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NATURE 



[March 9, 191 1 



together to manage thetn, because there were no better 

 men, and though they made mistakes, it was better that 

 Kuch mistakes should be made individually than all over 

 the country." 



Cambridge. — The council of Trinity College has resolved 

 to offer to the University the sum of looo/. in the present 

 year, to be invested for maintenance of buildings. The 

 offer is made in the hope of expediting the erection of one 

 or both of the proposed new buildings for physiology and 

 experimental psychology. 



The general board of studies will shortly proceed to 

 appoint a university lecturer in moral science in succession 

 to Dr. Keynes. The appointment will date from 

 October i. Candidates are requested to state the subject 

 or subjects on which they are prepared to lecture. They 

 are also requested to send their applications, with such 

 testimonials as they think fit, to the Vice-Chancellor on or 

 before Monday, .April 24. 



The Allen scholarship has been awarded to Mr. Hugh 

 F. R. Smith, of St. John's College. 



The next combined examination for sixty-eight entrance 

 scholarships and a large number of exhibitions, at Pem- 

 broke, Gonvillc and ("aius. King's, Jesus, Christ's, St. 

 John's, and Emmanuel Colleges, will be held on Tuesday, 

 December 5, and following days. Mathematics, classics, 

 and natural sciences will be the subjects of examination 

 at all the above-mentioned colleges. Most of the colleges 

 allow candidates who intend to studv mechanical sciences 

 to compete for scholarships and exhibitions by taking the 

 papers set in mathematics or natural sciences. 



It is announced in The Pioneer Mail that his Highness 

 the Nawab of Rampur has contributed a lakh and a half 

 to the funds for the proposed Mahomedan University. At 

 a meeting in Calcutta on February 14 last, his Highness 

 the Aga Khan stated that the whole amount of money 

 required is likely to be subscribed before the end of the 

 present month, bv which date it is expected the fund will 

 exceed twenty lakhs. 



The London County Council has issued a full report of 

 the proceedings at the conference of teachers held under its 

 auspices on January K-y this year. A descriptive account 

 of the meetings of the conference was given in these 

 columns on Januarv 12 last (vol. Ixxxv., p. 353). and it will 

 be sufficient to point out that this official publication con- 

 tains a verbatim report of the papers read and the discus- 

 sions which took place. Cooies of the report mav be 

 obtained from Messrs. P. S. King and Son, 2 and 4 Great 

 Smith Street, London, S.W., price is. 6d. 



Wk learn from Science that Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. 

 Long, of Indianapolis, have given 40,000?. to the medical 

 department of Indiana State University ; that by the will 

 of Mrs. Emily H. Moir, of New York City, Barnard 

 College received 2000/. ; and that Illinois College, at 

 Jacksonville, 111., received recently loooJ. from Mr. 

 Edward F. Goltra, of St. Louis. This contribution is 

 towards a new endowment of 30,000/. which the college 

 is raising. Mr. Andrew Carnegie has contributed one- 

 half of the amount ; friends and old students have thus far 

 contributed about 13,000/. 



The Education Committee of the County Council of the 

 West Riding of Yorkshire has issued a pamphlet giving 

 detailed information of the conditions under which it 

 awards scholarships and exhibitions. Provision is made 

 for every grade of education, and facilities are offered to make 

 it easy for the ambitious boy or girl to proceed on the edu- 

 cational journev from the elementary school to the university 

 or technical college, so far as his or her ability permits. The 

 needs of both men and women have been borne in mind. 

 County major scholarships of the estimated value of from 

 60/. to 65/. are tenable at universities or university colleges, 

 and county art scholarships of the value of 60/. per annum 

 are tenable at the Royal College of Art. There are in 

 addition county technologfical scholarships, scholarships for 

 women, coal-mining exhibitions, agricultural exhibitions, 

 exhibitions for the blind, and travelling scholarships. The 

 rapacity-catching net is certainlv thrown very wide in the 

 West Riding, and there should be very few Yorkshire 

 students of talent unable to proceed with their education 

 through lack'of means. 



