May 28, 1914| 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
Lonpon.—The Higher Education Subcommittee 
have presented to the London County Council Educa- 
tion Committee an important report on the recom- 
mendations of the Royal Commission on University 
Education in London, generally approving the pro- 
posals of the Commission with reference to the govern- 
ment of the University. “he subcommittee considers 
that the Senate should have full and effective control, 
both educational and financial, over the proposed con- 
stituent colleges, without reference to the provisions 
of existing Acts and Charters. Upon this under- 
standing, it is regarded as essential that the Imperial 
College of Science and Technology should become a 
constituent college of the University. The appoint- 
ment of a small Senate, non-representative in character, 
is also approved, but exception is taken to the pro- 
posed constitution of the Committee of Pechnology, 
particularly in regard to the representation of con- 
stituent colleges on such committee. isecommenda- 
tions are also made as to widening the representation 
of teachers in the membership of the re-organised 
faculties. ‘ 
At the meeting of the Senate on May. 20, 
Prof. E. G. Coker was appointed to the chair of 
civil and mechanical engineering, tenable at Univer- 
sity College, in place of Prof. Jeffcott recently ap- 
pointed to the chair. Dr. Coker is at present professor 
at the Finsbury Technical College, and formerly held 
an appointment at the Gill University. 
Dr. Frank Horton has been appointed to the chair 
of physics tenable at Royal Holloway College. 
The D.Sc. degree in botany has been granted to 
E. J. Schwartz, an external. student. 
The result of the poll for the election of a member 
of the Senate by graduates in science shows that Dr. 
M. O. Forster, who was. elected, obtained 796 votes, 
against 293 cast for his opponent, Dr. Forster Morley. 
MANCHESTER.—It is ‘proposed to ‘confer the follow- 
ing honorary degrees :—Litt.D.: Prof. E. K. Gonner, 
University of Liverpool; Prof. A. Feuillerat, Univer- 
sity of Rennes. D.Sc.: Prof. W. H. Bragg, Univer- 
sity of Leeds; Prof. W. J. Pope, University of Cam- 
bridge; and Dr. J. E. Stead, Middlesbrough. 
Tue honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering has 
been conferred upon Commerzienrat Carl Paul Goerz, 
the head of the well-known Goerz Optical Works, by 
the Technical High School in Charlottenburg, in 
recognition of his efforts in the development of the 
German optical industry in the advancement of photo- 
graphic optics, and in the construction and technical 
improvement of optical and measuring instruments. 
We learn from the issue of Science for May 15 that 
the gifts to Oberlin College for various purposes 
during recent months amount to nearly 38,oool., 
apportioned as follows :—For campus improvement, 
5000l.; for a new art building, 25,oool.; for a new 
organ in Finney Memorial Chapel, 5oool.; subscrip- 
tions toward the new athletic field, 28601. A large 
number of gifts, mostly anonymous, go to make up 
the 25,0001. for the new art building. 
lr was announced in several daily papers last week 
that the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 
had received a gift of 75,o00l. for the establishment 
of a school of music. We are informed that the 
report was unauthorised and inaccurate, and that the 
facts are that a donor who does not wish his name 
to be made public has agreed to guarantee the sum 
of 30001. per annum for a period of five years in order 
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| adopted, subject to revision by a sub-committee. 
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_ to enable the college to found a school of instrumental 
music. The school will be opened next October. 
| Tue council of the University of Birmingham invites 
applications for the chair of physics, vacant by the 
death of Prof. J. H. Poynting. The stipend offered 
is 750l. a year. The regulations state that it will be 
the duty of the professor appointed to contribute so 
tar as in him lies to the advancement and diffusion 
of knowledge, especially by the prosecution and _ pro- 
motion of original research; to give instruction in 
accordance with the curriculum prescribed by his 
faculty and the Senate in his subject; to undertake 
| necessary examining work; and to take part in the 
organisation of the work of the University. Applica- 
_ tions should be sent to the secretary of the University 
on or before October 15 next. 
PROF. JOHN Perry, F.R.S., has recently retired 
_ from the staff of the Imperial College of Science and 
_ Technology, and a fund is being raised for the pur- 
| pose of giving expression to the appreciation of his 
services to the teaching of mathematics and_ to 
| engineering education. An appeal for subscriptions 
_has been issued to his former students and colleagues 
/ at the Imperial College and at Finsbury Technical 
_ College, but there are doubtless many others who 
have benefited by his published works and will 
_ desire to subscribe to the testimonial fund. It is to 
_be hoped that there will be a ready response, so that 
the committee will be able to commemorate his work 
in a fitting manner. Past and present students of 
the Imperial College should also notice that another 
fund is being raised for a testimonial to Prof. J. 
_ Harrison. Subscriptions should be sent to the hon. 
treasurer, Mr. P. T. Wrigley, Royal College of 
Science, South Kensington. 
MUNIFICENT gifts to the University College of South 
_ Wales and Monmouthshire were announced a few 
weeks ago, and were referred to in Naturg of May 14 
| (p. 287). We understand that the facts connected 
| with the recent donations to the college are as fol- 
| lows:—Last year Sir William James Thomas, of 
Ynyshir, undertook to build and present to the college 
on a site contiguous to the old buildings in Newport 
| Road a complete physiological department, so con- 
structed as to form a part of a scheme for a complete 
medical school on the same site. This year a donor, 
| who wishes at present to remain anonymous, has 
offered to build the whole of the buildings necessary 
| not only for a medical school, but also a school of 
preventive medicine, at an estimated cost of 60,000l. 
One of the conditions attached to the latter gift, how- 
| ever, is that the funds supplied by the Treasury should 
be sufficient for the upkeep of the complete school ; 
| and it remains to be ascertained whether this condi- 
| tion can be fulfilled. 
THE movement inaugurated a few months ago to 
| develop as completely as possible the educational side 
of the kinematograph made definite headway on 
| Wednesday, May 20, when the Educational Kinemato- 
| graph Association was formed at a meeting in London. 
| Among those who have ioined the council of this 
| body are Sir H. A. Miers, Rt. Hon. Sir Horace 
| Plunkett, Dr. C. W. Kimmins, Prof. R. A. Gregory, 
Prof. “(7 We Greson. «Mita. © .1pathurst.) Moe. Dr. 
(eyttelton,, “Mig. ie tGraves, Prot. Darroch,, Sir 
| Edward Anwyl, Sir Harry R. Reichel, Sir Bertram 
Sir Albert Rollit, and Gen. Sir R. Baden 
Powell. At the meeting a report was presented by 
the secretary, Mr. Morley Dainow, on behalf of the 
provisional committee, suggesting that the work of 
the association should be to encourage the best types 
of kinematograph production and develop a completely 
educational plan for their use. The report was 
The 
