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AT last, after years of apparently fruitless labour, the Royal Geographical Society have been eminently successful in persuading almost simultaneously the two great English Universities to recognise geography as a University study, and to make definite provision for teaching it. In pursuance of a proposal made by the President and Council of the Royal Geographical Society to the Vice-Chancellors of the two Universities, and of the replies thereto, a deputation of a few members of their Council visited Oxford and Cambridge in turns, to meet delegates appointed by those Universities, in order to explain their proposal more fully, and to discuss any modifications that might be suggested. The main features of the proposal were, that the Royal Geographical Society offered to give 150l. annually to each University if they would establish a Lectureship or Readership in Geography, giving the Lecturer an adequate University status, and contributing, on their part, an equal sum, so as to raise the stipend of each Lectureship to 300l. They also offered to give the two Universities a Scholarship or Exhibition of 100l. in alternate years for geographical students. The Royal Geographical Society was to be represented on the Board that selected the Examiners, and on that which adjudged the Scholarship.
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Geography at the Universities . Nature 35, 492 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035492a0
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