The grand tour:  exemplary sites

     France:  Paris
          Concentration of power
          The grand institutions of the 18th and early 19th centuries
          Days of glory and complaints of decline

     Britain:  Cambridge
          Education for the elite:  where does science fit?
          The Mathematical Tripos
          Adding laboratories

     Britain:  Manchester
          Provincial distance from the elite centers
          Educational alternatives to Oxbridge
          Intersections:  Cambridge and Manchester
               National institutions:  the scientific society
               National interests:  industrial developments

     Germany:  Berlin (start)
          The German university system, with Berlin as its flagship
               The research ideal and its accompaniments
               Theoretical physics
          The technical institutes and the tension between practical and ideal values
          Signs of German flourishing

If you missed the handout, please look at the statistics on academic physics and theoretical physicists ca. 1900.