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NATURE 



[February <>. i<d ( } 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge, Mr. A. Harker, fellow of St. John^s 

 ge, who held the office of University lecturer in 

 I trology, has been appointed reader in petrology. 



\lr. C. R. V ["hacker, fellow of Sidney Sussex Col 

 1. -.\ has been appointed junior demonstrator "I 

 physiology until September 30, 1919. 



Grants have been made from thi Balfour fund of 

 1511/. id Mr. C. F. Cooper, of Trinity College, 100/. to 

 Mr. J. F. Saunders, of Christ'-. College, and tool, to 

 Mr. J. Gray, fellow of King's College, in aid of 

 zoological investigations. 



I In Senate has approved tin- proposal to establish 

 a Geographical Tripos, and the examination for part i. 

 of this Tfipos will lie first held in 1920, and for part ii. 

 in 1921. It is recognised that the subject of geography 

 is so extensive and borders upon so many oilier 

 sciences thai lo lit a student for geographical research 

 or higher teaching a training is necessary which is of 

 th. standard "I that required for a Tripos. It is also 

 suggested that such a training would be valuable for 

 the future statesman, administrator, merchant, or mis- 

 sionary. The two parts of this Tripos together will 

 qualify for an honours degree, and part i. will qualify 

 for the diploma in geography, which has proved so 

 useful that it is regarded as important that it should 

 be retained. 



London. — Dr. Reginald R. dates has been ap- 

 pointed for three years, as from January 1, 1919, to the 

 newly established I niversity readership in botany ten- 

 able .11 King's College. Dr. Gates has been demon- 

 strator in botany at McGill University, senior fellow 

 and assistant in botan} at tin- University of Chicago, 

 lecturer in biolog) at St. Thomas's Hospital Medical 

 School, and acting associate professor of zoology in 

 the University ol California. lie is the author of 

 "riic Mutation Factor in Evolution " and numerous 

 articles in English, German, Canadian, and American 

 scientific journals on various aspects of botanical 

 research. 



It has been resolved by the Senate that for the 

 duration of the war, and for a period of twelve months 

 from its termination, the Army education certificate 

 shall be accepted as exempting candidates from the 

 matriculation examination. 



'I"he degree of D.Sc. in chemistry has been con- 

 ferred by the Senate on Dr. A. M. Kellas, an external 

 student, for a thesis entitled "The Determination of 

 the Molecular Complexity of Liquid Sulphur." 



SCHO] VRSHIPS, ol the value of 50/. per annum, and 

 tenable for two years, are being offered by the Insti- 

 tute of Marine Engineers to young engineers desirous 

 ling additional technical knowledge. 



in inc. scholarship of the value of 150J. a 

 past "i present students of Somerville Col- 

 li I is nil, nd by the Mary Ewart Trust. 

 \pi> must be received by Mrs. T. H. Green, 

 56 VV01 Road, Oxford, by, at latest, March 15. 



A conkei 1 on "Industry and Educational Re- 

 constructs I be held under the auspices of the 

 Industrial !• 1 action Council on Tuesday, 

 February 11, ai fi p.m., in the hall of the Institute 

 of Journalists, 2 and 4 Tudor Street, E.C.4. The 

 opening address will bi given by Mr. F. W. Sander- 

 son, headmaster ol Oundle School. No tickets are 

 necessary. 



A resident fellowship offered In- Somerville 



College, Oxford, for n 1 in classics, mathe- 



matics, philosophy, history, economics, or natural 

 science. Its annual value is '., and the normal 



NO. 2571, VOL. I02] 



tenure is five years renewable. Particulars are 

 obtainable from Miss Darbishire, Somerville College, 

 Oxford. 'I he latest date fur receiving applications and 



evidence of fitness is March 15. 



Two lectures arranged by the London County 

 1 nil Education Officer will be given next week. 

 One mi "Agriculture and Rural Life" will be de- 

 livered by Mr. Christopher Turnor al King's College, 

 Strand, W.C.2, on Friday, February 14, at 5.30 p.m , 

 and the othei on "Pure Science in Relation in the 

 National Life," bj Dr. Arthur Schuster, will be given 

 at the Regent Street Polytechnic, W.i, on Saturday, 

 February 15. at 11 a.m. 



Ii will be recalled that the Engineering Training 



Organisation was founded at a meeting held at the 

 Institution of Civil Engineers on October 25, 1917, 

 when a resolution was adopted to appoint a committee, 

 representative of all the chief engineering and educa- 

 tional bodies, to consider the improvement and better 

 co-ordination of engineering training. The committee 

 thus formed has since been making a general survey 

 id' the ground to be covered and establishing the broad 

 principles of future work. It has so far been depen- 

 dent on voluntary assistance, in which the honorary 

 organisers, Mr. A. E. Berriman, of the Daimler 

 Works, Coventry, and Mr. A. P. M. Fleming, of the 

 British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., 

 Ltd., have taken a leading part. A stage has now- 

 been reached when a paid secretary has become nei es- 

 sary for the future work of the Organisation, and in 

 our advertisement columns in this issue an announce- 

 ment is made of the offer of this appointment at a 

 salary of 1000!. a year. For this important post a 

 fully trained engineer with adequate educational ex- 

 perience seems essential, and we are glad to observe 

 that the Organisation is offering a salary commen- 

 surate with the duties of the position. In doing so 

 the Organisation relies on the generous support of 

 leading firms in the engineering industry. Then- can 

 In- no doubt as to the vital importance to the future 

 .ii 1I1. industry of well-organised and efficient engineer- 

 ing li .lining, ami we hope that the appeal will ni.et 

 will) ,m adequate response. 



A petition is being presented to tin- governors of 

 the Imperial College of Science and Technology b\ 

 past, and present students of the college urging that 

 immediate steps should be taken to raise the status of 

 the college to that of a university of technology, dis- 

 tinct from the University of London, and empowered 

 to confer its own degrees in science ami technology, as 

 is done by the Technical Universities of Germany. 

 At a meeting of past and present students held on 

 January 20 at the Imperial College Union, it was 

 decided, with one dissentient Only, to vi^n and present 

 such a petition. 'The recognition of the Imperial 

 College as an institution of university rank should, 

 sa\s the petition, be one of the earliest items in the 

 programme of legislative reconstruction. The creation 

 of an Imperial University of Technology appears to 

 be justified, the memorial continues, if it can assist 

 in meeting the ever-increasing demand of industry for 

 men efficiently trained in scientific and technological 

 work. The apathy evinced 1>\ main linns in London 

 and elsewhere towards technological research is, the 

 petitioners urge, largely attributable to the absenci "I 



an institution devoted to technology bearing the 

 authority and dignity of an imperial university; and 

 thev l'" ,,,, (,, plead that students who have passed 

 through the prescribed courses should be able to start 

 their careers with university degrees equivalent to those 

 granted elsewhere. There will be widespread sym- 

 pathy with the desire expressed in tin- petition for 

 the further development in London of research in 



