672 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



etiy, differential calculus, etc., as well as the modern lan- 

 guages, drawing, etc. A naval officer is president of the 

 college, assisted by a caj^tain in the navy in matters of dis- 

 cipline, and by an extensive corps of professors, who may be 

 selected from civil life. 12 A, January 16, 1873, 218. 



MEETING OF THE IRON" AND STEEL ASSOCIATION AT LIEGE. 



The annual meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute took 

 place at Liege on the 18th of August, and numerous papers 

 of much technical interest were presented. The members 

 were invited to hold their next meeting in the United States, 

 though it was not stated whether this was actually decided 

 upon. 12 A, August 14, 1873, 333. 



BRADFOED MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 



The recent meeting of the British Association, held at 

 the manufacturing town of Bradford, in Yorkshire, and pre- 

 sided over by Professor A. W. Williamson (in consequence of 

 the illness of Dr. Joule, the president api^ointed last year), 

 was not a very brilliant one, nor very largely attended. 

 Many of the papers were of great scientific value; but there 

 was no one incident of surpassing interest, like the appear- 

 ance of Mr. Stanley, the discoverer of Dr. Livingstone, at the 

 Brighton meeting last year. The next meeting is to be held 

 at Belfast, Ireland, under the presidency of Dr. Tyndall. 



PROFESSOR CARUS AND PROFESSOR WYVILLE THOMSON. 



Professor Cams, the eminent German naturalist, long con- 

 nected with the University of Leipsic, has been selected to 

 fill the chair of Wyville Thomson during the period of his 

 absence with the Challenger^ which will probably continue 

 for several years. He entered upon his duties on the 2d of 

 May by an address on the study of zoology ; and, according 

 to Nature, he is fully convinced that " the final form of our 

 zoological system will be a pedigree." 



REPORT ON SCIENTIFIC INSTRUCTION IN ENGLAND. 



The statement recently presented by the royal commission 

 appointed to report on the state of scientific instruction in En- 

 gland cbntains a very large amount of testimony presented 

 by scientific men of eminence. The tendency of the great 



