MAY I be permitted to draw attention to the very marked discrepancy between the arrangements proposed by the University of Oxford Commissioners for the Animal and for the Vegetables side of Biology? Assuming, as we fairly may, that by “Physiology” the Commissioners mean Animal Physiology, and supposing—what is by no means improbable—that the future Reader in Invertebrate Anatomy would refuse the Professorship of Zoology; when that office is next vacant, we see that there would be four University Professors (or Readers) of Animal to one of Vegetable Biology; while we may also note that at Christ Church there is a Reader in Anatomy, and that at no College is there any Reader in Botany.