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NATURE 



[May 19, 1921 



June 3 and 10, at 5 p.m. The chair at the first lec- 

 ture will be taken by Prof, J. Norman Collie. 



Manchester. — ^The council has instituted a new- 

 chair in the Faculty of Commerce, and appointed Mr. 

 G. W. Daniels as professor of commerce and ad- 

 ministration as from September 29 next. Dr. Albert 

 Ramsbottom has been appointed professor of clinical 

 medicine. The following appointments have also been 

 made by the council : — Senior lecturer in economics, 

 Mr. T. S. Ashton ; lecturer in histology. Miss Ruth 

 Fairbairn ; assistant lecturers in physics, Dr. J. C. M. 

 Brentano and Mr. H. Lowery ; and assistant lecturer 

 in metallurgy, Mr. Hugh O'Neill. 



Prof. Einstein will deliver this year's Adamson 

 lecture of the University of Manchester on some day 

 •during^ the first week in June. He will afterwards 

 visit King's College, London, and other institutions 

 which approached him after he had arranged to go to 

 Manchester. 



The open competitive examination for assistant 

 -examiners in the Patent Oflice will begin on Tuesday, 

 July 26, instead of on July 12 (as stated in the printed 

 regulations), and will last until Saturday, July 30. 

 Any candidate who has attained the age of twenty on 

 July 26, and has not attained the age of twenty-five 

 ■on July 12, will be regarded as eligible in respect of 

 age to compete on this occasion. 



We learn from Science that at a recent meeting of 

 some of Sir William Osier's students an Osier 

 Memorial Association was formed for the purpose of 

 founding an Osier memorial lectureship in the Uni- 

 versity of California, which will provide for an annual 

 lecture on a scientific subject. The expense will be 

 met by a yearly assessment of the members of the 

 .association. Dr. John M. T. Finney, Baltimore, has 

 accepted an invitation to deliver the first lecture. 



The Salters' Institute of Industrial Chemistry 

 {Salters' Hall, St. Swithin's Lane, E.C.4) invites ap- 

 plications for a limited number of fellowships, value 

 250L per annum, from those who by October next 

 will have completed three years' training in chemistry 

 and seek an industrial career. Full particulars of 

 training and war service (if any) of candidates should 

 reach the director of the institute before June 18. 



The council of the British Medical Association is 

 prepared to receive applications for an Ernest Hart 

 memorial scholarship, of the value of 200Z. per annum, 

 for the study of some subject in the department of 

 State medicine, and for three research scholarships, 

 each of the value of 150Z. per annum, for research 

 relating to the causation, prevention, or treatment of 

 -disease. Each scholarship is tenable for one year, 

 commencing on October i, but a scholar may be 

 re-elected for a period not exceeding two additional 

 terms. A number of grants for assisting research 

 will also be awarded, preference being given to 

 members of the medical profession and to applicants 

 who propose to investigate problems directly related 

 to practical medicine. Applications for scholarships 

 and grants, which must be made not later than 

 June 25, should be accompanied by testimonials, in- 

 cluding a recommendation containing a statement as 

 to the probable value of the work to be undertaken, 

 from the head of the laboratory, if any, in which the 

 applicant proposes to work. Forms and further par- 

 ticulars can be obtained from the Medical Secretary 

 of the British Medical Association, 429 Strand, W.C.2". 



The eighth annual report on the industrial fellow- 

 ships of the Mellon Institute in the University of Pitts- 

 Ijurgh directs attention once again to the scheme for 

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promoting industrial scientific research which was 

 initiated by the late Prof. Robert Kennedy Duncan 

 in the University of Kansas in 1907 and in the Uni- 

 versity of Pittsburgh in 1911. The principles upon 

 which the scheme is based, which were described in 

 a report by Mr. T. LI. Humberstone published some 

 years ago by the Board of Education, should by this 

 time be well known in this country. Although not 

 "commercial" in spirit, the Mellon Institute has been 

 able to render a great national service by demon- 

 strating to American manufacturers that industrial 

 research is a paying proposition. The number of in- 

 dustrial fellowships in operation in the institute is 

 now forty-eight, and the money contributed by indus- 

 trial firms in the last ten years amounts to 1,534,273 

 dollars. A considerable number of fellowships have 

 been established by groups of firms, and the report 

 points out that some of the larger multiple fellow- 

 ships are now so well established and so distinctive in 

 their fields of inquiry that they are not uncommonly 

 regarded as independent organisations. This develop, 

 ment will, no doubt, require watching in future. 

 Several experimental plants have been set up in con- 

 nection with the institute. Recent subjects for inves- 

 tigation include magnesia products, fruit beverages, 

 asbestos, and refractories. The Kennedy Duncan sysl^em 

 of industrial fellowships has now been thoroughly tested 

 and its fundamental principles remain unshaken ; and 

 it may well be asked why, with so much public monev 

 freely spent in this country on applied scientific re- 

 search, this admirable method of establishing a link 

 between the universities and industry has not been 

 given a trial. 



The list of the summer courses in England and Wales 

 prepared by the Special Inquiries Office of the Board 

 of Education for the use of education authorities and 

 teachers has just been issued. The information pro- 

 vided is in tabular form under the following head- 

 ings : — Authority responsible for course ; place ; date ; 

 fee ; subjects of instruction ; address for further par- 

 ticulars ; and remarks. In the eastern counties of Eng. 

 land there will be a course on the origin and develop- 

 ment of the physical geography of Europe, map con- 

 struction, anthropogeography, historical, political, and 

 economic geography at Cambridge, and another on 

 the principles and practice of horticulture at Chelms- 

 ford. At the South-Eastern Agricultural College, 

 Wye, lectures and demonstrations will be given illus- 

 trating the teaching of chemistry, botany, mycology, 

 and entomology applied to everyday life. In the 

 Midland Counties courses on teaching method as 

 applied to geography will be given at Nottingham ; 

 and there will be lectures and conferences on the 

 teaching of numerous subjects, including geography 

 and science, at Oxford. In the south-western area 

 courses in geography, chemistry, mathematics, 

 physics, and psychology will be held at Exeter ; while 

 at Weston-super-Mare the subjects include experi- 

 mental science, botany, rural science, and hygiene. 

 At both places the courses will be designed to fit 

 teachers for continuation-school work. In the northern 

 counties lectures on oceanography and fisheries will 

 be given at Barrow-in-Furness. At four places in 

 Wales there will be courses in science subjects. At 

 Amman Valley County Intermediate School there will 

 be a course on mine surveying, and at Madryn Castle 

 Farm School one on school gardening and rural science. 

 At Cardiff' courses will be given in pure and applied 

 science, particularly in various branches of engineer- 

 ing, and at Bangor on the teaching of geography and 

 regional survey work. The table of courses can be 

 obtained from' H.M. Stationery Office or from E. 

 Ponsonbv, Ltd., ii5 Grafton Street, Dublin (4^. net). 



