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This has already been recognised in the Colonial Office grant by 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 Instituto's laboratories and museums would by now be in use. A rosearch staff in 1940 and 1941 had already done good work and hai established friendly relations with similar institutions which will shortly be reviveč at Amoy and elsewhere on the China coast. Though the possibilities of criginal work in Botany and other branches of Zoology are limited because. tho range of types and phenonema of area is narrow, 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. likely to play no small part in replacing the Japanese, by a Chinese, deep-sea trawling industry in those waters.

It is

The scheme of the Research Institute makes provision for fellowships, which it is hoped hereafter to increase in numbers, and for vacation courses for Chinese scientific workers.

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 it should be organized in a separate Department and that it should be encouraged in the wider territory of the modern

sclunce.

The staff of the Faculty should include; -

Professors

Lecturor

Part-time Lecturer

Demonstrators

Chemistry

1

Bicchemistry

1

Physics

1

272

3 or 4

3 or 4

Biology and

Zoology

1

1

2

3

4

6

2

9 or 11

Faculty of Medicine:

In Medicine a good standard has been maintained through ut the history of the University and there is evidence that the School has establishod a high reputation. Its graduates are in general and specialist practice in Hong Kong, China, Malaya and

the Dutch East Indies.

We favour the continuance of the scheme whereby the University professors of Surgery, Medicine and Gynaecology are also Government consultants and the Professor of Pathology shares in the work of the Queen Mary (Government) Hospital which is the chief teaching hospital for University students.

Anatomy:

This Department deals also with the teaching of Histology and Embryology, and finds it easy to obtain ample teaching material for all parts of its work.

/Physiology: