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NATURE 



[June 5, 1919 





UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge. — The Grace authorising the Vice-Chan- 

 cellor to inform Mr. Fisher that the University would 

 welcome a comprehensive inquiry into its financial 

 resources and approving an application to the Govern- 

 jment for an emergency grant pending such inquiry 

 passed the Senate without opposition. 



The generous offer of the British oil companies to 

 present a sum of 2io,oooil. to the University for the 

 endowment of the school of chemistry has now been 

 formally made to the Vice-Chancellor by Mr. R. Waley 

 Cohen on behalf of the donors. In conveying this offer 

 Mr. Cohen indicates the wishes of the donors as to 

 the general manner in which their gift should be 

 applied. They understand that not more than half of 

 the sum will be devoted to the extension of the present 

 chemical laboratory, and that the remainder will be 

 utilised for supplementing the funds at present avail- 

 able for the upkeep of the laboratory and for the pay- 

 ment of its teaching and research staff. It is their 

 desire that as large a portion of the fund as possible 

 should be reserved for endowment purposes, and as 

 small a portion devoted to the building as the Univer- 

 sity may consider to be consistent with efficient equip- 

 ment. Since they feel a very deep interest in the 

 success of the scheme, they would be glad to have an 

 opportunity of expressing their views in regard to it 

 when it has been drafted in detail by the Universitv 

 authorities. Whilst their main object is that the Uni- 

 versitv may be enabled to render great service to all 

 scientific work, they trust that the connection which 

 will thus be established between the school of chemistry 

 at Cambridge and the oil industrv may lead, to the 

 study in Cambridge of the chemical problems con- 

 nected with mineral oil. 



Mr. F. T. Brooks, of Emmanuel College, has been 

 appointed a Universitv lecturer in botany ifor five years 

 from Midsummer, iqig. 



Dr. Peter Giles, Master of Emmanuel College, has 

 been elected Vice-Chancellor of the University for the 

 ensuing academical year beginning October i. 



Liverpool.— Col. J. G. Adami, F.R.S., professor of 

 pathologv, McGill University, Montreal, has been 

 elected Vice-Chancellor of the University in succes- 

 sion to Sir Albert Dale, who retires at the end of 

 September. Col. Adami was born in 1862. Educated 

 at Owens College and Christ's College, and later 

 fellow of Jesus College (Cambridge), he is a patho- 

 logist of the highest distinction. Since 1892 he has 

 held the chair of pathology and bacteriology in the 

 McGill University, Montreal. He is well known in 

 Britain and oversea for his great experience in uni- 

 versity affairs. His presence will be another link 

 between Transatlantic and British universities. Col. 

 Adami has served in the Canadian Armv Medical 

 Corps as Assistant Director of Medical Services, and 

 is medical historical recorder for the Canadian Ex- 

 peditionary Force. 



London. — Prof. G. Elliot Smith has been appointed 

 to the University chair of anatomy tenable at Uni- 

 versity College. Prof. Elliot Sniith graduated at 

 Sydney, taking the M.D. with First Class Honours 

 and University medal, and at Cambridge, where he 

 was a fellow of St. John's College. He was formerly 

 professor of anatomy in the Egyptian Government 

 School of Medicine at Cairo, and since 1909 he has 

 been professor of anatomy in the University of Man- 

 chester. 



Major A. J. Allmand has been appointed to the 

 University chair of chemistry tenable at King's Col- 

 lege. In 1910 he was awarded an 185 1 Exhibition 

 scholarship, and has since worked with Prof. Haber 



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at Karlsruhe and Prof. Luther at Dresden. From 

 October, 19 13, to Christmas, 1914, he was assistant 

 lecturer and demonstrator in physical chemistry at 

 Liverpool, and, after holding a commission in the 

 Army, was appointed Chemical Adviser at Army 

 Headquarters. 



Mr. A. E. Richardson has been appointed to the 

 University chair of architecture tenable at University 

 College. 



The report and recommendations of the general 

 committee on degrees in commerce have been approved 

 bv the Senate; the syllabuses and draft regulations 

 for the Intermediate Examinations and the outline 

 syllabus for the Final Examination have also been ap- 

 proved. .A commerce degrees committee, which in- 

 cludes business men representing various commercial 

 interests, has been appointed, the duty of which will 

 be to report on matters connected with degrees in 

 commerce from time to time and to review the scheme 

 annually. 



The Senate has resolved that it is desirable to 

 institute a degree of Ph.D. for internal students in 

 the faculties of theology, arts, science, and economics 

 for students who pursue a course of not less than two 

 years of full-time research work (or its equivalent in 

 evening work). No alteration is proposed to be made 

 in the existing regulations for the M.A. and M.Sc. 

 degrees for internal students as a consequence of the 

 institution of the Ph.D. degree. 



It has been resolved bv the Senate to institute a 

 chair of aeronautics tenable at East London College. 



The following doctorates have been conferred : — 

 D.Sc. (Physics): Mr. E. A. Owen, an internal student, 

 of Universitv College, for a thesis entitled " Pheno- 

 mena Attending the Passage of X-Ravs through 

 Matter." D.Sc. (Economics): Mr. G. H. Scholefield, 

 an external student, for a thesis entitled "A History 

 of British Policy in the Pacific," and other papers. 

 D.Sc. (Chemistry): Mr. G. N. White, an internal 

 student, of University College, for a thesis entitled 

 "The Action of Chloroform on Certain .^r\'l "Mer- 

 captans in Presence of Caustic Soda." 



Mr. Pember Reeves has resij^ned the post of 

 director of the London School of Economics. 



Oxford. — The statute making Greek optional was 

 passed in its amended form by Congregation on 

 June 3. The ultimate decision now rests with Con- 

 vocation, which body will give its vote on June 17. 



Difficulties have arisen about the appointment of a 

 Romanes lecturer, and it has been found advisable to 

 suspend the lecture for the present year. 



\ decree has passed Convocation authorising the 

 erection of a new class-roorn and preparation-room 

 at the physiological laboratory. 



Dr. W. M. Varley, at present principal of the 

 Swansea Technical College, has been appointed prin- 

 cipal of the Brighton Municipal Technical College in 

 succession to Dr. W. B. Burnie. 



The Goldsmiths' Company has offered the sum of 

 i5,oooL to London Hospital for the endowment of a 

 chair of bacteriologv. to be known as the Goldsmiths' 

 Company's chair of bacteriology. 



At a conference of the Universities of the United 

 Kingdom, held in London on May 23, it was 

 unanimously resolved: — "That this conference of 

 British universities desires the representatives who 

 are about to proceed to visit the universities of 

 France to convey to them its cordial greetings and 

 congratulations, and its desire for the growth and 

 consolidation of their fraternal relations, in the interest 

 both of humane learning and science and of inter- 

 national comity and progress." 



