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3 The Department is now in a position to give practical in- struction in Chemistry to a limited number of students of the Faculty of Arts in the third and fourth year of their course. On account of the expense involved in chemicals and equipment for the more advanced work, the Department cannot accom- modate more than three or four students at once in the third and fourth year courses.
A certain amount of research work in organic chemistry is being carried out, but progress in work of this kind will always be restricted until we possess complete sets of the more important chemical journals.
G. T. BYRNE, Professor of Chemistry.
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY.
Staff: G. A. C. Herklots, Ph.D., B.SC., F.L.S. (Reader in Biology). STUDENTS.—The Results of the Years Exams. are given below :—
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1st Year Arts...... 8 Passed None Failed 8 Passed None Failed 1st Year M.B. 4 Passed I Failed 14 Passed 5 Failed
BUILDING. The Biology Block was officially opened by H.E. Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.E. on September 22nd. H.E. The Governor and Lady Peel honoured the Department by walk- ing through and viewing its labs and greenhouse. A series of exhibits illustrating the activities of the Department was arranged in the different labs. Research lab. Reptiles,-living and preserved snakes and lizards. Advanced lab. Fishes-fresh water and marine, alive and preserved, also other forms of marine life. Elementary lab. Photographs and drawings of animal and plant life of the tropics, etc.
GREENHOUSE. Plants for experimental purposes.
SPECIMENS. During the year extensive collection of marine and land fauna and flora of the Colony has taken place.
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Preserved animals and plants have been sent for determination and study to experts at the Academy of Natural Sciences Philadel- phia; University of California; Raffles Museum, Singapore; Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, Peiping; Natural History Museums, S. Kensington and Copenhagen, etc., etc. In addition much material is now available for students' laboratory classes.
GIFTS.-The Head of the Department desires to acknowledge gifts of literature in particular from the Bureau of Science Manila, P.1. and from Harvard College, Cambridge, (Mass.). Seeds and Plants have been received from the Singapore Botanic Gardens and from the Schools of Forestry and Agriculature, Laguna, P.I.
TRAVEL. The Head of the Department spent 5 weeks in Malaya including 2 weeks in the Botanic Gardens Singapore, and 3 week in the Forests, chiefly in Negri Sembilan, in the company He of an officer from the S.B.G. on a botanical expedition. also revisited the Raffles Museum, and Fisheries Department, Singapore, and the Rubber Research Institute, Kuala Lumpur. In December the Head of the Department was the guest of the Director of Forestry at the Forestry School Laguna, P.I. In Addition to meeting the various forestry officers he established friendly relations with the Directors of the Bureau of Science and of Fisheries, Manila, and with the staff at the Agricultural College, Laguna.
Owing to illness the Head of the Department was unfor- tunately unable to accept the invitation of the Amoy University to participate in the First Chinese Marine Biological Conference and Summer School.
VISITORS.-The Department has been honoured by the visit of several distinguished biologists during 1930. These included Pro- fessor Oakes Ames, Director of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard; Professor R. H. Compton, Director of the Kinstenboach Botanic Gardens, South Africa; Dr. (and Mrs.) Ernst, Professor of Botany at Zurich, Switzerland; Professor A. S. Pearse, Duke University; Professor Clark, Harvard College; and others. Chinese Biologists from Canton, Nanking, and Peiping, etc. also visited the De- partment in addition to Dr. N. Gist Gee of Peiping, Dr. Earle of Shanghai, and members of the staff of Lingnan University, Canton.
PUBLICATION. -The first volume of the Hong Kong Na- turalist, edited by A. H. Crook, Esq., late Headmaster of Queen's
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