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which houses were damaged was also large, though 

 perhaps not unusually large. The zone most affected 

 was that between Coquimbo and Chanaral, the latter 

 place being nearly ioo miles north of Coquimbo, 

 but houses were also slightly damaged at Valparaiso, 

 which lies about 240 miles to the south. 



In this earthquake, as in so many others on the 

 western coast of America, it is difficult in the early 

 accounts to separate the effects of the shock from 

 those produced by the sea-waves and by the fires 

 that followed the "earthquake. The sea-waves were 

 observed along the coast from at least Antofagasta 

 on the north to Talcahuano (near Concepcion) on 

 the south, a distance of nearly a thousand miles. 

 They were large enough to wash away boats at Hilo 

 in Hawaii. All the submarine cables along the coast 

 appear to be broken, but the statement that soundings 

 taken between Copiapo and Caldera gave a depth 

 of 86 fathoms, instead of 2800 fathoms as marked 

 on the chart, must of course be erroneous. The 

 earthquake resembles its predecessors in its submarine 

 origin some distance from the coast. 



University and Educational Intelligence. 



Birmingham. — The following appointments have 

 been made by the Council : Mr. A. W. Nash, 

 lecturer in oil mining ; Dr. E. Ashley Cooper, lecturer 

 in public health chemistry ; and Mr. D. R. Nanji, 

 assistant lecturer and demonstrator in the department 

 of brewing and the biochemistry of fermentation. 



Cambridge. — Mr. G. C. Steward has been elected 

 to a fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, and 

 Mr. G. Udny Yule, Mr. J. E. P. Wagstaff, and Mr. 

 W. M. H. Greaves to fellowships at St. John's College. 



London. — The Senate invites applications for a 

 new University Chair of Anatomy tenable at St. 

 Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, which has 

 not hitherto had a professor of the subject attached 

 to it. The present University professors of anatomy 

 are as follows : Prof. E. "Barclay-Smith, King's 

 College; Prof. J. E. S. Frazer, St. Mary's; Prof. 

 T. B. Johnston, Guy's ; Prof. F. G. Parsons, St. 

 Thomas's ; Prof. G. Elliot Smith, University College ; 

 Prof. W. Wright, London ; and Prof. T. Yeates, Middle- 

 sex. The full title of the holder of the chair at St. 

 Bartholomew's will be " Professor of Anatomy in 

 the University of London." The appointment will 

 date from September 1, 1923, and will be subject 

 to the statutes and regulations of the University 

 and to the regulations of St. Bartholomew's Hospital 

 Medical College. The professor will be expected to 

 devote his whole time to the duties of the chair, 

 except that he may be permitted to hold examiner- 

 ships in anatomy, and will be able to devote time to 

 research. The salary of the chair will be 1000/. 

 per annum. Arrangements for assistance and for 

 departmental expenditure are made by the Medical 

 College of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in consultation 

 with the professor. Applications for the chair (12 

 copies) must be received not later than first post on 

 April 16, 1923, by the Academic Registrar, Uni- 

 versity of London, South Kensington, London, 

 S.W.7, from whom further particulars may be 

 obtained. 



St. Andrews. — Mr. Rudyard Kipling has been 

 elected Rector in succession to Sir James M. Barrie. 



Sheffield. — Mr. R. Stoneley, assistant lecturer in 

 mathematics, has been appointed curator of the 

 University Observatory. 



Prof. Alfred Tennyson Delury, head of the 

 department of mathematics, University of Toronto, 

 was in June last appointed Dean of the Faculty of 



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Artsof that University. Sir Robert Falconer, president 

 of the University, called a meeting of the Council of 

 the Facult}- of Arts and announced that, while the 

 appointment of a Dean was by statute in his hands, 

 he would like to receive nominations from the Council 

 for an appointment to this important post. Nomina- 

 tions were accordingly made and balloting was carried 

 on by mail. 



The first meeting of the Court of Governors of the 

 University College of the South-West of England, 

 Exeter, was held on October 27. The new governing 

 body takes over the former Royal Albert Memorial 

 College, Exeter, with its hostels and other property, and 

 also enters into possession of the site and mansion-house 

 given bv Mr. W. H. Reed for the purposes of the new 

 college buildings. The new University College which, 

 on the recommendation of the University Grants 

 Committee, has been placed upon the Treasury list 

 of I 'niversities and University Colleges as from 

 August 1, 1922, is regarded as the first step towards 

 the establishment of a University in the South-West 

 of England. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and Duke 

 of Cornwall is president of the college, and sent a 

 message of greeting and good wishes on the occasion 

 of the first meeting of the court. The court elected 

 Sir Henry Lopes, Bart., as deputy-president of the 

 college : and one of the vice-presidents is Sir Arthur 

 Quiller-Couch. The deputy-president made a state- 

 ment to the court as to the present position and 

 prospects of the college, emphasising his view that 

 the governing principle of college policy should be 

 the attainment, as soon as possible, of a status which 

 would free the college from a purely external degree 

 system, and indicating the possibilities of co-operation 

 to this end among the various higher educational 

 institutions in the south-western countries. A very 

 substantial increase in the number of full-time degree 

 students in attendance at the college was reported. 



On the occasion of the transfer of the Imperial 

 Department of Agriculture from Barbados to Trini- 

 dad, following upon its amalgamation with the West 

 Indian Agricultural College, Sir Francis Watts, prin- 

 cipal of the College and Commissioner of Agriculture, 

 received a letter from the Acting Governor of Bar- 

 bados in which the latter stated that the department's 

 work " has been a landmark in the history of the 

 West Indian Colonies." He continued, " I beg also 

 to be allowed to express the cordial gratitude of the 

 Government of Barbados for the valuable and ready 

 assistance which the Imperial Department has ren- 

 dered the local Government on numerous occasions 

 . . . may I also assure you of the warm good wishes 

 of the Barbados Government for the success and 

 prosperity of the Agricultural College in which the 

 Department will now be merged, and of our confident 

 hope that the establishment of the College will prove 

 to be a great step forward in the development of 

 scientific tropical agriculture not only in the West 

 Indies but also in a wider field." 



The Royal Technical College, Glasgow, publishes 

 for the session 1922-23, in a calendar comprising 356 

 closely printed pages, a vast amount of information 

 relating not only to the courses of instruction it 

 offers, the conditions under which the diplomas and 

 degrees for which it prepares are obtainable, and 

 the scholarships tenable in it, but also to the appoint- 

 ments now held by its past students. The list of 

 past students and their appointments, including 

 nearly a thousand names, affords convincing evidence 

 of the practical value of the instruction given, and 

 should be of great interest alike to past, present, and 

 prospective students. 



