Dr. Appleton wrote an interesting letter to Tuesday's Times, pointing
out that, at least as regards those who pursue "original research," non-residents in the University, so far from being non- workers, may be the hardest workers. If a philologist is studying —as a philologist happens to be now studying—the various Low- German dialects, he would be doing the very work for which, if original research were endowed, he would be receiving the en- dowment. That is very true, and of course the same might be said of a student of volcanoes, or of the 'natural history of the tropics. Here original research' could only be conducted at a distance from the University. At the same time, it would be essential to require from persons receiving such endowments, that terms of residence and of systematic communication of the know- ledge gained, should alternate with the terms of distant study, otherwise there would be no guarantee either that the research itself was going on, or that even if it was, the University would derive any profit from it. If the aims of University life are to be raised by original research,' it is obvious that its results must be brought directly under the notice of the University.
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