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[JUNE 30, 1923 

representative of the various bodies concerned, in- 
cluding the directors of the Royal Infirmary, the 
directors of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, 
and the University. It is proposed to utilise a site 
of more than 110 acres on the Town Council’s 
properties of Burnside and Foresterhill, on the north- 
western outskirts of the city. The University on its 
part would build departments of medicine, surgery, 
midwifery, pathology, bacteriology, and pharmacology, 
with adjoining students’ hostels. The teaching of 
these subjects would be removed from Marischal 
College, and the latter part of the medical course 
would be passed in immediate touch with the wards. 
The scheme has been in existence for about three 
years, but has not been pressed. The other bodies 
concerned having expressed their readiness to proceed, 
the matter is now before the Town Council. The diffi- 
culties in the way of the scheme are chiefly financial, 
a sum of about three-quarters of a million being 
involved. The advantages to the public served by 
the hospitals and to the teaching of medicine in 
the north of Scotland are incalculable. 
CamMBRIDGE.—Dr. A. B. Appleton, Downing College, 
Mr. D. G. Reid, Trinity College, Mr. A. Hopkinson, 
Emmanuel College, and Mr. V. C. Pennell, Pembroke 
College, have been re-appointed demonstrators in 
anatomy. The Harkness scholarship has been divided 
between E. R. Gee, Trinity College, and W. D. West, 
St. John’s College. Frank Smart prizes have been 
awarded to T. A. Bennet-Clark, Trinity College, for 
botany, and to A. D. Hobson, Christ’s College, and 
L. H. Matthews, King’s College, for zoology. The 
Wiltshire prize has been awarded to F. C. Phillips, 
Corpus Christi College. 
At the recent conferment of honorary degrees on 
the Prime Minister, Viscount Grey, Lord Plumer, Sir 
Aston Webb, Mr. M. C. Norman, Prof. H. A. Lorentz, 
Dr. W. H. Welch, and Prof. N. Bohr, the Public 
Orator spoke as follows in introducing the three 
honorary graduates in science : 
“Inter speculatores omnes venatoresque Naturae 
quos hodie physicos proprie vocamus, constat illum 
eminere quem iam ad vos duco. Admodum iuvenis 
Physicis professor constitutus, diu in Universitate 
Lugduno-Batava docuit, immo vero rude donatus 
adhuc docet, physicorum ipse Nestor. Multa lingua- 
rum scientia, multa rerum cognitione, miro ingenil 
acumine, talis est studiorum hortator, ut illis qui 
Naturae secreta explorant etiam si non adhuc penitus 
inveniunt verbo exemplo benignitate praecipue sub- 
veniat. Longam iam virorum seriem recolimus qui, 
post reformatam Ecclesiam et Lugduni constitutam 
Academiam, vitae Brittanicae Batavi lucem por- 
rexerunt. Hodie lucis ipsius investigatorem honora- 
mus qui nobis qua ratione inter se lux et vis electrica 
congruant et cohaereant exposuit. Si Academiae 
nostrae laudes hospiti nostro narrarem nonne verba 
illa primum arriperem, ‘Hinc lucem’? et cum 
hospitem Universitati vestrae praesento, quid nisi 
eadem mihi succurrunt, ‘Hine lucem’? Duco ad 
vos Henricum Antonium Lorentz. 
“Revocamus illum qui, apud Vergilium, augurio 
spreto, neglecta cithara, fama militari recusata, 
ut depositi proferret fata parentis, __ 
scire potestates herbarum usumque medendi 
maluit et mutas agitare inglorius artes. 
Eandem et hodie generis humani curam, eundem 
medendi amorem, easdem artes agnoscimus, sed non 
illum inglorium vocamus, qui vitam totam medicinae 
consecravit, qui discipulos usum illum plurimos docuit, 
qui non contentus translaticiam tradere scientiam 
secreta Naturae voluit ipse explorare et 
venienti occurrere morbo. 
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Virum talem vobis praesento, Yalensem, in illa 
republica natum quae reipublicae normam dedit 
ampliori, multorum in Academia Baltimorensi doc- 
torem, diu honoratum, diu amatum, necnon et 
Templi illius quod Novi Eboraci posuit Hygeae 
Propugnatrici Rockefeller, Flaminem Rectorem Arch- 
iatrum. Duco ad vos Willelmum Henricum Welch. 
“ Tterum inter nos praesentem salutamus alumnum 
et condiscipulum qui Danus, patre natus physiologo 
clarissimo, in rebus physicis ipse versatus, Angliam 
admodum iuvenis petit, et ad Canum et apud 
Mancunienses et didicit et docuit. Illud laeti revo- 
camus, quod apud Anglos primo investigavit quomodo 
re vera emittatur lux, quod cum patefecisset, atomi 
structura quae diu latebat magis intelligebatur. 
Hos tantos labores praemio Nobeliano coronatos quis 
mirabitur? sed ex eis quae scientiae speranda sint 
incrementa, quis divinabit ? Quippe ad patriam 
reverso~ civium voluntate—quod ceteris gentibus 
exemplo sit |!—facultas datur ut haec studia discipulis 
adiuvantibus libere prosequatur. Duco ad vos Niels 
Bohr.” 
EpInBURGH.—An anonymous donor has given the 
University a sum of 20,000]. to form the nucleus of 
a fund to provide a new Department of Zoology. In 
his letter to the Principal, Sir Alfred Ewing, the donor 
referred to the inadequacy of the present laboratories 
and to the serious disadvantages under which teaching 
and research in zoology are being carried on in 
Edinburgh, and stated that he hoped other support 
would be forthcoming so that the new Department 
might be erected in the near future. 
The building in which the teaching of zoology is 
at present carried on forms part of the Old College, 
and was altered in 1882, so far as structural conditions 
would permit, in the endeavour to meet the needs 
of that time. Since then there has been a great 
development in the subject and in the methods by 
which it is taught, calling especially for more labora- 
tory accommodation and better lighting, and in both 
these respects the present premises are wholly in- 
adequate to meet the needs of the students—science 
and medical—and of the post-graduate workers in 
the Department. In addition to providing instruction 
for science students extending over four years, and — 
for medical students in their first year, the work of 
the Department includes post-graduate courses in 
medical entomology, protozoology, and helminthology, 
for the diploma in tropical medicine and in public 
health. The accommodation in the existing premises, 
barely sufficient to meet the needs of forty years ago, 
has been hopelessly overtaxed during the last twenty 
years, and no alteration of the present building can 
remedy the defect. Strong hopes are entertained 
that the recent generous gift will be supplemented, 
and that the University Court will be able at an early 
date to proceed with the erection of the laboratories 
urgently needed for teaching and for research. 
Lreps.—Huddersfield Town Council has decided 
to make a contribution of rooo/. a year towards 
the maintenance of the University. : 
The following appointments have been made: Mr. 
George R. Ross to be lecturer in bacteriology, and 
Mr. R. Stoneley to be assistant lecturer in applied 
mathematics. 
Prof. Jamieson has been appointed pro-vice- 
chancellor for a period of two years from July 1 in 
succession to Prof. A. Smithells. “ 
Lonpon.—At a meeting of the senate on June 20 
the following appointments were made :— 
Prof. F. Wood Jones, to the University chair of 
anatomy tenable at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital 
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