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University and Educational Intelligence. 
ABERDEEN.—Mr. W. G. Mackinnon has_ been 
appointed assistant in geology in succession to Miss 
Margaret Smith, resigned. 
LrverPoot.—On March 2 a new building com- 
prising five chemical laboratories was opened by Lord 
Haldane as an extension of the University. Three 
floors are devoted to inorganic and two to organic 
chemistry, with extensive provision for research work. 
The building forms part of a scheme outlined before 
the War, which will require a further sum of 175,000. 
for completion. 
Lonpon.—The following doctorates have been 
awarded :—Ph.D. in Science: Mr. R. J. Ortlepp, of 
the London School of Tropical Medicine, for a thesis 
entitled ‘‘ Studies on Helminthes Parasitic in Terres- 
trial Vertebrates,-’ and Miss W. A. Leyshon, an ex- 
ternal student, for a thesis entitled ‘“‘ Forced Oscilla- 
tions in Self-maintained Oscillating Circuits.”’ 
A number of free public lectures and courses 
of lectures by distinguished men of science has 
been arranged for this term. At University College, 
Sir Thomas Holland will deliver three lectures on 
“ Phases of Indian Geology’; Prof. G. N. Lewis, 
professor of chemistry in the University of California, 
three lectures on “‘ The Structure and Behaviour of 
the Molecule ’’’; and the following lectures by well- 
known Dutch scientific workers: ‘‘ The Electric 
Charge of Colloids,”’ by Prof. H. R. Kruyt,; professor 
of organic chemistry in the University of Utrecht, on 
May 8; ‘‘ The Rotation of the Earth and its Influence 
on Optical Phenomena,” by Prof. H. A. Lorentz, 
professor of physics in the University of Haarlem, on 
May 17, in addition to a course of three lectures, 
commencing June 4, on “ Problems in Relativity.” 
Other lectures at University College include three by 
Mr. W. Macnab on “ Some Scientific Principles of 
Chemical Industry,’’ three by Prof. G. Dawes Hicks 
on ‘‘ Kant’s Theory of Beauty and Sublimity,”’ one by 
Prof. C. Spearman on May 25 on “ Psychology as a 
Career,’’ and one by Prof. W. M. Flinders Petrie on 
May 17 on “‘ Recent Discoveries in Egypt.’’ 
At King’s College, there is a course of three lectures, 
on “‘ Ethics and the Philosophy of History,’’ prepared 
by the late Prot. E. Troeltsch, professor of philosophy 
in the University of Berlin; and four lectures on the 
tercentenary of the birth of Blaise Pascal by Prof. 
H. Wildon Carr. 
Other lectures arranged under the auspices of the 
University are: three lectures by Dr. P. Giles at 
the School of Oriental Studies on ‘‘ The Aryans,” and 
a lecture, on May 7, at the Imperial College of 
Science, by Prof. W. de Sitter, professor of astronomy 
in the University of Leyden, on “ Problems of 
Fundamental Astronomy.”’ 
Notice of the lectures will be given from week to 
week under the heading ‘“‘ Public Lectures” in 
NATURE. 
Ir is stated in the British Medical Journal that 
Dr. J. S. Anderson has been appointed to the chair 
of medicine at the University of Hong Kong. Dr. 
Anderson had a distinguished career at the University 
of Glasgow, and afterwards joined the staff of the 
Helminthological Department of the London School 
of Tropical Medicine. 
A PRELIMINARY announcement has been issued 
regarding the University of Geneva Summer School 
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[APRIL 21, 1923 
to be held on July 16-September 1. In addition to 
the usual courses in modern French language and 
literature and lectures on current international 
problems (including the projects and achievements of 
the League of Nations, the International Labour 
Office, the Red Cross, etc.), there will be, for advanced 
students only, laboratory and sfield work in botany” 
under the direction of Prof. Chodat at La Linnea 
(altitude 5600 feet) in the Mont Blane district, and 
field geology and mountain climbing under the 
direction of Prof. Collet in the Mont Blanc, Jungfrau, 
and Matterhorn regions. Among the lecturers at 
the Summer School last year were professors of 
the Universities of Geneva, Paris, Bonn, Vienna, 
Christiania, Turin, and Washington, and of Dart- 
mouth College (U.S.A.). Detailed information can 
be obtained from the Swiss Legation. 
Pror. E. W. Scripture, formerly of Yale Univer- 
sity and latterly engaged in carrying out investigations 
in London, has been appointed honorary professor of 
experimental phonetics in the University of Vienna. 
The appointment is significant alike of the growing 
importance of the subject, of the revival of this Uni- 
versity after the devastation caused by the War, and 
of the movement discernible in the universities of the 
world as a whole towards such an interpenetration in 
disregard of international boundaries as was charac- 
teristic of the universities of the middle ages. Prof. 
Scripture was one of the pupils of the Abbé Rousselot, 
who was a pioneer in a field of knowledge the scientific 
exploration of which had scarcely been attempted 
when the Abbé began his researches thirty years ago. 
Recently it has yielded results of such immediately 
practical importance that it is receiving greatly 
increased attention. 
to have discovered that phonetics provides an efficient 
means of diagnosing earlier than would otherwise be 
possible, and thereby giving opportunities for the 
application of curative treatment to, general paralysis 
and disseminated sclerosis; also that the study of 
speech records of epileptics points to a revision of the 
hitherto accepted theory of the essential nature of 
this disease. 
WE have received from the Universities Bureau of 
the British Empire a list of students from the King’s _ 
Dominions Overseas and from foreign countries en- 
rolled for the current session in universities and 
university colleges of the United Kingdom. It 
affords material for some interesting statistical com- 
parisons. The total number, 4131, shows a decrease 
of 8 per cent. compared with the total for the pre- 
vious session (1921-22). In the following analysis 
showing the numbers of students from the several 
continents and countries, the corresponding figures for 
1921-22 are given in brackets wherever markedl 
different: Africa 1171, America 764, Asia 1401 (1576), 
Europe 542 (645), Australia and New Zealand 250 
(280); Egypt 298, including 67 at Birmingham and 81 
at London; South Africa and Rhodesia 303, including 
82 at Oxford, 43 at Cambridge, 336 at London, 142 
(178) at Edinburgh, and 76 (95) at Dublin; Canada 
and Newfoundland 157 (200), including 60 (87) at 
Oxford ; South America 73 ; 
224 at Oxford; West Indies and Bermuda 120; 
China 119 (143); India, Burma, and Ceylon, 1094 
(1240), including 175 at Cambridge, 335 (446) at 
London, 150 (170) at Oxford, 137 (173) at Edinburgh, © 
ror (65) at Glasgow; Japan 51 (73), France 52, 
Russia 91, Switzerland 43 (61), other countries of 
Europe 356 (431). In Nature, March 3, p. 308, we 
gave similar statistics regarding students in the United 
States and in Switzerland. 
Prof. Scripture himself claims — 
U.S.A. 402, including 
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