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NATURE 



[NOVl,. .;.;... 10, 1923 



University and Educational Intelligence. 



Bklkast. — A letter has been received by the 

 Senate of the Queen's University intimating that 

 the hite Hugh Wisnom, of I^rne. directed his 

 trustees to invest a sum of 1000/. for the foundation 

 of an annual scholarship in the University to be called 

 the " Hugh Wisnom Scholarship," to be awarded 

 in such manner as the governing botly shall decide 

 for the encouragement of scientific researcli. 



Birmingham. — The first award of the Thomas 

 Turner gold medal was made on October 30 at a 

 meeting of the Birmingham University Metallurgical 

 Society, when the Prmcipal (Mr. C. Grant Kol)ert.son) 

 presented the medal to Sir Robert Hadfield, Bart., 

 m recognition of his distinguished contributions to 

 the metallurgy of steel. The medal is the out- 

 come of a gift of 525/. by a Birmingham manu- 

 facturer who desired to perpetuate the memory 

 of the work done by Prof. T. Turner in the metal- 

 lurgy of iron. The money was invested an3 is 

 held by trustees for the provision of a gold medal, 

 to be called the Thomas Turner gold medal, 

 which is to be awarded from time to time to dis- 

 tinguished metallurgists. A portion of the fund is 

 applied to the award of a bronze medal and a prize 

 01 books to a student to be selected annually from 

 one of the metallurgical schools of the district. The 

 obverse of this medal bears the profile of Prof. Turner 

 and on the reverse is the well-known diagram published 

 by him in 1885 showing the relation between silicon 

 content and tensile strength of iron. 



Bristol. — For the new degree of Bachelor of Agri- 

 culture, a curriculum extending over five years has 

 been prescribed — two in the University, two in the 

 recently reopened Royal College of Agriculture, Ciren- 

 cester, and one in a selected farm. 



Cambridge. — Mr. H. H. Thomas, Downing College, 

 has been appointed University lecturer in botany. 



A grant of 100/. has been made from the Balfour 

 Fund to Mr. Cyril Crossland, Clare College, in aid of 

 his researches into the biology of the coral reefs and 

 banks of the South Pacific. 



The Regius Professor of Physic announces a short 

 series of lectures on the history of medicine. The 

 lectures this term will be on November 13 and 16 at 

 5 P.M., on " The Hippocratean Period " and " The 

 Alexandrian Period " respectively. 



London. — A course of two free public lectures on 

 " Problems pf Variation " will be given by Dr. J. \V. 

 Heslop Harrison in the department of zoology, 

 Imperial College of Science and Technology, at 5.15 

 on Thursday and Friday, November 22 and 23. 



The following scholarships for 1923-24 have been 

 awarded by the Institution of Electrical Engineers : 

 Salomons scholarship (value 50/.), to Mr. James 

 Linton (Heriot - Watt College, Edinburgh) ; David 

 Hughes scholarships (value 50/. each), to Mr. R. 

 MacWhirter (Royal Technical College, Glasgow), and 

 to Mr. R. E. Banks (University, Birmingham). 



Mr. E. S. Eldridge is the first student to pass 

 through the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture 

 at Trinidad and to secure an appointment in the 

 Colonies. He left on October 25 to take up the 

 position of farm manager in charge of the Empire 

 Cotton Growing Corporation's Cotton Experiment 

 Station in Nyasaland. 



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From the Technical College, Bradford, we havi 

 received an illustrated prospectus for IQ23 24. The, 

 College provides, in addition to part-time evening andl 



day courses, full-time courses covering froir *->' 



four years in textile industries, chemistry, 

 engineering, physics, and, exceptionally, in 

 The teaching body includes 42 whole-time !• 



Special courses in advanced study and in tra ^ .j, 



the methods of research are available, a sjieciali 

 physical chemistry laboratory having been recentl/J 

 equipped for research purposes and additional; 

 accommodation provided for research in dyeing. 



The annual meeting of the Science Masters* i 

 Association will be held on January 3-5, 1924, in th» 

 buildings belonging to the Household and Social 

 Science Department, King's College for Women, 

 situated in Campden Hill Road, W., where, in addition 

 to suitable accommodation for lectures, exhibits, etc., 

 there will be residential quarters for about eighty- 

 members attending the meeting. The Association 

 has accepted the invitation to participate in a joint - 

 conference with the members of the Royal Meteoro-i 

 logical Society, and of the Geographical Association, 

 to be held at Birkbeck College, I^ndon, on Thursday, 

 January 3. The conference will discuss the present 

 state of knowledge of meteorology and the bearing of] 

 the science on cognate school subjects. 



Amongst prospectuses issued by University College, 

 London, for 1923-24, is one of twenty-seven pages, 

 devoted to post-graduation courses of lectures and 

 practical work, including special courses' by the new- 

 professor of chemical engineering and six courses in 

 the recently established department of " History a 

 Method of Science." by Dr. Charles Singer (gener 

 biological, and anatomical). Prof. Filon (astronom\ . 

 and Mr. W. J. Perry (anthropology). In the Rocke- 

 feller anatomy building is to be installed, in a room for 

 cinematographic study of animal movements, equip- 

 ment designed in the Marey Institute of Paris capable 

 of taking 300 photographs a second of moving 

 objects. Post-graduation and research students of 

 the college in 1922-23 numbered 431, including 133 

 from outside Great Britain. 



The teaching of civics is receiving much attention 

 at present in America. Prof. Edgar Dawson, of 

 Hunter College, New York, has contributed to the 

 Biennial Survey of Education, 1920-22, a chapter 

 (published separately as Bulletin, 1923, No. 23) on 

 " The Social Studies in Civic Education," in which 

 particulars are given of some developments in thi? 

 field. The new Pennsylvania State course in the 

 social studies aims at giving effect to a conception of 

 " civics " as training in practical good citizenship and. 

 as such, a vital part of the schooling of every child, 

 and even " the only justification of the tax-supporte(i 

 public -school system." It begins with the first year 

 of school life and continues without a break to the 

 end of the twelfth year, being adapted, grade by 

 grade, to the various psychological stages tlirough 

 which the normal child passes. The last three years 

 of the course are primarily intended to train pupils 

 " to investigate, to reason, to compare, to judge." 

 To neglect any longer the provision of specific training 

 in the problems of American democracy, the solution 

 of which wnll soon be in the hands of the secondary 

 school pupils of to-day, is. in the opinion of the State 

 department, to render a social cataclysm inevitable. 



