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NATURE 



[February 27, 19 19 



war in the ease of a graduate of th< I n 

 versit) and two years in the case of other student 

 be spenl in < Cambridge. 



The Adams prize, value 250/., has been awarded ti 

 of. J, W. Nicholson, professor of mathematics at 

 King's College, I niversity of London. 



Mi. Emile Mond has offered to give 20,000!. foi 

 the establishment off a Francis Mond professorship of 

 aeronautical engineering in memory of Lieut. Mond. 

 who was killed in action last year. The council of 

 tin Senati recommends thai the offer be accepted 

 with grateful thanks. 



Edinburgh. Mr. Robert Kerr Hannay has been 

 appointed professor of ancient history and palatograph) 

 (Sir William Fraser chain in succession to the lati 

 Prof. P. Hume Brown. 



l)i . Georgi Bargei has been appointed to the new 

 chair of chemistry in connection with medicine. Dr. 

 Bargei is at present research chemist to the Medical 

 Research Committee, National Health Insurance. 

 Previous to [914 he was professor of chemistry in th< 

 Royal Hollowaj College, University of London. 



I Ik I niversity Court has resolved, on the recom- 

 mendation of the professor of natural history, to 

 establish a chair to deal specially with the zoology ol 

 the invertebrates. 



Liverpool. Two years ago Prof, and Mrs. Herd- 

 man gave to the University the sum of io.oooL to 

 establish a chair of geology in memory of their son, 

 Lieut. George \. Merdman, who was killed in action. 

 They have now made a further gift -of io.oooj. for the 

 purpose "I establishing a chair of oceanography to 

 embrace and continue the work of the fisheries labora- 

 tory at the University, the Port Erin Biological 

 Station, and the scientific investigations of the Isli 

 of Man Fishery Board and the Lancashire and 

 Western Sea Fisheries Committee. The council of 

 the Universit) has accepted this generous benefaction 

 with grateful thanks, and has resolved that (1) Prof. 

 Herdman bi appointed professot of oceanograph) as 

 from Octobei 1 next; (2) Dr. J. Johnstone succeed 

 him on Octobei t, 1920, and during the twelvi 

 months from Octobei i next be lecturer on oceanoj 

 1, at the salarj derived from fhe endowment. 

 I In establishmenl ol this chair is of particulai 

 scientific interest, not only because this is the first 

 chair in the subject in the British Isles, but also 

 because the donors intend it to be, in the main, a 

 research chair, with applications to sea fisheries. The 

 place and time are both most appropriate for work 

 in these directions; and the University is fortunati 

 , issociation with Prof. Herdman, whose in- 

 itions for our fisheries during many years have 

 if high distinction, and whose generosity now 

 enables them to bi carried to further development 

 for the advancement of science and the benefit of 

 the nation. 



Mk. T. I DRAKELBV, of tin Wigan Mining and 

 rechnical College, has been appointed lecturer in 

 chemistry at the Northern Polytechnic Institute, 

 Holloway. 



The sum of 800I. has been given to the South- 

 Eastern Agricultural College, Wye, by Mr. Figgis for 

 the endowment ol a holarship in memory of his son, 

 a former student of the college, who was killed in the 

 war. Mr. A. H. Chaytor, of the University of Cam- 

 bridge, has provided money for the equipment of a 

 bacteriological laboratory at tl e college. 

 As the result of the appeal made in October last 

 Is of the late Mr. F. W. Rudler, a sum of 

 1 1 2574, VOL. I02] 



100/. was received, which has been invested in War 

 stock and inscribed in the name of the University 

 College of Wales, Aberystwyth. The annual income 

 from this sum will be applied towards defraying the 



expenses incurred by deserving students of the Geo- 

 logical Department of the college {in their "field 

 excursions." This opportunity is taken of thank-in- 

 the donors for their valued contributions. 



SPI IKING at Oxford on Saturday last on "Tin I'l.e • 

 ..I the l ni\iisit\ in National Life," Mr. H. A. L. 

 I'isher, President of the Board of Education, said 

 that the war has brought into clearer relief the fact 

 that the universities and technical colleges have stood 

 for a great ileal in the national equipment during thesi 

 times of stress and strain. No fewer than thirty 

 university laboratories were made use of in 1918 in 

 a single department of warfare. The but that tin- 

 state has In 1 nun conscious of tile value ( .l the uni- 

 versit) as an integral constituent of national powi 

 acquires more ami more significance. New legislation 

 will affect the universities in three ways. It will lit 

 a great number of men and women lot university life, 

 and so increase the number of candidates lot the 

 bachelor's degree. It will certainly create a greatly 

 increased demand for teachers in State-aided schools. 

 Lastly, it will create a new clientele for extra-mural 

 universit) teaching. 



The annual distribution of prizes and certificati s 

 to the students of the Sir John Cass Technical Insti- 

 tute, Aldgate, took place on February 18, when the 

 awards wen- distributed by Dr. C. C. Carpenter, 

 chairman of the South Metropolitan Gas Co. Sir 

 Thomas Elliott, Bart., chairman of the governing 

 body, presided. The Rev. J. F. Marr, chairman of 

 the institute committee, in the course of an account 

 of the work of the past session, stated that 242 

 students and 17 members of the staff had served with 

 II. M. Forces during the war, of whom 15 bad given 



hei, lives in the service of their country. In ad- 

 dressing the students, Dr. Carpenter said that institu- 



,011s such as the Sir John Cass Technical Institute 



appealed to him very strongly, primaril) becausi they 

 allowed fhe ordinary vacations of lib- to be carried 

 on during the ordinary working hours, whili 

 evenings wen- devoted to the extension of knowl 

 so that practical experience and responsibility were 

 ssoiiatiil with a full training in the principles ol the 

 sciences which formed the basis of industrial experi- 

 ence .mil progress. lb- remembered, as .1 young man, 

 being confronted with problems at tin- works which 



In- was unable to see through, but be also had a vivid 

 1, mi ol the sudden "rays of light which were 



ln.iv.n upon that work after bavin- bad an oppor- 

 tunity, through a similar institution, of studying the 

 science underlying the whole subject. He went on 

 to point out the importance of lucid expression, the 

 putting down of results in clear and concise language. 



He also urged students not to ignore the -i.ai value 

 of .in elementary training in freehand drawing in 

 ordei i" be able to make, in the same waj thai 

 would make a note of a process or a reaction, a note 

 of the apparatus concerned. Dr. Carpenter com- 

 plained ot the inertia of English manufacturers as 

 :ompared with German, in main instances it having 

 been necessary, to go to Germany when English manu- 

 facturers said certain requirements were impossible. 

 That was one respect in which a great change must 

 come over industry in Great Britain. The war had 

 opened the eyes of manufacturers to the possibilities 



,f wba' could be achieved bj skilled and scientific 

 anagement. 



