| Description | Larmor should have received their manifesto. He notes the difficulty raised by one year limited appointments, citing the case of [Frederick John Marrian] Stratton. He is in favour of keeping a full share of bacteriology in Cambridge, but this can be done from their own resources. He discusses salaries, saying that [Frederick Gowland] Hopkins, a 'splendid man' deserves his £1200 per year. They would be prepared to pay for any good man, but 'University laboratories are a perfect paradise for well-to-do mediocraties'. Ridgeway believes that they need only a few men with ideas, such as [William] Bateson. He believes that nothing useful was done in the 'Weismannic period' at Cambridge, only by [Marcus] Hartog in Cork, who was not even made an F.R.S. The Engineering Laboratory in Cambridge is flourishing, but he thinks that Cambridge should be for teaching scientific principles and for research. |