214 NATURAL SCIENCE [September 
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 
Société de Géographie 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 féte. 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. 
Tue 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concerning the University of London has been withdrawn for the Session.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 ewndem 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.” 
