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students has increased from 193 to 217 since 1931. There is, however, Ittle money available either for the proper organization of research or for the provision of facilities for

in

schemes of co-operative scholarship the subjects, which provide such a valuable training-ground for re- search. Endowments. are needed both to enable scholars to devote part of their time to research, and to free them from their normal work for a period in order to undertake a special investigation..

The Needs of Natural Science

New Laboratory for Physical Chemis-

iry

(0) (1) The remarkable deve- lopment of Physical Chemistry in Oxford affords striking evidence of the high quality of the men whom Oxford has attracted as College tutors. This subject is at present studied and taught in two laboratories provided by three colleges. Some of most significant investigations have been carried out in the cellars of Balliol College. But in spite of such disadvantages the School has a conspleuous record of research. It is clear, however, that the time has come when modern

accommodation must be provided in a a University Jaboratory with adequate facilities if the men who have built up its re- not to be seriously putation are handicapped. The close relation be- tween Physical Chemistry and Med)- cine is one example of

the

growing importance of the subject, since the solution of clinical problems will often involve fundamental investiga- tions in Physical Chitmistry.

(2) Replacement of Laboratories for

Physics and Geology

Of the importance of Physics in the modern world no one can have any doubt, but of the two laboratories devoted to it at Oxford the Clarendon Physics Laboratory was built nearly a seventy years age. Not only is it

out

of date,

1 but

crowded that

Oxford' has always believed that a university can succeed in teaching the truth only in so far as it can succeed in discovering it. A system of teaching which is not direct- There are special reasons why tension, to which must be added ly connected with the well- Oxford of all universities should sum of £250,000 in all.

be adequately equipped for re- This expansion of the Bodician will Important research has perforce been springs of knowledge acarch. Oxford undergraduates be a great contribution to research in relegated to cellars and a workshop doomed to stagnation.

are almost entirely occupied with the humane studies, as in addition to improvised in the entrance-hall, A advanced studies of one kind or meeting the pressing need for storage new building with modern facilities. Year by year it is increasingly mother. Since the War

it will provide reading and seminar for research is urgenly needed. - the In striking contrast to the evident that research is essential average number of undergraduates oms, the lack of which is a great Geology, too, must be rehoused, as

handicap

present. A much- conditions prevailing a year ago, in all branches of human ac- taking the Final Honour Schools needed extension of the Science its present quarters are makeshift Hongkong's trade is showing a tivity. At the same time, as re- to 1,234. The passman has almost 1934, is a relatively small but none search-rooms carved out of the main annually has increased from 704 Library, which was completed in and inadequate. It is housed partly In temporary sheds and partly in re- marked revival, a fact which is search advances, its scope ex- disappeared. Since 1931 there the less important part of the scheme, revealed in the official statistics tends, its technique becomes has been a steady increase in the (b) The Ashmolean Museum and Muscum building, locklog almost

more intricate, its methods more number of research

overy convenience known to research just issued.

studenta, (b) The Ashmolean Museum and workers. It is shown that in comprehensive, and its cost which has grown from 240 to 412

Yet the work at the late Archacological Research

Professor Sollas and his fellow wor- terms of local currency, the total grows. Research has demand- per annum. The far-sighted en- Oxford is justly renowned for its kers is known all over the world. S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. visible trade of the Colony in-ed and attracted large endow- dowments of Cecil Rhodes Irave work in Archocology, asscelated as it (b) Extension, of other Existing

creased by 28.9 per cent. last ments elsewhere. Oxford must brought to Oxford men from all is with the names of Evans, Sayce, Laboratorier month, compared with January answer the same call or lose the parts of the Empire and the United Griffith, Hogarth, Gardner, Lawrence, "Many of the other scientific de-

States of America who are al- Haverfield, and Woolley. The Ash of last year, and by 24.3 per place which it has held hitherto ready graduates of their own molean Museum, constantly enriched partments, even though housed in less cent. in terms of sterling. Im- among the universities of the universities, and the number of by their labours in the fields of unsuitable buildings, are cramped for ancient culture and language, is now space, and extensions for research ports show an increase of 18.4 world. It is now in urgent need graduates from other universities, badiy in need of extension. Its col- are badly needed. For example,

of money to endow advanced beside the Rhodes Scholars, has lections, illustrating the prehistory Botany is n subject which has per cent.

