University and Educational Intelligence

Abstract

OXFORD.—The establishment of the Waynflete Professorship of Physiology was provided for by the late University Commission, it being arranged that the emoluments of the post should be paid out of the funds of Magdalen College, to which college the Professor is to be attached as a Fellow. Magdalen College had already shown interest in the development of physiology, and has for some years past maintained a physiological laboratory, in which Mr. Yule, Fellow of the College, has given courses of instruction in Practical Physiology, open to all members of the University, and his lectures have been attended by all candidates for honours in physiology, such instruction not having been available elsewhere in Oxford. Since the passing of the new statutes, the Linacre Professorship has become confined to Human and Comparative Anatomy, and there has been no University representative of physiology. The want of a Professor of Physiology has lately been very strongly felt, especially as the number of candidates in the subject has much increased. It is understood that Magdalen College, acting on the representations of the University to that effect, has determined to apply such surplus funds as are available at once to the foundation of the professorship, and it is expected that an election to the post will therefore take place shortly. All praise is due to the college for having thus promptly acted in the best interests of science in the University, and given this professorship precedence amongst several other schemes which might have been carried out by it first instead. The Profesor is required by the Statutes to give instruction in Human and Comparative Physiology, with histology.