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PROF. CHRYSTAL of St. Andrews (formerly of Peterhouse, Cambridge) has been appointed to the Chair of Mathematics in Edinburgh University. He was Second Wrangler and Second Smith's Prizeman in 1875, and is already known to science by his experimental researches on Ohm's Law (made in the Cavendish Laboratory) and by the very excellent article “Electricity” in the new edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Among the eleven candidates for the chair there were four Senior Wranglers. Thus the Chair of Mathematics in St. Andrews is now vacant; and it has just been announced that Prof. Blackburn has requested the University Court of Glasgow to sanction his retirement from the Chair of Mathematics there. As Prof. Fuller of Aberdeen resigned last year only, the whole of the Mathematical Chairs in Scotland have been vacant within one year.
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Notes . Nature 20, 303–306 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020303a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/020303a0
