An unknown benefactor has enabled. Owens College, Man- chester, to
try a very interesting experiment in the endowment of research. Five hundred a year for an experimental term of three years has been placed at the disposal of the Council of Owens College, who accordingly propose, early in October, to elect five fellows, who are to have 2100 a year each, or at that rate for any time for which they retain the fellowship, to place themselves under the direction of the Professor of the subject to which they propose to apply themselves, and• to give at the close of the year evidence of the progress which has been mode, either by a lecture, a paper, or any other adequate memorial o the research made. The election will not be the result of ex- amination, but will depend on the evidence placed at the disposal of the Senate of Owens College as to the capacity, promise, and needs of the candidate. He must take up as his sphere for special work any one of nine general subjects,—(1), Classics; (2), English language and literature; (3), history ; (4), philo- sophy; (5), pure mathematics ; (6), applied mathematics, in- cluding engineering ; (7), physics ; (8), chemistry; (9), biology, "including physiology," but not including, we trust, vivisec tion. The whole scheme is promising, and all the more pro- mising for the definite term assigned to it, in case it boars no adequate fruits.
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