330 NATURE 
[May 30, 1912 
right hand and the orb in his left. The attitude is 
one of remarkable dignity, and the general effect is 
a happy one. On the base of the statue is the 
following inscription :—‘t His Majesty King Edward 
VII., accompanied by Queen Alexandra, opened these 
buildings on July 7th, 1909, and concluded his address 
thus: ‘To you, the students, I say that the honour 
and, dignity of this University are largely in your 
hands, and I look to you to initiate and hand down 
worthy traditions to your successors.’”” It is under- 
stood that the unveiling ceremony is to be performed 
on June 27 by Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, wife of the 
Chancellor of the University. 
CaMBRIDGE.—The Research Hospital, which was 
opened on Friday last, May 24, stands about a mile 
south of the railway bridge at Cambridge on a site 
one acre in area. The object of the hospital is an 
intensive study of one disease at a time. In an 
ordinary hospital a patient comes in, undergoes 
certain treatment, gets better or is found incapable 
of improvement, and is sent out to make room for a 
further specimen of our suffering humanity. This 
will not be the case at the Cambridge Research 
Hospital. The study there is not so much the allevia- 
tion of one specific case of disease as the attempt to 
discover the causation of certain obscure diseases, and 
to experiment not only on their cure, but on their 
prevention. It may be put shortly by saying that, 
instead of one physician attending a large number of 
hospital cases of varying nature, at the Cambridge 
Research Hospital the best medical talent available 
from every side will be concentrated on three or four 
patients all suffering from one definite disease. At 
present the disease under investigation is rheumatoid 
arthritis, and experiments as to the cause of this 
terrible malady have been for some years carried on 
at Cambridge, at first in lodgings, and then in a 
small villa rented for the purpose. Owing to the 
energy of Mr. T. S. P. Strangeways, Huddersfield 
lecturer in special pathology in the University, and to 
the support he has received from Mr. R. C. Brown, 
of Preston, these patients are now transferred into a 
fine and commodious hospital. 
The Public Orator spoke as follows in presenting 
Mr. R. C. Brown for the degree of Master of Arts 
honoris causa on May 23 :—‘‘Medicum modestum, 
medicum munificum, qui tot alios tam diu salvere 
iussit, ipsum hodie iubemus salvere. Lancastrensium 
in comitatu medio, in oppido suo natali, Salutis 
templo amplificando, et in melius mutando, quantum 
temporis, quantum pecuniae dedicavit! Ibi pauperum 
tabernis quantam lucem, quantam salubritatem, quot 
vitae melioris commoda intulit! Arti musicae deditus, 
convalescentibus ars illa quantum prosit, quam soller- 
ter indicavit; quod nemini vestrum mirum_ sit, 
novimus enim ipsum Apollinem non modo Aesculapii 
patrem, sed etiam Musarum omnium, atque adeo artis 
musicae, fuisse patronum. Idem eos, qui inter nosmet 
ipsos in certos quosdam morbos curiosius. inquirunt, 
liberalitate maxima adiuvit; instrumentis subtilissimis 
ornavit; militiae denique huius tironibus stipendia 
quotannis distribuenda curavit. Vir igitur in artem 
medicam tam munificus, artium magister hodie 
honoris: causa’ merito nominatur. Idem domicilium 
novum his studiis benefactorum complurium liberali- 
tate dedicatum die crastino auspiciis optimis in- 
augurabit. Duco ad vos medicum insignem, virum et 
medicinae in studium et in Academiam nostram 
munificum, Robertum Carolum Brown.” 
The Extension of the School of Agriculture Syndi- 
cate reports that the Lords Commissioners of the 
Treasury have approved of a grant not exceeding 
14,5001. from the Development Fund for the building 
and equipment of an extension of the School of Agri- 
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culture, chiefly for the accommodation of research 
institutes in plant breeding and animal nutrition. Of 
this sum it is proposed to expend about 3000. on 
fittings and equipment, and about 11,5001. on the 
actual building. 
The Board of Agricultural Studies, in consultation 
with the president of the Royal Agricultural Society, 
has appointed Mr. C. R. Fay to be the Gilbey lecturer 
on the history and economics of agriculture. 
Dusiin.—The Chancellor of the University of Dub- 
lin (the Rt. Hon. Viscount Iveagh), having learned 
that the Department of Geology and. Mineralogy was 
in need of endowment for the prosecution of research 
and for equipment, has presented the authorities of 
Trinity College with the sum of 10,o00l., to be in- 
vested, and the proceeds to be applied in part to the 
payment of a research assistant and in part to the 
purchase of apparatus, &c., required for the school 
and for investigation. It will be remembered that in 
response to the appeal of a science schools committee 
and of the former chancellor, the late Earl of Rosse, 
Lord Iveagh has already given nearly 25,oo00l. 
for the construction of laboratories for experi- 
mental physics and for botanical science, the 
fund required for the upkeep of these departments 
being contributed by graduates and friends of the 
University. The movement of reform initiated by 
the Science Schools Committee was for various 
reasons arrested shortly after the claims of the School 
of Geology and Mineralogy were put forward by the 
committee. This department, therefore, failed to 
derive any appreciable benefit from the movement, 
a result which was particularly unfortunate, as it was 
specially active in carrying out and promoting re+ 
search. The serious financial restrictions which 
hampered its work have now been removed by the 
generous gift of Viscount Iveagh. 
Mr. M. Power, lecturer in mathematics in Uni- 
versity College, Dublin, has been appointed professor 
of mathematics in University College, Galway. 
Pror. D’Arcy W. TuHompson, C.B., professor of 
natural history in the University College, Dundee, has 
been appointed Herbert Spencer lecturer at the 
University of Oxford for 1912. 
Tue Vice-Chancellor of the University of London 
(Sir William Collins) will present the prizes to the 
students of the London (Royal Free Hospital) School 
of Medicine for Women on Friday, June 7, at 4 p.m. 
Mrs. Garrett Anderson, president of the school, will 
be in the chair. 
Pror. F. G. Donnan, Muspratt professor of 
physical chemistry in the University of Liverpool, has 
decided to decline the chair of chemistry at University 
College, London, in succession to Sir William 
Ramsay, K.C.B., for which he was. nominated 
recently, and to remain.in Liverpool. 
Tue Board of Agriculture and Fisheries will award 
twelve research scholarships in agricultural science 
in October next if so many suitable candidates pre- 
sent themselves. These scholarships have been estab- 
lished in order to train promising students under 
suitable supervision, with the view of their con- 
tributing to the development of agriculture, either 
by carrying out independent research, or by acting in 
an advisory capacity to agriculturists. They will be 
granted only to students who show distinct promise 
of capacity for advanced study and research in some 
one of the sciences bearing on agriculture. The 
scholarships will be of the annual value of 15ol., and 
will be tenable for three years, provided that satis- 
factory reports are made at the end of each year as 
