OTAGO'S NEW PROFESSOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2665, 12 April 1905, Page 12

OTAGO'S NEW PROFESSOR.

A BRILLIANT STUDENT.

(Fkom Oub Own Cobsespondsnt.) LONDON, February 24.

In referring to the appointment of Dr John Malcolm to the Chair of Physiology in the University of Otago, New Zealand, I had the pleasure of sending out to you a. very full account of his remarkably brilliant career as a student in the Edinburgh TJ niversity

In a special article on his departure to take up his new duties at the Antipodes, I notice that the Student — the journalistic organ of the Edinburgh " University — says : " Although a large portion of his time must necessarily have been taken up with the teaching and organisation 'of the class of practical physiological chemistry, Dr Malcolm has always been an indefatigable original worker and a keen investigator into the difficult and abstruse problems connected with animal metabolism ; and he ha 3 published m the ' Joxirnai of Physiology ' and elsewhere several important papers embodying the results of a large amount of careful and arduous research, besides guiding and directing other workers in the laboratory in his own special department. He ha.s had the inestimable advantage of having gained his experience as a teacher and investigator in physiology in what i« probably^, the most active and up-to-date department in the University, and und«r the most eminent physiologist; in Great Britain. A man of such marked individuality and power as Professor Schafer cannot fail to exert a profound influence \ipon all who are associated with him either in. teaching or research, and we are- confident that, with such inspiration and such a training, the University of Otago is singularly fortunate in having selected Dr Malcolm as the €xst occupant of its recentlyfounded Chair oi Physiology." "As a scientist," continue* the Student, " Dr Malcolm's character might be summed, up in a single word — thoroughness ; and as a man — integrity. Nothing slipshod has ever left his hands, and we venture to pred'et neve* will, and his word is his bond. Unobtrusive and retiring in disposition, and sensitive to a degree, he was never the man to make a bid for popularity, although his careful and painstaking methods and lucid expositions as a teacher did not fail to be quickly recognised by the students who sat under him, and secured him that honour without its being sought after. He is most highly appreciated among his most intimate friends, and those ■who have known him best and longest esteem him most. He sets out shortly on his long journey to th« Antipodes, and he will carry with him the heartiest good wishes of everyone with whom he has been associated, from his eminent chief downwards."

Reference at considerable length is ma<l« to Dr Malcolm's brilliant career, but, of course, with its details you are already acquaint-ed, as I have already sent out the information to you. .Satisfaction is pxpivssed that the teaching staffs of the various colonial universities have been, largely selected from students of the University of Edinburgh, and it is remarked: 1 '■ It is the proud boast of the University of Edinburgh that of all its claims to distinction none ranks higher than its right to be regarded as the University of the British Empire. For many years a large pioportion of its students, attracted by the name and the fame of the Edinburgh Medical School, have come from over the seas. The development of the Imperial idea is of comparatively recent origin, and when its history comes to be written no small share will bo attributed to the Univeristy for its work in training those men from the remotest parts of the Empire and in scattering ils graduates abroad to bear the burden of Empire."

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