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formulate suggestions for a syllabus for the teaching 

 of geography both to matriculation standard and in 

 advanced courses ; to report upon the present position 

 of the geographical training of teachers, and to make 

 recommendations thereon ; and to report, as occasion 

 arises, to Council, through the Organising Committee 

 of Section E, upon the practical working of regulations 

 issued by the Board of Education affecting the position 

 of geography in training colleges and secondary schools : 

 Prof. T. P. Nunn, Mr. W. H. Barker. 



Section G (Engineering). — To report on certain 

 of the more complex stress distributions in engineering 

 materials : Prof. E. G. Coker (Chairman), Prof. 

 L. N. G. Filon, and Prof. A. Robertson (Secretaries). 



Section H (Anthropology). — To report on the 

 distribution of Bronze Age implements : Prof. J. L. 

 Myres, Mr. H. J. E. Peake. To conduct archaeo- 

 logical investigations in Malta : Prof. J. L. Myres, 

 Sir Arthur Keith. To conduct explorations with the 

 object of ascertaining the age of Stone Circles : Sir 

 Hercules Read, Mr. H. Balfour. To excavate early 

 sites in Macedonia : Sir William Ridgeway, Mr. S. 

 Casson. To report on the classification and distribu- 

 tion of rude stone monuments : Dr. R. R. Marett, 

 Prof. H. J. Fleure. The collection, preservation, and 

 systematic registration of photographs of anthro- 

 pological interest : Sir Hercules Read, Mr. E. N. 

 Fallaize. To conduct archaeological and ethnological 

 researches in Crete : Dr. D. G. Hogarth, Prof. J. L. 

 Myres. To co-operate with local committees in ex- 

 cavation on Roman sites in Britain : Sir William 

 Ridgeway, Mr. H. J. E. Peake. To report on the 

 present state of knowledge of the ethnography and 

 anthropology of the Near and Middle East : Dr. A. C. 

 Haddon, Mr. E. N. Fallaize. To report on the present 

 state of knowledge of the relation of early palaeolithic 

 implements to glacial deposits : Mr. H. J. E. Peake, 

 Mr. E. N. Fallaize. To investigate the lake villages 

 in the neighbourhood of Glastonbury in connexion 

 with a committee of the Somerset Archaeological and 

 Natural History Society : Sir William Boyd Dawkins, 

 Mr. Willoughby Gardner. To co-operate with a 

 committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 

 the exploration of caves in the Derbyshire district : 

 Sir William Boyd Dawkins, Mr. G. A. Garfitt. To 

 investigate processes of growth in children, with the 

 view of discovering differences due to race and sex, 

 and further to study racial differences in women : 

 Sir Arthur Keith, Prof. H. J. Fleure. To conduct 

 excavations and prepare a survey of the Coldrum 

 megalithic monument : Sir Arthur Keith, Prof. H. 

 J. Fleure. To report on the existence and distribution 

 of long-barrows in the Isle of Man : Prof. H. J. Fleure, 

 Dr. Cyril Fox. To report on proposals for an 

 anthropological and archaeological bibliography, with 

 power to co-operate with other bodies : Dr. A. C. 

 Haddon, Mr. E. N. Fallaize. To report on the best 

 means of publishing a monograph by Dr. Fox on the 

 archaeology of the Cambridge region : Dr. A. C. 

 Haddon, Mr. H. J. E. Peake. 



Section I (Physiology). — Efficiency of movement 

 in men equipped with artificial limbs : Prof. E. P. 

 Cathcart, Prof. A. V. Hill. Muscular stiffness in 

 relation to respiration : Prof. A. V. Hill, Dr. Ff. 

 Roberts. 



Section J (Psychology). — The place of psychology 

 in the medical curriculum : Prof. G. Robertson, Dr. 

 W. Brown. Vocational tests : Dr. C. S. Myers, Dr. 

 G. H. Miles. 



Section K (Botany). — To continue breeding ex- 

 periments on CEnothera and other genera : Dr. A. B. 

 Rendle, Dr. R. R. Gates. Primary botanical survey 

 in Wales : Dr. E. N. Miles Thomas, Prof. O. V. 

 Darbishire. 



Section L (Educational Science). — Training in 



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citizenship : Rt. Rev. J. E. C. Welldon, Lady Shaw. 

 To inquire into the practicability of an international 

 auxiliary language : Dr. H. Foster Morley, Dr. E. 

 H. Tripp. 



University and Educational Intelligence. 



Birmingham. — The University War Memorial, 

 which was unveiled on Sunday, October 8, takes the 

 form of three large panels of marble, on the eastern 

 side of the entrance hall of the University, bearing 

 the names of members of the LTniversity who fell 

 in the war. 



The Muirhead lectures in social philosophy are to 

 be delivered by Prof. J. H. Muirhead, who has chosen 

 as his subject " The Idea of Progress." The first 

 of the series of seven is to be given on October 16. 

 The lectures are free. 



Cambridge. — The Vice-Chancellor announces a 

 legacy of iooo/., free of legacy duty, to the Agri- 

 cultural Department of the University by the will 

 of the late Charles Jewell ; by the will of the late 

 Dr. Rivers books and pamphlets have been left to 

 the library of St. John's College, and in addition 70 

 volumes have been selected for the library of the 

 Psychological Department and 295 volumes for that 

 of the Department of Ethnology. 



Mr. W. J. H. Sprott, Clare College, has been 

 appointed demonstrator in experimental psychology. 



Mr. J. C. Burkill and Mr. A. E. Ingham have been 

 elected Fellows of Trinity College. 



It is proposed to confer an honorary M.A. degree 

 on Prof. H. R. Dean. 



Leeds. — At a Congregation of the University held 

 on Tuesday, October 10, the Duke of Devonshire, 

 Chancellor of the University, presiding, the following 

 honorary degrees were conferred : Litt.D. : The 

 Lord Bishop of Ripon (The Rt. Rev. Dr. Thomas 

 Banks Strong) and Mr. Bruce Richmond, Editor of 

 the Times Literary Supplement. D.Sc. : Sir Dugald 

 Clerk, Sir Frank Dyson, Astronomer Royal, and Sir 

 Richard Gregory, Editor of Nature, president of the 

 Educational Section of the British Association, 1922. 

 LL.D. : Mr. H. I. Bowring, Mr. B. Broadbent, Mr. 

 H. McLaren, and Mr. C. F. Tetley. 



Sir Dugald Clerk was presented by Prof. Smithells, 

 who said, " In him we welcome one who came to 

 Leeds as a member of the first chemical staff of the 

 Vorkshire College of Science, and he returns to-day 

 a man eminent among his fellows as a great example 

 of the ideal on which this University has spent so 

 much of its early labours — the harmonious and 

 fruitful union of pure and applied science." 



In presenting Sir Frank Dyson, Prof. Whiddington 

 referred to him as " the most distinguished British 

 astronomer," who, they remembered with pride, is 

 also a great Yorkshireman, and in his chosen field 

 of work has been unvaryingly successful. " Every 

 one knows him as the Astronomer Royal, a position 

 which in these days of astronomical discovery he has 

 filled with the highest distinction." 



Prof. Smithells, in presenting Sir Richard Gregory, 

 said : " He stands as one of the most distinguished 

 of those who strive to interpret science to the 

 multitude, to obliterate the false antagonisms that 

 have arisen between the different realms of knowledge, 

 and to win for science her rightful place among the 

 potent influences that act for the true enlightenment 

 and progress of mankind." 



London. — Dr. C. Da Fano will begin on Wednesday, 

 October 25, at King's College, at 4.30, a course of 

 eight free public lectures on " The Histology of the 



