PREFACE SEVERAL friends suggested that I should issue my Presidential address in pamphlet form. I thought it might be useful to do this if it could be accompanied by the data (which had been published in "Nature") on which a large part of the address is based. I therefore begged Messrs. Macmillan and the writers of the articles to grant me permission to reprint certain parts of them. This was at once given, and I have to express my best thanks for the favour thus extended to me. NORMAN LOCK YER 16 Penywern Road, S.W. 57 68 Appendices: 1. The German Universities. 2. The Universities of the United States. 3. The Requirements of the University of Birmingham 4. The Requirements of the Welsh University and Colleges 72 |