VICTORIA COLLEGE. NEW PROFESSOR OF MATHE MATICS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1907, Page 2

VICTORIA COLLEGE. NEW PROFE SSO R OF MATHE MATICS.

MATICS. A meeting of the Victoria. College Council was lield last eveniug. PresentMr. T. R. Fleming (chairnian)i the Rev. W. A. Evans, Dr. Knight, Messrs. H. D. BeU,.,K.C. J John Graham, M.P., W.,H. Quick, H. F. Yon Baasfc, C. Wilson, | F. P. Wilson, P. M'Callum, A. R. Meek, C. Watson, A. T. M'Ginmty, and C- P. Powlas (secretary). The appointment of a successor to Professor Maclaurin in the department of mathematics was considered in committee. Out of 37 candidates, 28 from -the United- Kingdom, 4 from Australia, aiid 5 from New Zealand, Mr. David Kennedy Picken, M.A., was elected. The successful candidate is at present' chief assistant to the 'Professor of Mathematics and also Lecturer on Mathematics at Glasgow University. Mr. Picken,' who was one of the three candidates selected from among the British applicants by ths English Board of Advice, consisting of Dr. Baker, of Cambridge, and the High Commissioner, took his JEA. degree, with fiist-class honours in mathematics and natural philosophy at Glasgow, andithe. B.A. degree with honours at 'Cambridge, ■when he came out Sixth Wjangler. He has had experience during four and a' half winter cessions in teaching the following subjects : Geometry (purs and applied), algebra, trigonometry, higher analytical geometry,' differential and integral calculus, differential equations, juid the theory of functions,' .etc. He is 28 years of age, and married/, A letter was received from tho High Commissioner, announcing iliat the vacancy left by Professor Maclaurin ,l, l as Dean of the Faculty of Law had v been advertised iv tho United Kingdom. The Finance Committee reported that they had arranged for the finishing of tho large room on the top floor of ,tho college at the northern end of the building, and various minor improvements at a cost of £348 10s out of the \ccenfc Government grant. The purchase "pf a clock and increases in the equipment of the science department wore also recommended. Piofessor Salmond's offer of a copY of his Volume in Torts was accepted with thanks as a contribution to the iihrary. Lists of books in connection with'a donation of £25 through Sir. Robert Stout, to be expended on works on agriculture, were referred to the Library Committee. , > A letter from the secretary of.' '" the Tennis Club relating lo the financial position of the club was referred to." the Gardens Committee. The date of the nest meeting 'of* the council was fixed for the 33rd January next. V..V

T he famous "Bolls of Shandon," which he present rootor desires to > recast, aro hung in a grotesque-looking tawav that ioems to be built in storioa. This- steeple, at the foot of which Father - Prout lies buried, was constructed of stones' from tho J'l-ttiiciscan monastery yhere J-funos 11. heard Mass, and from tho ruins of Lord Barry s crfstle, which hntl beeft Oio residonco of the lords-prosidenfc of Munster. lhosa eight melodious bells .Wore cast at, Gloucester about 1750, and it -is pro--posed to havo them rocast in London.