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Exchequer, viewing the circumstances of Wales, Ireland, 

 England, and Scotland, to make a very substantial con- 

 tribution to the funds of the University. The building 

 fund of the college at Bangor has already received a 

 Treasurv grant (20,000/.), and it is the duty of the people 

 of Nortii Wales to complete that work ; but in regard to 

 what has been said about raising the status and improving 

 the staff and equipment of the college. Dr. Lloyd George 

 fully approved of every word. One of the first things 

 will be to increase the salaries of those who have devoted 

 their abilitv to establishing and maintaining higher educa- 

 tion in Wales. It cannot be expected that the services of 

 the best men will be secured at the present inadequate 

 salaries. The sacrifices made by those who have remained 

 on in spite of better inducements elsewhere are appreciated, 

 but the time has come to recognise the fact that if a 

 first-rate staff is wanted it must be made worth while for 

 the members of the staff to remain. At present the pro- 

 fessors too often do work which ought to be relegated to 

 tutors. 



Turning to the question of research, Dr. Lloyd George 

 pointed out that what is wanted is not only teachers, but 

 also explorers. Science has its dark continents, unlimited 

 continents — mapless, unlimited oceans — chartless. He 

 would believe in the triumph of Welsh education when 

 he could see sheets that are now mere outlines crowded 

 with the discoveries of Welsh explorers. The greatest 

 universities are. however, not the product of thirty years. 

 There should be closer contact between the universities 

 and the Welsh industries. Germany has said, " You must 

 have a university to teach and to educate and to develop 

 the German mind," and now the effect is seen in the 

 German industries. 



Dr. Lloyd George went into one of the largest work- 

 shops in Germany three months ago, and was taken round 

 by a professor. He asked what a professor had to do 

 with it, and was told "The professors are our experts." 

 The Germans get their ideas from their professors. We 

 in this country heave coal and blast rocks, but the great 

 industries that finish these products are elsewhere. We 

 must start as discoverers. All this is coming. Bangor has 

 two factories, one in the lower town and one new factory 

 the buildings of which are beginning to rise in Upper 

 Bangor, while in Cardiff, also, new buildings have been 

 erected for the University College, which, however, are 

 not nearlv so fine and imposing as the municipal build- 

 ings. These are the factories where the future of the 

 country is being forged. There is no investment th.at will 

 produce such a return, not to the investor, but to genera- 

 tions to come, as the endowment of higher educition. The 

 Chancellor of the Exchequer further referred to w-hat has 

 been done in the past by the people of Wales, the need 

 of private as well as public support, and the future oro- 

 spects of the University. G. H. B. 



VyiVEKSlTY .4A'D EDVCATIOKAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



CAMBRIDGE. — Mr. J. M. Dobbs has been appointed chair- 

 man of the examiners for part i. of the mathematical 

 tripos, 1909 (old regulations), and Mr. Fitzpatrick chair- 

 man of the examiners for the natural sciences tripos, 

 1909. 



The general board of studies has approved for the 

 degree of Doctor in Science Prof. W. W. Watts, F.R.S., 

 and Prof. T. J. I'A. Bromwich, F.R.S. 



The general board of studies will shortly proceed to 

 the appointment of a university lecturer in zoology. 

 Candidates are requested to send their applications, with 

 testimonials if they think fit, to the Vice-Chancellor on 

 or before December 2. 



Mr. A. Wood has been appointed demonstrator of experi- 

 mental physics. 



London. — The Senate of the University has awarded 

 the Rogers prize of 100?. for original research in medical 

 science to be divided equally between Dr. David Forsyth, 

 assistant physician to Charing Cross Hospital, and Mr. 

 F. W. Twort, assistant bacteriologist to the London 

 Hospital. 



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.M.\xciiEsrBR. — The completion of the new buildings of 

 the Manchester Royal Infirmary, in close proximity to the 

 University, has already led to a marked increase in the 

 number of students entering for courses in the medical 

 school. The new hospital, which is to be formally opened 

 next year by His ^Majesty the King, is to be occupied by 

 ihe end of the present month. 



The new buildings of the engineering department are 

 making rapid progress, and a portion is already in use. 

 The extension of the chemical laboratories has also been 

 commenced ; the additional accommodation, which will 

 cost from 15,000/. to 20,000/., will be primarily devoted 

 to the increasing requirements of research in organic 

 chemistry. 



The establishment of a new chair in botany, for which 

 an endowment was received some months ago, is in con- 

 templation. 



The Court has resolved to recognise the Harris Insti- 

 tute, Preston, as a privileged institution, attendance _ at 

 courses in mathematics, physics, and chemistry being 

 accepted as satisfying the attendance requirements for the 

 Inter. B.Sc. and Inter. B.Sc. Tech. courses. 



Up to October 30 the number of students who have 

 entered for courses of study in the University is 1320, 

 against 12 19 a year previously. 



Dr. George Dean, chief bacteriologist at the Lister 

 Institule of Preventive Medicine, has been appointed to 

 succeed Prof. D. J. Hamilton in ihe chair of pathology 

 in the University of Aberdeen. 



Mr. G. H. Kenrick, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, has 

 made a gift of 10,000/. towards the funds of Birmingham 

 University. This is his third contribution toward the 

 development of the University, his total gifts amounting 

 to a sum of 25,000/. 



Mr. H. G. Wells will preside at the first annual dinner 

 of old students of the Royal College of Science, to be held 

 at the Criterion Rest'riurant, Piccadilly Circus, on Wednes- 

 day, December 9. Dinner tickets, price 7s. 6d., may be 

 obtained from the honorary secretary of the dinner com- 

 mittee, Mr. T. L. Humberstone, 3 Selwood Place, Onslow 

 Gardens, London, S.W. It is hoped that the dinner will 

 lead to the formation of an association of old students of 

 the college. 



Prof. Perrv has again sent us the balance-sheet refer- 

 ring to bursaries distributed by him to students at the 

 Royal College of Science, South Kensington, during the 

 two sessions 1906-7 and 1907-8. The fund for these 

 bursaries represents a response to an appeal made by Prof. 

 Perry for the means to assist deserving students at the 

 college with secret gifts when necessary, it being under- 

 stood that every student who receives such assistance shall 

 repav the money to the fund when in a position to do so. 

 Among the contributions to the fund are 100/. each from 

 the Drapers', Goldsmiths' and Skinners' Companies, and 

 50/. from the Clothworkers' Company. As a number of 

 students at the college have to maintain themselves and 

 purchase their books and instruments out of scholarships 

 having a value of about 17s. 9^. a week each, the institution 

 by Prof. Perry of a system of small bursaries privately 

 bestowed has provided a means of preventing unnecessary 

 privation without injuring the self-respect of the recipients. 



A COMMON criticism of the methods of teaching science 

 adopted in schools for girls is that they are too academic 

 and have little or no bearing upon the duties the girls 

 will be called upon to perform in after life. This weak- 

 ness is, we are glad to know, becoming less common, and 

 earnest efforts are being made in several centres to arrange 

 courses of work in which elementary science and the 

 home arts are taught together, the latter being treated 

 largelv as applications of the former. In a recent address 

 to the Teachers' Guild, Mr. John Wilson, president of 

 the Association of Technical Institutions, dealt exhaustively 

 with the methods bv which science can be connected with 

 domestic training. His address is printed in Education 

 for November 6 last. Mr. Wilson is of opinion that, 

 ideally, the teacher should be a woman, thoroughly well 

 skilled in chemistry and physics, &c., and a first-class 

 diplom<5e in cookery, laundry work, and housewifery. At 



