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Lord Derby and the University of Liverpool

Lord Derby and the University of Liverpool

The Smithfield Club

THE effect of music upon fatted cattle, sheep and pigs will again be tried at the London Smithfield Club show in the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington, on December 4-8 next. Milch cows have given a greater volume of milk under the influence of soothing music. This year, scientific investigators in animal foods and nutrition at Smithfield Show are to see whether beasts, which usually lose weight when appearing in fat stock exhibitions, cannot be made to maintain their rate of daily growth, when band music produced from gramophones and loudspeakers is played to keep them from becoming upset by the mobbing received from visitors. The King has entered 29 head of fat cattle, sheep and pigs, and the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Rutland, the Countess of Lonsdale, Lady Loder, Lord Danesbury and Lord Derby will also submit stock before the judges.

New Liverpool Radium Institute

New Liverpool Radium InstitutePublished Online:29 May 2014https://doi.org/10.1259/0007-1285-4-48-692-aSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail AboutAbstractThe foundation stone of the new Liverpool Radium Institute and Hospital for Cancer and Skin Diseases, in Myrtle Street, was laid on November 23rd by the president, Lord Derby. The chairman of the hospital, Alderman H. M. Miller, said that the time had come when reconstruction, rearrangement, and enlargement had been found to be absolutely necessary. The committee had long contemplated such a step—some might say they had been too long—but nothing had been decided without careful consideration. They had been determined that everything should be of the highest quality, and the plans had been revised several times. Replying to the vote of thanks, Lord Derby said that the value of a hospital lay as much in its research work as in its treatment, and that these two departments together could only be carried on successfully provided there was the fullest confidence and co-operation between them. Cancer was the most dreaded disease. For every person who had it there were 400 to 500 people who imagined at one time or another that they had the disease, or were going to get it. Fear of the disease was about as bad as having it. This hospital dealt with cancer, and was prepared to use not only radium, but every kind of treatment, in cancer cases that the medical profession recommended. The hospital received patients from the whole of West Lancashire, West Cheshire, South Westmorland, North Wales, and the Isle of Man. Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 4, Issue 48December 1931Pages: 621-736 © The British Institute of Radiology History Published onlineMay 29,2014 Metrics Download PDF

Notes on a pycnidial fungus associated with a dying-back of apple branches

A die-back of the branches of Lord Derby apple trees in Cambridgeshire is described. A pycnidial fungus is constantly associated with this disease. There is some uncertainty about the identity of the fungus, but it is provisionally named Cytosporella fructorum, a species which Él. and Ém. Marchai have described as occurring on fruits of Pyrus in Belgium. The methods of germination of the pycnospores are described. The commonest mode of germination is peculiar in that secondary spores are budded off from one end of the pycnospore. Under cultural conditions many pycnidia give rise to small rod-like spores which have not been found in nature. Inoculation experiments with the fungus were unsuccessful in reproducing the disease. It is likely that the fungus behaves as a parasite only when the trees are already weakened from some other cause.

Recent Developments in the University of Sheffield

ON July 1 and 2 the University of Sheffield celebrated the twenty-first anniversary of the granting of its charter of incorporation. Congratulatory addresses were presented by sister universities throughout Great Britain and the Dominions, scientific and other institutions and societies, and public bodies. Among the recipients of honorary degrees may be mentioned H.R.H. Princess Mary, Lord Derby, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Sir Charles Eliot, Prof. P. F. Frankland, and Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Robert B. Dixon. New engineering and metallurgical laboratories were formally opened by Sir Robert Hadfield, and the numerous delegates and other visitors were afforded an opportunity of acquainting themselves with the work of the various departments.

The Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy.

Preface Book IV. From the Third Ministry of Lord Derby to the First Ministry of Lord Salisbury, 1866-86: 1. Neutrality 1866-74. A. Neutrality in continental affairs C. R. M .F. Cruttwell. B. Sea-policy and the Alabama claims J. E. G. de Montmorency 2. Forward policy and reaction, 1874-85 W. H. Dawson Book V. The Second and Third Salisbury Administrations and After, 1886-1907: 3. Imperial policy in the old and the new world, 1885-9 W. H. Dawson 4. The Boer War and the international situation, 1899-1902 Sir Valentine Chirol 5. Continental agreements, 1902-7 G. P. Gooch Book VI. Before and in the World War, 1907-19: 6. Triple alliance and triple entente, 1907-14 G. P. Gooch 7. Epilogue, the war and the peace, 1914-19 G P. Gooch 8. The Foreign Office Algernon Cecil Bibliographies Index.

