CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946 — Page 103

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obligation of the University teachers to undertake research in their fields is stated summarily below:

Professors Readers Lecturers Junior Lecturers Tutors

English.

Chinese.

Mathematics

History..

Social Studies

Philosophy.

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1 1

M N

3

2

1

1

1

1

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1

1

4

1

1

2

Geography. ·

1

2(one a

lecturer in

Geology)

French..

1

Education.

1

3

4322

Q

2

4

7

4

18

9

17

FACULTY OF SCIENCE

16. Any university worthy of the name must undertake to teach Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology. All of these subjects must be pursued nt a level at which original contributions to learning can be moúc. Staff, therefore, must be ne quate 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 separate 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 Zɔɔlogy. 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 suggested in the later paragraphs. The Committee also propose the institution of a Department of Biochemistry.

17.

In the Faculty of arts the Committee has ndvocated a greater establishment in certain subjects in which the University of Hong Kong can make special contributions towards a fuller mutual understanling 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 at moderate cost. The most appropriate, it appe ars 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 Instituts 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 alrely done good work and had established friendly relations with similar institutions which will shortly be revived at Amoy and somewhere on the Ching 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

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