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NATURE 



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cut across departmental boundaries, and give official 

 status and help to the scientific co-operation already 

 in existence. It is to be hoped that the Board may 

 ultimatelv see its way so to extend its ranks as to 

 effect liaison with bodies outside the official Egyptian 

 Service. W. Lawrence Balls. 



University and Educational Intelligence. 



Cambridge. — Applications are invited for the George 

 Henry Lewes studentship in physiology, value 245/. 

 Candidates must send their applications, with par- 

 ticulars of their qualifications and the subject of their 

 proposed research, by July 31 to Prof. Langley at 

 the Physiology School. 



A further gift of 6000Z. has been received from Mr. 

 and Mrs. P. A. Molteno to meet the increased cost of 

 labour and material in the building of the Molteno 

 Institute of Parasitology. This avoids the need to 

 reduce the accommodation originallv proposed. 



Mr. R. H. Vernon, Gonville and Caius College, has 

 been appointed assistant to the professor of chemistry. 



Honorary degrees are being conferred on the Spanish 

 Ambassador, the President of Harvard Universitv, 

 Prof. H. Gushing, and Prof. J. J. Abel. 



Glasgow. — The following were among the degrees 

 conferred on July 19: — Doctor of Medicine (M.D.): 

 (i) With Commendation : James Gordon Wilson — 

 thesis, "A History of Influenza and its Variations." 

 (ii) Ordinary Degrees : Albert Barnes Hughes — 

 thesis, "Puerperal Eclampsia"; Donald MacKenzie 

 MacRae — thesis, "The Bechuanaland Protectorate: 

 Its People and Prevalent Diseases, w-ith a special 

 consideration of the effects of tropical residence and 

 food in relation to health and disease"; and John 

 Young — thesis, " Bacillary Dysentery." 



London. — Mr. Fisher, President of the Board of 

 Education, has stated, in reply to a question asked in 

 the House of Commons relating to the offer of the 

 Bloomsbury site to the University of London, that 

 when the time comes for King's College to move from 

 the Strand to Bloomsbury, the Government is prepared 

 to seek authority to purchase, at a fair valuation, the 

 buildings at present occupied by King's College in the 

 Strand, and the price so paid will be available towards 

 the cost of the new buildings to be erected for King's 

 College on the new site. 



Sheffield. — Dr. R. B. Wheeler has been appointed 

 to the recently established chair in fuel technology, 

 and Mr. Douglas Knoop to that of economics. 



Sir Jesse Boot has made a gift of 50,000/. to Uni- 

 versity College, Nottingham, in aid of the develop- 

 ment of the scheme for a University of Nottingham. 

 30,oooZ. is for the building fund and 20,000/. for the 

 foundation of a chair of chemistry. 



The council of University College, Swansea, has 

 made the following appointments to headships of de- 

 jiartments, viz. : — Professor of Metallurgy : Prof. C. A. 

 Edwards. Professes of Chemistry : Dr. J.. E. Coates. 

 Professor of Physics: Dr. E. A, Evans. Professor of 

 Mathematics : Lt.-Col. A. R. Richardson. Lecturer 

 in Geology : Dr. A. E. Trueman. Lecturer in His- 

 tory : Mr. E. Ernest Hughes. 



The Trustees of the Beit Fellowships for Scientific 

 Research, which were founded and endowed in 1913 

 by Sir Otto Beit to promote the advancement of 



science by means of research, have recently elected 

 Mr. M. A. Hogan to a fellowship. Mr. Hogan was 

 educated at the Catholic University School, Dublin, 

 1907-15, and has been a student at the University 

 College, Dublin (National University of Ireland), 

 from 1915 to date. Mr. Hogan will' carry out his 

 research at the Imperial College at South Kensington. 



The Industrial Fellowship System for the promo- 

 tion of industrial research, originated by Prof. Robert 

 Kennedy Duncan, has been in successful operation in 

 the University of Pittsburgh since September, 1911. 

 Full particulars of the system are given in a pamphlet 

 by Mr. T. LI. Humber'stone published by the Board 

 of Education. The seventh annual report of the 

 Mellon Institute, founded in the University in 1913, 

 states that the total funds contributed by industrial 

 firms for the nine years ending March i, 1920, was 

 1,213,425 dollars, and that in the year 1919-20 the 

 number of fellowships was 47 and the number of 

 fellows 83, the fellowships being 35 for individuals and 

 12 for groups of workers. A list of fellowships in 

 operation at March i, 1920, is published, which shows 

 the great diversity of subjects of industrial research 

 to which the scheme has been applied. The fact that 

 the resources of the institute are fully used, and that 

 applications exceed the available accommodation, is 

 convincing evidence of the soundness of the principles 

 on which the system is based. The institute is 

 administered by the director. Dr. Raymond F. Bacon, 

 assisted by an associate director and three assistant 

 directors, who prepare schemes of research work,, 

 select the fellows, and supervise their investigations. 



The foundation-stone of the new buildings of the 

 University College of Swansea was laid by his 

 Majesty the King on Monday, July 19. A magnificent 

 site of forty-five acres in Singleton Park, on the 

 shores of Swansea Bay, has been presented to the 

 college by the Corporation of Swansea, which has also 

 granted the temporary use of Singleton Abbey for 

 the housing of the faculty of arts and the administra- 

 tive offices of the college. It should be a matter of 

 encouragement to the council of the college that the 

 main features of its policy received marked approval, 

 and support in the terms' of. the King's reply to the 

 address of welcome on Saturday last. It is the" natural 

 ambition of Swansea to build up a strong School of 

 Applied Science, including a department of metallurgy 

 of the first rank. At the same time the educational 

 ideals of the Welsh people demand for the great popu- 

 lation of this industrial district the fullest provision for. 

 the study of the humanities and for the advancement 

 of learning in the widest sense. The authorities of 

 the college are fully alive to the magnitude of their 

 opportunities and the greatness of their trust. Un- 

 mistakable proofs have already been given by repre- 

 .sentatives of all classes of deep interest in the work 

 of the college and a determination to secure practical 

 assistance. The wide publicity afforded by the Royal 

 visit and the statesmanlike terms of the King's address 

 cannot but serve to widen and strengthen both 

 enthusiasm and practical support. The conclud- 

 ing terms of the King's replv to the address of wel- 

 come were as follows: — "Efficiency is much, but it 

 is not all. We must never forget that education is a. 

 preparation for life, and that its true aim is the en- 

 largement of the human spirit. It will be the task 

 of your college to send out into the world men and 

 women fully equipped for the material work which 

 awaits them, and with minds attuned to high ideals, 

 opened to the rich and varied interests of modern life, 

 and steadfastly set towards the service of their 

 fellows." 



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