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subjects provision for which could not otherwise be nude at the time, and at the present moment it is more essential to increase the general resources of the University than to attempt the teaching of new subjects. The specific endowment of an existing Chair, the expenses of which are at present met out of general resources, would however serve as such a memorial as bas been suggested, and would, at the same time, set free the present cost of the Chair. In- cluding the incidental expenses of housing, super. annuation, travelling and leave, the minimum cost of endowing a chair may be placed at $200,000 to $250,000, the larger figure, with a favourable rate of interest, leaving some surplus for other purposes con- nected with the Chair. Existing chairs any of which the University would be glad to see endowed on this scale are those of English, Education, Economies, Mathematics, Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology.
The problem of the junior Chinese staff, which may be grouped under the general headings of "demonstrators" "tutors," etc., is of a different character. The bulk of the students have their minds fixed upon service in and to China, and from this point of view the class of post under discussion offers an excellent form of post-graduate training-
-a point which is further discussed in connection with the Rockefeller benefaction. It has, however, to be borne in mind that the standard of living and the scale of salaries throughout China are far below those obtaining in the Colony, and the object in view would be wholly defeated were the salaries of the posts under dis-
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