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IN the leading article of our issue of September 27 we dealt with the question of University Staffs and University Finance. In the course of the discussion we endeavoured to make the point that where the functions and responsibilities of the staff varied continuously from the lowest to the highest of its members, a reasonable case could be brought forward for a similar continuous variation in remuneration. To illustrate the point, the case of the University of Edinburgh was quoted, where this question has recently been raised in an acute form. We stated that the “average salary of the members of the non-professorial staff (248) was about 260l. and that for the professorial staff (52) about 1100?” Our authority for this statement was contained in a memorandum issued and signed by a staff committee of sixteen containing names of some eminence. Prof. Barger, of that University, writes querying the accuracy of these figures and suggesting that they are misleading, in that there must have been included “a large number of physicians and surgeons of the Royal Infirmary, professors in the College of the United Free Church, advocates, part-time demonstrators, etc. “; that the full-time? on professorial staff is about 123 with an average salary of 433/. He does not tell us what would be the average salary of the professorial staff in these circumstances, nor does he quote his authority. We must leave the question to be decided at Edinburgh, but our main contention remains, of course, unaffected.
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Current Topics and Events. Nature 114, 652–655 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114652a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/114652a0