Honours and Post Graduate Courses. 
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HONOURS AND POST-GRADUATE COURSES IN BOTANY 
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. 
) !HE reconstituted University of London is gradually developing 
its work on the important side of advanced teaching. Fol¬ 
lowing on the institution of advanced courses in Physiology, held at 
the Physiological Laboratory of the University, the Board of 
Studies in Botany have recently arranged a three-year programme 
of similar courses in Botany, and have secured the services of 
eight lecturers to deliver nine courses of lectures, one for each term 
of this extended period. The Senate of the University have 
approved this programme and “ appointed ” the teachers in question. 
The courses are free. 
The possibility of such a departure speaks well, we think, for 
the botanical activity of London at the present time. 
The courses for the present session are “ The Plant in 
Relation to the Soil ” by Mr. A. D. Hall, Director of the 
Rothamstead Experimental Station, “ The Lycopsida, ” by Dr. Scott, 
and “ The Metabolic Processes of Plants,” by Professor Reynolds 
Green. 
Mr. Hall gave the first of his course of eight lectures, whose 
full title is “ The Relation of the Composition of the Plant to the 
Soil in which it grows, ” at the Chelsea Physic Garden at 3 p.m. 
on Tuesday, October 13th. The lecture, which was attended by a 
considerable and most appreciative audience, and was mainly 
devoted to stating the problem of varying “ quality ” in different 
commercial crops of the same species or variety in scientific terms, 
and to showing that it is due far more to physical conditions of 
soil, water temperature, etc. than to the chemical constitution of 
the soil, was an admirable inauguration of the new scheme. The 
best thanks of the botanists of the University are due to the 
Committee of the Physic Garden for allowing the course to be held 
in the pleasant lecture room attached to the Garden. Professor 
Green’s course will also be delivered at the Garden during the 
Third Term, while Dr. Scott’s course, next term, is to be at 
University College. 
Subsequent lecturers are Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, Mr. 
V. H. Blackman, Professor Farmer, Dr. Rendle, Professor Oliver 
and Mr. A. G. Tansley. 
