June 29, 1916] 



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tributions to .the Petrology of the West of Scotland," 

 with other papers ; Doctor of Science in Public Health, 

 Dr. W. Barr, thesis, " I.K. Therapy in Pulmonary 

 Tuberculosis." 



Leeds. — Sir James Roberts, Bt., has made a gift 

 of io,oooi. to the University for the foundation and 

 maintenance of a professorship of the Russian 

 language and literature. 



Liverpool.— By the will of the late Mr. N. E. 



p Roberts pooi. is bequeathed to the Chancellor of Liver- 



K pool University for the benefit of the University, and 



loooZ. for the endowment of a scholarship in the de- 



fiartment of infectious diseases, payable on the death 



of a niece. 



LoNDO.N. — At a meeting of the Senate held on June 

 21 Sir Alfred Pearce Gould was elected Vice-Chan- 

 cellor for a second term of office, viz. until June, 1917. 

 The following doctorates were conferred : — D.Sc. in 

 Physical Chemistry : Mr. A. Bramley, an internal 

 student of the Imperial College (Royal College of 

 Science), for a thesis entitled "A Study of Binary 

 -Mixtures, with special reference to Viscosity." D.Sc. 

 in Chemistry : Mr. A. F. Joseph, an internal student 

 of the Imperial College (Royal College of Science) and 

 Birkbeck College, for a thesis entitled " Experimental 

 Investigations on the Properties of Bromide Solu- 

 ::ons." D.Sc. in Geology : Mr. W. Jones, an external 

 student, for a thesis entitled "The Origin of the 

 Tin Ore Deposits of Kinta District, Federated Malay 

 States," and other papers. 



Oxford. — The delegates of the University Museum 

 have just presented their annual report. They direct 

 attention to the large number of members of the 

 teaching staff, research workers, and service staff who 

 have been serving in the Navy or Army, or have been 

 otherwise engaged on work directly connected with 

 the war. In the pathological department much bac- 

 teriological work has been done for thl Third Southern 

 General Hospital ; a standards laboratory has also been 

 set up, and is occupied in the preparation and issue of 

 standard agglutinating cultures and serums for use in 

 the diagnosis of typhoid and paratyphoid fevers. The 

 report in physiology records researches by the Wayn- 

 flete professor, by Dr. Vernon, Dr. Chuai Asayama, 

 of Kioto, and Prof. Denys, of Louvain. It also men- 

 tions the gaining of the V.C. by Lieut. Maling, a 

 physiology- student in 1909-10, and adds that of recent 

 students in the department ten have lost their lives in 

 the war. In the department of zoologv and compara- 

 tive anatomy research has been carried on, in the 

 absence on militarj- service of the Linacre professor, 

 by the deputy-professor and Mrs. Goodrich, by Mr. 

 G. W. Smith and Mr. J. B. Gatenby. A representa- 

 tive collection of insects, presented by the Hope depart- 

 ment, has been prepared and exhibited. Since the 

 resignation, after fifty years' ser\-ice, of Prof. Clifton, 

 the work of his department has been carried on by 

 Mr. James Walker. Research on wireless telegraphy 

 for the naval air ser\-ice has been conducted by the Wyke- 

 ham professor of physics, who reports with great 

 regret the loss in action of Mr. H. G. J. Moseley, 2nd 

 Lieut. R.E., already a very distinguished physicist. 

 War work, as well as other forms of activity, has gone 

 on, under Prof. Perkin, in the new chemistrv laborator\- 

 now open. The report of Mr. H. Balfour, the curator 

 of the Pitt-Rivers Museum, contains a long list of 

 donations, some of the most important of which were 

 procured by Miss M. Czaplicka during her recent ex- 

 pedition to Siberia. Other accessions worthy of speci:^] 

 mention came from Mr. J. H. Hutton and from Mrs. 

 Sollas, the latter forming part of the collection made 

 bv the late Prof. Moseley during the voyage of H.M.S. 

 Challenger. 



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The School of Geography announces that a 

 vacation course for teachers and others interested 

 in geography will be held this year from August 3 

 to Augaist 18. Particulars of the lectures and classes 

 planned, with other information, may be obtained on 

 application to the vacation course secretary. School of 

 Geography, 40 Broad Street, Oxford. 



The third conference on new ideals in educatiort 

 will be held at Oxford on July 29-.\ugust 5. The 

 programme includes papers on The Boy Scout move- 

 ment, by Sir Robert Baden-Powell; The place of 

 science in education, by Sir Henry Miers; Universi- 

 ties and their re-planning, by Prof. Geddes ; Work- 

 manship and education, by Mr. H. Wilson; and 

 Regional studies and human surveys, by Prof. Fleure. 

 .\mong the chairmen are the Earl of Lytton, Lord 

 Sydenham, Sir William Mather, Dr. Macan (Master 

 of University College, Oxford), Rev. T. Provost (of 

 Oriel College, Oxford), Mr. Fred Burridge, Miss 

 Caroline Herford, Mr. A. C. Coffin, and others. .All 

 information with reference to the conference can be 

 obtained from , the Secretarv*, 24 Royal Avenue, 

 Chelsea, S.W. 



Following on the large developments undertaken 

 by British Dyes, Limited, the governors of the 

 Huddersfield Technical College have decided to estab- 

 lish a new department for specialised study and re- 

 search in coal-tar colour chemistry- (aniline and 

 alizarine dyes). The department has been placed 

 under the headship of Dr. A. E. Everest, now lecturer 

 in chemistry at University College, Reading, who, 

 during recent years, has been carrj-ing out a series 

 of investigations upon colours and plant pigments. 

 Work will be commenced in September next, and the 

 department w-ill provide advanced teaching in matters 

 relating to the production of dyestuffs, colours, and 

 other allied substances. Facilities will be offered for 

 research of all kinds relating to the chemistrj- of 

 colouring matters. The department will be worked in 

 close connection with the existing departments of 

 chemistry and of dyeing, thereby giving its students 

 the benefit of keeping in touch with the practical appli- 

 cation of the products to be dealt with. Spacious 

 laboratories are to be provided, furnished with modern 

 equipment and arranged with a view to special attenr 

 tion being devoted to research. • The department is 

 being founded with the full, concurrence and support 

 of the directors of British Dyes, Limited, who are 

 prepared to contribute towards its establishment. 



Middlesbrough, the most important iron centre of 

 the north of England, has depended in the past for its 

 research work upon the enterprise of indi\ndual firms, 

 but the question of erecting a technical college where 

 students could be trained efficiently to take their places 

 in the works' laboratories has been persistently before 

 the Education Committee for some years. A plan for 

 erecting a college was seriously contemplated in 1914, 

 but the outbreak of war, by preventing the raising of 

 a loan, caused any prospect of building to be relegated 

 to the conclusion of hostilities. The opportunity to 

 make progress in metallurgical science was not post- 

 poned, for the Cleveland Institution of Engineers took 

 the matter in hand and designed to start a research 

 laboratorj- of its own. The plan was progressing 

 when, on June 5, a combined meeting of the Cleveland 

 Institution of Engineers and the education authorities 

 of Middlesbrough and the neighbouring localities was 

 held to hear of the munificent offer of Mr. Joseph Con- 

 stantine to guarantee a sum of 40,000/. for the erec- 

 tion of a technical college on a piece of ground which 

 had already been purchased by the SliddJesbrough 

 Town Council for such a purpose. This splendid offer 



