i8 9 6. NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, ETC. 71 



their winter sessions with successful conversaziones. Professor Grenville Cole 

 succeeds G. H. Carpenter as president of the former society. 



At the General Meeting of the City of London College Science Society on 

 November 27 it was decided to select a president " who will make a point of 

 presiding at the society's meetings." The choice happily fell upon Professor 

 J. Logan Lobley. 



The Oxford University Junior Scientific Club has prevailed on Professor W. 

 Ramsay to deliver the fifth ' Robert Boyle' Lecture next summer term. Mr. E. C. 

 Atkinson, of St. John's, is the president-elect. 



The " Triton," a kind of aquicultural society in Berlin, proposes to give three 

 prizes as follows : — (i) for a means of destroying the animal and vegetable ecto- 

 parasites offish, 700 M. ; (2) for a means of destroying the hydra of fresh-water, 400 M. ; 

 (3) for a plan for killing Tubifex rivulorum, 200 M. These plans are destined to be used 

 principally in aquaria, and must be simple, practical, and innocuous to both fish 

 and aquatic plants. The papers, in German, French, English, Italian, or Russian, 

 should be sent signed with a motto, and accompanied by a sealed envelope, contain- 

 ing the motto and the sender's name, to Professor F. E. Schulze, 43 Invalidenstrasse, 

 Berlin, before July 1, 1897. 



The British Medical Journal states that a bacteriological laboratory, under the 

 directorship of Professor Hankin, is to be established at Agra by the Indian 

 Government. Health officers are to have a six months' training in bacteriology, 

 and 1,900 municipalities will be expected to appoint trained men for sanitary work. 

 Further laboratories are likely to be started in other parts of India. 



The Health Committee of the Glasgow Town Council also intends to establish 

 a complete Bacteriological Department in the sanitary buildings now being erected. 



The November number of the Journal of the Essex Technical Laboratories states 

 that a three weeks' course of instruction in agriculture will be given at the labora- 

 tories during January, 1896. The course will be confined to the study of the culti- 

 vation of farm crops, and classes will be held daily from Monday, January 6, till 

 Saturday, January 25. The classes are intended for farmers, farmers' sons, or other 

 persons engaged in agricultural pursuits, and are open to all such as are residents in 

 the county. The lectures will be given by Professor E. Blundell, of the Royal 

 Agricultural College, Cirencester. 



A special course of lectures, practical instruction, and laboratory demonstra- 

 tions is now being given on Marine Zoology at Brightlingsea. The lectures and 

 practical instruction for students are given weekly by Mr. Houston, while the 

 popular demonstrations are given by Mr. Walter Crouch at the Marine Biological 

 Laboratory, on two days a week during the course. 



We learn from Nature that the Egyptian Government will this year begin a 

 Geological Survey of Egypt. This will occupy about three years and cost £25, 000. 

 Captain H. G. Lyons, R.E., who is already known by his papers before the 

 Geological Society, and who is now superintending the excavation of the ruined 

 temples of Philae, has been appointed to carry out the work. 



Professor R. Koehler, of Lyons, has communicated to the Comptes Rendus of 

 the Paris Academy of Sciences an account of deep dredgings from the " Caudan," 

 in the Gulf of Gascony, between August 20 and September 2, 1S95. The vessel was 

 provided by the Minister of Marine, but the greater part of the material and 

 necessary expenses were furnished by the local authorities. During the short time 

 at its disposal, the expedition let down the trawl twenty times,, and made thirty-two 

 deep-soundings. The results have shown that successful deep-sea dredgings can be 

 carried on with very limited means. 



