232 Biochemical News, Notes, and Comment 



University items. Of past and present students of the Univ. 

 of Birm., 500 have joined the Services. Of these, 10 percent have 

 already lost their lives. 



0£ the 18,100 students in seven Ger. univ's during the present 

 Semester, 13,629 are absent in the army, i. e., about 75 percent. 



Among the 11,000 members of Cambr. Univ. in the land, sea, 

 and air Services, 1,723 casualties have been reported; 627 have been 

 killed and 892 wounded. The Victoria Gross has been awarded to 

 3 men, the D.S.O. to 52, and the Mil. Gross to 103. The Services of 

 714 of the Univ. have been recognized. 



The number of students in residence at Oxf. Univ., this term, is 

 550. This number compares with 1,087 in res. at this time last 

 yr. and with 3,097 in 1914. A decree has been passed by convo- 

 cation recording the thanks of the univ. to all officials, professors, 

 readers, examiners, and others who by contributing voluntarily, since 

 the beginning of the war, by renunciation of stipend or otherwise, 

 to the funds of the univ., have come to its help in a time of severe 

 financial stress. The sums received by the curators of the univ. 

 ehest from these sources amounted, in 191 5, to £5,750. 



The report of the mil. educ. commit. of London Univ., for 1915, 

 has been presented to the Senate. It states that the number of mem- 

 bers of the Univ. of London O.T.G. [officers' training corps], 

 during the training year ended Sep. 30, was 2,209, of whom 1,068 

 proceeded to com.missions during the year. Up to the end of 191 5, 

 2,228 cadets or ex-cadets of the contingent had been granted com- 

 missions. Of these, 86 had fallen in the war, and the honors and 

 distinctions gained were i V. G., 25 military crosses, 63 mentions in 

 dispatches (4 mentioned twice), and i Medaille Militaire. In addi- 

 tion, 273 commissions had been granted to graduates and students 

 (other than cadets or ex-cadets), and these officers had gained 4 mil. 

 crosses and 10 mentions in dispatches. 



Education, science, politics. The State and Ghem. In- 

 DUSTRY. State-aided ehem. indus. runs like a vein of gold through 

 the statecraft of Ger., and if ever we learn what Kultur means, we 

 shall find that Ger. ehem. indus. is its vital part. Editorial : Nature, 

 1916, xcvi, p. 598. 



A SACRIFICE TO A " WOODEN " POLITICAL SYSTEM. The lata 



