NATURE 



[September 12, 1912 



extending' agricultural education are not included in 

 the amounts shown. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Dr. R. G. McKerron has, with the approval of 

 the King, been appointed professor of midwifery in 

 the University of Aberdeen, in succession to Prof. W. 

 Stephenson, who has resigned. 



The foundation stone of a new college for the 

 training of teachers at Dundee was laid on Thursday 

 last by Lord Camperdown. The cost of the building 

 will be 6o,oooZ., and provision will be made for 400 

 students. 



Prof. J. Lo.hr.mx Smith, F.R.S. (at present pro- 

 fessor of pathology and pathological anatomy in the 

 University of Manchester) has been appointed to the 

 chair of pathology in the University of Edinburgh, in 

 succession to Prof. W. S. Greenfield, who is retiring 

 from the position. 



The sum of 5000/. has been given by the Lord 

 Lieutenant of Berkshire, Mr. J. H. Benyon, towards 

 the new buildings of University College, Reading. 

 The donor has apportioned his gift between the new 

 hall, the Letters Buildings, the Agricultural Build- 

 ings, and the new St. Patrick's Hall. 



The Board of Agriculture has issued a scheme 

 under which the University College of North . Wales, 

 Bangor, will undertake advisory work in forestry for 

 the whole of Wales. Prof. F. Story, professor of 

 forestry at the College, has been appointed to the 

 position of advisory officer for all Wales under this 

 scheme. Prof. Story will retain his professorship, but 

 Mr. Thomson Thomson has been appointed assistant 

 lecturer under him. 



The Senate of the projected University of Western 

 .'\ustralia recently advertised eight professorships, 

 and the Agent-General for the State reports that the 

 response has been of a character justifying the belief 

 of good appointments being made. The Senate now 

 invites applications for lectureships in veterinary 

 science and mental and moral philosophy. It is stated 

 that Crawley Park, near Perth, which contains 

 spacious grounds, is likely to be selected as the site 

 of the new institution. 



The fourth international congress of pliysical edu- 

 cation is to be held in Rome on October 24 to 27. 

 Discussions arc to take place on the organisation of 

 physical education as a preparation for military 

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service; a rational method of physical training in 

 primary, middle, and secondary schools ; the value of 

 sports in physical education, and their physiological 

 limitations ; the physical education of woman in rela- 

 tion with her function in the family and in society; 

 respiratory gymnastics and choral singing in schools ; 

 open-air schools; the physical exercises suitable for 

 the prophylaxis of tuberculosis. 



The following are the arrangements for the opening 

 of the winter session of certain of the medical 

 schools : — That of St. Bartholomew's Hospital will be 

 inaugurated on October i by an old students' dinner; 

 at Charing Cross Hospital the prizes will be distri- 

 buted on October 2 by the Bishop of Peterborough 

 and Lady Mary Glyn ; at St. George's Hospital the 

 prizes will be distributed on October i, and an address 

 delivered by Mr. H. B. Grimsdale on "The present 

 Duty of the Medical Citizen"; at Guy's Hospital 

 there will be a conversazione on October 4 by the 

 Pupils' Physical Society, the session commencing on 

 October i ; at the London Hospital the Schorstein 

 memorial lecture will be delivered on October i by 

 Prof. T. W. Griffith; at the London School of Medi- 

 cine for Wonien an address on "Common Sense" 

 will be given on October i by Dr. Jane Walker; 

 King's College Hospital will hold a dinner on October 

 I ; at the Middlesex Hospital the prizes will be distri- 

 buted on October i by Sir Charles Wyndham, and an 

 address delivered by Dr. W. S. Lazarus-Barlow on 

 "The Genius of the Infinitely Little"; at St. Mary's 

 Hospital on October i the Lord Mayor of London will 

 deliver an address and distribute the prizes; in con- 

 nection with St. Thomas's Hospital there will be an 

 old students' dinner on October i ; the Westminster 

 Hospital School will have a dinner on October 3 ; a 

 dinner, on October 2, will inaugurate the new session 

 of the University College Hospital .School; there will 

 be a conversazione on October i in connection with 

 the LIniversity of Birmingham ; an address will be 

 given on October i at the University of Manchester 

 bv Dr. H. D. Rolleston on "Universities and Medical 

 Education," and at the University of Leeds an ad- 

 dress will be delivered on October i by Sir .\lfred 

 Keogh, K.C.B. 



The new session of the Sir John Cass Technical 

 Institute, Aldgate, E.C., which is especially devoted to 

 technical training in experiinental science and in the 

 artistic crafts, will commence on Monday, September 

 23. The instruction in experimental science provides 

 .svstematic courses in mathematics, physics, and chem- 

 istry for London LIniversity examinations, in addition 

 to the courses on higher technological instruction, 

 which form a special feature of the work of the 

 institute. In connection with the latter, several new 

 departures are being made for the coming session. 

 The curriculum of the fermentation industries has 

 been much developed, and now includes courses of 

 instruction on brewing and malting, on bottling and 

 collar management, and power and mechanical plant 

 in the brewery, on the microbiology of the fermenta- 

 tion industries, and on the chemistry and technology 

 of hops, in addition to courses in chemistry and 

 physics for those who have not sufficient previous 

 knowledge of these subjects. In the department of 

 phvsics and mathematics a special course of lectures 

 and demonstrations will be given on colloids, which 

 will deal with the methods employed in their inves- 

 tigation and their relation to technical problems ; also 

 a special course of lectures on the theory and applica- 

 tion of matheiTiatical statistics, in which the applica- 

 tion of modern mathematical methods of dealing with 

 statistical data in social, educational, economic, and 

 plivsical problems will be discussed and opportunity 



