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THE Committee appointed to consider the basis upon which the grant of £15,000 a year for University Colleges in Britain should be distributed have recommended that the grant should be divided as follows:—To Owens College, Manchester, £1800; to University College and King's College, London, £1700 each; to Liverpool University College, £1500; to Mason College, Birmingham, the Yorkshire College, Leeds, and Nottingham University College, £1400 each; to Bristol University College, the Durham College of Science,. Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Firth College, Sheffield, £1200 each. The Committee are of opinion that University College, Dundee, should be dealt with in connection with the Scottish Universities, and especially with the University of St. Andrews; but they recommend that it should for the present year have a grant of £500.

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Notes. Nature 40, 304–307 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040304b0

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