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LreEeps.—At a meeting of the Council on February 
21, Prof. Smithells was reappointed to the office of 
Pro-Vice-Chancellor. ; 
Mr. James Robb has been appointed district 
lecturer in agriculture. 
It has been decided to reinstitute a formerly exist- 
ing professorship of therapeutics in the department 
of medicine, and to elect Dr. W. H. Maxwell Telling 
to this chair. 
Lonpon.—The Senate has made a grant of 75/. 
from the Publication Fund to the Rev. F. J. Wyeth 
in aid of the publication by the Royal Society of his 
D.Sc. thesis entitled ‘‘The Development of the 
_ Auditory Apparatus and Associated Structures in 
Sphenodon Porches? 
The Senate has adopted a resolution recording with 
great regret the resignation of Dr. M. J. M. Hill 
of the Astor chair of pure mathematics at University 
College, which he has occupied since 1884. 
The Academic Council has prepared a table show- 
ing the universities from which, up to the present, 
applications have been received for registration as 
Internal Students for the Ph.D. degree. The classified 
_ totals are as follows :-— 
Great Britain (London 171) and Ireland 255 
Europe. . 3 : : Fae Ce, 
Australia and New Zealand . B Q 16 
United States of America. 3 : 30 
India F ; : “ z se) Gz 
South Africa . “ A : . : 3 
Canada. ¥ : * . ; 8 
Japan NCEE? sn Pe © oe I 
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The degree of D.Sc. (Engineering) has been con- 
ferred upon Mr. A. E. Clayton for a thesis entitled 
“Papers on Alternating Current Machinery’’ and 
other papers. 
The council of Bedford College for Women 
invites applications from women for a post-graduate 
scholarship in sociology, value 150/., for one year. 
Further information is obtainable from the Secretary 
of the College, Regent’s Park, N.W.r1. 
MANCHESTER.—The Council has approved a scheme 
for the establishment of a Colloids Research Labora- 
tory in the University. A sum of 11,842/. has been 
subscribed and given to the University towards the 
endowment and cost of the equipment of the depart- 
ment. Mr. D. C. Henry, at present a lecturer in 
chemistry, has been appointed lecturer in colloid 
physics and will take charge of the Laboratory, 
which will be known as ‘‘The Graham Research 
Laboratory.’ The Council has expressed its hearty 
appreciation of the gift to the various subscribers, and 
especially to Dr. Kenneth Lee, who has been largely 
responsible for the scheme. 
Mr. Norman B. Maurice has been recommended 
for the degree of Ph.D., his thesis being ‘‘ On the 
Unsaponifiable Constituents of Commercial Rosins.” 
Oxrorp.—The Edward Chapman Research prize 
of Magdalen College is to be offered for competition 
at the beginning of the summer term this year for 
a ened piece of original research in one of the 
following departments of natural science: physics 
or chemistry, including astronomy, meteorology, 
mineralogy, geology, or the biological sciences of 
zoology and botany, whether treated from the 
morphological, palzontological, physiological, or path- 
ological point of view. The prize is of the value 
of 2o/. and restricted to members of Magdalen. 
Further particulars are obtainable from Mr. R. T. 
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Gunther, Magdalen College. Competing essays must 
reach him not later than May 1. 

THREE fellowships, tenable for two years, each of 
the annual value of 2o0o0/., are being offered by the 
University of Wales to graduates of that university. 
Applications must be received before June 1 next by 
the Registrar, University Registry, Cathays Park, 
Cardiff, from whom further information may be 
obtained. 
Notice is given that the tenth election to Beit 
fellowships for scientific research will take place on or 
before July 16 next, and that the latest date for the 
receipt of applications is April 19. Forms of applica- 
tion and all information may be obtained from the 
Rector, Imperial College, South Kensington, S.W.7, 
upon written request. 
A LECTURE on the work and aims of the newly- 
established West Indian Agricultural College, Trini- 
dad, will be given at Vernon House, Park Place, St. 
James Street, S.W., at 8 P.M., on Monday, March 5, 
by Mr. W. R. Dunlop, of the Imperial Department of 
Agriculture, who has taken an active part in the 
organisation of the College. The chairman at the 
lecture will be Dr. A. W. Hill, director of the Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Kew. 
THE next meeting of the Imperial Education 
Conference is to be held in London at the end of 
June of this year. The last meeting was held in 
London in 1911, and but for the war the Conference 
would have met in 1915. The Conference will be 
attended by official representatives from the Educa- 
tion Departments of the Self-governing Dominions 
and Colonies and the British Isles, and various 
matters of common interest will be discussed, in- 
cluding the question of the interchange of teachers 
within the Empire. 
Tue third report of the British Association Com- 
mittee on Training in Citizenship, presented at the 
Hull meeting in September last, has recently been 
issued and is obtainable from the secretary of the 
committee, Lady Shaw, to Moreton Gardens, S.W.5. 
The greater part of the report is devoted to an 
appendix containing a bibliography of books on 
civics. About 12 pages are occupied by this list, 
which mentions altogether about 400 books, pam- 
phlets, and magazine articles. It was found impos- 
sible and undesirable to include all books bearing on 
the subject ; there can be no doubt, however, that 
any serious student with this list in hand could 
rapidly make himself familiar with the various 
aspects of civics and the different points of view 
apparent in the treatment of the subject. As is 
natural, only publications of the last few years are, 
in general, mentioned. One suggestion, of special 
interest to readers of NATURE perhaps, occurs after 
a study of the report : What would an anthropologist 
say to this vast literature*of citizenship ? He would, 
we judge, divide it into two classes: first, those 
writings in which citizenship is looked at as the 
natural course of life in a human community, and in 
relation to the essentially simple occupations on which 
all human life is based ; and, second, those in which 
chief place is given to current, and often unscientific, 
views of human life and organisation. The choice 
between those two types of book would be of import- 
ance not only in connexion with citizenship, but also 
in connexion with science-teaching. 
Tue jubilee of the University Extension movement 
will be celebrated this year at Cambridge, where it 
began under the leadership of Prof. James Stuart, of 