The Department of Agriculture and Technical Instrur> 

 tion for Ireland will, .as in previous years, conduct courfi«ft 

 of instruction for teachers during the coming summer. 

 Among the courses arranged may be mentioned those \n 

 experimental science and laboratory arts ; in domestic 

 economy ; in hygiene, sick-nursing, and housewifery ; in 

 manual training in wood and metal; in practical mathe- 

 matics and mechanics ; and in rural science. All the 

 courses mentioned will be held in Dublin. Teachers who 

 attend the courses of instruction regularly and punctually 

 will, as a rule, be allowed a sum of 3/. los. towards their 

 expenses while living at the centre, and those who travel 

 more than twenty miles to the centre of instruction will i 

 be allowed, in addition, third-class railway fare for one | 

 return journey. Teachers desiring to take advantage of | 

 the courses must fill up and return the appropriate form 

 of application not later than March 31 to the offices of 

 the Department, Upper Merrion Street, Dublin. 



Copies of the report of the librarian of Congress and 

 the report of the superintendent of the library building 

 and grounds for the fiscal year ending June 30 last have 

 been received from Washington. The reports, which are 

 bound together, make a volume of 305 pages. The grants 

 for the administration of the library proper and the copy- 

 right office in connection therewith amount for the pre- 

 sent year to upwards of 98,000/. The report shows that 

 there was a marked increase in the size of the library 

 during the year under review ; 90,473 books were added, 

 6822 maps and charts, and 17,215 prints, in addition to 

 the pieces of music and volumes on music. A very 

 interesting description is provided respecting the accessions 

 to the division of manuscripts, of which, the report says, 

 a numerical estimate is not feasible. We notice that vhe 

 total number of visitors to the library building during the 

 year was 768,911, being a daily average for 363 days of 

 2118. 



A GIFT of 60,000/. by Mrs. Russell Sage to Cornell 

 University is announced in Science. From the same source 

 we learn that an increase in the income and in the build- 

 ing fund of the University of Wisconsin on the basis of 

 a growth of 23 per cent, in the number of students in the 

 last two years and of the constantly growing demand on 

 the part of the people of the State for expert assistance 

 from the University, is provided for in a Bill introduced 

 in the State legislature. It provides for changing the 

 present two-sevenths of a mill tax on the assessed valua- 

 tion of all property of the State for maintaining the Uni- 

 versity to three-eighths of a mill. This will increase the 

 general University income approximately from 12-;. 000/. a 

 year to 200,000/. a year. For new academic buildings and 

 permanent improvements, the proposed legislation appro- 

 priates 60,000/. a year, of which 10,000/. -annually is set 

 aside for the purchase of books, furniture, apparatus, and 

 equipment. The remaining 50,000/. a year is to be used 

 for the construction of academic buildings, in the order of 

 their greatest need, and for the enlargement and repair of 

 present buildings. The regents of the University of 

 Michigan, too, have applied to the legislature for a grant 

 of 50,000/. for a science building. The need for more 

 adequate accommodations for the natural sciences has been 

 felt for a number of years, and was the subject of a 

 memorial to the regents by the departments of botany, 

 zoology, geology, mineralogy, and forestry in 1907. 



The distribution of prizes and certificates to students of 

 the Battersea Polytechnic was held on Tuesday, February 

 28. The principal. Dr. Rawson, in presenting his re- 

 port, stated that he thought in every respect the report 

 was a satisfactory one, there having been a considerable 

 increase in the student hours, these, on the whole, being 

 the best criterion of the progress of an institution. The 

 examination successes included nine passes for the final 

 B.Sc, five being in honours; seven students passed the 

 intermediate B.Sc, and three the engineering intermediate 

 examination. The principal added that the work of the 

 Day Technical College, both in quantity and quality, was 

 steadilv rising, and that a full four-year course was in 

 operation. A very gratifying feature was the demand 

 which was being experienced for their students, in almost 

 all cases positions having been found for all three-year 

 students bv the end of the session. Dr.T. J. Macnamara, 



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