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lege in succession to Prof. W. B. Bottomley. He was 

 appointed University reader in botany at that college 

 in 19 19, and has since that date been in charge of the 

 department in the absence of Prof. Bottomley. 



Mr. D. M. S. Watson has been appointed as from 

 August I next to the Jodrell chair of zoology and 

 comparative anatomy at University College in succes- 

 sion to Dr. J. P. Hill, now professor of embryology. 

 Since 1912 Mr. Watson has been lecturer in vertebrate 

 palseontology at that college. He has also lectured in 

 the Universities of Munich, Cape Town, Sydney, Cali- 

 fornia, Michigan, and Chicago. 



Mr. H. G. Jackson has been appointed as from 

 August I next to the University readership in zoology 

 tenable at Birkbeck College. In 1912 Mr. Jackson 

 was appointed research assistant to Prof. Herdman 

 at the University of Liverpool, and since 19 13 has 

 been lecturer in zoology at the University of Bir- 

 mingham. 



Dr. William Wilson has been appointed as from 

 September i next to the University chair of physics 

 tenable at Bedford College. Since 1919 Dr. Wilson 

 has been senior lecturer in physics at King's College, 

 and in 1920 he received the title of reader in 

 physics. 



The following doctorates have been conferred : — 

 D.Sc. in Botany : Mr. F. G. Gregory, an internal 

 student of the Imperial College — Royal College of 

 Science, for a thesis entitled "The Increase in Area 

 of Leaves and Leaf-surface of Cucumis sativus." 

 D.Sc. in Chemistry : Mr. H. Yaroslav, an internal 

 student of University College, for a thesis entitled 

 "The Electro-aflRnltv of Aluminium." D.Sc. in 

 Zoology: Mr. L. T. Hogben, an external student, for 

 a thesis entitled "Studies on Synapsis." D.Sc. (En- 

 gineering) : Mr. F. E. Rowett, an external student, 

 for a thesis entitled "The Resistance to the Flow of 

 Oils through Rubber and Steel Pipes," and other 

 papers. 



Mr. L. H. Dudley Buxton has been elected 

 to an Albert Kahn travelling fellowship for the 

 year 1921-22. TJiese fellowships, which are now 

 of the value of loooL each, were founded In 1910 by 

 Mr. Albert Kahn, of Paris, to enable the fellows to 

 travel for at least one year In foreign countries, so 

 that by the study and comparison of national manners 

 and customs, and of political, social, religious, and 

 economic Institutions, they may become better quali- 

 fied to Instruct and educate their fellow-countrymen. 



Dr. a. G. Gibson, lecturer in morbid anatomy in 

 the University of Oxford, Is to deliver the Schorstein 

 memorial lecture at 4 o'clock on Friday, June 3, at 

 the London Hospital Medical College. The subject 

 will be "Chronic Inflammatory Diseases of the 

 Spleen." 



The summer meeting of the Association of Science 

 Teachers will be held at Cambridge on Saturday, 

 July 9. There will be a short business meeting in 

 the morning at Girton College (by kind permission 

 of the Mistress of Girton), where members will have 

 lunch. In the afternoon Dr. F. W. Aston will give 

 a lecture on "Atoms and Isotopes." 



Two research scholarships of the annual value 

 respectively of looZ. and 75!. are being offered by the 

 Huddersfield Technical College, the object being the 

 encouragement of research upon problems connected 

 with the coal-tar industry in Great Britain. Further 

 information can be obtained from Dr. H. H. Hodg- 



NO. 2692, VOL. 107] 



son. Colour Chemistry Department, Technical Col- 

 lege, Huddersfield. 



Two lectures entitled "The History of Map- 

 making " and "Maps of the Principal Voj-ages of the 

 Sixteenth Century " are being delivered at 7 p.m. on 

 Mondays at Birkbeck College (University of London), 

 the first on Monday last and the second on June 6, by 

 Mr. W. H. Barker. In connection with these lectures 

 there is being held an exhibition of maps, charts, and 

 globes illustrating the history of map-making and geo- 

 graphical discovery. Admission to the lectures is free 

 without ticket. 



Research scholarships in agricultural and veterinary 

 science (not more than five in number), each of the 

 annual value of 200Z. and tenable for two years, are 

 being offered by the Ministry of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries. The agricultural scholarships are open to 

 graduates with honours In science of a British uni- 

 versity. The veterinary scholarships are open to 

 students who have secured the diploma of the Royal 

 College of Veterinary Surgeons. Nominations on the 

 prescribed form must reach the Secretary, Ministry 

 of Agriculture and Fisheries, 4 Whitehall Place, 

 S.W.I, by, at latest, July 15 next. 



The University of the West at Bristol, of which 

 Lord Haldane is the Chancellor, has issued a striking 

 illustrated appeal for the sum of i,ooo,oooi. for en- 

 dowments and maintenance. The appeal takes the 

 form of a series of thirty delightfully executed and 

 printed folio drawings, not only of existing buildings 

 connected with the University in Bristol and In its 

 neighbourhood, but also of buildings in the course of 

 erection on an admirable and unencumbered site of 

 13^ acres near the centre of the city, which are due 

 to the munificence of the late Mr. H. O. Wills and 

 his sons, Messrs. G. A. and H. H. Wills. The appeal 

 is accompanied by a sheet of three remarkable car- 

 toons by Mr. Louis Raemaekers illustrating the need 

 for the more complete education of the youth of the 

 nation, both men and women, who did It such 

 splendid service In the eventful years 19 14-18. 

 Under the cartoons are respectively the remarkable, 

 but true, words : "Genius Is not drawn from any ex- 

 clusive class or caste, but from the cradles of the 

 nation ; no longer can we afford to waste the develop- 

 ment of ability if we are to maintain leadership." 

 " It is the universities which train ; it is in them that 

 the fullness of knowledge dwells." "They look for- 

 ward to an era of research, experiment, discovery, 

 invention, and Intellectual progress that shall sur- 

 oass even the record of the century that is past." 

 Not only are efficient buildings and equipment essen- 

 tial, but even more so are opportunities of free de- 

 velopment unhampered by bureaucratic regulations, 

 and of adequate maintenance for teachers and their 

 satisfactory superannuation, whilst the provision of 

 numerous maintenance scholarships Is a necessity if 

 the able children of the working community are to 

 enjoy the advantage of a university education. No 

 difficulty should be found in raising the funds neces- 

 sary to ensure adequate support for the universities 

 now so urgently appealing for funds in various parts 

 of the country if only the wealthy members of society 

 and the various local authorities within their respec- 

 tive areas would realise their responsibilities. There 

 has arisen a great demand of late throughout Eng- 

 land for the more complete provision of continued and 

 higher education, and if this demand is to be met it 

 is essential that the universities from which the chief 

 inspiration should be derived shall be maintained in 

 the fullest efficiency of means and methods. 



