. : _ JUNE 30, 1923] 
pstory and the cardio-vascular systems, and 
industrial psychology. In addition to its five 
industrial committees, dealing respectively with the 
textile, metal, pottery and glass industries, and with 
industries specially affecting women, the Board has 
appointed two special committees, one concerned 
with Post Office work (more particularly the study 
of telegraphists’ cramp), the other with Legibility of 
Type, in accordance with the recommendation of a 
committee ‘‘ appointed by a Treasury Minute to 
select the best faces of type and modes of display 
for Government publication.” 
In this short notice it is impossible to do more than 
quote the titles of the interesting essays contributed 
to the report by the Board’s Investigators; they 
are—‘‘ Some Considerations concerning Technique,” 
““The Use of the Sample in Investigation,” ‘‘ come 
Observations on Industrial Conditions, with Special 
Reference to Cotton Weaving,’’ ““ Atmospheric Condi- 
tions and Industrial Efficiency,” ‘‘ Future Investiga- 
tions in the Pottery Industry,’’ ‘‘ A Note on Machine 
Design in Relation to the Operative.” 


British University Statistics, 1921-22.1 
HE most noticeable feature of the University 
Grants Committee’s new blue-book is that it 
contains only 20 pages, whereas the returns for 
1920-21 covered 391. The Committee proposes to 
issue a fuller publication on the old lines from time 
to time, say once in five years. In the intervals the 
public will be the more dependent for information on 
the Universities Yearbook. Oxford and Cambridge 
are not yet included in the returns, as their grants 
were ‘‘special emergency’”’ and not regular grants. 
_ Excluding ex-Service students (8000 in 1921-22; 
11,512 in 1920-21) the returns show, compared with 
those for the preceding year, increases of 2234, or 
-14 iw cent., in the number of full-time men students, 
and 699, or 7 per cent., in the number of women 
students. The Committee ints out that the 
numbers in England and Wales are about double 
what they were in 1913-14, and that the comparative 
smallness of the increase in Scotland (35 per cent.) 
was ‘“‘no doubt due to the fact that the war found 
what may be called the ‘ university habit’ already 
firmly established there by long tradition, assisted 
since 1901 by the operations of the Carnegie Trust.” 
Of the total number of full-time students, 93 per 
cent. had their homes within the United Kingdom, 
58 per cent. within 30 miles from the university or 
college ; of the remainder, 5 per cent. came from other 
parts of the Empire and 2 per cent. from foreign 
countries. Students from parts of the Empire out- 
side the United Kingdom constituted 8 per cent. of 
the full-time students in London and 7 per cent. of 
those in Scottish institutions. Of full-time men 
students 6 per cent., and of women 28} per cent., lived 
in Halls of Residence. The percentages of students in 
Halls of Residence in London, other parts of England, 
Wales, and Scotland were 11, 18, 23, and 5 respect- 
ively. Full-time students admitted for the first 
time in 1921-22 numbered 9249, including 3421 
women ; 52 per cent. were not less than 19 years of 
age, 28 per cent. were not less than 18, and 2% per 
cent. were less than 17. 
Three-fourths of the full-time students were follow- 
ing courses leading to first degrees, and 4} per cent. 
were engaged in post-graduate study or research. 
Part-time students numbered 14,462, of whom 9455 
were occasional students, 1126 were preparing for 
1 University Grants Committee. Returns from Universities and Uni- 
versity Colleges in Receipt of Treasury Grant, 1921-1922. Pp. 20. (London: 
H.M. Stationery Office, 1923.) 35. 6d. net. 
NO. 2800, VOL. 111] 
NA TURE 
“first degrees, and 2008 were graduate students or 
899 
Tesearch workers. In addition there were 14,345 
students taking courses not of a university standard. 
_ Full-time students of medicine, including dentistry, 
numbered 11,612 (women, 2595)—nearly 32 per cent. 
of the total; 33 per cent. (men 5805, women 6252) 
were enrolled in faculties of arts, theology, law, 
music, commerce, economics and education; 24 
per cent. (men 758, women 123) were engaged in 
the study of agriculture, forestry, horticulture and 
dairying ; and the remainder were equally divided . 
between pure science (men 4295, women 1851) and 
technology (men 6019, women 68). 
The number of first degrees obtained was 6352, 
including 2573 honours degrees; the number of 
higher degrees, 843. 
The statistics of income were summarised and 
commented on in the article published in Nature of 
May 26 on the Universities Conference. Of the ex- 
penditure (3,565,375/.), 10 per cent. was for adminis- 
tration,. 49-3 per cent. for salaries of teaching staff, 
I3°4 per cent. for other expenses of departmental 
Maintenance, 13-1 for maintenance of premises. Of 
income, 10-3 per cent. was from endowments, 2-7 
per cent. from donations and subscriptions, 35-3 per 
cent. from parliamentary grants, 35:7 from tuition 
and examination fees. Recurrent grants from the 
Treasury amounted to 1,070,082/., non-recurrent to 
271,250/., in addition to which there were special 
grants amounting to 499,400/. to provide retro- 
spective superannuation benefit. 
FULL-TIME STUDENTS IN VARIOUS FACULTIES IN. 
IQI3-I4 AND IN I192I~-22. 
England, 
London, | including | Wales. | Scotland 
London, 
AH faculties— 
1913-14 3,874 | 10,023 | 1,230 8,419 
*1921-22 7,208 | 20,065 | 2,712 ze 
1921-22 9,380 | 22,524 | 2,850 | 11,409 
Pure Science— 
1913-14 441 1,620 234 655 
*I1g21I-22 Esb77 3,925 721 ie 
Ig2I-22 1,685 | 4.433 797 946 
Medicine, including 
dentistry— 
1913-14 2,011 3,226 42 2,283 
*Ig21-22 3,326 6,462 254 rie 
1921-22 3,943 7,079 260 | 4,273 
Technology— 
IQI3-I4 290 1,544 78 1,051 
*IQg21-22 562 3,433 176 ae 
Ig2I-22 1,280 4,151 226 | {1,7I0 
Agriculture, ete.— 
1913-14 221 58 140 
*1921-22 298 IIo 
1g2I-22 |!298 110 473 

- * Excluding the institutions which, not being then in receipt of grants, 
Were not shown in the returns for 1913—14. . 
t Inclucling 718 in Imperial College, South Kensington. 
t Including 649 in the University of Glasgow and 707 in the Royal 
Technical College, Glasgow. : 
||. Including 62 at Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 60 at the 
University of Leeds, and 176 (82 women) at University College, Reading. 

University and Educational Intelligence. 
ABERDEEN.—For a number of years the hospital 
accommodation of Aberdeen has been insufficient, and 
‘the city has now before it a bold and comprehensive 
‘plan for remedying this defect. 
Originating with the 
Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society some three years 
ago, the scheme has been elaborated by a committee 
