May 27, 1922J 



NATURE 



697 



University and Educational Intelligence. 



Cambridge. — The Council of the Senate has ap- 

 proached the President of the Board of Education, 

 stating that the immediate appointment of a Statu- 

 tory Commission for Cambridge would be welcome 

 on the understanding that the University and 

 Colleges would have an opportunity of bringing their 

 views on the detailed recommendations of the present 

 Commission before the Statutory Commission. 



A welcome bequest to the Fitzwilliam Museum 

 from the late Mr. S. G. Perceval of Trinity Hall is 

 announced. His collection of pictures, books, manu- 

 scripts and objects of art at present on loan to the 

 museum is now bequeathed to the Museum, and an 

 estate with an income of 400/. a year. 



Mr. W. W. Rouse Ball of Trinity College offers the 

 University the sum of 500/. to constitute a Trust 

 Fund for the provision of occasional lectures dealing 

 either with some particular development of mathe- 

 matics or application of mathematics to science. 



Dr. G. P. Bidder of Trinity College has offered 

 5000 lire, subject to equal help from the Balfour 

 Trustees, in order that a research student may be 

 sent to the Stazione Zoologica at Naples for six 

 months in the coming autumn. 



Dr. E. Lloyd Jones, Downing College, has been 

 reappointed demonstrator of medicine. It is pro- 

 posed to appoint Mr. E. A. Milne, Trinity College, 

 university lecturer in astrophysics. 



Mr. B. K. Martin, Magdalene College, has been 

 nominated to hold the Princeton Visiting Fellowship 

 for the year 1922-23, and there has been recently 

 notified a visiting scholarship at Yale University to 

 be held preferably by a man who has not completed 

 his course at Cambridge but intends to return to 

 Cambridge at the end of a year at Yale. The Joseph 

 H. Choate Memorial Fellowship at Harvard University 

 will also shortly be filled. 



A grant of 150/. is to be made to Mr. J. M. Wordie, 

 St. John's College, towards the expenses of an 

 expedition to Greenland for work in geology, botany, 

 zoology, and ethnography, 



Leeds. — The Council of the University has 

 elected Dr. Albert Gilligan to the chair of geology. 

 Dr. Gilligan, who was educated at Wolverhampton 

 Grammar School and University College, Cardiff, has 

 been lecturer in economic geology and reader in 

 petrology in the University. He has published 

 important researches on the Carboniferous rocks 

 of the north of England and upon the petro- 

 graphy of the Millstone Grit in Yorkshire, and has 

 been awarded the Murchison Fund by the Royal 

 Geological Society. Dr. Gilligan succeeds Prof. 

 P. F. Kendall, and the Council of the University 

 has placed on record its appreciation of the value 

 of the work performed by Prof. Kendall during his 

 thirty years' connection with the Yorkshire College 

 and the University of Leeds. 



]\Ir. S. Barratt has been appointed assistant 

 lecturer and demonstrator in chemistry. Mr. Barratt 

 was educated at Clifton College and at Balliol, 

 Oxford, where he obtained a first-class in the Honours 

 School of Chemistry and a research scholarship 

 which enabled him to work for two years with 

 Prof. T. R. Merton. He was joint author with Prof. 

 Merton of a paper on " The Secondary Spectrum 

 of Hydrogen," which formed the Bakerian Lecture 

 of the Royal Society delivered on March 9 last. 



Mr. Alexander Hamilton Thompson, reader in 

 mediaeval history in the University of Durham (Arm- 

 strong College), who has edited the ArchcBological 

 Journal since 1919 and has pubUshed work on 

 Yorkshire antiquities, including the Ecclesiastical 



NO. 2743, VOL. 109] 



History of the county contributed to the " Victoria 

 County History," has been appointed reader in 

 mediaeval history. 



The following appointments have been made from 

 the staff of the University : — Mr. W. Godden, for 

 a number of years lecturer in agricultural chemistry 

 and advisory chemist in agriculture, to be head of 

 the Biochemical Department of the Rowett Institute 

 for Research in Animal Nutrition at Aberdeen ; 

 Mr. D. B. Johnstone- Wallace, district lecturer in 

 agriculture, to be agricultural organiser for Devon- 

 shire. 



Queen's College, London, which was founded by 

 F. D. Maurice and other King's College professors in 

 1848, and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1853, 

 was the first institution devoted to the higher educa- 

 tion of women. It represents, therefore, the begin- 

 ning of a movement which has enlarged the sphere 

 of women's activities far beyond anything contem- 

 plated in the middle of the nineteenth century. All 

 who have broad and liberal conceptions of education 

 appreciate the value of the pioneer work done by the 

 College and the distinguished men associated with it, 

 such as Charles Kingsley, Edward Forbes, D. T. 

 Ansted, H. G. Seeley, Rev. G. Henslow, W. B. 

 Carpenter, Sterndale Bennett, W. H. H. Hudson, 

 J./ D. McClure, and W. A. Miller, to mention only a 

 few scientific leaders whose names are among those 

 of past professors. Throughout its existence the 

 College has stood for independence and true learning, 

 and all are now gathering fruit from the tree which 

 it planted. The appeal which has just been made 

 for the sum of 20,000/. to enable the College to pur- 

 chase the adjoining house in Harley Street, and thus 

 extend and consolidate its activities, ought, therefore, 

 to meet with a ready and generous response. " At 

 no time in our history," says Lord Askwith, chairman 

 of the Appeal Committee, " has it been so important 

 that women should be able to have guidance in their 

 new powers and keen desire for knowledge " ; and we 

 hope that a college which has done so much to realise 

 the highest physical, intellectual, and moral ideals 

 will be provided with the resources desired to continue 

 its valuable work. The appeal has the support of 

 Mr. H. H. Asquith and Sir James Frazer among 

 others, and it is one which we particularly commend 

 to all who are interested in the place of women in a 

 reconstructed world. Donations should be sent to : 

 The Queen's College Extension Appeal Fund, London 

 County Westminster and Parr's Bank, Ltd., Caven- 

 dish Square, London, W. 



The Board of Education has approved an arrange- 

 ment whereby students of University College, Read- 

 ing, receiving grants under the Board's Regulations 

 for the Training of Teachers, will be permitted, if 

 suitable for a course of agricultural study, to take 

 the London University External B.Sc. degree course 

 in agriculture as an alternative to a course in arts 

 or pure science. Students wishing to follow this 

 course must enter the training department of the 

 College for a course of three years, which, if success- 

 fully completed, enables them to obtain the degree 

 and also to secure recognition by the Board of Educa- 

 tion as Certificated Teachers. The training in 

 teaching ordinarily proceeds concurrently with the 

 degree work throughout the three years, but a student 

 who has passed the Intermediate Science (Agri- 

 culture) examination before admission to the College 

 devotes the first two years to the final degree course 

 and the third year to a post-graduate course in the 

 theory and practice of teaching. Further particulars 

 of the course of training can be obtained from the 

 Tutorial Secretary of University College, Reading. 



