efficiency. This will not be thought an extravagant figure when it is remembered that the need of the Birmingham University was estimated at £5,000,000, and that the Welsh colleges minister to the needs of a far more diverse population. The agriculture, the manufactures, the mining and the over-sea commerce of Wales all demand the enlightenment and intelligence which can only be developed in universities efficiently equipped for their work. Devonshire, Duke of, 69. Disraeli, Mr., 173. Drawing, importance of, 12, 25. E. École Normale, foundation of the, 88. École spéciale des Hautes Etudes, 206. beneficent effects of, 34. cost of primary and secondary, essentials of a modern, 228. in Parliament, 46. in politics, 46. in the Navy, 150. national importance of, 122. results of imperfect, 188. the true aims of, 234. What is the best, 234. Egypt, 106. Electricity, application of, 110. and in Britain, 192. England, decline of, 122, 123. neglect of research in, 6. Eudemus, 81. Ewing, Prof., 162. Examinations, evils of, 13, 16, 55, 237. Galileo, 107. G. Geology, advantages reaped from India, encouragement of science in, 211. Indigo, German production of, 126. Pasteur, 113. Patent Fund, Application of the, 8. "Peace Council," need for a, 67. Perry, Prof. Edward Delavan, 250. Philosophy, and the Royal Society, Playfair, Lord, 50, 78, 208. Politicans, lamentable ignorance of Priestcraft, antagonistic to Science, 101. discouraged by University authori- endowment of, 66. importance of, 5, 115, 119, 204. necessity for State-aided, 7, 194. Rome, science in ancient, 79, 107. Royal College of Science, attributes Royal Exhibitions, 97. Royal Society, The, abrogation of classification of Fellows of, 146. literary and antiquarian Presi- dents of, 144. applied to Universities, 197. Tycho Brahe, 119. U. The, United Kingdom, number of Univer- educational awakening in the, 232. ideal education in Western, 230. progress in the, 52, 225. University property and incomes |