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for practice is assuredly ready to hand. This new school has been officially recog- 

 nised by the Technical Education Board, who have voted £100 to the Society in 

 aid of the scheme. The Council further intends to establish an institute for the 

 teaching of botany and for promoting original research ; but as this is a bold and 

 ambitious scheme, outside aid will be necessary to give it a practical effect. 



M. Henri de la Vaulx, now travelling in Patagonia, has written to the 

 Societe" de Geographie de Paris from Rawson, the capital of Chubut. He has 

 visited the Monsonero Indians, where he has found a tolderia 18 leagues south of 

 Keurskeule. The cacique, Sayhueke, received him with great cordiality, and he 

 witnessed a komaruko, a religious fete. M. de la Vaulx has made an ethno- 

 graphical collection and taken some photographs. On the shore of Lake Colhue 

 the explorer discovered ancient stone sepulchres, in which he found a skeleton 

 almost perfect, as well as ten skulls of Telhuelche Indians. There were a large 

 number of arrowheads, knives, and stone boleadoros. These discoveries will prove 

 of great importance to the study of the ancient peoples of Chubut. 



In connection with the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies, a section for 

 geological photographs has just been established. Its objects are : — (1) To stimu- 

 late interest in the observation and recording of geological phenomena ; (2) to 

 form annually a set of lantern slides dealing with some part of the geology of the 

 south-east of England, and to circulate these, with an explanatory lecture, among 

 the affiliated societies during the winter session ; (3) to form a permanent collec- 

 tion of geological slides and photographs ; (4) to contribute to the national 

 collection of geological photographs now being formed at the Jermyn Street 

 Museum under the auspices of the British Association. Particulars as to the 

 work may be obtained from Mr H. E. Turner, the hon. secretary, Bank Street, 

 Ashford, Kent. 



The Bill which the Duke of Devonshire presented to the House of Lords 

 concerning the University of London has been withdrawn for the Session. It 

 proposes to appoint the following Commissioners : — Lord Davey (chairman), the 

 Bishop of London, Lord Lister, Sir William Roberts, M.D., Sir Owen Roberts, 

 Professor Jebb, and Mr E. H. Busk, whose powers continue till Dec. 31, 1898, 

 and whose duty is "to make statutes and regulations for the University of 

 London in general accordance with the scheme of the report " presented by the 

 previous Commissioners, with any " modification which may appear to them ex- 

 pedient after considering the changes which have taken place in London educa- 

 tion of a university type since the date of the report, &c." The Bill provides that 

 "after the expiration of the powers of the Commissioners, the Senate of the 

 University shall have power to make statutes and regulations for altering or 

 supplementing any of the statutes or regulations made by the Commissioners." 

 The Senate, consisting of the Chancellor and fifty-five other members, to be 

 nominated by the Crown and certain learned and public bodies, " shall be the 

 supreme governing body and executive of the University. All University pro- 

 perty shall be administered by the Senate, and the Senate shall have the entire 

 conduct of the University and all its affairs and functions, provided always that 

 no religious test shall be adopted, and no applicant for a University appointment 

 shall be at any disadvantage on the ground of religious opinions ; no procedure 

 to a higher degree shall be allowed without examination or other adequate test, 

 nor shall any honorary or ad etindem degree be conferred unless the Senate, in 

 exceptional cases, think fit to confer such a degree on a teacher of the University ; 

 no disability shall be imposed on the ground of sex." 



