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will include the following : (a) To make arrangements with universities and 

 institutions to enable students to obtain facilities for research and technical 

 training ; (b) To arrange between manufacturers, students, and universities for the 

 investigation of any particular problems requiring research ; (c) To give practical 

 advice and information to those who are, or intend to become, industrial chemists, 

 especially to men whose careers have been interrupted or affected by Naval, 

 Military, or National Service ; (d) To advise the Company generally as to the 

 progress and possible extension of the work of the Institute. The Company will 

 establish two types of Fellowships, for which post-graduate students of any recog- 

 nised university will be eligible. These two classes are as follows : (a) Fellowships 

 to enable post-graduate students to continue their studies at an approved university 

 or other institution under the general supervision of the Director; and (b) Industrial 

 Fellowships to enable suitably equipped chemists to carry on research for any 

 particular manufacturer, under an agreement which will be entered into between 

 the Institute, the manufacturer, and the Fellow. The monetary value of these 

 Fellowships is not stated. No building is at present in contemplation, the address 

 of the Institute being the Salters' Hall. 



The Twelfth Annual Report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement 

 of Teaching, whose object is to provide life insurances and pensions for college 

 and university teachers in the United States, Canada, and Newfoundland, states 

 that the Trustees have concluded that they can no longer provide free benefits, 

 and that they are therefore arranging for a contributory scheme on similar lines 

 to the Federated Universities superannuation scheme in force here. There is to 

 be one very important difference however. In the English scheme the contracts 

 are carried out through the agencies of existing insurance corporations. The 

 Carnegie Institute is founding a special teachers' insurance and annuity association 

 which, not having to make shareholders' profits, confers appreciably greater 

 benefits at lower rates than those which the British university teacher has to pay. 

 Why university teachers should have been specially excluded from the Teachers' 

 Superannuation scheme recently introduced in Parliament by Mr. Fisher is a 

 mystery which no one concerned has apparently been able to fathom. On the 

 surface it appears to be an act of wilful and deliberate injustice to the only body of 

 teachers who have received no benefits from Mr. Fisher's administration. 



A note in Nature (August 15) corrects what was probably a somewhat wide- 

 spread impression concerning the supply of optical glass at the outbreak of war. 

 It appears that with seventy years' experience of optical glass manufacture to help 

 them, Messrs. Chance Bros. & Co. were able to supply nearly the whole of the 

 optical glass required for instruments used by our forces during the war, and that 

 without any assistance from the formulae determined by the Glass Research 

 Committee of the Institute of Chemistry. This Committee, however, rendered 

 great assistance to the manufacturers of scientific and heat-resisting glassware. 



Sir Robert Hadfield has issued a translation of a Report from the German 

 Committee for Technical Education concerning the steps to be taken to counteract 

 the serious diminution in the numbers of scientifically trained workers in Germany — 

 i.e. engineers, chemists, mining engineers, metallurgists, and architects — which, it 

 is stated, will "render the reconstruction of our economic life ominously difficult." 

 Written on the supposition that the war would end favourably for them, it contains 

 suggestions that would be of much value if utilised here ; though it is difficult to 

 conceive that an average English manufacturer should consider a " lack of 

 scientifically trained technicists " likely to hinder his progress ! The suggestions 

 are directed towards two ends. First, to enable those whose training has for so 



