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AriiM I wiin Km Knowledge of the fundamentals 

 of ch<iiucal action in the cell, the time is ripe for 

 the chemist to ascertain the iiuvr m. mnM' <,f pheno- 

 mena which the biologist can ily by 

 the recording of external visual s. As 

 a case in point, the coloration of tiowers and its 

 inheritance may be citetl. There is much in favour 

 of the view that flower colours, whether anthocvans 

 or belonging to other groups, are the product of the 

 interaction of two factors, an oxidase and a colour- 

 less precursor of the pigment. The absence of either 

 factor means failure to develop colour by the plant, 

 that is, white flowers, and there may also be a third 

 factor present which prevents action taking place 

 between oxidase and leucobase. 



If proper combination of effort between the 

 biologist and chemist can be ensured, numerous 

 baffling problems, many of which are of far-reaching 

 economic importance, can be attacked. As illustrat- 

 ing one such, in which that all-essential factor quality 

 is concerned, the puzzling fact well known to agri- 

 culturists may be mentioned, that one pasture can 

 fatten stock whereas another is of very little value 

 for this purpose. 



University and Educational Intelligence. 



Cambridge. — Dr. Horace Lamb, Trinity College, 

 has been appointed to give the first Rouse Ball 

 lecture on some subject related to mathematical 

 science. 



Mr. M. H. A. Newman has been elected a fellow 

 of St. John's College. 



It is proposed that the sum of 3030/. bequeathed 

 to the University by Mrs. Amy Price Read, shall 

 be devoted to the establishment of a research .scholar- 

 ship similar to the Allen scholarship. In the years 

 when the Allen scholarship is confined to literary 

 subjects of study the Amy Price Read scholarship 

 is to be confined to scientific subjects and vice versa. 

 The scholarship would be open to women students 

 who have been admitted to the titles of degrees on 

 the same terms as to graduates of the Unive^sit^^ 



London. — The degree of Ph.D. in Science has been 

 conferred on Fanny Lowater (Imperial College — 

 Royal College of Science) for a thesis entitled " A 

 Study of the Band Spectrum of Titanium Oxide." 



The use of wireless for university extension work 

 has progressed rapidly in America. Of fifty-seven 

 universities and colleges possessing broadcasting 

 stations at least two — the University of Michigan 

 and Michigan Agricultural College — have organised 

 regular radio extension courses, and the National 

 Radio Chamber of Commerce is developing a plan 

 for establishing other similar courses. 



The Council of Armstrong College, Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne, has appointed Prof. A. S. Ferguson, Ontario, 

 to the chair of philosophy rendered vacant by the 

 departure of Prof. R. F. A. Hoernl^ to the University 

 of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Prof. Ferguson 

 is a student of St. Andrews and Oxford, and has 

 contributed articles on Plato to various periodicals. 



The directors of the Leplay House educational 

 visits abroad are taking a group of their members, 

 and others who care to join, to Spain for the Christmas 



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vacation, leaving Lon<l' ' " abcr 22, and r< ' 

 January 6, or with e> January 13. 



social, economic, and {xuiw.d problems 

 touched upon both from the point of view <<\ w > 

 pea.sant life and the city life of^ to-day. A couim- of 

 lectures will l>e included in the programme, lull 

 particulars can be obtained from Mis.<i Margaret T.it t . ,' 

 Leplay House, 65 Belgrave Road, Westminster 



A Department of Geologv, M 

 has been established by the l^ii.< 

 under the direction of Prof. N. 1*. GaiiUIu. liii^ 

 development was made possible by a ^ft '.f 

 Rs. 200,000 by the Maharaja of Jodhpur, \' 

 also endowed a Jodhpur-Hardingc chair of te< 1 

 At present the staff of the department ajinpn • . o 

 professors — of mining and metallurgy an<l <A l:> '.I'-iiv 

 — an assistant professor of assaying and two i\<\i\<>u- 

 strators. 



Two travelling fellowships open to women graduates 

 of Great Britain, each of the value of 1000 dollars, 

 are being offered through the British Federation of 

 University Women, 92 Victoria Street, S.W.i. One 

 is offered by the American University Women, 

 to enable the holder to carry on a year's research 

 in any foreign country she may choose. The other, 

 the Rose Sidgwick Memorial fellowship, also endowed 

 by the Americans, offers the same amount to enable 

 a British woman graduate to carry on a year's 

 research or advanced work at an American urn 

 the choice of the university being left to the ; 



In an article on the Rhodes Scholarship- 

 Empire Review for October, Mr. Ian U. LoUui 

 celebrates the " coming of age " of the g^eat scheme 

 founded in 1902. He remarks that it is yet too yount,' 

 for us to judge of its fruits, as scholars have not v<t 

 had time to reach maturity and make their name m 

 the world : he accordingly confines himself to an 

 appreciation of the character of the founder and his 

 aims in founding the scholarships, and a descriptiini 

 of the administration of the trust. President Frank 

 Aydelotte, of Swarthmore College, the American 

 Secretary to the Rhodes trustees, is less cantio :- 

 having attempted in " Oxford of To-day " an ■ 

 of the influence exerted by the American 

 scholars. In the first place he points out that they 

 have, almost to a man, returned to America, agrf there 

 is a consensus of opinion that they go back better 

 Americans for their Oxford exi>erience. Only one of 

 them has become a British subject. More than a 

 third of them are engaged in educational work, and 

 of these many are already college professors, deans, 

 and presidents. " Perhaps there is no career in the 

 I'nited States at the present time which represents 

 more accurately what Rhodes thought of as pubUc 

 life, no career which offers a better opportunity to 

 influence public opinion than that of professor or 

 administrative officer in one of our American colleges 

 or universities." One of them is United States Com- 

 missioner of Education, and as head of the Washington 

 Bureau •undoubtedly exercises very great influence. 

 No account such as President Aydelotte has given for 

 the Americans seems to have been published regarding 

 the careers after leaving Oxford of the other Rhodes 

 scholars. It is known, however, that an occupational 

 census of those who were elected to scholarships up to 

 1 91 6 gave the following percentages : educational 

 work 32, law 25, business and industry 11, adminis- 

 tration and other government service 8, medicine 7, 

 ministers of religion 4, farming 3, social and philan- 

 thropic work i^, journahsm and publishing i\, 

 engineering and mining i J, other occupations 5. 