Printing house square papers. VI. disraeli, delane, and lord derby's ministry of 1858

Printing house square papers. VI. disraeli, delane, and lord derby's ministry of 1858

Remarks ON THE PATHOLOGY OF WAR NEUROSES.: An Address given to the Officers at the Lord Derby War Hospital, Warrington,

Remarks ON THE PATHOLOGY OF WAR NEUROSES.: An Address given to the Officers at the Lord Derby War Hospital, Warrington,

A Record of Admissions to the Mental Section of the Lord Derby War Hospital, Warrington, from June 17th, 1916, to June 16th, 1917

During the first twelve months of the admission of patients to the mental wards of the Lord Derby War Hospital there were 2,429 admissions and 1,466 discharges. The average number of admissions per month was 202, and the average number of discharges per month was 122. To those who have devoted their time to the admission and discharge of mental cases in large asylums in peace time these numbers alone will convince them that the condition of things must be very different to what they have been accustomed. The enormous amount of work in investigating these cases will also, I am sure, be appreciated, and those who, in addition, have any knowledge of Army Forms and the preparation of these before the final discharge of a patient from hospital will realise the amount of routine necessary before these 1,466 patients could be discharged.

War Psychoses: An Analysis of 202 Cases of Mental Disorder Occurring in Home Troops

In June, 1916, a portion of the Lord Derby War Hospital was set aside for the care and treatment of cases of mental disorder occurring in non-commissioned officers and men of the British Expeditionary Forces. In addition, it was found that at the home training camps, and in soldiers doing garrison duty in India, Gibraltar, Sierra Leone, and so on, numerous cases of mental disorder were from time to time arising. As it was obviously impossible for general hospitals adequately to care for such cases, the Lord Derby War Hospital, pending their final disposal, was called upon to receive a certain number of them. Other arrangements have now been made for more expeditiously dealing with these cases, and in consequence none such are now received in this hospital.

Instruction in Science for Military Purposes

IN response to requests from a number of important centres, I subjoin a syllabus covering the essential points to be taught to officers, N.C.O.'s, and men who have only a limited time at their disposal taken from other military duties. Experience has shown that much valuable work may be done by following on the liries suggested, all extraneous matter being excluded. The scheme has been found to be satisfactory for all ranks; in the case of officers, however, who have had some previous training in science, the matters may be treated in a more advanced manner. Teachers will find N.C.O.'s and men very keen and intelligent, and completely useless men quite rare. An excellent chance is now afforded by the men called up under Lord Derby's scheme, of which all teachers who can should avail themselves.

Lord Derby's Report on the Recruiting Scheme.

Lord Derby's Report on the Recruiting Scheme.

Letter from lord derby to C. A. Bristed

Letter from lord derby to C. A. Bristed

Note on the Dendrocolaptine Species, “Dendrexetastes capitoides” of Eyton

IT recently became necessary for me to examine some of the Dendrocolaptine birds in this museum, and among them the species named above. Our specimen, the type of the genus Deitdrexetastes founded by Eyton in 1851, in Jardine's “Contributions to Ornithology,” on a skin from an unknown locality, formerly in Lord Derby's museum, has evidently been examined by Dr. Sclater, for its label bears, in the well-known calligraphics of that distinguished authority on this group, the name Dendrexetastes temmincki. The difficulty I have in ascribing our specimen to that species is the cause of this note. According to the fifteenth volume of the “British Museum Catalogue of Birds,” by Dr. P. L. Sclater, the genus contains but two species, D. temmincki and D. devillii, which, by his key on p. 140, are distinguished from each other, the former by having “blackish cross-bands” on the belly, and the latter having that region “uniform brown.” On consulting Eyton's original description in the “Contributions to Ornithology,” I can find no mention of any cross-bands on the belly; for there are none on the skin, which is apparently that of a mature bird. In looking up next the description by Lafresnaye, in the “Revue de Zoologie” for 1851, of his D. temminckii, to which Dr. Sclater has relegated as a synonym Eyton's D. capitoides, I read:—“… pectoris ventrisque plumis totis umbrinis, in medio maculâ triangulari-elongata nivea nigro marginata notatis; ventris maculis strictis; fere linearibus; subcaudalibus pallide rufescentibus, albo late, fuscoque anguste vittatis …” These words, as I interpret them, make no mention of the presence of cross-bands on the belly of D. temmincki, while the latter half of the quotation, in regard to the under-tail-coverts being pale rufous, with broad white and narrow fuscous spots, does not apply to D. capitoides, for the type-skin before me presents no such characters. The plate illustrating Lafresnaye's description of the first-mentioned bird (loc. sup. cit.) shows its breast-spots to be much narrower, though not linear, and shorter than those in D. capitoides, while the spots on the feathers on the upper part of the belly can hardly be termed “fere linearibus,” which they are, however, in D. capitoides. The lower belly in the plate, “plumis totis umbrinis,” shows, just as in the last-mentioned species, not a single cross-band. It would appear to me, therefore, that D. capitoides, Eyton, can scarcely be = D. temmincki, Lafr., while the latter differs from D. devillii (of which I regret our museum does not possess a specimen), and, I take it, from D. capitoides, by its smaller and narrower throat-spots. The subcaudal characters separate D. capitoides from D. temmincki, and apparently the typical D. devillii is separated from it also by the “striis strictissimis“ of the breast, and the very linear shaftstripes of the upper neck feathers. Is D. capitoides = D. devillii? Or are there three species? I incline to the opinion that there are.

