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NA TURE 



[December 23, 1922 



A grant of 15/. from the publication fund of the 

 University has been made to the hon. editor for 

 zoology <if the Annals of Applied Biology in aid of 

 the publication in that journal of the M.Sc. thesis 

 entitled " The Life-History and Bionomics of the 

 Turnip-Gall Weevil," by Mr. P. V. Isaac. 



The degree of D.Lit. has been conferred on the Rev. 

 G. 11. I >ix, an internal student, of King's College, for 

 a thesis entitled " ' The Angel of Jahweh ' : A Study 

 111 tin- Origin and Development of a Religious Folk- 

 , with special reference to the Messianic Ex- 

 pectation of the Hebrew Race." 



The general meeting of the Association of Women 

 reai In 1 will be held at University College, 

 Gower Street, on Saturday, January 6, 1923. The 

 programme includes an address by the retiring 

 president and a lecture on relativity by Dr. Dorothy 

 Wrinch. The lion, secretary of the association is 

 Miss E. M. Ridley, 10 Gresley Road, N.tq. 



Tin: annual meeting of the Geographical Associa- 

 tion will be held in Birkbeck College, London, E.C.4, 

 on Thursday and Friday, January 4 and 5, 1923, 

 Sir John Russell will deliver his presidential address 

 on the subject of " The Influence of Geographical 

 Factors in the Agricultural Activities of a Popula- 

 tion " on the opening da}' of the meeting. Among 

 lectures to be given during the meeting are : 

 " Types and Materials of Houses in England," Mr. 

 II. Batsford ; "The Place of Geographv in the 

 Education of the Adolescent," Dr. Olive Wheeler ; 

 " Geography and Business Life," Prof. W. S. Tower ; 

 " The Coming Industrialisation of China," Prof. P. 

 M. Roxby. 



The second annual general meeting of the Associa- 

 tion of Heads of Departments in Pure and Applied 

 Si teni 1 was held on Saturday, December 9, at the 

 Woolwich Polytechnic. The members were welcomed 

 by the chairman of the Governors, Air. C. H. Grinling, 

 win 1 delivered an address upon the desirability of 



association " in all branches of society, whether 

 trade or professional, commercial or political. He 

 emphasised the importance of a new association 

 taking a long view of the range of their activities 

 and of developing into a body of national, or better 

 still, of international, rather than of merely parochial 

 importance. The meeting decided later to extend the 

 activities of the association by the admission of 

 members from the provinces. Mr. C. E. Larard, of 

 the Northampton Polytechnic, was elected as chair- 

 man and Iir. W. A. Scoble and Mr. R. T. Smith, of 

 Woolwich Polytei Imic, as joint secretaries for the 

 ensuing year. 



The report for 1921-22 by Dr. Cranage on the 

 Cambridge University Local Lectures shows that the 

 revival which took place in 1919-21 has been main- 

 tained as regards the number of courses (92, of which 

 15 were on scientific subjects), but that the average 

 attendance per lecture dropped from 142 in 1920-21 

 to 127, and per class from 38 to 33. The Summer 

 Meeting (July 29 to Aug. 18) was attended by 544 

 students of whom 444 were women and 46 from 

 foreign (chiefly Scandinavian) countries. The cor- 

 responding figures for 1912 are 565, 377, and 226. 

 Considering that board and lodging were about tune 

 and rail fares about three times as expensive as 

 before the war, the popularity of the Summer Meeting 

 is remarkable. Next July there will be held at Cam- 

 bridge in connexion with the jubilee of the local 

 lectures a conference on extra-mural teaching, the 

 Chancellor presiding at the first meeting. 



From the annual report for the year 1921-22 issued 

 by the Rhodes Trust, it appears that the number of 



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Rhodes scholars in residence during the year was 300, 

 of whom 156 came from the British Empire and the 

 remainder from the United States. Of the total, 66 — 

 more than oi*e-fifth — took natural science, a term 

 which includes those studying medicine ; in addition, 

 forestry and mathematics each had five scholars, 

 agriculture three and anthropology one. During the 

 year, 72 took up their scholarships for the first time. 

 The current academic year commenced with 262 

 scholars in residence. The value of the Rhodes 

 scholarship has been temporarily increased by an 

 annual bonus of 50/., but applicants are warned that 

 even thus, they must be prepared to find another 

 50/. a year. Appointments to the 1924 scholarships 

 will be made during the year 1923 ; further information 

 can be obtained from the offices of the Rhodes Trust, 

 Seymour House, Waterloo Place, London, S.W.i. 



The Universities Bureau of the British Empire 

 has published an abridged report of the proceedings 

 of the annual conference of the universities of Great 

 Britain and Ireland held last May. Four subjects 

 were discussed : (1) the urgent need for enlarged 

 opportunities for advanced study and research in 

 the British universities ; (2) the increase of residential 

 accommodation for students ; (3) specialisation in 

 certain subjects of study by certain universities ; (4) 

 the organisation of adult education as an integral part 

 of the work of the universities. Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, 

 then president of the Board of Education, attended the 

 conference and took part in the discussion of subject 

 (3), which he considered to be pre-eminently a subject 

 for conference and co-operation among the universities, 

 especially in regard to the financial requirements 

 of new specialised departments, the application to 

 the best advantage of existing trust funds in uni- 

 versities, and the migration of research students. The 

 Report (pp. 32, price 15.) is obtainable from the 

 L'mversities Bureau, 50 Russell Square, W.C.i. 



The eleventh annual conference of Educational 

 Associations will be held at University College, Gower 

 Street, W.C.i, on December 28-January 6, under the 

 presidency of Sir Michael Sadler, Vice-Chancellor of 

 the University of Leeds. The inaugural meeting mil 

 be held at Bedford College for Women, Regent's Park, 

 on the afternoon of December 2S, when Sir Michael 

 Sadler will deliver his presidential address. There 

 will be two joint conferences of all the societies during 

 the meeting — one on the methods of carrying out in 

 schools the recommendations of the reports on the 

 Teaching of Classics, Modern Languages, English and 

 Science, on December 30, and the other, " How can 

 the Links in the Chain of Education be strengthened ? " 

 on Januarv 5. The College of Preceptors will also hold 

 a discussion, opened by Sir Michael Sadler, on the 

 growth of bureaucracy in education. Among the 

 papers which have been promised are : four to be 

 delivered to the National League for Health, Mater- 

 nity and Child Welfare — on physical development and 

 its food requirements, by Dr. E. Pritchard, on physique 

 and growth, by Dr. James Kerr, on child psychology 

 and psycho therapv, by Dr. William Brown, and on 

 health education, by Prof. H. Kenwood ; three lectures 

 on reform and tradition in education, by Mr. Frank 

 Roscoe, to the College of Preceptors ; a paper on the 

 child and the cinema, by Dr. C. W. Kimmins, at the 

 British Psychological Society (Education) ; another 

 on the co-ordination of the teaching of mathematics 

 with handicraft, by Mr. A. Romney Green, at the 

 Society for Experiment and Research in Education ; 

 one on hygiene as applied to physical training, by 

 Prof. M. E. Delafield, at the Incorporated British 

 Association for Physical Training ; and one on 

 relativity, by Dr. Dorothy Wrinch, at the Association 

 of Women Science Teachers. 



