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many fields and are often crowded out. The results of researches carried out in the Institute of Historical Research and presented for degrees in the University of London are published in summary form in the Bulletin of the Institute. Some of the work in Colonial history done at Oxford and Cambridge is published by the University Presses with the aid of subventions from the Rhodes Trust or from certain Colleges, but there is no system of aid for publication. The Imperial Studies Committee of the Royal Empire Society grants subventions annually to younger scholars to aid in the publication of their researches in the history or economics of the British Empire and the books appear in the series of Imperial Studies published by Messrs. Longmans, Green and Co. Much of the unpublished research in Colonial history is accessible to other investigators in type-written form in the libraries of the universities and of the Institute of Historical Research. Its results have been made use of by many of the writers who are contributing to the elaborate History of the British Empire that is now being published in eight volumes by the Cambridge University Press. This work is fully provided with references and bibliographical apparatus and when it is complete will afford a conspectus of the history of the British Empire overseas as it appears to scholars of the present generation. The same Press is also producing a History of India on a similar scale. There are, save in Oxford, no travelling scholarships especially reserved for students of Colonial history, but they are often successful in open competition with students of other subjects and thus secure the opportunity of travelling and working in the outer parts of the empire. Most of those university teachers who specialise in the subject have travelled widely. The usual University prizes in history are open to all students but there are only a few prizes specially awarded for Colonial history. The most distinguished award is the Gold Medal of the ROYAL EMPIRE SOCIETY which is conferred annually upon the writer of the best book of the year dealing with the British Empire. The " Walter Frewen Lord " Prize is awarded annually by the Royal Empire Society for a piece