The opportunities for advanced and special instruction in Modern History are excellent. There is a good system of inter-collegiate lectures which will be useful even to advanced students. The Regius Professor holds a small class ‘specially designed for students working for the B.Litt. degree’. There are courses in Palaeography and Diplomatic by specialists, and facilities for doing special or research work in Colonial History. A series of six lectures is delivered by the Ford Lecturer, elected annually, upon some particular period or question connected with British History. Special work is also offered in Geography. [Sidenote: Library facilities.] ‘The _Bodleian Library_ and the _Taylorian Library_ of foreign books are open to all matriculated members of the University upon compliance with certain conditions as to introduction. Each College also possesses a library, and books and MSS. in the library of one College can usually be consulted by members of other Colleges by arrangement with the Librarian. The Bodleian Library, and some of the College libraries, contain an immense quantity of MSS. and materials for mediaeval history which have been imperfectly explored. The Bodleian is also extremely rich in collections of MSS. illustrating the history of England during the sixteenth, the seventeenth, and the early part of the eighteenth century, and many Colleges possess important MSS. of the same period which have been but little utilized by historians. The Carter MSS. in the Bodleian are one of the chief sources for the study of Irish History.’ Mention should also be made of the library of the Oxford Architectural and Historical Society, and of the special collections in the Ashmolean Museum on Prehistoric Britain (Stone and Bronze and Early Iron Age), Anglo-Saxon Britain, and of the Renaissance Bronzes and Majolica, and of the library of the Indian Institute. [Sidenote: Theology.] Many of the Honour lectures in _Theology_ are adapted to the needs of advanced students. Seminar classes are also held in several subjects. A special University Lectureship in Assyriology has been established; lectures are given on the bearing of Assyriology upon the Old Testament. The instructional staff is excellent. Two theological colleges, Mansfield College (Congregational) and Manchester College (undenominational), are both well equipped with an efficient staff of lecturers. [Sidenote: Oriental studies.]