December 2, 1920] 



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the evening classes, who undertake part of the work 

 of imparting elementary mining education at present, 

 will be enabled to keep themselves au courant with 

 the latest developments and to obtain advice and 

 i>sistance from the school. 



The Central Government will assume responsibility 

 lor its maintenance and administration, as the 

 development of India's mineral industry is an Im- 

 perial undertaking which affects vitally the general 

 advancement of the country as a whole. Under the 

 Reforms Scheme only central agencies and institu- 

 tions for research and for professional or technical 

 training or for the promotion of special studies will 

 be under the Government of India, as it is only for 

 such that funds can be allotted from the Imperial 

 revenues. 



The fact that both coal and metalliferous mines 

 are now being developed in other Provinces is not 

 lost sight of. The school will be open to students 

 from all parts of British India, and facilities are to 

 be provided for others from the Indian States. 

 Although the school will supply trained officials for 

 the coal-mining industry, it has been definitely lajd 

 down that instruction in metalliferous mining shall 

 receive due attention. It is hoped that provincial 

 Governments, mining associations, and the great 

 mining companies of India will give liberal support 

 to the school by the institution of scholarships, travel- 

 line fellowships, and lectureships. 



Elementary instruction in coal and metalliferous 

 mining is not one of the objects of the school ; this 

 will receive due care from the provincial Govern- 

 ments concerned. A final decision has not yet been 

 reached with regard to the higher training of mjne 

 surveyors, which is left for the future consideration 

 of the governing body. Should a metallurgical 

 institute be established in the future at Jamshedpur, 

 full arrangements are to be made for the interchange 

 of facilities in research and .idvanced training 

 between it and the new School of Mines and Geology. 

 The school will not be affiliated to anv university, 

 at least in its initial stages, though it must, of 

 Hirse, maintain touch with the highest form of 

 •lucTtional thought, methods, and standards. Both 

 the Universities of Calcutta and Patna will be repre- 

 sented on the governing body. The latter consists of 

 fourteen members, presided over by the Director of 

 the Geological Survev of India. Other official 

 members are the Chief Inspector of Mines, the 

 principal of the collefle. and the reoresentatives of 

 'hf Governments of Bengal and of Bihar and Orissa. 

 I he rest are non-officials, appointed hv the mining 

 ^sociations. etc., of various parts of India, and the 

 vo university members already mentioned. 

 Steps hnve alrendy been taken to acquire a suitable 

 ;te at Dhanbaid. and the governinj; bo<lv is to 

 irmulate proposals at onre for buiUlinps and equip- 

 u'nt. staff, courses of studv and examinations, rules 

 f admission and an estimate of the initi.il and 

 recurring costs of the school. J. C. B. 



University and Educational Intelligence. 



C'ambkiogf.- Mr. .A. H. .\ppleton (Downing Col- 

 lege), Mr. D. G. Reid (Trinity College), and Mr. A. 

 Ilopkinson (F-lmmanuel ("ollcge) have been appointed 

 clemonstralors in anatomy, and Mr. A Hutchinson 

 (Pembroke College) has been re-appointed demon- 

 strator in mineralogy and assistant curator of the 

 museum of mineralogy. It is proposed that Dr. 

 Myers should be appointed reader in experimental 

 psychology, and that the University lectureship which 

 he now holds should cento. 



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A LECTURE on " Recent Developments in Astronomy," 

 in connection with the London County Council's 

 lectures for teachers, will be given by Prof. A. Fowler 

 at the Regent Street Polytechnic, VV.i, on Saturday 

 morning, December 4, at 10.30 o'clock. The chair 

 will be taken by Mr. E. Walter Maunder. 



The Toronto correspondent of the Times stated on 

 November 25 that, including the grant of 1,000,000 

 dollars from the Government of the Province of 

 Quebec and 1,000,000 dollars from the Rockefeller 

 I'oundation, the McGill University centennial endow- 

 ment fund has reached the total of 6,321,000 dollars 

 (approximately 1,580,000/.), which exceeds the amount 

 the recent campaign was started to raise. 



An exchange of university students between Belgium 

 and the United States has recently been made ; 

 twenty-four Belgian students have been admitted to 

 American universities and twenty-two Americans have 

 entered Belgian universities. The exchange has been 

 arranged and endowed by the Education Foundation 

 of the Belgian Relief Commission from funds which 

 remained after the Commission had completed its 

 work in 1919. All travelling expenses of the selected 

 students will be met from this fund, and fees will be 

 remitted by the Belgian and some of the American 

 universities for exchange students. In addition, Bel- 

 gians_ entering American universities will each receive 

 a maintenance grant of 1000 dollars per annum, while 

 .American students in Belgian universities will each 

 be allowed a sum of 10,000 francs per annum for living 

 expenses. 



In his presidential address to the members of the 

 British Academy, now reprinted. Sir F. E. Kenyon 

 discussed the subject of international scholarship. 

 Like other societies, the Academy suffers from lack 

 of funds, and the appeal now made for a Treasury 

 grant will meet with the support of all who are 

 interested in learning. The question of the resump- 

 tion of relations with German scholars was con- 

 sidered, and while Sir F. Kenyon sees the difticulties 

 which impede any rapprochement, he " looks forward 

 to the revival of normal relations between English 

 and German scholars, and I desire that it may come 

 without delay." Meanwhile, international organisa- 

 tion of scholarship need not be suspended, and we 

 can work in full accord with our .Allies. As a result 

 of a meeting held in Paris in iqit) a .series of pro- 

 posals for future work was submitted bv the repre- 

 sentatives of the nations present. Sir f". Kenyon 's 

 review of these proposals deserves careful con- 

 sideration. 



The calendar of the West of Scotland Agricultural 

 College for the session 1920-21 has just been received. 

 The college undertakes to give instruction in general 

 agriculture, _ dairying, forestry, horticulture, and 

 poultry keeping to farmers, teachers, and grocers as 

 well_ as to students studying for the regular diplomas, 

 certificates, and degrees. The course provided for 

 farmers is held during the winter months and com- 

 pleted in one session; it is intended for the sons of 

 farmers who are unable to take full-time courses. .At 

 the grocers' class, hold in coniunction with the Glas- 

 gow Grocers' and Provision Merchants' Association, 

 the lectures deal principally with milk, butter and 

 buttcr-makini?, cheese and cheese-making, bacon, and 

 egg<t. For full-time students courses are provided 

 which lend to college certificates and diplomas in agri- 

 culture, dairying, foresfrv, and horticulture and to 

 the various national diplomas which are granted, 

 while lectures in preparation for the degree of B.Sc. 

 (Glasgow) are also given. The year is divided into 

 two terms, a winter session which Is held in Glas- 

 gow, and a summer session spent at the experimental 



