NEW PROFESSOR FOR THE OTAGO UNIVERSITY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13837, 26 February 1907, Page 5

NEW PROFESSOR FOR THE OTAGO UNIVERSITY.

APPOINTMENT OP MR D. J RICHARDS. CFEOU 008 CBS CoSRKSPOSDEST.i LONDON. .Iniiuary 18. Air 11. L. Richards,.oi Lynevor, Neiith lias heen selected from among the 28 candidates who applied for the position 01 lrnfossor of Mathematics for the University of Otago. Mr Richards, who is a Welshman, is young, being only 27 years of age, but ho has bad „ distinguished career. He k an M.A. of Camlindgu, and he was thirteenth Wrangler in 1901. He was first class Part 2 in tho 1902 Tripos, and Major 'Scholar, Trinity College, Cambridge, after Part 2 Mathematical Tripos. He took a complete course- of engineering under Professor Ewing at Cambridge, and also a course of practical astronomy .at the same university. At tho University College of Wales, AberystwrUi, where "he then went, he had a large class, and at present bo is taking smother class of 40 scholars at the RutherCollege, Noweastle-nn-Tyne. In July, 1905, M.r Richards was appointed lecturer of appl'red mathematics at Aberystwytli, leaving there a year ago for «. year's coiiree of_ practical engineering al the Klswick Works of Sir W. Armstrong, Whitwortli and Co., ;,t. Newcastle.

Professor Richards, who is unmarried intends to leave for the colony by the s.s. Atbeiiio on the 7th February,'