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NATURE 



[July 21, 19 10 



complete. It is encouraging to note that the total number 

 of whole-time students is increasing, and that students are 

 more and more taking advantage of the facilities now 

 provided for research and for work of a post-graduate type. 



It will be seen that the total number of day and evening 

 students in attendance at the universities and university 

 colleges in England (excluding Wales) in receipt of treasury 

 grant exceeds 18,000, but that the number of whole-time 

 students is only some 8,300, and the number of whole-time 

 matriculated students preparing for degrees slightly more 

 than 4500, of whom 1230, or 27 per cent., are students in 

 training under the regulations of the Board of Education 

 for the training of teachers for elementary schools. If to 

 these 4500 are added the 1052 post-graduate and research 

 students, we have a rough measure of the amount of 

 university education, in the strict sense of the term, which 

 is being given by the universities and university colleges 

 under review. 



The percentage of students in training under the regula- 

 tions of the Board of Education for the training of teachers 

 for elementarv schools to the number of whole-time 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 

 A Bill " to require that in public elementary schools in- 

 struction shall be given in hygiene, and to girls in the care 

 and feeding of infants," was introduced in the House of 

 Commons on Tuesday, and read for a first time. 



The council of the Junior Institution of Engineers, in 

 conjunction with the council of the Society of Engineers, 

 has arranged for a course of six fortnightly lectures on 

 " The Law relating to Engineering," to be delivered by 

 Mr. L. W. J. Costello. The first lecture will be given on 

 October 10. 



The annual meeting of the. Midland Agricultural and 

 Dairy College will be held on Monday, July 25, when the 

 report on the year's work will be presented. The Right 

 Hon. Earl Carrington, K.G., president of the Board of 

 Agriculture and Fisheries, will address the meeting, and 

 present the diplomas and certificates gained during last 

 session. 



Table V. — Grants in Aid for " University Colleges in Great Britain " 



students in the case of three of the institutions concerned 

 exceeds 50 per cent., while there are three other institu- 

 tions in which it exceeds 30 per cent. 



Table III. shows that the total number of whole-time 

 students in the Welsh colleges exceeds 1300, of whom 

 no fewer than 1175 are whole-time matriculated students 

 preparing for degrees. Of these, 437, or about 38 per 

 cent., are students in training under the regulations of 

 the Board of Education for the training of teachers for 

 elementary schools. There are also 45 post-graduate and 

 research students. 



Further appendices are added with the view of setting 

 out the amount of financial assistance given to uni- 

 versity education from the exchequer. Table IV. shows 

 the annual grants to universities and university col- 

 leges and to the colleges which form constituent parts 

 of universities, whether from the treasury, from the 

 Board of Education or from other Government depart- 

 ments. 



Table ^'. shows the amount of the grants in aid for 

 " University Colleges in Great Britain," given by the 

 treasury for several years since funds were first appropriated 

 to this purpose by the vote of 15,000!. set down in the 

 Civil .Service estimates for the year 1889-90. 



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It is announced in Science that Cornell University has 

 been made residuary legatee of the estate of the late Dr. 

 Goldwin Smith. It is reported that the value of the 

 bequest will exceed 200,000?. From the same source we 

 learn that by the will of Mr. Frank W. CoUendar, Tulane 

 University will receive 13,000/. for the Sophie Newcomb 

 College, and that Mrs. Ida A. Richardson, who during her 

 lifetime gave generously to various departments of the 

 university, has left 5000!. to the Medical School. 



At the summer graduation ceremony at Aberdeen Uni- 

 versity on July 13, Principal Smith announced that the 

 Chancellor of the University, Lord Strathcona, has just 

 given to the university a sum of 10,000/. towards the 

 endowment of a chair of agriculture. The interest on this 

 money, along with the annual revenue of the Fordyce 

 lectureship on agriculture and rural economy, and the 450?. 

 a year in the charge of the governors of the college for the 

 same purpose, will enable the university to secure the 

 services of a thoroughly competent authority on the subject. 



The suggestion has been made that a scholarship should 

 be established at the Imperial Collefic of Science and 

 Technology as a memorial to the late Mr. C. S. Rolls. It 

 is proposed that the scholarship should be devoted especially 



