIR.-I have just returned from a six weeks' stay at the Ben Nevis Observatory, and while there had an opportunity of testing the admirable qualities of your new "Watkin" Aneroid. The result has been most satisfactory, the extreme error noted being only about of an inch. During my stay at the Ob. ervatory the Aneroid was requently tested by taking down 2000 feet and then omparing it with the stanlard on my return. The results obtained speak volumes for the high-class workmanship and great accuracy you have attained in the manufacture of this instrunient.

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With this Aneroid no calculation or technical knowledge is required. It meets a long-recognized want. Every one is aware that the altitude affects the readings of the Barometer, but many people do not know exactly what correction to make.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1892.

THE NEW UNIVERSITY QUESTION. `HE correspondence between Prof. Huxley and Prof. Pearson which has appeared in the Times is not easant reading. With infinite pains and trouble an sociation had been formed to support the foundation London of a university of a certain type. A nucleus of most eminent teachers or ex-teachers in London had llected around them a powerful body of supporters m the provinces. In Prof. Huxley as President, and · Henry Roscoe as Vice-President, the Association cured the services of two men distinguished both as ofessors and for their knowledge of affairs. It appears have been less fortunate in its secretary. Prof. Karl carson had some difference with his fellow committeeen on a question of procedure. He himself has scribed the divergence as not fundamental and has blicly stated that he believes that the other members the committee were aiming at securing the establishent of a university of the type which he himself proves. So comparatively trifling was the issue, that, cording to Prof. Huxley, Prof. Pearson himself prosed that the reason to be given for his resignation ould be "pressure of work." No doubt can therefore st as to the cogency of this motive. His position was parently even more clearly defined by his not voting ainst the course of action proposed on the occasion of neeting which was shortly to take place between the nate of the University of London and the Committee the Association, and by his spontaneously pledging nself "to say nothing as a member of the deputation, ntrary to what was then agreed to."

It is therefore no wonder that Prof. Huxley was prised, when on the very next day Prof. Pearson ote to the Times, discussing resolutions which of. Huxley regarded as confidential and accusing colleagues of various offences, of which the y before he thought so little that he had voluntarily ted that "pressure of work" was the reason to be en for his resignation.

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One good result may perhaps follow from Prof. rson's action. Owing to the sense which has unforately been attached to the word "absorb," and to assumption that the title "Professorial University' int a University governed solely by Professors, an ion has got about that the members of the Asation are impracticable persons, who have pronded an unworkable scheme. It is true that both isations are directly met by the published programme he Association. It is there made clear that a ntary absorption is all that is aimed at, and that en as well as experts are to have a share in the agement of the University. Prof. Pearson's defection made it still more obvious that the Association me is intended, not to gratify theorists, but to supa policy which is capable of realization.

of. Pearson declares that he desires a University on model of Berlin; but the question at once arises, Is the el to be followed exactly, or are modifications to be intro? Is the University to be free from all State control?

Prof. Huxley desires that it shall be free, and under existing circumstances we cordially agree with him. Let the State, if it will, nay as it must, support and subsidize the new University as it supports the British Museum, but let the control of the one, as of the other, be in the hands of an independent Governing Body. But, if this condition is realized, there is at once a fundamental difference between the actual University of Berlin and the possible University of London. The external element furnished in Germany by State control must in England be supplied by lay members of the Governing Body, and the difference thus established will run throughout the whole of the constitution.

Prof. Huxley publishes in his letter to the Times an outline of a scheme for the organization of the University which is too interesting to be omitted here. He explains that he gives the rough notes on which his evidence before the Gresham University Commission was based. The scheme is as follows:

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(6) Make the institutions which contain technical schools of theology, law, medicine, engineering, and so on into colleges of the University. Let these examine their own candidates for degrees, under conditions determined jointly by them and the Senate of the University; and present such as they declare fit to the University for ad eundem graduation.

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(c) Deal in the same way with institutions giving adequate instruction in the other categories of University work-if they so please; or let the University examine.

"(d) Provide ample means for instruction in the modes of advancing natural knowledge and art, either in material connexion with the existing University or in particular colleges.

"(e) Professoriate to have large but not preponderant representation in Senate, and wide, but not exclusive, influence in regulating instruction and examination in accordance with the general aim at unification.

"(f) All state and municipal contributions, private endowments and University fees for instruction and examination to be paid into a University chest. All professorial staff and current expenses (save in cases that may be reserved) to be paid out of the University chest; also building and fitting expenses where there is no sufficient endowment of a college. The payment of the professorial staff to be primarily regulated by the kind and amount of the work done for the University, not by number of students.

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'(g) No bar to be placed in the way of any one who desires to profit by any description of University instruction. If, after trial, he does not profit, time enough to exclude. Value of exclusion as disciplinary measure."

Any one who takes the trouble to compare this scheme with the original programme of the Association will see that they are in close accord. It is true that the Association put forward the complete voluntary absorption of the colleges as the result most to be desired, but it distinctly contemplated the possibility of relations between the University and institutions or colleges which were not completely absorbed, and it will be seen that the only terms on which Prof. Huxley will permit relations to be established between the University and the colleges secure to the former a very large measure of authority.

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