WOMEN STUDENTS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 37, 7 November 1933, Page 5

WOMEN STUDENTS

Genetics Institute Work En route to New Zealand with her husband, Dr. W. Bryden, of New Zealand, Mrs. Bryden, who was formerly Miss Muriel MacLaren, of Edinburgh, arrived in Melbourne by the Barrabool (says the Melbourne “Age”). Before her marriage Mrs. Bryden was a student at the Institute of Genetics, In Edinburgh, where Dr. Bryden was doing a post-graduate course. After being allowed to lapse during the war years, the institute was re-established in 1921, said Mrs. Bryden to an interviewer. At present more than one-half of the students are women, who are mostly doing a post-graduate course in genetics, which bears on the transmission of hereditary diseases. Commenting on the mental deficiency question in England, Dr. Bryden said that when he left England a committee which was appointed in conjunction with the Eugenic Society was sitting to discuss the problem of 300,000 mental defectives In England. It was hoped that legislation dealing with the question would be before the British Parliament next month. The institute was probably the only one of its kind in the world, added Mrs. Bryden. It was under the direction of Professor A. E. Crewe, who at one time helped to edit the Eugenic Society’s journal. Dr. A. W. Greenwood, a graduate of the University of Melbourne, is assistant director. Dr. Bryden has returned to New Zealand to take up a position as lecturer in Canterbury University College.