The Liverpool International Exhibition

THE credit of the inception of the idea of the practicability of carrying on an International Exhibition at Liverpool appears to be due to Alderman David Radcliffe, the present Mayor of the City, who laid it before Lord Derby, who at once became the first guarantor of a fund which now exceeds 60,000l. The support this movement has now secured in England and on the Continent renders its success assured.

Scientific Education in Liverpool

IN the youngest city of the Empire, which on Saturday witnessed the inauguration, by Lord Derby, of its new university, already endowed with more than a hundred thousand pounds, the public recognition of the practical value of scientific education to the community, commenced only in 1860, when Sir William Brown gave to the town the magnificent pile of buildings forming the Free Library and Museum, which at once received from the late Lord Derby his fine natural history collection, and the Museum of Archæology and Art, formed with so much care and cost, by Mr. Meyer, of Bebington.

Societies and Academies

Societies and Academies

Lord Derby's “Leap in the dark”

Lord Derby's “Leap in the dark”

Government Aid to Scientific Research

WE publish below a correspondence which we cannot but regard with the greatest satisfaction; Government has at last seen it to be its duty to act upon the recommendation of the Duke of Devonshire's Commission, and make a substantial contribution towards the endowment of pure scientific research. We need scarcely remind our readers that from the first we have maintained that such endowment is the duty and interest of civilised states. But indeed it is long since the British Government practically acknowledged this to be the case; the grant of 1,000l. yearly to the Royal Society for purposes of research was first made twenty-five years ago. We hope the additional 4,000l., making up 5,000l., will be put to such excellent use that Government will not only renew the grant at the end of the five years, but see the necessity of increasing it to at least the sum suggested when the 1,000l. was first granted. No doubt the first to bring the duty of the State in respect to science prominently before the public in this country was the late Colonel Strange. He broached his scheme many years ago at the Norwich meeting of the British Association, and by his earnest and untiring advocacy he soon gained to his views most of the scientific men of the country, and Government became so impressed with the importance of the subject that the Science Commission was appointed in 1870. The substance of the various Reports of this Commission is familiar to our readers; the mass of evidence it has elicited has probably done more than anything else to enlighten the country and our Government as to the high importance and wide extent of scientific research. We can hardly expect Government to carry out all at once the recommendations of the Commissioners as to the extent to which unremunerative research should be assisted; but no doubt the 4,000l. which is to be annually entrusted to the administration of the Royal Society for the next five years, is the first, partly tentative step towards this. Then there were the strong words of Lord Derby, at Edinburgh, last December (see NATURE, vol. xiii. p. 141): “I think,” he said, “that more liberal assistance in the prosecution of original scientific research is one of the recognised wants of our time.” As the natural outcome of all this, and no doubt mainly as the result of the recommendations of the Science Commission, the Government has resolved to try what good results are likely to follow from a first and moderate endowment. We think we may safely prophecy that the result is likely in time to lead to the increase of the grant to at least the sum proposed to be entrusted to the Royal Society twenty-five years ago.

Professor von Siebold and the Freshwater Fishes of England

THE object of the present letter is to appeal to naturalists throughout the British islands to assist Prof. von Siebold—the eminent zoologist of Munich—in his studies of the freshwater fishes of Europe. Prof. Siebold is preparing a new edition of his well-known work on that subject, and is exceedingly anxious to obtain specimens of some of our British freshwater fishes to compare with the specimens which he has collected from all parts of Europe. In spite of various attempts, he has, I am very sorry to have to say, failed to obtain specimens from English naturalists. I am sure that this can be only owing to the fact that he has not been able to make his wants known directly to those who could help him. I have not myself been able to do much in supplying the specimens of which he forwarded to me a list, but from the Thames at Oxford have sent him Dace, Bleak, Pope, Miller's Thumb, and Sticklebacks. The list to which I refer included the Graining and the Azurine fishes which have been obtained in or near Knowsley Park; and I have received a kind assurance from Lord Derby that efforts shall be made to procure specimens for Prof. Siebold. Specimens of these and of the Powan, the Pollan, the Gwyniad, and the Vendayce, are the chief desiderata which I am anxious to obtain for Prof. Siebold; his list also includes the Sharp-nosed and the Broad-nosed Eel.