NATURE 



{November 2, 191 1 



Analysis of Returns of Students under Instruction, 1909-I0' 



1 



Fnll-liiM Sinde- 



Degreck 



Nsm« of University or College 



England. 



1. Birmin^jham University 



2. Biistol University 



3. Leeds University 



4. Liverpool University ... 



5. Manchester University 



6. Sheftield University 



London University : — 



7. University College ... 



8. King's College 



9. Bedford College 



10. School of Economics ... 



11. East London College ... 



Durham University : — 



12. Newcastle, Armstrong College 



13. Nottingham University College 



14. Reading University College ... 



15. Southampton, Hartley University College 



g « 5 



"3 



57 

 141 

 251 

 204 



79 



90 

 88 

 45 



46 



90 

 61 



54 

 42 



16. 



Totals — England 



2 



414 



197 

 285 

 432 

 736 

 123 



406 

 264 



143 



70 



no 



161 



65 

 61 

 46 



527 

 254 

 426 

 683 

 940 

 202 



496 



352 



188 



70 



156 



251 

 126 



"5 



88 



Dipiomms 

 (Non-gradtuU*) 



■S31 



134 



«95 

 6 



4 



55' 

 I 



no 



90 



76 



106 



81 ' 215 



91 286 



106 112 



185 189 



no 165 



67 68 



71 71 



137 137 



18 18 



I I 



48 158 



24 n4 



51 127 



9 "5 



30 

 14 

 30 



123 



•55 



6 



43 

 29 



32 



2 



50 

 4 



ll 



822 



558 



148 706 



»3 



»54 



69 



1008 



1414 



345 



152 178 897 

 14 1 546 

 10 24S 



80 



6 ! 102 



3 I — 



n ! 71 



5 — 



•83 

 158 



517 

 243 

 324 

 208 



1361 3513 14874 777 999 1776 631 i 893 ;8i74 



Wales. 

 University of Wales : — 



17. Aberystwyth University College 



18. Bangor University College 



19. Cardiff University College 



20. Totals — Wales 



27 



31 

 5 



17 

 79 

 16 



^3l 



28 

 13 

 9 



527 

 260 

 454 

 703 

 1012 

 211 



571 

 472 

 188 

 181 

 278 



251 



134 

 122 



98 





215 

 322 

 «32 



209 

 166 

 244 



84 



198 

 18 



158 



295 



127 



157 



— i 



3*1 

 37 



19S 

 18 



288 5462 2327 !l2. 



140 



113 

 186 



439 



S 8 

 II i n 

 68 68 



87 87 31 



15 471 II 

 10 316 j — 



29 576 . I 



54 1363 12 



437 

 280 



474 



1191 



8 

 II 

 68 



87 



II 



15 

 II 



1 Eight of these were students in trsuning who were reading for the Teachers' Diploma (post-graduate). 



2 Twenty-five of these were following degree courses though they had not matriculated. 



eighteen will probably fall. In Wales secondary education 

 has been organised for a greater length of time than in 

 England, and this is probably one of the causes for the 

 smaller percentage of day students under eighteen in the 

 Welsh colleges. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge. — At the annual general meeting of the Philo- 

 sophical Society, held on Monday, October 30, the follow- 

 ing were elected officers : — President, Prof. Sir George 

 Darwin ; vice-presidents. Prof. Newall, Prof. Hopkinson, 

 Prof. Wood ; treasurer. Prof. Hobson ; secretaries. Dr. 

 Barnes, Mr. A. Wood, Mr. F. A. Potts ; members of 

 council. Prof. Sir J. Larmor, Prof. Biffen, Prof. Pope, 

 Mr. R. H. Rastall, Mr. K. Lucas, Mr. E. A. Newell 

 Arber, Prof. Sir J. J. Thomson, Mr. J. E. Purvis, The 

 Master of Christ's, Mr. R. P. Gregory, Dr. Cobbett, and 

 Mr. J. W. Mercer. The names of the new members of the 

 council are in italics. 



At Christ's College. Dr. H. J. H. Fenton, F.R.S., and 

 Prof. E. W. Brown, F.R.S., of the Yale University, have 

 been elected honorary fellows. The same honour has been 

 conferred at Emmanuel College on Mr. R. H. Biffen, 

 praelector in agriculture, and on Mr, F. G. Hopkins, 

 F.R.S., prjelector in biochemistry at Trinity College, 

 formerly fellow and tutor of Emmanuel. 



T, G. Bedford has been appointed demonstrator of experi- 

 mental physics, and J. A. Crowther and H. Thirkill 

 assistant demonstrators. 



The electors to the -Allen scholarship give notice that 

 they are prepared to receive applications from candidates. 

 Any graduate of the University is eligible for the scholar- 



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ship provided that his age on the first day of the Leal 

 term 1912 does not exceed twentj'-eight years. This yell 

 the scholarship is open to candidates who propose to undeii 

 take research in any branch of study which comes within 

 the department of any of the following special boards : — 

 medicine, mathematics, physics and chemistry, biology and 

 geology. The emolument of the student is 250L, or such 

 smaller sum as the fund, after payment of all expenses, 

 shall be capable of providing. Candidates must send their 

 names to the V ice-Chancellor on or before February it 

 1912. 



The electors to the Isaac Newton studentships give 

 notice that an election to a studentship will be held in the 

 Lent term, 1912. These studentships are for the 

 encouragement of study and research in astronomy (especi- 

 ally gravitational astronomy, but including other branches 

 of astronomy and astronomical physics) and physical optics. 

 The persons eligible are members of the University who 

 have been admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and 

 are under the age of twenty-five years on the firsl 

 day of January, 19x2. The studentship will be tenable foi 

 the term of three years from April 15, 1912. Candidates 

 for the studentship are invited to send in their applications 

 to the Vice-Chancellor between January 16 and 26. 1912. 



The special board for biology and geology gives notice 

 that the Gedge prize will be offered for competition in the 

 Michaelmas term, 1912. The prize will be awarded foi 

 the best original observations in physiology. The essays 

 are to be sent to the professor of physiology not later than 

 October i. 1912. The examiners may require every candi- 

 date to deliver his essay in the form of a lecture. 



Oxford. — The statute exempting candidates for honours 

 in mathematics and natural science from compulsory Greek 

 is approaching its final stages;. On Tuesday, November 7, 



