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Faculty of Science.
Any university worthy of the n-me muat undertake to teach Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology. All of these subjects must be
sued at a level at which original contributions to learning can be made. taff, therefore, must be adequate not only to carry out routine teaching but to do research and must be of quality good enough to undertake the supervision of the work of research students. The Committee proposes the continuance of æparate Departments for Physics and Chemistry, with a staff that it considers to be the minimum with which work of the right quality can be done. For Botany and Zoology the Committee proposes a combined Department with Botany subordinate to oology. The predominance of Zoology in such a Department is necessary if the Department is to cooperate satisfact- orily with the Fisheries Research Institute in developing suen a programe of reacurch in Marine Biology se is buggested in the later Paragraphs. The Committee also propose the institution of a
Department of Biochemistry.
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nra mabiccts the Committee has advocated a greater multe establint in certain subjects in which the University of Hong Kong
n make special contribution may hel. in time towards a fulles slandia too integrasier of Chinese civilizations of the estern
It is more difficult in the Faculty of Science to find subjects peculiarly suited to the regional setting of the University that can be developed at moderate cost. The most appropriate, it appears to the Committee, is Marine Biology for which Hong Kong is specially well suited by its geographical position and environment. This has already been recognised through a Colonial Office grant for the building of a Fisheries Research Institute on the South side of the Island, to be controlled jointly by the Government and the University. But for the ar, the Institute's laboratorice and museums would by now be in use. A research staff in 1940 and 1941 had already done good work and had established friendly relations with similer institutions which will shortly be revived at moy and somewhere on the Chine coast. While the possibilities of original work in Botany and in other branches of Zoology are limited, there is hope in the work of this Institute for real contributions to knowledge as well as for practical assistance for the very important but undeveloped fishing industry. It is likely to play no small part in replacing the Japanese/ wy a Chine Jeep-sea trawling industry in these waters.
The oneme 1 the Research Institute makes provision for fellows which it is hoped nereafter to increase in numbers, and for vacation courses for Chincse scientific workers.
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看 Hitherto Biochemistry has been a minor subject in the Department of Physiology and has been no more than an ancillary subject in medical studies.
Modern developments in the science demand that
a separate Department for tuis subject should be provided in any
university that possesses a Faculty of Medicine.
Physios... Chemistry.
The staff of the Faculty should include:
Professore. Reudere. Lecturers. Part-time Lecturers. Lemon-
strators. 3 or 4 3 or 4
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Zoology &
Botany..
1
1
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2
3
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Biochemistry.
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4.
3.
7.
2.
9 or 11.