Original Research at the Universities

Abstract

MY attention has been arrested by the following sentence in the extract given by you from Prof. Frankland's evidence before the Science Commission:—“I believe that one cause (of the slow progress of original research in England) lies in the entire non-recognition of original research, by any of our Universities. Even the University of London, which has been foremost in advancing instruction in experimental science, gives its highest degree in Science without requiring any proof that the candidate possesses the faculty of original research, or is competent to extend the boundaries of the science in which he graduates.”