MR. GIBSON BOWLES (Lynn Regis)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty is there any lecturer on naval history at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich; and, if so, what salary or fee does he receive: and how many lectures on naval history have been given at the College in each of the last ten years, and does he propose to make any alteration in the arrangements for these lectures.
MR. GOSCHENProfessor Laughton has been engaged to deliver eight lectures on naval history in the course 1403 of the present session, for which he will receive fees at the rate of £5 a lecture. No such lectures were given between 1889 and 1899.