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OXFORD.—Want of accommodation in more than one department of the University museum renders it impossible to carry on satisfactory work. The extracts printed below, from the report of the delegates of the museum, tell of a condition of “hope deferred, which maketh the heart sick.“ Prof. J. Burdon-Sanderson reports:—“The Regius Professor of Medicine takes this opportunity of expressing his bitter disappointment that another year has been allowed to pass without any step having been taken towards providing adequate accommodation for the teaching of medical science in the University. It is in his judgment to be feared that if the reasonable requirements of the medical school continue to be disregarded, its further development will be checked, and that the progress of those departments of teaching which have common interests with it will be seriously interfered with.” Prof. R. B. Clifton, Professor of Experimental Philosophy, says: “Some electrical apparatus has been placed in the room formerly allotted to the professor as a private laboratory, and with that in the room devoted to the electrical work of the preliminary classes, it is now possible to offer some, though very restricted, facilities to Honour students who wish to gain experience in the methods of measuring electrical quantities. The professor and demonstrators have now, however, no place in which they can carry on research; and all attempts to undertake work of this character must in future be abandoned. After twelve years of fruitless effort to obtain extended accommodation for Honour students, and the means of providing for the increasing number of those working for the preliminary examination—a class of students not contemplated when the laboratory was designed—it is probably quite useless to trouble the delegates with any further application for assistance in this direction.” It will be difficult for men of science on the Continent and in the United States to believe that so little encouragement is given to scientific work in the University of Oxford.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 58, 165–166 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058165a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/058165a0