Marci 7, 1907] 
NATURE 
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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
CampripGr.—Mr. R. C. Punnett has been re-elected for 
three years to a fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, 
in recognition of his researches in zoology, and Mr. C. M. 
Doughty, the distinguished Arabian traveller, author of 
“Arabia Deserta ’’ and other works, has been elected an 
honorary fellow of the same college. 
The general board of studies will proceed shortly to 
the appointment of a university lecturer in pathology in 
connection with the special beard for medicine, to hold 
office until December 31, 1911. The annual stipend is 
rool. Candidates are requested to send their applications, 
with testimonials, on or before Tuesday, March 12. 
Prof. A. C.. Seward, professor of botany, has been 
nominated to represent the University at the celebration 
of the three-hundredth anniversary of the death of Ulisse 
Aldrovandi, to be held in Bologna in June. 
The council of the Senate has appointed Prof. G. Sims 
Woodhead as the representative of the University of Cam- 
bridge on the council of the Lister Institute of Preventive 
Medicine, in the place of the late Sir Michael Foster. 
The genera! board of studies has appointed Dr. G. S. 
Graham-Smith to be university lecturer in hygiene for the 
five years from January 1, 1907, to December 31, 1911, 
and the appointment has been confirmed by the special 
board for medicine. 
The governing body of Gonville and Caius College pro- 
poses in June next to make an election to the Sir Thomas 
Gresham research studentship in economics. The value 
of the studentship wil! be 120/. a year. Candidates for the 
studentship must be more than twenty-one and under 
twenty-five years of age on the first day of October, 1907. 
The election will not be made on the result of a com- 
petitive examination. Applications should be made before 
June 1 to the master (the Rev. E. S. Roberts), who will 
be glad to supply further information. 
The general board of studies has received a memorandum 
from the board of agricultural studies embodying a state- 
ment presented to that board by the forestry committee 
of the board to the effect that the committee has during 
the past year made efforts to obtain such contributions 
from public bodies and individuals interested in the sub- 
ject, and is able to report that the efforts have met with 
a gratifying response. The board is now assured of grants 
for various terms of years amounting to upwards of sool. 
These there is reason to expect will in most cases be re- 
newed. Donations or promises of donations have also 
been received from other contributors amounting to a con- 
siderable sum, and a beginning has been made in the 
collection of specimens for a forestry museum. The 
general board is of opinion that, for the proper organisa- 
tion of this instruction, in addition to the teaching already 
provided in connection with the Department of Agriculture, 
the services of two special teachers are required. One of 
these should be a forestry expert, capable of assuming 
the general direction of the students’ work, of advising 
the committee and other bodies, such as colleges and local 
education authorities, on technical subjects, and of pro- 
moting study and research in forestry. The board thinks 
that he should have the status of a reader, and should 
have a stipend of gool. The other teacher should have a 
particular branch or branches assigned to him, and should 
be a university lecturer. The board of agricultural studies 
accordingly desires to submit a series of proposals to the 
Senate embodying these recommendations. 
The appointments board has presented to the Senate 
the report for the year 1906. In the year ending December 
31, 1906, 136 appointments were obtained on the intro- 
duetion of the appointments board by graduates on the 
register. These appointments include appointments of a 
public character at home and abroad, as well as industrial 
and technical appointments, engineering appointments, 
administrative appointments on railways, appointments for 
scientific work of various kinds, and lectureships in uni- 
versity colleges. The board has decided in future to make 
recommendations for scholastic appointments, and some 
progress has already been made in this direction. 
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Dr. J. M. Beattie, senior assistant to the professor of 
pathology, University of Edinburgh, has been elected by 
the council of the University of Sheffield to the chair of 
pathology in succession to Dr. Cobbett, who has resigned 
the chair on his appointment as lecturer on bacteriology 
at Cambridge. 
An official fellow in natural science will shortly be 
appointed by the principal and fellows of Jesus College, 
Oxford. The fellow will be expected to teach one of the 
larger subjects recognised in the honour school of natural 
science, to undertake the entire direction of the science 
tuition of the college, and generally to superintend the 
college laboratory, now in course of erection; this, when 
completed, will be adapted for the teaching of chemistry 
and physics. The stipend will be not less than 4s5ol. per 
annum, together with the free use of rooms in college, and 
the usual allowances. Further particulars may be obtained 
by application to the principal, Jesus College, Oxford. 
Tue Copenhagen correspondent of the Times reports 
that at a meeting in that city on February 26 the pro- 
posal to establish a second university for Denmark at 
Aarhuus, equal to that existing in Copenhagen, was sup- 
ported by well-known men of science and politicians alike. 
Though the sympathy with the new university idea is 
very great, the correspondent says a Bill can hardly be 
laid before the present Parliament, which closes its 
session within four or five weeks. In view of the satis- 
factory state of the national finances, however, it is said 
to be probable that ultimately a new university will be 
erected at Aarhuus. 
Tue Prince of Wales presided at a special meeting of 
the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 at Marl- 
borough House on February 28, when a resolution was 
passed granting a site on their estate at South Kensington 
for the erection of the proposed Royal Institute of 
Technology. The commissioners have also granted a site 
on their estate for the Institute of Medical Sciences (Uni- 
versity of London). It is understood that the site will be 
reserved for a period of one: year, during which it is hoped 
that the additional sum of about 30,o00l. required to build 
and equip the institute may be obtained. 
A LETTER has been addressed to the President of the 
Board of Education, by the Vice-Chancellor of the Uni- 
versity of London, expressing satisfaction that, although 
it has not been found practicable to accept proposals for 
the immediate incorporation in the University of the new 
technological institution’ at South Kensington, the course 
of action proposed will’ tend to facilitate the accomplish- 
ment at an early date of the objects the Senate of the 
University has in view: The Senate fully appreciates the 
disadvantages which would attend any further delay in 
the establishment: of the new college. The Vice-Chancellor 
concludes his letter by expressing the hope that during the 
time before the appointment of the Royal Commission 
proposed by the President of the Board of Education, the 
new governing body and the Senate may find themselves, 
as a result of friendly discussion, in a position to submit 
to the Board joint proposals for complete incorporation, 
and so avoid the need for a commission. 
Tue late Mr. C. J. Oldham, a well-known ophthalmic 
surgeon, left large bequests for educational purposes. 
These gifts include :—10,o00l. to the principal and three 
other members of the governing body of Corpus Christi 
College, Oxford, as trustees, to be applied as to one-third 
in the award of scholarships for proficiency in or further- 
ing the study of classics, and as to the remaining two- 
thirds to be applied to the advancement of general learn- 
ing in that college; 50001. to the University of Oxford, 
5000/1. to the University of Cambridge, each of these 
bequests to be applied to the encouragement of the study 
of Latin and Greek and to the works of Shakespeare ; 
and 30001. to the Manchester Grammar School. The 
residue of the testator’s property, which will apparently 
amount to between 15,0001. and 20,000l., is left as one- 
half to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and one-half to 
Manchester Grammar School. 
TuHE annual meeting of the Institute of Chemistry was 
held on March 1. Prof. P. F. Frankland, F.R.S., presi- 
dent, was in the chair. The report, which was adopted, 
