During the past three years efforts have been made by the Council of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland[30] to supply more adequate means of advanced education. In 1880, the Council had before them a project, promoted, for most part independently, by Mr Robert Duncan and others, to establish a Lectureship of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. It was proposed to collect funds sufficient to endow the lectureship under the auspices of the University, and promises of substantial aid were obtained from several members. Mr J. G. Lawrie volunteered to give the first course of lectures and did so, according to arrangement, during the winter months of 1881-82 before a considerable number of students, the lectures being delivered in the University of Glasgow during the day, and repeated in the Institution rooms in the evening. These praiseworthy efforts were still being carried on when, in November, 1883, the gratifying announcement was made of a gift of £12,500 by Mrs John Elder, widow of the late eminent engineer, for the endowment of a Chair of Naval Architecture in the University. The founding of this chair, and the subsequent election by the University Court of Mr Francis Elgar to the Professorship, have thus doubtless obviated the need for further efforts to found the lectureship, but there are many commendable objects connected with the University Chair to which the continued efforts of the gentlemen who supported the lecture project might fittingly be directed. Many students who can afford it will doubtless study the higher branches of naval architecture at Glasgow University, and if a few small University scholarships were established, for which all classes of workers in the shipyards and drawing offices might compete, the highest professional training would then be within the reach of the poorest of lads. Evidences have recently been given of a strong desire on the part of many engaged in the shipbuilding and engineering industries of the Tyne and Wear for the founding of a Chair of Naval Architecture in some educational institution in that district. Along with this movement a desire has been shown for the establishment of an Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders such as has been so long carried on successfully in the Clyde district. Definite steps are about to be taken for the realisation of these important objects, and doubtless no great time will elapse before they are accomplished. List of papers and lectures dealing with scientific problems in shipbuilding, to which readers desiring fuller acquaintance with the _technique_ and details of the subjects are referred:— THE PROGRESS OF SHIPBUILDING IN ENGLAND: _Westminster Review_, January, 1881. HISTORY OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. Lecture delivered by Mr Wm. John at Barrow-in-Furness: _Iron_, Dec. 8th, 1882. DISPLACEMENT AND CARRYING CAPABILITY.