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FACULTY OF SCIENCE
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nome must undertake to teach hysics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology. All of these subjects must be pursued at a level at which original contributions to learning can be muc. Staff, therefore, must be nje qua te not only to carry out routine teaching but t: do research and must be of quality gol enough to undertake the supervision of the work of research students. We s 6-mmittee propose the continuance of separate Departments for Physics an Chemistry, with a staff that consider to be the minimum with which work of the right quality can be done. For Botany and Zolɔsÿ the Gmmittee we propose a combined Department with Botany subordinate to Zoology • The predominance of Zoology in such a Department is necessary if the Department is to cooperate satisfactorily with the Fisheries Research Institute in developing such a programme of research in Marine Biology as is suggestel in the later paragraphs. The Committee also propose the institution of a Department of Biochemistry.
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In the Faculty of arts the Ommittee has advocated a greater establishment in certain subjects in which the University of Hong Kong can make special contributions towards a fuller mutual understanding of Chinese and Western civilizations. 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 t me rate cost. The most appropriate, it appears to the G me, is Marine Biology for which Hong Kong is specially well suited by its geographical position and environmnt. 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 war, the Institute's laboratories and museums would by now be in use. A research staff in 1940 and 1941 had alrealy done good work and had Established friendly relations with similar institutions which will shortly be revived at Amɔy and same wheng a the Ching cot buslare While the possibilities of original work in Botany and in other
else where branches of Zoology are limited, there is hope in the work of this Institute for real contributions to knowledge as well as for
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