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Speech of Sir William Hornell, Kt., C.I.E., LL.D., M.A. (Oxford), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong
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Nineteen hundred and thirty-six has been a year of tragedy and mourning, and the University has had its share of unhappiness. We lost Mr. Wong Kwong-tin and Mr. Kwok Siu-lau. Both were staunch supporters of the University, and to the latter we owe the Biological Department.
On the 1st April, Maurice Alfred Cooper died. As Lecturer in Com- merce and indeed generally as a member of the University Staff, and for a time the Warden of a University Hostel, Cooper did de- voted work. His untimely death was a severe shock to us all. Those who came into contact with Cooper will not forget him.
On the 2nd November, there passed the Rev. Father Daniel John Finn of the Society of Jesus. Father Finn was the University's Lecturer in Geography. But to the University and to the Colony he was far more than this. His investigations into the prehistori- cal and proto-historical remains of Hong Kong and its Islands. as set forth in his published articles, and expounded by him to the recent World Con- ference at Oslo, have put this Colony prominently on to the map of the World's earliest records There died a genius, but withall, a man of profound humility and great charm-a Christian scholar and gentleman.
Mr. W. H. Bell retired and left the Colony. He was a member of the University Court for many years, and always the University's generous friend.
On New Year's day Sir Grafton Elliot Smith died in London. As Head of the Department of Anatomy of University College, London, Sir Grafton helped this University in many ways. I take this opportunity of recording the University's grateful tribute to the memory of a great scientist to whose kindly interest and en- couragement many an anatomist owes his career.
To the Chair of Anatomy, which was rendered vacant by the re- tirement of Professor J. L. Shell- shear, Dr. Louis Rudall Shore, M.C. has been elected. To the junior lectureship in English-held until last September by Mr. A. B. Rey- nolds, the Council has appointed Mr. Keith William Salter. Pro- fessor Shore comes from the Anatomy School of Cambridge; Mr. Salter from the University of Bristol. Dr. and Mrs. Shore, and Mr. Salter, are going to be happy here they are the sort of people who know how to be happy. Each one of them is, moreover, going to be a success not only in the University but also in the Colony. I do not often prophesy; here I dare assert.
Mr. Reynolds (who also came from the University of Bristol) did excellent work here. He deserves to do well and I am sure that he will.
Our Chinese Staff was further strengthened last year by the ap- pointment to it as Lecturer of Mr. Ma Kiam, M.A. of Columbia Uni- versity. Mr. Ma Kiam has taught in the Pelping Union Medical Col-
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