a local currency

spread history of the Anselent in recent years into three major basis and by 13.6 per cent. in studies and research upon a scale been steadily increasing. This and early

chango alone in the nature of World, its art and culture, link to- branches-plant Ecology, Plant Phy terms of sterling: whilst exports equal to its reputation and its the undergraduate body imposes gether all the cognate branches of siology, and Mycology, all of which made an even greater advance, responsibilities.

on the University the duty of see Icarning in the University, But in require separate laboratories and the respective figures being 44.5 | The task of a university in ing that its resources are ade- order to take advantage of the oppor- separate staffs. The present building cent, and 40 per cent. respect of research is twotold. quate to meet the new demands accommodation adjoining the collec (c) Funds for Staffing, Maintenance, tunities thus afforded for research, needs to be extended and improved. Whilst an analysis of the statis. It has to give the student access At present they are quite in- tions must be provided for the pro- and Equipment tics shows that trade was slight to knowledge in the widest adquate.. ly better in the last two months variety. It has also to ensure Oxford's most pressing needs gether with an adequate endowment of 1936 than during the past close and continuous contact be. In research may be summerized both to maintain the Museum and do duce results, and the contributions of month-possibly due to seasonal tween the various fields of learn- roughly as follows:

enable Oxford scholars to have an unrivalled Institute of Archaeology: business-the fact remains that ing in order to protect its stu- In the Humane Studies: the January figures are substan- dents against the narrowness of

(c) Research in Social Studies (a) Extension of the Bodleian tially better in, respect of exports vision and lack of balance which

Oxford's duties to Great Britain (d) A General Research Fund for Library and than for the first ten months of specialization may so easily in-

a fund for and the British Empire are not limit- Science maintenance. 1936, whilst in imports they were duce. By the organization of its

ed to archaeological study or to The inevitable increase in the cost (b) Extension of the Ashmolean scientific research. Indeed the ad- of scientific research as it enters inore above all but the last three studies and by the standards

Museum and a fund for vance of Science may well create complex acids and requires more ex- months of last year. AB 18 which it upholds it has, in fact,

Archaeological Research. more problems for society than it pensive experimental equipment natural in the case of a distri- to maintain the discipline of

(e) Provision for the study of solves unless it is tempered by the affects all the departments, including buting centre situated as Hong- truth itself. As the Vice-Chan-

Humane Society, Social Stu- spread of humane knowledge, the those of Physiology, Anatomy, and kong is, the most striking ad-

dies and allied subjects teaching of which has been Oxford's Pathology, and here again more vances are seen in our trade and research in a university 'rest cellor said recently, higher study

particular glory, and balanced by new money is needed to enable them to such as Anthropology.. search the of with China. Exports to North ultimately

The most modern inchtods. A (d) A general Fund for the and

ofaneiology The Importance of fow University Lecturerships are politics. China during January totalled foundation: the conviction in the Д spiritual

better organization and ex- this has been recognized by the available to enable experts to devote tension of research in the recent development of research a considerable part of their time to $3,348,410, compared with minda of researchers, of teachers

Arts subjects, including the in a group of allled subjects research, but more are needed, and $1,748,432 for the corresponding and students, that knowledge has

provision of research posts, described as the

the Social Studies which may be month last year, whilst in regard its own standards of integrity and In Natural Science:

De generous research fund would make- philosophic study it

udy it possible for men who show great of the problems of Government, to South China there are sub-dispassionate inquiry'. The pre- (a) Now Laboratorics for Phy In the present state of the world tinue their investigations which,

ment, promise in

a particular field to con-- stantial increases both in exports sent age demonds the skilled

sles, Physical Chemistry, nothing could be more pressing. To under present conditions, are often and imports. Hongkong's ex-study of an unprecedented range and Geology.

take only one current example. In interrupted in ports to the South China market of human and acientific problems. (b) Extension of existing la- a recent speech the Chancellor of the manser.

