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and industrial research in the United 



Kingdom, and will be subject to such 



conditions as the Committee mav think 



necessary.) 



Fuel Research Station 



National Physical Laboratory^ 



12,775 

 154.650 



Universities and Colleges . United Kingdom. 



8,000 

 2,000 

 2,000 

 4,000 

 2,000 

 2,000 

 2,000 

 2,000 

 2,000 



84,000 



University of Ix)ndon 



Victoria University of Manchester 



University of Birmingham 



University of Wales 



University of Liverpool 



Leeds University 



Sheffield University 



Bristol University 



Durham University 



Scottish Universities, grant in aid under sec- 

 tion 25 of the Universities (Scotland) Act, 

 1880,- 42,oooL ; additional grant in aid, 

 42,oooi 



Grant in aid of the University Colleges Grants 

 Deposit Account, to be employed in mak- 

 ing grants in aid of certain Colleges in Great 

 Britain giving education of a university 

 standard in arts and sciences and techno- 

 logy _ ^ 



•Grant in aid of the expenses of the Univer- 

 sity- Colleges of North Wales, South Wales 

 and Monmouthshire, and Aberystwyth 



(4000Z. to each) .". "... 



Additional grant in aid of the expenses of the 

 University of Wales and of the University 

 Colleges of North Wales, South Wales and 

 Monmouthshire, and Aberystwyth (2500?., 

 5i2.si., 7750L, and 5125/. resoectively) 

 Grant in aid of the expen^fs of the Imperial 

 . College of Science and Terbnology 

 Supplementary grant in aid of maintenance of 

 Univprsities and Colleges in the United 

 Kingdom ... ... ... ... _ ■« 



Total for Universities and Colleges ... 

 Special Grants. 



1Q19-20 1918 19 Increase 



Special grants m aid of 

 Universities, Colleges, 



Medical Schools, etc. 500,000 30,000 470,000 

 Certain of the universities, colleges, and other 

 similar institutions which are in receipt of Parlia- 

 mentary grants are in need of special assistance in 

 order that they may, so far as possible, resume their 

 full work under favourable conditions, and may not 

 be hampered by extraordinary expenditure in- 

 volved by the prolonged interruption of their activities 

 and development caused by the war. The special 

 grants in aid for iqi8-iq were provided to meet par- 

 ticularly urgent cases in which some measure of 

 assistance could not be delayed until the conclusion of 

 hostilities without risk of grave permanent detriment 

 to the institutions concerned. 



1 Services renilered without payment for other C.overtiment Departments 

 are estimated a^ follow* :— Admiralty, 6500/.: .•^ir Ministry, 36,350/.; 

 Ministry of Munitions, 63,000/. ; War Ofivce, 500/. The testing fees at the 

 National Physical Laboratory and charges for special investigations 

 amounted to 26.500/. 



2 In addition to an annual srtim of 30,000/. payable to tliese Universities 

 from the Local Taxation (Scotland) Account under Section 2 C2) of the 

 Education and Local Taxa'ion Account (Scotland) .^ct, 1892. 



•* Of this amount 60,000/. will be devoted to gran's in aid of technological 

 education. 



* This sum, together with 84,000/. provided in Class IV., r8, i« imended to 

 raise to 1,000,000/. the total amount of the grants paid out of ihe Exche(]iier 

 during the year 1919-20 for the maintenance of I'lnversity Institutions in the 

 United Kingdom. 



12,000 



20,500 

 32,000 



'.=;3^5oo 



916,000 



18,000 

 32,000 

 20,000 

 12,000 



UnIVERSIIIES and CdLLEGES, IRELAND. 



Queen's University of Belfast 



University College, Dublin 



L'niversity College, Cork 



University College, Galway 



National University of Ireland and University 

 College. Dublin ... ... ... ... 1,000 



Additional grant towards increasing the re- 

 sources of University College, Galway ... 2,000 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge. — The Cavendish professorship of experi- 

 mental physics, recently vacated by the Master of 

 Trinit>', has been filled by the appointment of Sir 

 Ernest Rutherford. This office carries with it the 

 direction of the Cavendish Laboratory. An adequate 

 continuation of the very remarkable line of occupants 

 of this important position, represented by the names of 

 Clerk Maxwell, Rayleigh, and J. J. Thomson, has 

 thus been secured. 



At the same time the University fortunately con- 

 tinues to be in a position to profit by the services of 

 Sir J. J. Thomson on an honorary basis. A special 

 professorship of physics without stipend has been 

 created for him, and accortimodation and resources will 

 be provided, so far as finances permit, for the pro- 

 secution of his scientific work and his activities in the 

 stimulation of research in physical science. 



It is hoped that the University will very soon find 

 itself in a position to embark upon the structural 

 develonments which will be required in order to take 

 full advantage of this great accession of strength in 

 the most fundamental of the sciences, and to maintain 

 the repute and activity of the Cavendish Laboratory 

 at the level that the national interest in thr coming 

 time will more than ever demand. 



London. — ^The Ramsay Memorial Committee has 

 offered to the University a sum of not less than 

 25,oooi. towards the foundation of a laboratory of 

 chemical engineering at University College. The 

 Senate has gratefully accepted the offer, and is 

 allotting a site for the purpose. 



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On the invitation of the governors of Birkbeck Col- 

 lege, London, Lord Haldane has accepted the position 

 of president of the college, in succession to the late 

 Lord Alverstone. 



Applications for grants from ilie Dixon Fund of 

 the University of London for assisting scientific in- 

 vestigations must reach the Academic Registrar of the 

 University before May 15 next. 



The Lindley studentship in physiology will shortly 

 be awarded by the University of London. It is open 

 to students qualified to undertake research. Applica- 

 tions must be made to the Academic Registrar, the 

 University of London, South Kensington, before 

 April 30. 



A committee of the Royal College of Pli\ siti.ins 

 of London and of the Royal College of Surgeons of 

 England will shortly appoint a Streatfeild research 

 scholar in medicine and surgery. The annual value 

 of the scholarship is about 250^., and the tenure three 

 years, at the discretion of the committee. Applica- 

 tions, stating the nature of the proposed research, the 

 place where it is to be carried out, and the .status of 

 the applicant, should be sent to the Rrtristrar, Royal 

 CnUoae of Phy.sicians of T<ui(lo,i. Pill Mall I-j.^t, 

 S.W.I, marked "Streatfeild S( h..l ir^hii.. • 



Mr. .ARTHtjR Henderson, of tli'^ L.-ihoiir 



Pnrtv, appeals in the Times for a large and 



