SEPTEMBER 21, 1916! 
Service and Co., Ltd.—Aircraft of To-Day, Lieut. 
C. C. Turner, illustrated; Marvels of Scientific’ Inven- 
tion, T. W. Corbin, illustrated; Marvels of Aviation, 
Lieut. C. C. Turner, illustrated; War Inventions, and 
How they were Invented, C. R. Gibson, illustrated ; 
The Wonders of the Submarine, T. W. Corbin, illus- 
trated. T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd.—Essays: Scientific 
and Literary, Dr. A. E. Shipley, illustrated; Hausa 
Botanical Vocabulary, J. M. Dalziel. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
Lreeps.—The urgency in the demand for the training 
of colour chemists and dyers has led to a reorganisa- 
tion of this department of the university. The newly 
appointed head of the department is Mr. A. G. Perkin, 
F.R.S., who is assisted in the theoretical and practical 
teaching of colour chemistry by Dr. J. B. Oesch, 
formerly colour chemist in one of the chief Continental 
factories, whilst that of dyeing is under the special 
supervision of Mr. G. H. Frank, Mr. P. King, former 
chemist to Messrs. Courtaulds, Ltd., and Mr. A. E. 
Woodhead. In addition to systematic instruction in 
the above branches of technology, opportunities will be 
afforded to students of hearing special courses of lec- 
tures on ‘Cellulose’? by Mr. C. F. Cross, on ‘‘ The 
Distillation of Coal Tar’’ by Mr. H. P. Hird, and on 
‘Colour in its Relation to Constitution” by Prof. E. R. 
Watson, of Dacca University. 
At the request of British Dyes, Ltd., a laboratory 
has been set apart for the accommodation of a staff 
of chemists working on behalf of this firm, and will 
be exclusively in charge of a member of the university 
staff. The denartment is controlled by the Textile 
Industries and Dyeing Committee of the university, 
consisting of well-known representatives of both in- 
dustries. The aim of the newly organised department 
is therefore to render service to the colour-making and 
dyeing industries by offering special training in these 
branches, whilst giving assistance to the enterprise 
promoted by Government money. 
Mr. E. A. Woops, of New College, Oxford, has 
been awarded a Burney Yeo scholarship for 1916 at 
King’s College Hospital Medical School. 
Mr. W. Neitson Jones, late assistant-lecturer in 
botany at Bedford College for Women, N.W., has 
been appointed lecturer and head of the department 
in botany of the college. 
THE sum of 300!. has been left to the Bristol General 
Hospital by Dr. W. Barrett Roue to found a scholar- 
ship for medical students of the hospital. The scholar- 
ship will be known as the ** Barrett Roue Scholarship.” 
By the will of Sir James Sivewright, whose death 
was announced last week, legacies are bequeathed of 
50001. to Milne’s Institution, Fochabers, and of 10,000l. 
to the University of Aberdeen, for the purpose of pro- 
viding bursaries for students coming from the county 
of Morayshire. 
THE resignation of Dr. R. Armstrong-Jones of the 
medical superintendency of the Claybury County 
Asylum was announced in our issue of August Io. 
To mark the esteem in which Dr: Armstrong-Jones 
is held by the staff of the asylum a silver tea and 
coffee service was presented to him by the staff on 
September 7. Dr. Armstrong-Jones will continue 
to lecture on mental diseases at St. Bartholomew’s 
Hospital. 
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NATURE 63 
a P. Pattison; Sadoleto on Education, Tue calendar for the current session of Birkbeck 
a translation of the De pueris  recte — institu- | College, London, provides full particulars of the 
endis, with motes and introduction, by Prof. | numerous day and evening classes in the subjects 
E. T. Campagnac and K. Forbes. Seeley, | included in university faculties of arts, science, laws, 
and economics. The character of the work accom- 
plished at this institution is well summarised in the 
final report of the Royal Commission on University 
Education in London (1913). The commissioners 
write: “We think that the original purpose of the 
founder of Birkbeck College and the excellent work 
that institution has done for the education of evening 
students who desire a university training mark it out 
as the natural seat of the constituent college in the 
faculties of arts and science for evening and other 
part-time students.”’ 
THE prospectus and time-table of the Belfast Muni- 
cipal Technical Institute for the current session show 
convincingly the care and thoroughness with which the 
Technical Instruction Committee of the city has pro- 
vided instruction in the principles of the arts and sciences 
which bear directly or indirectly upon the trades and 
industries of Belfast. The prospectus describing the 
work of the various departments runs to 384 closely 
printed pages, and every subject likely to be of service 
to the men and women engaged in the city’s industries 
seems to be included in the time-table. The day tech- 
nical college provides instruction in the science and 
technology of mechanical wai cee | electrical 
engineering, the textile industries, and pure and 
applied chemistry. The Queen’s University of Belfast 
and the Corporation of Belfast have entered into an 
agreement whereby the institute is recognised as a 
college in which students of the University may 
pursue a course of study qualifying for a degree of 
the University. 
Tuoucu the governors of the Royal Technical Col- 
lege, Glasgow, in view of the war, reserve full power 
to modify the arrangements announced in the recently 
published calendar for the session 1916-17, they again 
offer suitable educational facilities for those who wish 
to qualify themselves to enter upon one of the indus- 
trial professions, or to follow one of a number of 
selected trades. Complete courses of instruction are 
provided in mathematics, physics, chemistry, the prin- 
ciples of engineering, and other subjects, and in their 
application to industries and arts. The college 
is affiliated to the University of Glasgow, and candi- 
dates for the degree of B.Sc. in applied science may 
attend the necessary qualifying courses either in the 
University or in the college. The University of Edin- 
burgh, too, has recognised the day classes of the 
college as qualifying for its degree in science. 
Numerous important firms have expressed their willing- 
ness to allow a selected number of their apprentices 
facilities for carrying out a scheme of college study 
conjoined with practical work, and some are willing 
to recognise the time spent in college as part of the 
apprenticeship period. 
Notuine perhaps could be more opportune to the 
cause of educational reconstruction than the recent 
publication by the Board of Education of the pamphlet 
entitled ‘The Admiralty Method of Training Dockyard 
Apprentices.” By its system of training the Admiralty 
has succeeded in providing on one hand a body of 
leading technical experts in shipbuilding and 
engineering, and on the other a body of skilled 
workmen among whom the labour troubles that 
have so sorely affected employers elsewhere are prac- 
tically unknown. Moreover, not only have the Ad- 
miraltv and a considerable proportion of the larger 
shipbuilding and engineering firms throughout the 
country thus obtained their managers, designers, and 
other lower-grade officials, but the foundation of the 
