held in Aberdeen on Saturday, February 10. 
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_ daughters, in memory of the late Mr. F. du Cane 
Godman, a trustee of the British Museum. The fund 
thus created will enable the Museum to do much 
useful work of a similar character, and its utility 
would be greatly increased if it were to be augmented 
the contributions of other benefactors. It is not 
sufficiently realised that the work of the Museum is 
= in many directions by the want of funds 
which would perhaps be supplied from private 
sources if its needs were more generally known. 
University and Educational Intelligence. 
ABERDEEN.—Mr. W. W. M(‘Clelland, additional 
lecturer on education, has been appointed principal 
lecturer on education in the Edinburgh Training 
Centre. 
The statutory meeting of the council of the 
Association of University Teachers of Scotland was 
Prof. 
F. O. Bower was appointed chairman of the council 
for the ensuing year, and Dr. W. W. Taylor, honorary 
secretary. 
Bristor.—The following appointments have been 
made at the Agricultural and Horticultural Station 
at Long Ashton: Mr. H. Briton-Jones, as lecturer 
in mycology; Mr. Edward Ballard, as adviser in 
plant pathology, and Mr. H. P. Hutchinson, as 
organiser of research in willow growing. 
Arrangements are being made for holding a summer 
school on August 3-17. Prof. Lloyd Morgan -will 
again be president of the school, and Mr. W. W. 
Jervis will act as director of studies. 
Geography will, in future, be included as a subject 
a i final part of the curriculum for the degree 
CAMBRIDGE.—Mr. G. E. Briggs, St. John’s College, 
has been re-appointed demonstrator in plant physio- 
A further report of the Syndicate appointed to 
draft Ordinances to carry out the new statute for 
the admission of women to degrees has just been 
issued. In one very important point the report 
has now been modified; the women students are 
to be given the right to admission to University 
instruction effectively on the same terms as members 
of the University. It looks as though one chapter in 
this long-standing controversy is drawing to a close. 
Revised regulations for the medical examination 
have been submitted to the Senate for approval. 
The transference of organic chemistry from the 
First M.B. examination to the Second M.B. examina- 
tion will facilitate the process by which the First 
M.B. examination is passing from the University to 
the schools. 
EpInBurRGH.—The University Court has accepted 
with much gratitude a gift by Mr. James A. Hood, 
of Midfield, Lasswade, of the sum of 15,000/. to 
endow a chair of mining. It is proposed that the 
chair should be established by the University and 
the Heriot-Watt College in co-operation. 
The following appointments have been made: 
in the faculty of science, Dr. Malcolm Wilson to be 
reader in mycology and bacteriology, and Dr. H. 
Robinson reader in experimental physics; in the 
faculty of arts, Dr. G. A. Carse to be reader in 
natural philosophy. 
The meron prize in the faculty of medicine, 
which is given annually in recognition of some 
important and valuable addition to practical thera- 
a, has been awarded for 1923 to Prof. J. J. R. 
acleod, of the University of Toronto. 
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Lonpon.—A course of three free public lectures on 
“ Recent Work on Inborn Errors of Metabolism ’’ 
will be given by Sir Archibald E. Garrod, in the 
Robert Barnes Hall of the Royal Society of Medicine, 
at 5.30, on Wednesdays, February 28, March 7 
and 14. 
Oxrorp.—On February 13, Congregation had 
before it a proposal to establish a new final school 
in science and philosophy. The scheme was intro- 
duced by Prof. C. J. Webb and Mr. H. B. Hartley, 
and supported by Profs. H. H. Joachim and J. L. 
Myers. It was opposed by the Warden of Wadham 
and Mr. H. W. B. Joseph, and thrown out on a 
division by 66 to 38. Many will regret that an 
opportunity for bringing scientific and philosophical 
studies into closer relation has thus been lost. The 
arguments of the opposition that carried most weight 
were probably those that were concerned with 
matters of practical difficulty rather than of 
principle. 
The reports of the Delegates for Forestry and of 
the Committee for Rural Economy weré presented 
to Convocation on February 20. The former report 
gives the number of students at the beginning of 
the year as 76. Lectures were delivered on silvi- 
culture, general and tropical, forest management, 
mensuration, protection, policy, valuation, utilisation, 
botany, entomology, surveying, and engineering, by 
Prof. Troup, Sir William Schlich, and others. Parties 
of students were taken for practical instruction to 
France, Austria, and various stations in England. 
Full use was made of the practical training ground 
of Bagley Wood. The first of the Oxford Forestry 
Memoirs was issued during the year. 
The Committee for Rural Economy reports the 
number of students of agriculture as 134. Lectures 
have been given by Prof. Somerville and others. 
The University farm has been largely used for 
practical demonstrations, and other farms have been 
visited and important papers have been published. 
A special study of farm management has been 
conducted under the auspices of the Institute for 
Research in Agricultural Economics. A research on 
soils is in progress by Mr. G. R. Clarke. 
Both of these departments show evidence of great 
activity and efficiency. They have come to take an 
important part in the present life of the University. 

AN engineering scholarship, of the annual value 
of 7ol., tenable for three years, provided by the 
South Wales Institute of Engineers, is being offered 
for competition by the University College of South 
Wales and Monmouthshire. Further information, 
and the form of application, may be obtained from 
the Registrar, University College, Cardiff. Applica- 
tions must be received by, at latest, March ro. 
Tue annual general meeting of the Association of 
Technical Institutions will be held at the Carpenters’ 
Hall, Throgmorton Avenue, London, E.C., on Friday 
and Saturday, March 2 and 3. At the opening 
meeting the president, the Right Hon. Walter 
Runciman, will introduce the president-elect, Sir 
Alfred Herbert, who will deliver his presidential 
address. The following papers will be read on the 
Friday afternoon and Saturday morning: ‘‘ Modern 
Systems of Apprenticeship and Training of Young 
Workmen with reference to Technical Education,” 
Mr. W. Calderwood; ‘‘ The Guilds of London and 
Technical Education,’’ Mr. C. C. Hawkins; “ The 
British Colour Industry—its Dependence on the 
Place of Research in the Scheme of Higher Educa- 
tion,’ Dr. H. H. Hodgson; ‘‘ The Dyeing Industry, 
Research Work and Technical Education,” Dr. 
Levinstein. 
