CHAIR OF CHEMISTRY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 73, 19 December 1919, Page 6

CHAIR OF CHEMISTRY

PROFESSOR EASTERFIELD'S SUC CESSOII The announcement was made at a meetiner of the Victoria University Colleee Council on Wednesday ovening that the vacancy caused by tho resignation of Professor Easterfleld from tho Chair of Chemistry had been filled by tho apDointmeiit of Mr. P. W. Eobenson, M.A., M.Sc; Ph.D., at present Lecturer iu Chemistry at the Imperial 'College of Science and Technology, South Kensington. Tho chairman drew attention to Hie fact rhut this would make tho fourth member of the Professorial Board who had eraduated in the New Zealand University. He considered it a matter for deeD satisfaction that such an important cost was being filled by an old student of the college. Sir Robert Stout and other members expressed the same view. Mr P. W. Robertson is a son of Mr. Donald C. Robertson, public Service Commissioner, and is 35 years of age. Hβ was educated at Ponsonby, and the Terrace (Wellington) Schools, and Weilinuton College Since 1900,- when he was dux of the last-mentioned institution, ho IIM had a most successful career., attaining many honours. Gaininir a Junior University Scholarship in 1900. ho entered' Victoria. College the following year, and among hie eiiccesses were tho Sir George Grey Scholarship, Senior University Scholarship, B.A. exuminalion pass, M.A. examination pass .Tirst-class honours in chemistry), and the Jacob Joseph Scholarship. llio honour of being elected Rhodes Scholar went to Mr. Robertson in WOS, and anions his numerous subsequent suecesses were the following :-B.Sc. cxamm. alion (New Zealand!, M.Sc.'examination (New Zealand, resident in England), B A. examination, Oxford (first-class honours in chemistry), matriculated Uin. vomH'y of Leipzig, and -I'li.D, examination. LeipaiK (firet-clnss honours in chem. isliT. tthvsics. and mineralogy, the thesis al«o beinu' necepted with firat-clnss lion, oursl. He was electee: (in IMS), an lionorni'v scholar of Wnity College, Oxford, and later Exhibitioner of the snme collet'o'. Manv instructive papers by Mr. Holi'erlson have been published in New 7,ealnml journals. For some time he was officiating Professor of Chemistry atEanEOon College, Burma