ex. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



examined, having regard to the light thrown upon their origin as 

 celestial time-keepers for regulating the calendar through the 

 recent investigations of Sir Norman Lockyer, to see whether 

 they bear out his theories on the subject. 



GENERAL. 



The name of Senior Wrangler, or, indeed, of any Wrangler, 

 was greatly shorn of its honours more than 20 years ago, when 

 it was first applied to the candidate who passed the best 

 examination in the more elementary mathematical subjects only, 

 whereas it had up to that time meant the candidate who passed 

 the best examination in the whole range of subjects dealt with 

 in the Tripos, and therefore really the best mathematician of his 

 year. By a recent alteration candidates are to be placed in 

 classes in alphabetical order, and thus one of the most time- 

 honoured educational positions comes to an end. The quater- 

 centenary of Aberdeen University was celebrated with great 

 eclat and new buildings opened, and a new laboratory also at the 

 University of Liverpool ; but the proposed Royal College of 

 Science, the scheme for which was so munificently started by 

 Messrs. Wernher, Beit, and Co., does not develop, and America 

 makes all English gifts for education look small by the 

 enormous sums which her millionaires give for this object. 

 An interesting calculation has been made of the proportion of 

 American workers in each branch of science. Thus 164 per 

 1,000 are chemists, 155 zoologists, whilst only 23 in each 1,000 

 scientific men study anthropology. The production or birth- 

 rate of scientists is highest in Massachusetts, and amounts to 

 about 109 per 1,000,000 of the population, whilst some of the 

 Southern States have only one or two per million. It would be 

 interesting to know how, compared with these figures, Dorset 

 would stand. The largest international exhibition ever held in the 

 Southern hemisphere was opened in New Zealand on November 

 ist last, and seems to have been very successful. Amongst the 

 great and reasonable complaints which are always being made of 



