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YOUR correspondent, Mr. Charles Wade, is an undergraduate of Magdalen College, and makes the very natural; mistake of supposing that fellowships once assigned to natural science are, like the class of college prizes with which he is more familiar, namely, the scholarships, regarded by the colleges giving them as in a certain sense appropriated for future vacancies, to the subject which has once been connected with them. This is not the case, and accordingly your readers will find that Mr. Wade's enumeration of twelve fellowships, as assigned to natural science at Oxford, is erroneous, whilst the statement of “an Oxford Man” that only five fellowships are at this moment held as rewards for proficiency in natural science, is correct. From Mr. Wade's list must be removed the three Lee's readerships at Christ Church, which are not of the nature of ordinary fellowships, but are special foundations and enumerated by “an Oxford Man” with the professorships. Of the nine remaining on Mr. Wade's list, one at Merton does not exist, nor does that at Corpus, nor that at Pembroke, whilst that at Brasenose was not offered purely and simply for physical science. Hence there are but five fellowships at Oxford now held for natural science, or six if we count that at Brasenose.
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SOCIUS Science Fellowships at Oxford. Nature 15, 447 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015447c0
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