Summary: I THINK that others may interpret the footnote as Mr. Vernon does, and it is therefore my intention to express myself more clearly when the address is republished. Surely all Oxford science men know what I meant to say, and if so, they must know how difficult it is to say it without making two or three particular references. It is evident from other parts of my address that I certainly did not mean that most of the Oxford science professors neglect research. On the contrary, I know that the majority of them perform their duties well, including duties as to research, and they do this in an antipathetic atmosphere such as science professors elsewhere know nothing of. If I had the inclination to punish a scientific man and the power, I would appoint him to an Oxford science professorship.