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NATURE 



[November 25, 1920 



University and Educational Intelligence. 



Birmingham. — The first list of donations in response 

 to the appeal of the University for 500,000!. has been 

 published, showing gifts or promises to the amount of 

 more than 250,000!. Nearly half of this amount, 

 however, is given to the Petroleum Mining Endow- 

 ment Fund, and, whilst making the University unique 

 as a centre of instruction and research in this par- 

 ticular branch of engineering, it will not be directly 

 available for relieving the general indebtedness. The 

 largest single gift is an anonymous one of 50,000!. for 

 the general fund. .'V sum of 5000!. is earmarked for 

 a chair of Italian, and an equal amount is given by 

 the James Watt Memorial Fund for a James Watt 

 research chair in engineering. The Birmingham Small 

 Arms Co. gives 6500!., and the Daimler Co. 3500I. 

 A gratifying feature of the list is the number of names 

 of old students who have contributed. The Birming- 

 ham Chamber of Commerce has given 3200!., and the 

 Worcestershire Education Committee has made an 

 additional grant of 200!. per annum. It is announced 

 that a second list will be issued shortly, and it is to be 

 hoped that more of the large firms in the city and 

 neighbourhood will appear therein. 



Cambridge. — Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston has been 

 elected a fellow of King's College for his explora- 

 tions in the Sudan, Ruwenzori, Pacific, and Dutch 

 New Guinea. 



Dr. W. T. David has been appointed professor of 

 engineering at the University College of South Wales 

 and Monmouthshire. Cardiff. 



It is announced that Prof. H. MacLean, professor 

 of chemical pathology in the University of London, 

 has been appointed director of the clinical medical unit 

 at St. Thomas's Hospital. The appointment of a 

 phN'siologist and biochemist to be director of a clinical 

 medical unit is significant as indicating the modern 

 tendency of medicine towards recognition of the value 

 of the work of the scientific investigator for purely 

 medical fields. 



The University of Manchester has recently received 

 a bequest of 30,000!., free of duty, under the will of 

 the late Mr. Jesse Haworth. The amount is to be 

 used for the purpose of enlarging the present Jesse 

 Haworth Building for Egyptology. Mr. Haworth, to 

 whose generosity the University owes the greater part 

 of its valuable Egyptological collection, was always 

 a most generous benefactor to the museum, and 

 shortly before his death subscribed 10,000!. to the 

 University Appeal Fund, this amount being ear- 

 marked for museum purposes. The University .\ppeal 

 Fund now stands at about 217,000!. 



The Toronto correspondent of the Times reports 

 that complete success is anticipated in the centennial 

 endowment campaign to raise i,ooo,oool. for McGill 

 University, Montreal. Up to November 16 ten individual 

 subscriptions of 20,000!. each, one of 10,000!., and 

 nine of 5000!. had been received. Among the chief 

 contributors are Lord Atholstan, Mr. R. B. .\ngus. 

 Col. Molson, Mr. J. W. McConnell, Sir Herbert Holt, 

 and the Dominion Textile Co. On November 20 it 

 was reported that the endowment fund exceeded 

 8oo,oooZ. .^mong the later heavy subscriptions are 

 50,000!. each by the Canadian Pacific Railway, the 

 Bank of Montreal, and the Royal Bank, and 25,000!. 

 by the Merchants' Bank. 



The annual general meeting of the Science Masters' 

 Association will be held at Oxford from the evening 

 of Tuesday, January 4., 1921, to the morning of the 

 following Friday. Lodging accommodation for 



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members of the association will be. provided in the 

 rooms of Balliol and Trinity Colleges. Meals will 

 be served in Balliol College hall. Lectures, discus- 

 sions, and demonstrations will take place in the 

 lecture-rooms and laboratories of the University. The 

 provisional programme includes the following ad- 

 dresses and lectures : — President's address : Some 

 .Aspects of Science and Education, A. Vassall ; Indica- 

 tors and th« Law of Mass Action,- Brig.-Gen. H. 

 Hartley; The Studv of Crystals, T. V. Barker; Glass 

 Blowing, B. I^mbert ; Recent .Advances in Genejtics, 

 J. S. Huxlev; Soectroscopv, Prof. T. R. Merton ; 

 and The Hedjaz, Dr. D. G.' Hogarth. 



The Hudson Bay Coijipany, as one means of 

 celebrating the 250th anniversary of its foundation 

 and its long connection with Western Canada and 

 with Winnipeg, recently offered the Lniversity of 

 -Manitoba a fellowship of the annual value of fifteen 

 hundred dollars for the years 1920-29 inclusive. This 

 fellowship, which the University has gratefully ac- 

 cepted, will be called the Hudson Bay Company 

 Research Fellowship, and is open to graduates of any 

 Canadian university. It is tenable at the University 

 of Manitoba, and each fellow must devote his entire 

 time to original research in some branch of pure or 

 applied science (i.e. the natural and physical sciences, 

 the medical sciences, engineering, and agriculture). 

 Each fellow will be appointed for one year, and the 

 first appointment will be made at an early date. The 

 company and the University of Manitoba are to be 

 congratulated upon the creation of this important 

 research benefaction. 



The mayoral statement for 1920 of the Huddersfield 

 Technical College has been issued. During the 

 session there were 658 day and 2590 part-time 

 students ; the latter figure included some 300 appren- 

 tices who attended special afternoon classes. The 

 total number of students enrolled show-ed an increase 

 of 876 above the number for the previous year. Ex- 

 Service students accounted in part for the large in- 

 crease in numbers : those under the Board of Educa- 

 tion scheme for the higher education of ex-Service 

 students received training in industrial and general 

 science ; the remainder, under the Ministry of Labour 

 industrial training scheme, had a more direct and 

 practical training in numerous crafts and trades. The 

 textile and the dye departments have been enlarged 

 and a new research laboratory has been added to the 

 chemical section, though the demand made by the 

 increase in the numbers of students on the staff of 

 the college has left little opportunity for the pursuit 

 of such studies. External classes in non-vocational 

 subjects have also been established. Two gifts have 

 been received for the endowment of scholarships ; one, 

 to be known as the Joseoh Blamires scholarship for 

 chemical research, made by Mrs. Blamire. and 

 another, a textile scholarship, made by Sir Charles 

 Svkes. 



Societies and Academies. 



London. 

 Zoological Society, November 2. — Sir Sidney F. 

 Harmer, vice-president, in the chair. — Dr. A. Willey : 

 -A note on the respiratory movements of Necturus and 

 Cryptobranchus. — J. H. Lloyd : Some observations on 

 the structure and life-history of the common nematode 

 of the dogfish, Scyllium canicula. — Mrs. O. A. Merritt 

 Rawkes : Observations on the life-history, bfology, and 

 genetics of the lady-bird beetle, Adalia bipunctatd, 

 Mulsant. — Prof. H. R. Mehra:'The sexiial phase in 

 certain Indian Naididae (Oligochaeta). • 



