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duplicate of the apparatus of the Queen Mary Hospital. The cost of this equipment would be £5,000. This may be regarded as a possible long- term development of the Department.
47. (1) We believe that the establishment of a laboratory for micro-analysis would be the most useful service the University can, at this time, offer towards the development of Chemistry in China. The technique is relatively new, and is not at this date offered anywhere in China. There is reason to think that there would be a small but steady stream of post-graduate students from China desirous of learning the new technique and that the laboratory would be called upon to do a con- siderable amount of consultant analytical work in connexion, not only with chemical research in Chinese Universities, but also with bio-chemical diagnoses.
(ii) We therefore recommend that provision for micro-analysis should be made at the following cost:-
(a) initial expenditure for laboratory about...£800 (b) new lecturer, average cost
.£775
(e) an increased maintenance grant of Department
by about $3,000 a year.
This increase in the staff and equipment of the Department would make it possible to offer honours courses in Chemistry to selected students.
48. (i) We considered the possibility of ex- tending the University's teaching in Botany and Zoology from its present position as a merely pre- medical course to a full four years' University course, but were unable to acept the estimate of the necessary expenditure made by the Department. Nevertheless the importance of the biological sciences in modern thought is so manifest and their importance to the community is so great that we recommend the increase of the staff of the Department by one lecturer and one demonstrator.
(ii) The cost of developing the Department to this degree would be:
(a) salary of a lecturer
(b) salary of demonstrator, average
.£775 $3,200;
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(c) increase of departmental maintenance
charges
$3,000.
With this staff higher teaching in Botany and
Zoology should be possible.
(iii) (a) We are of opinion that a Summer School in Marine Biology at the new Fisheries Institute would attract stu- dents from China and should be organized. Two courses of lectures and demonstrations, extending over 7 weeks, should be conducted by bio- logists from Chinese Universities, with the aid, perhaps, of the Academia Sinica. Students and scientists at- tending courses could be accommodated at University hostels. Further, pro- vision for Marine Biological research work, undertaken by Chinese biologists during vacations would not be difficult. (b) We are of opinion that a Summer School of two courses would cost about $4,500 a year; this sum to include honoraria and travelling expenses of lecturers, and provision of specimens. The Committee also recommended that assistance for students from China following such specialised should be sought of one or other of the educational Trusts.
courses
(iv) Chinese Universities and Research In- stitutes frequently find it difficult to obtain pro- perly prepared marine biology specimens or obtain them at great cost from American laboratories, now that the supply from Japan has ended. The new Fisheries Institute could at very little expense establish a bureau for the supply of specimens. One collector at about $80 a month, a capital expenditure of $1,000 and a small laboratory, about 500 square feet in area would be required, the collector working under the direction of a member of the staff of our Biology Department. The running costs of the bureau could be met from the proceeds of the sale of specimens.
Other
49. As our intention is to co-operate and not Sciences. to compete with Chinese Universities, we do not propose, at this time, any further development of