University and Educational Intelligence

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LEEDS.—The following honorary degrees were conferred at a Congregation held on July 3:—Doctor of Laws: Dr. David Forsyth, headmaster of the Leeds Central High School. Doctor of Science: Mr. Harold W. T. Wager, F.R.S., one of H.M. Inspectors of Schools, who began his professorial career at the Yorkshire College, and is distinguished by his researches in cytology and other biological fields. Master of Science: Mr. T. H. Nelson, of Redcar, a distinguished ornithologist, author of “The Birds of Yorkshire “; Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, joint author of “Handbook of the Vertebrate Fauna of Yorkshire”; Mr. T. Sheppard, curator of the Hull Museums, author of “Geological Rambles in East Yorkshire,” “The Lost Towns of the Yorkshire Coast,” and many geological and archaeological memoirs; Mr. J. W. Taylor, author of a “Monograph of the British Land and Freshwater Mollusca “; Mr. J. G. Wilkinson, past-president of the Leeds Naturalists' Club, distinguished by his extensive and exact knowledge of the structure of plants, though blind; Dr. T. W. Woodhead, lecturer in biology at the Technical College, Huddersfield, hon. secretary of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, and author of various biological memoirs.