Excerpt from Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Delivered at Dublin, 14th August 1878 Regarded from another point of View these gran together with others to be hereafter mentioned, a strong similarity to that useful instituti Professoriate Extraordinary of Germany, to which there are no foundations exactly corresponding In this country. For, beside their more direct educational purpose, these Professorships are intended, like our own grants, to afford to special individuals an opportunity of following out the Special work for which they have previously proved themselves competent. And in this respect the British Associationmay be regarded as supplying, to the extent of its means, an elasticity which is wanting in our own Universities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.