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appointed Director of Child Welfare to the Inter- 

 national Red Cross organisation at Geneva. Three 

 lecturers in the departments of economics, histor}', 

 and modern languages have received professorial ap- 

 pointments in other universities. 



London. — .\ course of lectures on " A General 

 Survey of the Globe and its Atmosphere," with prac- 

 tical work, will be given at the Meteorological Office, 

 .South Kensington, by Sir Napier Shaw, reader in 

 meteorologv in the University, on Fridays at 3 p.m. 

 during the second term, beginning on January 23 

 next. The informal meetings at the Meteorological 

 Office for the discussion of important contributions 

 to current meteorology in Colonial or foreign journals 

 will be resumed at 5 p.m. on Mondav, November 3, 

 igit), and will be continued on alternate Mondavs 

 until March 22, 1920, with the exception of Decem- 

 ber 29. Students wishing to attend should com- 

 municate with the Reader at the Meteorological 

 Office. The lectures are addressed to advanced 

 .students of the Universitv and to others interested in 

 the subject. .Vdmission is free by ticket, obtainable 

 on application at the Meteorological Office. 



The academic teaching of military science as 

 a subject of curricula for degrees of the University 

 is to be resumed in the session now opening. .Some 

 vears before the war militarv science was introduced 

 as an optional subject for the Intermediate and Final 

 Courses for the B..'\. and B.Sc. degrees. The sylla- 

 buses have recently been revised by the Senate in the 

 light of experience gained during the war, and it is 

 expected that, in view of the large number of students 

 who have gained practical military experience during 

 the war, the subject will attract an increased number 

 of students. The subject can be studied in the Uni- 

 versitv both as a branch of general education and, in 

 the case of candidates for University commissions in 

 the Regular .\rmv, as a preparation for their profes- 

 sion. Both classes of student will be able to obtain 

 practical militarv training in the University Contingent 

 of 'the Officers Training Corps. The post-war condi- 

 tions under which commissions in the Regular -Xrmy 

 mav be obtained bv Universit\' candidates have not 

 vet been published. 



Sheffield. — Prof. j. O. Arnold, who recently 

 resigned his position as professor of metallurgy and 

 dean of the faculty of metallurgy in the University 

 of Sheffield, has been in failing health for some time, 

 and, much to the regret of the University authorities, 

 he has found himself unable to continue his work. 

 Prof. Arnold was appointed in i88q professor of metal- 

 lurgy in succession to the late Prof. W. H. Green- 

 wood at the technical department of the Firth Col- 

 lege, which afterwards became a constituent part of 

 University College, Sheffield, and later of the Uni- 

 versity of Sheffield. The applied science department 

 of the University has kept pace with the applications 

 of science to the steel industry, and taken a pro- 

 minent part not only in the supply of trained men to 

 these industries, but also in producing in rapid succes- 

 sion a number of valued contributions to the science 

 of metallurgv. Prof. .Arnold himself has been an 

 active contributor for many years of valuable papers 

 and researches carried out in the laboratories of his 

 department. In iqi2 he was elected a fellow cf the 

 Roval Societv, and in rqifi a member of the council 

 of the Iron and .Steel Institute. He lectured before 

 the British .Association during its visit to .South .Africa 

 in 1905, and he became the first dean of the faculty 

 of metallurgy recently established in the Universitv. 

 His colleagues and friends wish him renewed health 

 and vigour, which thev trust may come to him 

 now that he has allowed himself to relinquish some 



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of the strenuous duties which he has performed so 



successfully for many years. 



Dr. Edward Hindus, Kingsley lecturer and Bye 

 fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and assis- 

 tant to the Quick professor of biology, has been elected 

 to the chair of biology in the School of Medicine, 

 Cairo, Egypt. 



Dr. R. H. A. Plimmer, reader in physiological 

 chemistry, University College, London, has been ap- 

 pointed as head of the biochemical department of 

 Craibstone .Animal Nutrition Research Institute, which 

 is under the direction of Aterdeen University and the 

 North of Scotland College of .Agriculture. 



Mr. J. R. Taylor has been appointed to the 

 newly-created post of director of humanistic studies 

 in the Hudderslield Technical College. Mr. Taylor is 

 a graduate of the L'niversity of Edinburgh, and for 

 several years past has occupied the position of lecturer 

 to University tutorial classes under the University of 

 Leeds. 



News has just reached us of munificent bequests 

 made to educational institutions in the Commonwealth 

 of -Australia by the late Sir Samuel McCaughey. 

 Bequests made to the Sydney L'niversity, the Bris- 

 bane University, soldiers and their dependents, and 

 the Presbvterian Church in New South Wales and 

 Queensland are proportions of the residue of the 

 estate, and the amounts are, therefore, contingent 

 upon the sum realised by the estate. The estimated 

 value of the estate is 1,750,000!., and it is believed 

 that, after certain legacies, amounting to about 

 230,000!., and the other specific bequests are provided 

 for, the residue of the estate will amount to 1,394,000/. 

 .Among the specific and the residuary bequests based 

 on this estimate for educational, religious, and charit- 

 able purposes, the following are mentioned in the 

 Sydney Morning Herald : — Sydney LIniversIty, 

 465,000/.; Brisbane University, 232,000/.; Scots Col- 

 lege, .Svdney, 20,000/. ; Sydney Grammar School, 

 10,000/. ; North Sydney Church of England Grammar 

 School, 10,000/. ; C'ranbrook Church of England 

 Grammar School, 10,000/. ; Newington College, 10,000/. ; 

 and King's School, Parramatta, 10,000/. The university 

 bequests are unconditional. The gift to the l'niversity 

 of Queensland (Brisbane) wijl enable that institution to 

 do what it has alwavs wanted to do, and never had 

 the chance of doing : become a university, and more 

 than a place for imparting a certain amount of 

 (chieflv) technical instruction. The political world is 

 rather a troubled one, and the type of Labour Part>- 

 in power has not taken much interest in higher educa- 

 tion. So the University has been cramped for funds, 

 and unable to get much past its initial stage. With 

 the gift to Sydney it is hoped that in a few years' time 

 this institution will be a far bigger force for good than 

 it now is. St<)te education policy has brought secon- 

 dary education to the people, with the natural result 

 that the l'niversity is thronged, and that the build- 

 ings have been taxed to the limit of their capacity, 

 the staff, especially on the scientific side, being far 

 too heavilv burdened. Now there is a prospect of an 

 end to that condition of affairs, and, as the State will 

 doubtless add to the buildings, the new revenues can 

 go to strengthen the staff and bring in a number 

 of leading men. .A great increase in the graduate 

 travelling scholarships is also desired, so that more 

 of the best men of the L^niversity mav spend some 

 vears in England and elsewhere. It is hoped that 

 Cambridge will soon allow a .Svdney B.Sc. to enter 

 for the Tripos without making him pass the Little-go. 



