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stantially on the same terms as men. Residence 

 already kept and examinations already passed will 

 qualify past students for the same privileges as if 

 the new regulations had been in force in earlier days. 

 The Times announces a bequest by the late Mr. 

 A. M. Shield of some 90,000/. to the Cambridge Medical 

 School. The only definite item mentioned is the 

 foundation of a Marmaduke Shield scholarship of 

 100/. a year in human anatomy. 



Leeds. — The following appointments to the staff 

 have been made by the Council of the University : 

 Mr. R. B. Tasker, honorary demonstrator in anatomy 

 for dental students ; Mr. C. Holland Child, Mr. 

 G. H. H. Russell, and Mr. R. B. Tasker, honorary 

 clinical tutors in dental surgery ; Dr. A. C. Monk- 

 house, research assistant in the fuel industries depart- 

 ment, to work under the joint committee of the 

 Institution of Gas Engineers and the University on 

 gas heating, lighting and ventilation research ; Dr. 

 E. C. Porter, demonstrator in the department of 

 leather industries ; Mr. J. C. Mann, assistant lecturer 

 in agricultural chemistry ; Mr. S. J. Saint, assistant 

 lecturer in agriculture ; Mr. R. E. Edwards, demon- 

 strator in agricultural botanv ; Mr. J. C. Leslie, 

 district lecturer in agriculture ; Mr. G. F. Pilling, 

 assistant lecturer and demonstrator in agriculture ; 

 Mr. H. W. Swift, demonstrator in engineering ; Mr. 

 W. A. Wightman, demonstrator in organic chemistry ; 

 Mr. Thomas Henderson, demonstrator in inorganic 

 chemistry ; and Miss E. M. Hickman, demonstrator 

 in the department of pathology and bacteriology. 



Manchester. — Applications are invited for the 

 position of Keeper of the Museum in place of Dr. 

 W. M. Tattersall, now of the University College of 

 South Wales, Cardiff. The latest date for the receipt 

 of applications, which should be sent to the Secretary 

 of the Manchester Museum, is Fridav, December 1. 



Provision has been made in the Faculty of Tech- 

 nology, which formerly awarded an ordinary degree 

 of B.Sc.Tech., to give a higher B.Sc.Tech. degree 

 in various sections of technological science, one of 

 which will be the chemistry of colouring matters. 



In view of the retirement of Prof. H. B. Dixon 

 from the chair of chemistry, a committee of past and 

 present students are raising a fund to recognise his 

 thirty-five years of distinguished service. The fund 

 is to be devoted mainly to the provision of grants to 

 enable students of chemistry to complete their courses, 

 and it is also intended to set up in the chemical 

 theatre a plaque or bust of Prof. Dixon. These 

 objects necessitate a generous response on the part 

 of old students and colleagues of Prof. Dixon, and 

 those who have not yet subscribed are invited to send 

 their subscriptions to Dr. Norman Smith at the 

 L T niversity. A complimentarv dinner will be held on 

 December 8, further particulars of which can be 

 obtained from Dr. J. E. Myers. 



The Association of Science Teachers and Associa- 

 tion of University Women Teachers have organised 

 a conference on the teaching of science in schools and 

 colleges to be held on Saturday, November 25, at 

 University College, London. The opening speakers 

 will be Sir William Tilden and Mr. A. G. Tansley. 



The Parliamentary- candidates of University con- 

 stituencies, for the general election on November 15, 

 are as follows (the names of new candidates are in 

 italics) : — Oxford (2). — Lord Hugh Cecil (U.) ; Sir 

 Charles Oman (U.). Cambridge (2). — J. F. P. Raw- 

 linson (U.) ; Prof. W. R. Sorley (U.) ; /. R. M. 

 Butler (Ind.). London. — Sir Sydney Russell -Wells 

 (U.) ; Prof. A. F. Pollard (L.) ; H. G. Wells (Lab.). 

 Combined English (Manchester, Liverpool, Durham, 



Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, and Bristol) (2). — 

 H. A. L. Fisher (N.L.) ; Sir Martin Conway (U.) ; B. 

 Faraday and Dr. S. Lawrence (U.), and L. IFoo//(Lab.). 

 Wales. — Sir E. J. Ellis Griffith (L.) ; T. A. Lewis 

 (N.L.). Scotland (St. Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, 

 and Edinburgh) (3). — Sir Henry Craik (U.) ; Sir 

 George Berry (U .) ; I >. M'Coig Cowan (N.L. ). Queen's, 

 Belfast.— Sir William Whitla (U.). 



The list of successful candidates in the open 

 competition for Royal Scholarships and Free Student- 

 ships, 1922, just issued bv the Board of Education, 

 shows that in Group A (Mechanics) there were fifty- 

 four competitors, and of the nine scholarships and 

 studentships awarded, six are to apprentices in H.M. 

 Dockyard. This is a remarkable testimony to the 

 efficient educational work carried on in the dockyard 

 schools, which all dockyard apprentices must attend 

 for certain specified periods every week. The 

 number of competitors in the other groups of subjects 

 in which scholarships and studentships are awarded 

 were : physics, 17 ; chemistry, 16 ; biology, 1 ; 

 geology, no qualified candidates. 



Numerous announcements of courses of technical 

 education for 1922-23 have been received recently. 

 Courses of advanced study and training in research 

 are offered by the Manchester College of Technology 

 in many branches of applied science, including special 

 problems connected with textiles, brewing and allied 

 industries, paper-manufacture, photography, coal- 

 tar, dyestuffs, and india-rubber. The college awards 

 annually a varying number of research scholarships 

 (last year twelve) of 100/. each, open to graduates of 

 any university in the British Empire and to other 

 persons suitably qualified. A department of in- 

 dustrial administration has recently been opened. 

 The Sir John Cass Technical Institute of Aldgate, 

 London, invites special attention to its advanced 

 courses (evening) in brewing, micro-biology, petroleum 

 technology, colloids, alternating currents and electri- 

 cal oscillations, metallography and pyrometry, heat 

 treatment and mechanical testing of metals and 

 alloys, and foundry practice. The Northampton 

 Polytechnic of Clerkenwell, London, has, in addition 

 to its evening courses, day courses in civil, mechanical, 

 including automobile and aeronautical, and electrical 

 engineering, in optical engineering and applied optics, 

 and in horology. 



The Scottish Colleges of Agriculture maintain a 

 close connexion with the regions which they serve 

 by means of their systems of extra-mural work, in- 

 cluding lectures and individual instruction, demon- 

 strations and experiments, and advisory work. The 

 Calendar for 1922-23 of the Edinburgh and East of 

 Scotland College mentions a notable development of 

 work in connexion with school gardens which have 

 been laid down under the guidance of the college staff 

 at 196 schools. Seven supplementary school centres 

 are visited by the staff once a week for practical 

 instruction in the school garden combined with 

 theoretical instruction in the laboratory. The 

 Calendar of the North of Scotland College contains 

 an account of the recently opened Rowett Institute 

 for research in animal nutrition, and of an important 

 research which is being conducted by Dr. Rennie in 

 regard to certain diseases of adult bees. In the area 

 served by this college, attendances at county exten- 

 sion classes increased during the past two years 

 from three to eighteen thousand, while attendances 

 at short courses of lectures and single lectures in- 

 creased from fifteen to thirty-eight thousand. Special 

 schemes are arranged to meet the requirements of 

 the crofting districts in the western seaboard and 

 islands and in Shetland. 



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