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NATURE 



[May 25, 191 



aid of which a grant of money may be made — a privilege 

 which could not be allowcrd no long as a part of the 

 medical curriculum lay outside the control of the 

 University. 



Cambridge. — Mr. \ I , j I'.R.S., Master of 



Christ's College, and Mr. 1'. V. Uevan, of Trinity College, 

 have been approved by th<- jjcncral board of studies for the 

 degree of Doctor in Sjcienc**. 



The Rede lecture will be delivered on Thursday, June 8, 

 at 10.30 a.m., in the lecture rcx>ni of the Botany School 

 by the Hon. C. A. Parsons, C.B., F.R.S. 



It is proposed that Dr. Haddon, F.R.S., and Dr. 

 W. H. R. Rivers be appointed to represent the University 

 at the Universal Races Congress to be held in London in 

 July. 



LoNiK)N.Mr. .Andrew Carnegie has given a donation of 

 5,000/. towards the building and equipment of the Institute 

 of Medical Sciences of University College. 



Sir Felix Senion has ofTered to the University for the 

 foundation of a lectureship in laryngology the sum of 

 1,040/., being the amount presented to him by British 

 laryngologists on his retirement from practice. The bene- 

 faction has been accepted by the Senate. 



The degree of D.Sc. (engineering) has been conferred 

 upon Mr. F. C. Lea, an external student, for a thesis 

 on " Influence Diagrams as concerned with Stresses in 

 Structures " and other papers, and the decree of D.Sc. in 

 geology has been conferred on Mr. R. L. Sherlock, an 

 external student, for a thesis entitled " Relationship of 

 the Permian to the Trias in Nottinghamshire " and other 

 papers. 



It 'has been derided to invite the committee of tho fifth 

 International Philosophical Congress to hold the meetings 

 of the congress in the University buildings in the spring 

 of 1915. The following appointments have been made : — 

 The principal (Dr. H. k.. Miers, F.R.S.), representative of 

 the University at the celebration of the centenar}' of the 

 Royal Frederick University of Christiania in September, 

 191 1 ; Prof. J. D. Colrmack, governor of the Imperial 

 College of Science and Technology (in place of Sir Arthur 

 Riicker, F.R.S., resigned) ; Dr. Thomas Buzzard, governor 

 of Westminster Hospital Medical School. 



Manchester. — To enable those taking up farming, estate 

 management, or the teaching of agriculture to obtain a 

 thorough scientific and practical training in agriculture, an 

 arrangement has been made between the U'niversity of 

 Manchester and the College of Agriculture and Horticulture, 

 carried on by the Cheshire County Council at Holmes 

 Chapel, by which a scheme for complete courses of in- 

 struction in agriculture has been established. A course 

 of study leading to the degree of B.Sc. in agriculture or 

 to the diploma of the Agricultural College may be pursued. 

 The students take lectures and laboratory work in 

 chemistry, physics, and biology, as well as special courses 

 in agriculture, estate management, agricultural chemistry, 

 agricultural botany, agricultural zoology (including ento- 

 molofjy). The courses in agriculture and estate manage- 

 ment and part of the course in agricultural chemistry and 

 in botany are taken at the .Ajfricultural Collejje. A special 

 prospectus has been prepared giving full particulars of the 

 courses. 



Prof. T. W. Richards, of Harvard I'niversity. who is 

 to deliver the Faraday Lecture of the Chemical Society, 

 is to receive the honorary degree of D.Sc. on July 8. 



Oxford. — Dr. H. L. Bowman, Waynflete professor of 

 mineral<^, has been appointed secretary to the delegates 

 of the University Museum, in place of Mr. H. Balfour, 

 curator of the Pitt-Rivers Museum, who resigns the office 

 next month. 



Dr. W. T. Brooks, Christ Church, has been appointed 

 Lhtchfield lecturer in medicine as from October next. 



Mr. William Bateson, F.R.S. , has been appointed 

 Herbert Spencer lecturer for 191 1. 



The Edward Kempton Adams research fellowship has 

 been awarded by Columbia University to Prof. R. W. 

