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CAMBRIDGE.—The Professorship of Experimental Physics has been formally continued by the Senate, and there is now no doubt that if Lord Rayleigh is willing to undertake this onerous office, he will be elected Professor. A memorial requesting him to be a candidate signed by almost every elector in a very short time seems like a command. It shows that there is no fear, and every hope for a beneficial result,to education following. Lord Rayleigh's knowledge of the working of the University and the Scientific Commission will give him a most commanding position. It is a clear “call” from the University when such men as Adams, Besant, Cayley, Dewar, Ferrers, Frost, Garnett, J. W. Glaisher, Hughes, Liveing, R. K. Miller, Peile, Pendlebury, Routh, Salvin, Skeat, Stoke, James Stuart, Todhunter, Venn, James Ward, W. Aldis Wright and others unanimously record their view that it would tend greatly to the advance of physical science and to the advantage of the University that Lord Rayleigh should occupy the chair of Experimental Physics at Cambridge.
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 21, 98 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021098a0
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