University of Glasgow

Abstract

THE following announcements have recently been made from the University of Glasgow. Prof. W. J. Duncan has been elected to the newly founded Mechan chair of aeronautics and fluid mechanics. Lecturers have been appointed as follows: A. C. Crundwell botany), R. Giles (natural philosophy), A. R. Hil1 (agricultural zoology), S. Mitchell (chemistry-to a senior lectureship), B. F. X. Touschek (natural philosophy). Dr. Robert Wright has retired after being senior lecturer in physical chemistry for thirty years. He graduated at the Royal University of Ireland (Queen's College, Belfast), and held an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship during 1912–15 at University College, London, and for the last year at Glasgow, where he was an assistant during 1914–17. After two further years as lecturer at Belfast, Dr. Wright returned to Glasgow in 1919. His research work has been mainly concerned with the study of solutions.