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some of the working plans and surveys, and it is nunh 

 to be hoped that the whole paper may be published in full. 

 A recommendation to this effect was made by the com- 

 mittee. 



Sir William White was expected to deal in his presi- 

 dential address with problems of naval organisation and 

 construction, peculiarly interesting at a time when the 

 Imperial Naval Conference was sitting in London. His 

 address was, however, an admirable preface to the series 

 of papers on questions of water and railway transport 

 which followed it, and was a masterly review of the 

 position of Canadian commerce. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Birmingham. — Prof. Jordan Lloyd has accepted the in- 

 vitation of the council to succeed Prof. Bennett May in 

 the chair of surgery. 



Prof. Peter Thompson, of King's College, London, has 

 been appointed professor of anatomy in the place of Prof. 

 Arthur Robinson. 



The chair of zoology, rendered vacant bv the death of 

 Prof. T. W. Bridge, F.R.S., has been filled'by the election 

 of Dr. Frederick William Gamble, F.R.S. 



The following appointments have been also made : — Dr. 

 Jessie S. Bayliss, as lecturer in botany ; Messrs. F. W. 

 Aston and H. B. Keene, as demonstrators in physics ; Mr. 

 T. F. Wall, as assistant lecturer and demonstrator in 

 electrical engineering; and Mr. Cyril S. Fox, as demon- 

 strator in coal mining and lecturer in mine surveying. 



Camrridge. — The professorship of zoology and com- 

 parative anatomy is vacant by the resignation of Prof. 

 .Sedgwick. The electors will meet for the purpose of elect- 

 ing a professor on Friday, October 29. Candidates are 

 requested to send in their names to the Vice-Chancellor on 

 or before October 22. 



Notice is given that the Quick professorship of biology 

 is vacant, as the period of three years for which Dr. 

 Nuttall was appointed has now ended. The election will 

 take place on Friday, October 29. Candidates are re- 

 quested to send in their applications to the Vice-Chancellor 

 on or before Friday, October 22. 



Mr. F. A. Potts, of Trinity Hall, has been appointed 

 demonstrator of comparative anatomy for one year from 

 Michaelmas, 1909. Mr. L. A. Borradaile, of .Selwyn 

 College, has been appointed demonstrator of animal 

 morphology for one year from Michaelmas, 1909. Mr. 

 F. T. Brooks, of Emmanuel College, has been appointed 

 senior demonstrator of botany for two years ending 

 September 30, 191 1, and Mr. D. Thoday, of Trinity 

 College, has been appointed junior demonstrator of botany 

 for the same period. 



An anonymous benefactor has promised the sum of 100/. 

 towards the construction of a field laboratory in the vlcinit\' 

 of Cambridge, in connection with the Quick Biological 

 Laboratory. The sum of looZ. has been granted by the 

 advisory committee of the tropical diseases research fund 

 towards the expenses of the Quick Laboratory in th^ 

 present year. 



Glasgow. — The University is to benefit to the extent 

 of lO.oooJ. from the estate of the late Dr. Robert Pollok. 

 The amount in question is given for the endowment of a 

 university lectureship for original research in materia 

 medica. 



Manchestlr. — The new chemical laboratories (to be 

 known as the John Morley Chemical Laboratories, after 

 the Chancellor of the University) were opened on Monday 

 last by Sir Henry Roscoe, F.R.S., professor emeritus of 

 chemistry in the University. 



Oxford. — It is proposed to confer the degree of D.C.L., 

 honoris cniisa, upon his Excellency Osman Hamdy Bey, 

 director-general of the Imperial Ottoman Museum of 

 .\ntiquities, Constantinople. 



.Mr. John Finnigan has been appointed secretary to the 

 Senate of Queen's University, Belfast. 



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TiiK new laboratories for physiology, chemistry, and 

 physics of the London Hospital Medical College are to be 

 opened on Friday of next week by Prof. W. Osier, F.R.S. , 

 who will afterwards deliver the Schorstein lecture. 



Courses of lectures on the fermentation industries are 

 announced for delivery at the Sir John Cass Technical 

 Institute, .Aldgate. The inaugural lecture (on chemistry 

 in relation to brewing and malting) was given by Mr. 

 .\. R. Ling on Tuesday last. 



Mr. H. a. S. Wortley, of Downing College, Cambridge, 

 has been appointed assistant lecturer in the day training 

 department of the University College of North Wales, 

 Bangor. The inaugural lecture of the present session was 

 delivered on Tuesday last by Prof. W. M. Flinders Petrie, 

 F.R.S., who spoke on recent excavations in Egypt. 



.\ course of ten lectures on economics, by Mr. Alfred 

 Milnes, has been arranged for delivery at Bedford College 

 for Women in connection with the course of scientific 

 instruction in hygiene at the institution. The lectures are 

 specially designed for women preparing to be factory in- 

 spectors or desiring to take part in other public work. 

 Thev will be delivered on Mondays, beginning on 

 Oi tober 1 1 . 



The new chemical laboratory of the Pharmaceutical 

 Society's School of Pharmacy was opened on Wednesday 

 of last week. On the same day began the new session of 

 the school, when the opening address was delivered by 

 Prof. Alexander Tschirch, of the University of Bern, who 

 ttiok as his subject "The Future of Pharmacognosy." At 

 the conclusion of the address the Ilanbury gold medal was 

 presented to Prof. Tschirch. 



The Leathersellers' Technical College, which has been 

 erected at a cost of nearly 20,oooi. in the Tower Bridge 

 Road, was opened by the Lord Mayor of London on Friday 

 last. In declaring the college open. Sir G. Wyatt Truscott 

 said that no subject was of greater interest than the 

 development of technical education and the splendid part 

 which the city guilds had played in that development. The 

 city companies had found, in assisting technical education, 

 an opportunity of re-associating themselves with the 

 interests of the' trades that they represented. In the leather 

 trade, unfortunately, the system of apprenticeship had 

 somewhat died out, but he hoped that it might be revived. 



In opening a new wing of the Leicester Technical and 

 Art Schools on Thursday last. Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 

 F.R.S., said the conclusion he came to after a tour of 

 the industrial centres of Europe was that the most 

 successful technical schools were those which^ carefully 

 studied the needs of their own special industries. The 

 disastrous tale of the manufacture of dyes from coal-tar 

 products was not without its warning to this country. The 

 trained brains sent out by German universities and technical 

 colleges profited by the" inventions of English chemists, 

 and we paid 2,000,000/. a year for dyes manufactured 

 abroad from coal-tar products. Thanks largely to technical 

 education, a similar disaster was averted when the electrica'. 

 engineering industry was developed. 



.\ccoRDiXG to a note in the Engineer, arrangements 

 have been made with several of the leading engineering 

 firms in Glasgow and elsewhere by which students of the 

 South-western Polytechnic Institute are allowed to enter 

 their apprenticeship. Students who satisfactorily perform 

 the worl: in the mechanical engineering department in the 

 first year mav proceed at once and continue their work at 

 one of the firms arranged for, and students who have satis- 

 factorily finished the second-year course are allowed to 

 proceed with their apprenticeship and return to the college 

 and continue their third session. Furthermore, students 

 who obtain the diploma of their college will have their 

 apprenticeship reduced. Under these conditions a student 

 can obtain a first-class training as an engineer, and appren- 

 tices who perform satisfactorily in the workshop are 

 allowed to enter the drawing-office. 



.\ttkntion has often been directed in these columns to 

 the complete equipment and excellent arrangements of the 

 London polytechnics, .\mong these institutions, the Batter- 



