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LONDON.βThe report of the committee of University College for the year 1907β8 has just been issued. During last session there were 1191 students, of whom 171 were registered as post-graduate and research students. The report deals, among other matters, with the work of the faculties for the past year, and gives a list of the researches and original papers published during that year. That list occupies thirteen octavo pages. Among the departments that seem to have been specially productive may be noted the department of applied mathematics under Prof. Karl Pearson, from which no fewer than twenty-eight papers were issued during the year. Seven of these were from the Francis Galton Laboratory of National Eugenics. The departments of chemistry under Sir William Ramsay and Prof. J. Norman Collie produced twenty-four original papers, while the subdepartment of spectroseopy issued seven. The list of post-graduate courses is valuable as an indication of the extensive provision for higher work that is now to be found in London. I he report concludes with a summary of the urgent needs of the college if it is to meet the demands made upon it; they include the following:β
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 77, 548β549 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077548a0
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