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IN accordance with the recommendation of the Commission on Higher Education in the Colonies (see Nature, Sept. 22, 1945, p. 345), the Government invited the universities of the United Kingdom, the University of Ceylon, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and the Royal University of Malta, to nominate representatives to serve on a body to be known as the Inter-University Council for Higher Education in the Colonies. All these universities accepted the invitation and their representatives, together with the educational adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, met for the first time in London, on March 8, when the Council was formally set up. The members of the Council are: Sir William Hamilton Fyfe, vice-chancellor and principal, University of Aberdeen ; Prof. R. G. Baskett, professor of agricultural chemistry, University of Belfast ; Dr. R. E. Priestley, vice-chancellor and principal, University of Birmingham ; Mr. P. R. Morris, vice-chancellor, University of Bristol ; Dr. J. A. Venn, president, Queens' College, Cambridge ; Dr. W. Ivor Jennings, vice-chancellor, University of Ceylon ; Dr. J. F. Duff, vice-chancellor, University of Durham ; Prof. John Macmurray, professor of moral philosophy, University of Edinburgh; Prof. Noah Morris, regius professor of materia medica and therapeutics, University of Glasgow ; Prof. Norman Bentwich, professor of international relations, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Mr. B. Mouat Jones, vice-chancellor, University of Leeds; Prof. J. G. Wright, professor of veterinary surgery, University of Liverpool ; Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders, director, London School of Economics and Political Science ; Prof. Robert V. Galea, rector, Royal University of Malta ; Prof. W. J. Pugh, deputy vice-chancellor and professor of geology, University of Manchester ; Dr. W. T. S. Stallybrass, pro-vice-chancellor, University of Oxford ; Prof. R. H. Stoughton, professor of horticulture, University of Reading ; Sir James Irvine, vice-chancellor and principal, University of St. Andrews ; Prof. L. E. S. Eastham, professor of zoology, University of Sheffield ; Mr. Ifor L. Evans, principal, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth ; Mr. C. W. M. Cox, educational adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. The secretary of the Council is Mr. Walter Adams. Sir James Irvine was elected chairman and Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders vice-chairman.
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INTER-UNIVERSITY COUNCIL FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE COLONIES. Nature 157, 347 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157347a0
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