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the Hopkins prize have made the following awards : — 

 For the period 1903-6 to Dr. W, Burnside, of Pem- 

 broke College, for investigations in mathematical 

 science; for the period 1906-9 to Prof. G. H. Bryan, 

 of Peterhouse, for investigations in mathematical 

 physics, including aerodynamic stability ; and for the 

 period 1909-12 to Mr. C. T. R. Wilson, of Sidney 

 Sussex College, for investigations in physics, including 

 the paths of radio-active particles. 



Dr. T. G. Adami, Vice-Chancellor of the Univer- 

 sity of Liverpool, has been elected to an honorary 

 fellowship at Christ's College. 



An offer of 30,000!. has been made to the Univer- 

 sity by the Committee of Council for Scientific and 

 Industrial Research for the erection, equipment, and 

 maintenance at Cambridge of a low-temperature 

 station for research in biochemistry and biophysics. 

 The proposal emanates from the Research Board of 

 the Department charged with the co-ordination of 

 researches related to the scientific problems arising 

 out of the preservation and handling of food. It is 

 desired to erect the new station close to the existing 

 biological laboratories, where a large proportion of 

 the researches initiated by the Board have been 

 carried out. It is proposed to vest the management 

 of the station in a committee of the Senate contain- 

 ing some members nominated by the Department of 

 Scientific and Industrial Research. The director of 

 the station would be appointed by the Lord President 

 of the Council after consideration of a report by the 

 committee. 



Liverpool. — A Congregation of the University was 

 held in St. George's Hall on Friday, May 28, when 

 honorary degrees were conferred. Mr. J. W. Alsop, 

 Pro-Chancellor of the University and chairman of 

 the Liverpool Education Committee; Sir Alfred Booth, 

 chairman of the Cunard Steamship Line; Sir Alfred 

 Dale, the fo-mer Vice-Chancellor of the University; 

 Mr. John Rankin, a leading citizen and merchant of 

 Liverpool ; and Sir Michael Sadler, Vice-Chancellor of 

 the University of Leeds, received the degree of Doctor 

 of Laws. Sir Reginald Blomfield, a member of the 

 Royal Academy and past-president of the Royal Insti- 

 tute of British Architects, and Mr. Frederick Powicke, 

 professor of medieval history in the University of 

 Manchester, received the degree of Doctor of Letters. 

 The degree of Doctor of Science was conferred on 

 Prof. F. G. Donnan, formerly professor of physical 

 chemistry in the University, and now professor of 

 chemistry in University College, London, and on 

 Prof. W. A. Herdman, formerly Derby professor 

 of natural history, and now professor of oceanography, 

 in the University. Mr. Henry Martin, chairman of the 

 St. Helens Higher Education Committee, and repre- 

 sentative of the borough on the Court of the Univer- 

 sity, and Father Thomas J. Walshe, a distinguished 

 scholar, and formerly chaplain and lecturer at the 

 Notre Dame College in Liverpool, were given the 

 degree of Master of Arts. Mr. Joseph Gibson, a 

 leading engineer and president of the Liverpool 

 Engineering Society, received the degree of Master 

 of Engineering. 



London. — ^Two lectures, entitled "Emploi des 

 m6taux ammoniums en Chimie Organique " and 

 " L'GEuvre Scientifique d'Henri Moissan," will be 

 given at King's College, Strand, W.C., by Prof. P. 

 Lebeau, professeur k I'Ecole Sup^rieure de Phar- 

 macie. University de Paris, at 5 p.m. on Monday, 

 June 28, and Wednesday, June 30. The lectures, 

 which will be delivered in French, are addressed to 

 advanced students of the University and to others 

 interested in the subject. Admission is free, without 

 ticket. 



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Oxford.— The honorary degree of Doctor of Letters 

 has been conferred on Dr. Temistocle Zammit, pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in the University of Malta and 

 curator of the Valetta Museum. 



It was resolved by Convocation on June i to 

 confer the title of professor on Dr. T. R. Merton, 

 Balhol College, so long as he continues to hold the 

 office of reader in spectroscopy. 



St Andrews.— The Senatus Academicus will confer 

 the foUowmg honorary degrees at the public gradua- 

 tion ceremonial to be held on July 2 :—LL.D. : Sir 

 Dugald Clerk; Dr. L^on Fr^dericq, for nearly forty 

 years professor of pathology in the University of 

 Li^ge, Belgium ; Mr. R. A. Herman, fellow and lec- 

 turer of Trinity College, Cambridge; Mr. W. J. 

 Matheson, New York,. U.S.A.; Dr. N. K. Smith, 

 professor of logic and metaphysics in the University 

 of Edinburgh; and Dr. N. Walker, his Majesty's 

 Inspector of^ Anatomy for Scotland. 



The medal of honour of the University of Brussels 

 was presented by the Vice-Chancellor on May 22 to 

 Lord Dawson of Penn, Sir Leslie Mackenzie, and 

 Prof. Sir William Smith. 



Prof. E. F. Nichols has resigned the chair of 

 physics held by him at Yale University to take up 

 the post of director of pure science in the Nela Re- 

 search Laboratories of the National Lamo Works of 

 the General Electric Co. at Cleveland, Ohio. 



In connection with the London County Council's 

 lectures for teachers on recent developments in science, 

 a lecture on "The World-Problem of Nitrogen" will 

 be given by Prof. F. G. Donnan at University College, 

 Gower Street, W.C.i, on Monday next, June 7, at 

 6 p.m. The chair will be taken by Lord Moulton. 



A PUBLIC meeting in support of the claim of the 

 Imperial College of Science and Technology for 

 degree-conferring power and university status will be 

 held at the Central Hall, Westminster, to-morrow, 

 June 4, at 5 p.m. Lord Morris will preside, and will 

 be supported by Sir Arthur Acland, Bart., Sir Alfred 

 Keogh, Col. Sir Pierre van Ryneveld, Mr. H. G. 

 Wells, Mr. J. A. Spender, and others. 



The foundation-stone of the new wing of the London 

 School of Economics was laid by the King on Satur- 

 day last, May 29. His Majesty was accompanied by 

 the Queen and Princess Mary, and the Royal party 

 was received by Dr. Russell Wells, Vice-Chancellor 

 of the University of London. In an address Dr. Wells 

 referred to the meeting held at the Mansion House 

 in 1918, when it was determined to institute London 

 degrees in commerce, and to collect funds in order 

 to found and endow in the University what it is hoped 

 would ultimately become the greatest school of com- 

 merce in the world. As a result of the response to 

 the appeal of the University by the bankers, shippers, 

 and merchants of London, and the substantial con- 

 tribution of Sir Ernest Cassel, through the Cassel 

 Trustees, the sum of more than 300,000!. was ob- 

 tained towards the founding and endowing of the 

 scheme for commercial education. In the course of 

 his reply the King said :— " I am fully sensible of the 

 patriotic work which has been accomplished by the 

 universities during the war, of their instinctive and 

 immediate response to the call of duty, of their heavy 

 burden of sorrow and loss, of their varied and bril- 

 liant contributions to the science of modern warfare, 

 and of the extent to which their normal activities have 

 been suspended or deflected by five years of national 

 peril. It is for this reason the more gratifying to 

 me to note that the University of London, which has 

 grudged nothing of its youth and valour to our armies 

 in the field, has been planning the development of 



