England Is Too Slow

SIR NORMAN LOCKYER SEVERELY SCORES THE NATION.

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MORE MONEY FOR EDUCATION AND LESS FOR BATTLESHIPS.

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NOT UP TO U.S. AND GERMANY IN ENDOWMENT OF UNIVERSITIES

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Southport, England, Sept. 10.--The British Association for the Advancement of sciences met last night at the opera  house here,  which was crowded. Sir Norman Lockyer delivered his presidential address, entitled "The influence of brain power on history."

During the course of his remarks the president referred at length to the struggle for existence in modern communities, showed that British industries were suffering from international competition, dwelt on the necessity for a body such as the British association dealing with the organization of science, and said:

"Our position as a nation our success as merchants, are in peril chiefly-dealing with preventable causes-because our lack of completely efficient universities and our neglect of research.

"We in Great Britain have eleven universities competing with 134, state and privately endowed, in the United States, and 22, state endowed, in Germany. The German state gives to one university more than the British government allows to all the universities and university colleges in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales put together. Do not our ministers of state know that other civilized countries grant efficient state aid, and further that private effort has provided in Great Britain less than 10 per cent of the sum thus furnished in the United States, in addition to state aid.

"When we consider the large endowments of university education both in the United States and Germany, it is obvious that state aid only can make any valid competition possible with either."

The president then compared the vast sums spent by the British government on "sea power" and the small amounts expended on "brain power," and advocated duplicating the navy bill of 1888-9, $120,000,000. and devoting that amount to the increase of Great Britain's brain power.