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NA TURE 



[ Xi >\ EMBER 25, I922 



University and Educational Intelligence. 



Che '.tin es .'ii tow n-planning 

 w in, h fi >rn iart of 1 tie a< tivil ies oi 



the depai tm /il engi are on an un- 



usuall) extended scale this session Lhese lectures 

 owe theii existence to the generositj oi the late 

 Mr. i Lbury and the trustees of the Bourn- 



ville Village Trust, and are intended not merely E01 

 the um\ ersity students but also f< ir munii ipal offi< ei s, 

 and members oi the general public. 

 The first scries, by Mr. William Haywood, is open 

 to .ill without fee ; n deals with the lu-~toiK.il aspect 

 reviewing in turn ancient, medieval, 

 tnce, and modern town plans, and concludes 

 with a consideration of the possibilities of Birming- 

 ham. In the second series of lectures, three are to 

 be given by Mr. 11. II. Humphries, Citj I aginee: 

 of Bii two by Dr. John Robertson, Medical 



1 >m., 1 oi Health, who will deal with the health 

 aspects oi town planning and the importance of 

 environment, and five by Mr. F. C. Minshull, Chiei 

 ^.ssistani Solicitor to the City of Birmingham, on 

 the legal aspects of the subject, the operation and 

 administration oi schemes. The third series, of 



twenty lei tures by Mr. Hayw 1 is mor partii ularly 



intended for students of civil engineering. Class 

 work m surveying and in working oui problems in 

 site-planning is given each week during the wintei 

 and spring terms. 



Cambridgj -It is proposed to create a readership 

 in biochemistry, the income of which is to be pro- 

 partbj I", the income from .1 capital sum of 

 provided bj Sir William Dunn's trustees. 

 I fie 1 lei 1 r\ Sidgwick Memorial Lecture at New nh.nn 

 College will be delivered by Lord Rayleigh on De- 

 cember 2, the subject being " The Iridescent Colours 

 oi Natural * >bjei ts 



EDINBl RGH Mi C G Darwin, who was elected 

 a bellow of the Royal Society a few- months ago, has 

 been appoint,.! as the firsf occupant of the newly 

 instituted bait chair of natural philosophy. Prof. 

 Darwin is a son of the late Sir George Darwin, and 

 since 1010 has been lecturer in mathematics at Christ's 

 College, Cambridge, of which he is a Fellow, lie is 

 at preseni engaged in research at the Norman Bridge 

 Physics Laboratorj oi the Californian Institute oi 

 >g3 .t I 'asadena. 



["he Ti easury has sani tioned .1 grant to 

 In- made by the Ministrj oi Agriculture and Fisl 

 m aid of the new agricultural building, the [urner 

 Tanning Machinery Companj is to instal about 1100/. 

 worth of new m.u limcrv in the Leather Industries 

 ment. 

 \h \ II Priestley has been appointed lecturer 

 in bacteriology, and Mr. G. Priestley has been 

 appointed assistant lecturer in cloth analysis. 



] ONDON the Senate has awarded to Mr. F. J. b. 



Barrington the William Julius Mickle Fellowship oi 

 mo. oi the work which he has carried out 



during the past five years on the nervous mechanism 

 of micturition. 



bio- t, ,',l, ,w ing do -I red by 



the Senate — D.Sc. :>i chemistn : Mr. S. K. [lling 

 worth, an internal student, of the Imperial College, 

 for a thes 1 untied " Re- 

 in tl Con tution of Coal 



Mr. R. M. Paw son. an internal si 



thesis 

 enti, Principle of Official Independence 



NO. ^JOO. VOL. 1 IO] 



in physics: Mr. E. V. Appleton, an external 

 student, foi a the, is entitled " Studies of the Triode 



\ ai Minn I ube " ; D.Si . :n Vet 1 nun v s, /, c, e : Mr. 

 W II Andrews, an external student, for a thesis 



entitled " The so-called 'Staggers' or 'Pushing 



Disease ' of Cattle in Natal," and other papers 



applications are invited Eo: tin- Graham scholar- 

 ship in pathology in connexion with University 

 College Hospital. bin' scholarship is of the annual 

 \ alue ot joo and tenable for two years. 1 he latest 



,l.o> l"t receiving applications (which should be sent to 

 the Principal Officer of the! iniversitj oi I on, Ion, South 

 Kensington, S.W. 71 is January 1. They must be 

 accompanied by the names of not more than three 

 references, on,- at least oi which should be the name 

 oi some professor, lecturer, or teacher of the uni- 

 versity or college in winch the candidate has con- 

 dui te, [ his st 11, hes in pathology, and slate the research 

 upon which the applicant proposes to work. 



Oxford. — Sir William Dunn's trustees have offered 

 to provide the sum of 100,000/. for the establishment oi 

 a S( hoolof Pathology, subject to certain conditions as 

 to site, upkeep of chair and teaching staff, provision 

 of a maintenance fund, etc. ["hey have also offered 

 the additional sum of 3000/. for the adaptation ot the 

 existing Department of Pathology as the future 

 School of Pharmacology. \t a meeting of Congrega- 

 tion on November 21 these offers were accepted. 



The Tim, s 1 orrespondenl at Toronto states that a 

 fin occurred in the upper floors of the University oi 

 Montreal on November [4, doing damage estimated 

 at between 50,000/. and 00,000/. 



It is stated in the Chemiker Zeitung that Dr. Fritz 

 Sn. his, ,,1 Berlin, has been appointed professor of 

 ehennsti \ at the Breslau Technische Hoolischule, and 

 that Prof. Bodenstein has been invited to succeed 

 Prof. Nernst in the Physical-Chemical Institute of the 

 University of Berlin. 



Among receni appointments are the following: 

 — Mr. P. II. Peacock and Mr. F. J. Mcggett to be 

 professoi ot chemistry and professor of biological 

 science respectively at Rangoon University, and 

 Dr. R. A. Part to be professor of anatomy in the 

 I niversity of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 



The annual prize distribution to the successful 

 students ot the Northampton Polytechnic Institute, 

 Clerkenwell, E.C.i, during the session i,i.'i -1922 will 

 be held at the Institute on Friday, December 1. Dr. 

 S / de Ferranti, past president of the Institution of 

 Electrical Engineers, will distribute the pri es and 



llowing will represent the universities in the 

 recently-elected House ot Commons, the names of 

 new members being 111 italics : — Oxford. — Lord Hugh 

 Cecil ,1 .) and Sir Charles Oman 1 Cambridge. — 

 I 1 P Rav iinson 1 and /. R. .1/. Butler (Ind.) ; 

 Londoi s s 1 jy 1 1 Combined 



-ii Manchester, Liverpool, Durham, Leeds, 

 Sheffield, Birmingham, and Bristol) . — Sir Martin Con- 

 way il and 11. \. L. Fisher (N.L.) ; Wales. — 

 /'. '.I. Lewis iN.I Scotland Si Andrews, Glas- 



leen, and Edinburgh). — Sir Henry Craik 

 1 and I >. M'Coig Cowan 

 (N.l 1 Belfast. — Sir William Whitla. 



