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University and Educational Intelligence. 
BELFAsT.—At the recent meeting of the Senate of the 
Queen’s University, it was announced that the bequest 
of 57,0001. from the late Henry Musgrave, a well-known 
benefactor of the University, had been paid. Of this 
sum 30,000/. is left to the absolute control of the 
Senate, to be used and applied for such purpose as 
the Senate shall consider necessary. Mr. Musgrave 
directed that 7ooo/. be invested, and the income 
applied towards paying an additional reader in 
connexion with the chair of physics. The sum of 
20,000/. is to be invested, and the income applied in 
perpetuity for the promotion and encouragement of 
research in pathology, physiology, physics, biology, 
and chemistry. The income is to be applied in 
founding and maintaining studentships for promoting 
research in these subjects. Each studentship shall 
be held for one year, but if the electors are satisfied 
with the work of the student he may be elected for 
a second year but no longer. If at any time there 
shall not be any suitable candidate, or if in any year 
there be a surplus, such surplus shall form a fund out 
of which special grants mray be made to graduates of 
the University engaged in research. The Senate has 
agreed that the annual value of the studentships shall 
be 200/., and has appointed Prof. Ashworth, Prof. 
Lorraine Smith, Sir Joseph Larmor, and Prof. Collie, 
together with Prof. Symmers, Prof. Milroy, Prof. 
Morton, Prof. Small, and Prof. Stewart, to be the 
electors of the above studentships. 
Mr. R. C. Johnson, Balliol College, Oxford, has 
been appointed lecturer in physics in succession to 
Dr. Gray, who resigned his appointment in December ; 
Mr. S. P. Mercer, head of the Seed Testing Depart- 
ment of the Government of Northern Ireland, has 
been appointed lecturer in agricultural botany and 
plant diseases. 
Bristot.—The Long Fox lecture will be delivered 
by Prof. F. Francis on Tuesday, March 27, at 5 o'clock. 
The subject will be “‘ The Relation between Chemistry 
and Medicine.” 
The Coombe Memorial Scholarship, of the annual 
value of 6o0/. and tenable in the faculty of engineer- 
ing of the University of Bristol, will be offered 
for competition for the first time this year. The 
scholarship has been established by the Engineer- 
ing and the National Employers’ Federations (West 
of England Association) as a memorial to a former 
president, and will be open to candidates who 
habitually reside within the area of the Association, 
which includes the counties of Gloucester, Somerset, 
Wilts, Devon, and Cornwall, as well as the city of 
Worcester and the towns of Hanley Castle, Malvern, 
Malvern Wells, Pershore, and Newport, Mon. The 
examination will be held at the Merchant Venturers’ 
Technical College on Wednesday, July 4 next, and 
applications must be sent to Mr. A, Storey, director 
of the Association, not later than July 1. 
CAMBRIDGE.—The Adams prize for an essay on 
“The Theory of the Tides ’’ has been awarded to 
Mr. J. Proudman, Trinity College, director of the 
Liverpool University Tidal Institute. The essay 
submitted by Mr. H. Jeffreys, St. John’s College, is 
highly commended, 
Prof. H. A. Lorentz, of Haarlem University, will on 
May 15 deliver the Rede lecture on ‘‘ Maxwell’s 
Electromagnetic Theory.” 
On the conclusion of the last of the courses for 
naval officers held in the University since the termina- 
tion of the war, the First Lord of the Admiralty has 
written to express the thanks of the Board of the 
Admiralty for the great service which the University 
has rendered the Navy. He expresses the hope that 
in some shape or other the intimate> association 
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between the two may still be kept alive for the 
mutual benefit of both. 
Mr. M. B. R. Swann, University demonstrator in 
pathology, has been elected fellow and lecturer at 
Gonville and Caius College. 
EpINBURGH.—On Thursday, March 1, the Right 
Hon. David Lloyd George delivered his address as 
Lord Rector to the students. 
Mr. Lloyd George was afterwards entertained at 
lunch in the Union, and in replying to the toast of 
his health referred to the fact that seven of his 
colleagues in the late Government were graduates of 
Edinburgh. He dealt in an impressive manner with the 
relation of the universities to the War. He confessed 
that although he had known the part played by the 
universities in building up national efficiency, he 
never realised till the days of war what a national 
asset a great university was. He doubted very much 
whether the rich men of this country quite realised 
at the present moment what a national reserve a 
university is. After referring to the new kind of 
warfare developed by an enemy which was the most 
highly trained intellectual machine probably in the 
world, Mr. Lloyd George said the moment came when 
we called upon our universities, and they came to 
our rescue and poured out their trained minds—in 
the War Office, at the Admiralty, at the Ministry of 
Munitions—bringing the whole resources of their 
scientific knowledge, and, what was still more, 
knowing where to place their hands on people who 
had the training to enable them to take up the 
problems. He continued—‘* I don’t know, I tell you 
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now, what would have happened to us if we had not ~ 
had the universities to fall back on in those dark 
days. Iwilltell youmore. In the end our university 
brains beat theirs. War, you may say, is not what 
universities are for. I agree, but war is the great 
test of the nerve of a nation, of the muscle of a nation, 
of the heart of a nation. It tests every faculty of 
the human mind as well as the human body, and the 
test came; and in every particular, on land and sea, 
where scientific knowledge was required, where 
trained ingenuity was needed, we defeated the foe. 
That was due to the universities. Therefore I regard 
universities not merely as the great training-ground 
. . . I regard them as the fourth arm of defence for 
the security of this land.” 
Mr. Lloyd George warmly eulogised the services 
rendered by Principal Sir Alfred Ewing at the 
Intelligence Department, and stated that the work 
he did there gave information which ultimately 
brought America into the war. 
LrEps.—The Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws 
was conferred upon Major the Right Hon. Edward 
Frederick Lindley Wood, president of the Board of 
Education, on March 5. Prof. Barbier, in presenting 
Mr. Wood, said: ‘“‘ The University desires to do 
honour to one who, the scion of a Yorkshire family of 
high distinction, is himself ‘ commended for the gifts 
that come from learning.’ Mr. Edward Wood has 
won the respect of his fellow countrymen by the grave 
sincerity of his judgment. He holds an office of 
onerous responsibility in our public education. And 
by his unselfish generosity he has given to the transfer 
of an historic mansion the grace of a great benefaction 
to the city of Leeds.”’ 
Lonpon.—Applications are invited by the senate 
for the Ramsay Memorial chair of chemical engineer- 
ing tenable at University College. Particulars are 
obtainable from the Academic Registrar, University of 
London, South Kensington, S.W.7. 
SHEFFIELD.—At the meeting of the Council on 
March 9 the following appointments were made: Mr. 
G. Grant Allan, to be assistant bacteriologist ; and Mr. 
H. P. Lewis, to be assistant lecturer in mining geology. 
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