ABSTRACT
The history of any Department is multidimensional; the available material presents real difficulties of selection and organisation. Botany had erected an experimental greenhouse on it, to the annoyance of Psychology, who wanted to develop an animal house there. The real reason was that it thwarted Departmental development but others were adduced in addition: it caused frequent interruption to the work of the attendant attached to the Department of Psychology and rendered ineffectual the room for 'quiet study', whose only windows looked onto the roof. Alec Mace was appointed Reader in Psychology, coming from St Andrews where he had set up a laboratory. On 27th October, Council received a letter from him informing them that he had been offered the Chair of Psychology at Birkbeck College, which he intended to accept, subject to satisfactory arrangements being made for the management of the Bedford Department.
