May 26, 192 1] 



NATURE 



411 



University and Educational Intelligence. 



Cambridge. — Honorary degrees are to be conferred 

 on the Prince of Wales, Marshal Foch, Admiral Sims, 

 and Lord Plumer on May 31. The Crown Prince of 

 Japan received an honorary degree on Wednesday, 

 May 18. 



The voting on the alternative schemes — (i) admitting 

 women to membership of the University with limited 

 rights or (2) granting them merely titular degrees — is 

 to take place on June 16. 



A lecturer is to be appointed in physics as applied 

 to medical radiology'. 



The first Ph.D. degree has been approved, Mr. 

 C. G. L. Wolf, of Christ's College, being the first 

 successful candidate. 



The examination in anatomy in the Natural Sciences 

 Tripos is to be on a wide scale to cover the general 

 morphology of vertebrates, a general knowledge of 

 vertebrate (including human) embryology, and a 

 special knowledge of the morphological side of human 

 anatomy. 



Edinburgh. — The followini? lecturers have been 

 appointed as readers in the Faculty of .Science : Dr. 

 H. S. .^llen in physics. Dr. R. Campbell in petrology, 

 and Dr. L. Dobbin in chemistry. 



Dr. Beard, lecturer in comparative embryology, has 

 resigned for reasons of health, and Dr. Balsillie, on 

 being transferred to the Royal Scottish Museum, has 

 resig^ned his lectureship in chemistry. 



It has been resolved to re-institute the special 

 tutorial course in German for students of science. 



It was reported that the new Ordinance for Degrees 

 in Pure Science (Ordinan,- and Honours) had been 

 approved bv his Majesty in Council, and had now 

 come into force. 



London. — A lecture will be given at King's College 

 on Thursday, June 9, at 5.15 p.m., by Prof. Einstein 

 on '■ The Development and Present Position of the 

 Theory of Relativity." The chair will be taken by 

 Viscount Haldane. A charge of 2s. 6d!. will be made 

 for admission, and the proceeds will be given to the 

 Imperial War Relief Fund. The lecture will be de- 

 livered in German. Tickets can be obtained on appli- 

 cation to the lecture secretary at the college. 



The following advanced lectures addressed to 

 students of the University and to others interested 

 in the subjects have been arranged. Admission 

 is free, without ticket : — A course of four lec- 

 tures on "Recent Developments in Legislation for 

 the Prevention of Disease," by Dr. Charles Porter, 

 at University College at 5.30 p.m. on May 30 and 

 June 3, 6, and 10. A course of four lectures on 

 "Some Actions of Foodstuffs in the Production and 

 Treatment of Disease," by Prof. E. Mellanby, at the 

 Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 

 W.C.2, at 5 p.m. on June 6, 7, 13, and 14. A course 

 of three lectures on " Recent Advances in Experi- 

 mental Embryology," by Prof. E. W^ McBride, at 

 the Imperial College, Royal College of Science, 

 Exhibition Road, S.W.7, at 5 p.m. on June 7, 8, and 

 Q. A lecture on " Permeability in Physiology and 

 Pathology," by Prof. H. J. Hamburger, at the rooms 

 of the Royal Society of Medicine, i Wimpole Street. 

 W.I, at 5 p.m. on June 8 (this lecture is the last of 

 a series of six arranged under the scheme for the 

 exchange of lecturers in medicine between England 

 and Holland). A course of four lectures on "The 

 Therapeutic Use of Digitalis," by Prof. F, R. Fraser, 

 in the surgical lecture theatre, St. Bartholomew's 

 Hospital Medical School, West Smithfield, E.C.i, at 

 5 p.m. on June 13, 15, 17, and 20. 



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Mr. H. J. D.^vis has been appointed to a lecture- 

 ship in mathematics in the Bradford Technical 

 College. He is at present senior lecturer in mathe- 

 matics in the University College, Southampton, and 

 has specialised on the .theory of statistics. 



The Secretary of State for India in Council has 

 made the following appointments to the Indian 

 Educational Service : — To be professor of physics in 

 Presidency College, Madras, Dr. Shankar Rao Ullal 

 Savoor ; to be professor of biology in the University 

 of Rangoon, Dr. J. Bronte Gatenby. 



Prof. E. G. Coker, professor of civil and mechan- 

 ical engineering, University College, London, has 

 accepted invitations from the Universities of Ghent 

 and Louvain to lecture there next week on " Recent 

 Researches in Photo-Elasticity," and also one from 

 the Stx;iete Beige des Ingenieurs et des Industriels 

 to lecture in Brussels on "The .Applications of Photo- 

 Elasticity to Engineering." 



The .Anglo-Swedish Society (10 Staple Inn, W.C.i) 

 has awarded two scholarships of 50Z. each to be spent 

 on travelling in Sweden : one to Miss Dorothy Crid- 

 land, to enable her to study the industrial economy of 

 the country; the other to Mr. G. R. Carline, to aid 

 his study of the o[3en-air and folk museums of Sweden 

 and their influence on -national life, .Similar scholar- 

 ships will be awarded, in the spring of each year. 



The Ramsay Memorial Trustees will at the end of 

 June consider applications for two Ramsay Memorial 

 fellowships for chemical research. One of the 

 fellowships will be limited to candidates educated in 

 Glasgow. The value of the fellowships will be 250Z. 

 per annum, to which may be added a grant for ex- 

 penses not exceeding 50Z. per annum. Full particulars 

 as to the conditions of the award are obtainable from 

 Dr. Walter W. Seton, secretary, Ramsay Memorial 

 Fellowships Trust, University College, London, 

 W.C.I. 



The Science Masters' Association, in response to an 

 invitation to co-operate with the staff of the Rotham- 

 sted Experimental Station, Harpenden, has issued to 

 its members, representing upwards of three hundred 

 schools, a circular outlining the types of research 

 work in which it is believed that school science and 

 natural history clubs can best give the assistance 

 solicited by the Rothamsted experts. The lines sug- 

 gested are : — (i) The weed-flora of arable land, its 

 relation to the type of soil, to the geological forma- 

 tion, to the system of manuring, to the crop rotation, 

 and so on ; (2) the physical properties (texture, pore- 

 space, water-content, etc.) of the soil ; and (3) the 

 carbonate-content and the nitrogen-content of the soil. 

 These have the merit of presenting a certain degree of 

 finality that is within the reach of a boy in the course 

 of one or two school terms. The weed-flora problems 

 should appeal to the field club, while the other two 

 should be attractive to boys whose bent is chemical 

 and physical rather than biological. It is a step 

 entirely in the right direction thus to link up the work 

 of those still in statu pupillari with that of experts 

 seriously engaged in research. The moment is very 

 opportune for bring-ing- home to the minds of 

 boys that their amateur efTorts in research may 

 speedily be of real benefit to mankind and add to the 

 sum oiF knowledge relating to the complex problems 

 of plant-life. The work is of high educational value, 

 and also of very practical utility ; it deserves warm 

 encouragement for both educational and utilitarian 

 reasons. It is not beyond hope that industries other 

 than agriculture may ere long enlist the services of 

 schools in their several research problems. 