Moreover, under the 'pressure of rose from $6,461,826 to $8,012,- competing doctrines, of the expert

boratories

Exchequer drew attention to the 765, and imports from $6,541, appeal to mass-emotions, and of 210 to $7,870,252. Now that propaganda ruthlessly employed, the Colony's currency is on a it is, now if ever, a paramount stable basis, it is n far more sim- condition that research shall be. ple business than in other days free. fearless, and objective. The to gain a clear picture of our vitality and independence of the trade position. The latest figures universities is a standing guaran- Issued certainly support the view tee against the contamination or that we are making steady re- perversion of knowledge at its

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New buildings alone will not pro- ihese new laboratories to knowledge endowed to provide staff, mainenance, will depend on their being adequately

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Also, there should be, some means

(e) Funds for the staffing, fresh set of problems, asociate of providing for Important new deve-

maintenance, and equip with the prospective decrease of ment of these laboratories, population in these islands, which lopments as, for example, the recently

likely to make

growing established Bureau of Animal Popula- (d) A general fund for im- ure

attention of tion, which Is doing important ploneer proving the facilities for demands

social Investigators and states- work, such as the study of the research in various science men'. To

to ascertain and mea- epidemic diseases of animals which departments, including the men

probable

ble consequences

nees affect the distribution of animal provision of research posts social, economie, and financial-of a population, and it promises to throw and financial supports of fall in the population is the first step important light on some of the pro- new developments.

to the practical measures that wilt blems of human disease. be needed to anticipate and to meet covery from the depression, and there seems every prospect of the research to the day-to-day work, Humane Studies

Further, there is the relation of Needs of the process continuing, provided of university. Tonching needs to1 China enjoys a period of calm in bo constantly onlivened and re (a) The Bodleian Library which to rehabilitate the coun- freshod by contact with research. try. It is evident that the chun- There is no surer way to rouse the extensions of the Library and the more, to help this specific develop and £260,000 for immediate expen nels of trade are more and more constructive imagination of the added cost ot maintenance will ment, the Rockefeller Foundation has alture | being opened up in the Far East, I student than to give him contact amount to about £1,050,000,. Here come to the aid of Oxford, and has leaves no provision available for the

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an opportunity for Summary of Financial Needs the impartial research which charne-

To meet all the above require terizes the kind of aid that a well ments a very large sum is needed. equipped Department of Social Studies may render in the pran It is certain that 2600,000 to rem The cost of the alterations and concerns of the community. Once namely £200,000 for the Bodician other bulldings. This with a resultant increased flow with the pioneers of his genera aid of Oxford and the Rockefeller Ave years for the development of enumerated above, and the extent

the United States have come to the made a grant of £5,000 a year for various funds

and research projects. of business. This is all to the tion, working at their outposts on Foundation has already most gener- Social Studies. But if more money to which they can be endowed will good of Hongkong, which de- the frontiers of knowledge. Such ously given £500,000. In addition is not forthcoming the work will have depend on the generosity and the pends, by the very nature of its an experience will give the stu- about £260,000 has been contribut to stop in 1941. Money is required individual interests of benefactors status, on the free movement of dent a habit of inquiry, a sense of ex by the University Colleges, both for capital and for working ex- The total sum required is very large.

values, and a training in 'method, existing resources by the Colleges, penditure. opened well,

but the opportunity is great, Fund, with every reason that will be invaluable to him as further £250,000 is required to. Humanities

The University's annual expendi for hoping that even better times an intellectual background, what relieve the Univerally of any addl- In the Humanities apart from Social not far from half; namely £100,000,

ture in 1935 was £238,000, of which: lie ahead.

over his calling,

Lional financial Hability for the exe" Studies," the number of research (Continued on Page 5.)

the University: Endowment

marchandise. The year has and in the judgment of evidenco- and from private sources. Thus a' (đ) A General Research Fund for this -