 Wood, of Johns Hopkins University. 



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Prof. R. P4TUck Wright, principal of the West of 

 Scotland Agricultural College, nas been appointed agri 

 cultural adviser to the Scotch Education Department. 



We learn from Science that Dr. E. B. Wilson has been 

 designated Da Costa professor of zoolog>- in Columbi> 

 University in succession to Prof. H. \. Osborn, wh> 

 becomes research professor of zoology. 



Dr. H. Wenham, of the Union Medical College, Y 

 announces that for the first time in history the ( i 

 Government has jf '"'«"'•''' ^ medical degree. .Sixteen 01 

 of twenty-one candidates have passed the required examin.' 

 tions. 



The University Society of Nottingham and th> 

 Midlands was formed on Saturday last at a meetin. 

 at the Nottingham University College, the obif-rt of 

 is the furtherance of university educati-- 

 Midland counties. 



The West Riding Education Committee has appoint'- i 

 Miss Helen M. Wodehouse to the principalship of th' 

 Bingley Training College, which is to be opened in 

 September next. Miss Wodehouse is at present lectur'-; 

 on philosophy in the University of Birmingham. 



It has been decided that Dr. Roberts, the secretary of 

 the forthcoming Congress of the Universities of th- 

 Empire, shall visit Montreal in order to be present at th'- 

 preliminary Conference of Canadian Universities, which 

 is to be held in the first week of June, to ascertain th<' 

 views of the Canadian universities as to the most suit- 

 able questions for discussion at the congress and to giv<' 

 any information respecting '"' • -"-^ •'- ■' ->-- i--"-, . >l-. •, 

 in the United Kingdom. 



In the .-Xpril issue of The Icchmcal Jourttal, whitii li.i- 

 now been received, a new series of articles on *' Famou> 

 Technical Schools " is initiated with an illustrated H - • 

 tion of the Glasgow and West of Scotland T« 

 College, by Drs. G. S. Cruikshanks and F. J. \\ 

 It is proposed that the series shall not be confined to 

 schools in the United Kingdom, but shall deal, so far as 

 possible, also with the leading Continental and American 

 schools. 



The fifth annual conference of the Association of Teachers 

 in Technical Institutions will be held at Southport on 

 June 5 and 6. Mr. Barker North, of the Bradford Technical 

 College, will deliver the presidential address, and amnn^ 

 the questions arranged for discussion are " The Organ' 

 of Higher Technical Instruction," " The Repres" 

 of Teachers on Educational Bodies." " The N 

 Organisation of Technical Education," and " The S 

 and Pensions of Technical Teachers." Further part 

 of the conference may be obtained from the hon. secretary 

 of the association, Mr. P. Abbott, The Polvtechnic, Regent ■ 

 Street, W. | 



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The record of a notable achieveinent u..~ ,,..,.... ned in V 

 the final report of the building committee of the (ilasgow 

 and West of Scotland Technical Collejje presented to a 

 recent meeting of the governors. The committee reported 

 the completion of the buildings, the foundation stone of 

 which was laid in May, 1003. The buildings contain about 

 seven acres of floor space, and the cubic contents amount 

 to 7,202.382 cubic feet. Their cost, including professional 

 fees and electric lighting and ventilating installations, was 

 272,32qf. or less than od. per cubic foot, although they 

 are of the most substantial fireproof construction. The - 

 portions of the site not previously in the possession of the 

 college were purchased for the sum of 46,153/.. and the 

 equipment of the laboratories cost 34,746/., making a total 

 expenditure of 353,228/. The whole expenditure involved 

 in this large undertakingf has been met without the in- 

 currence of any debt. The college received grants from 

 the Scotch Education Department of 88.660/.. and voluntary 

 subscriptions and donations amounting to 278,603/. : a < 

 balance of 14,000/. is therefore available to meet additions 

 " to the laboratory equipment now in course of construction 

 or about to be ordered. These additions include an experi- 

 mental steam turbine of the multi-stage impul;* type and 



