University and Educational Intelligence

Abstract

THE Technical Instruction Committee of the City of Liverpool is the recognised local authority through which the Board of Education deals with all the science and art classes in the city with only two exceptions. The Committee carries on its work through many agencies in an organised plan, and every year several important developments are recorded. From the Report for the year 1901 we learn that the committee again renewed the grant of 200l. in aid of the scientific work carried on by the Lancashire Sea Fisheries Joint Committee. A permanent sea fisheries laboratory in the zoological department of University College, under the direction of Prof. Herdman, is partly supported by this grant; and trained assistants are constantly at work in this laboratory, investigating fisheries' questions that may arise in connection with the local industries. One of the rooms of the zoological museum at University College is devoted to a permanent fisheries collection, illustrating the local fishing industries, but no part of the grant made by the Technical Instruction Committee is expended on this museum. In connection with courses of lectures to gardeners on plant diseases, given by Prof. Harvey Gibson, a course of special lectures, followed by practical work in, the botanical laboratory, has been arranged in the new Hartley Botanical Laboratory at University College. This attempt to show practical working gardeners the scientific methods of observation and investigation into such problems as those of, plant disease is likely to be of the greatest value.