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A FORECAST of extensions of scientific departments in Oxford is contributed by Dr. A. S. Russell, of Christ Church, to the spring number of Oxford, the journal of the Oxford Society. Within three or four years, a new physics laboratory for Prof. F. A. Linde-mann will, it is hoped, be put up in the Parks, when the Clarendon Laboratory, now occupied by him, could be adapted to the uses of the Department of Geology now inadequately housed in the Museum. These improvements are expected to be closely followed by the erection of a great new physical chemistry institute. “The Oxford school of chemistry will then be without doubt the finest in the Empire”. The article ends with a plea for the award of college fellowships to more of the best of the young men holding University posts in science, especially in the less popular sciences—engineering, zoology, botany, geology. The same number of Oxford has noteworthy articles on “Politics or Poetry?”, on university camps for the unemployed (which have amply justified the money and effort expended on them), and on women as housing estate managers on the Octavia Hill system.
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Extension of Scientific Buildings in Oxford. Nature 139, 664–665 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139664d0
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