February 29, 1912] 



NATURE 



603 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge. — Plans are before the University for 

 doubling the size of the present School of Agriculture, the 

 i increase being rendered necessary in order to cope with the 

 large accession of work entailed by the proposed assign- 

 ment to the Cambridge School of Agriculture of grants 

 ironi the Development Commissioners for research in plant- 

 lireeding and animal nutrition. It is suggested that the 

 new building should extend from the western end of the 

 present school towards Tennis Court Road. 



The Site Syndicate has recommended that a site on the 

 south-east corner of the Downing College site should be 

 assigned for the erection of a building for the Forestry 

 Department. The area measures no ft. b}' 36 ft. 



Dr. Graham-Smith has been appointed university lecturer 

 ;n hygiene until September 30, 1916. 



Dr. J. Ward, professor of mental philosophy and logic, 

 has been appointed chairman of the examiners for the 

 Moral Sciences Tripos, 1912. 



Sir David Gill, K.C.B., F.R.S., will present prizes 

 and certificates to students of the South-Western Poly- 

 technic Institute, Chelsea, on March 15, at 8 p.m. 

 Laboratories and workshops will be open afterward to 

 public inspection. 



It is announced in the issue of Science for February 9 

 that conditional gifts of 20,000/. to Washington and Jeffer- 

 son College at Washington, Pa., toward a ioo,oooL fund, 

 and io,oooZ. to the Emory and Henry College at Emory, 

 \'a., toward a 50,000/. fund, were voted at a meeting of 

 the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation 

 last January. 



Mr. J. C. Maxwell Garxett, a son of Dr. William 

 Garnett, educational adviser to the London County 

 Council, has been appointed to succeed Mr. J. H. Reynolds 

 in the principalship of the Manchester Municipal School of 

 Technology. Mr. Garnett had a brilliant career at school 

 and Cambridge, where he was a wrangler in 1902, in the 

 first division of the first class of Part ii. of the Mathe- 

 matical Tripos in 1903, and a Smith's prizeman in 1904. 

 He was for some time connected with the technological 

 branch of the Board of Education, but was later made 

 junior examiner in the elementary branch. His interests 

 are, however, on the technical and scientific side, and he 

 should find Manchester a congenial sphere for the exertion 

 of his activities. 



The report of the executive committee of the Carnegie 

 Trust for the Universities of Scotland, presented at the 

 annual meeting of the Trust held on February 22, points 

 out that the past year completed the first decade of the 

 history of the Trust. The total income for the period 

 amounted to 1,062,931/., out of which 63,546/. was ex- 

 pended on research, 368,288/. in grants to universities and 

 colleges, 445,373/. in payments of class fees for 11,480 

 individual students, and 30,158/. in administration. The 

 income last year amounted to 108,542/., and the gross ex- 

 penditure to 83,160/., including 7833/. for endowment of 

 research, 21,182/. for grants to universities and colleges, 

 50,5251. for payments to students, and 3620/. for adminis- 

 tration. During the year the sum of 339/. was voluntarily 

 refunded on behalf of fourteen beneficiaries for whom class 

 fees had been paid by the Trust. 



Gifts amounting to 16,260/. have been announced, says 

 Science, by the trustees of Columbia University, including 

 ()()oo/. from Dr. William H. Nichols for instruction and 

 I -search laboratories in chemistry, and 5000/. from Mrs. 

 Russell Sage for the E. G. Janeway Library endowment 

 fund at the medical school. From the same source we 

 learn that Transylvania University has announced that the 

 effort to raise a fund of 50,000/. has been completed 

 successfully. The largest gifts, apart from 10,000/. offered 

 by the General Education Board in May, 19 10, were as 

 follows : — 6000/. from Mr. R. A. Long, of Kansas City ; 

 three gifts of 5000/. each from Messrs. W. P. Bowers, of 

 Muncie, Ind., Geo. H. Waters, of Pomona, Calif., and 

 J. J. .Atkins, of Elkton, Ky. Our contemporary also states 

 that the completion of the 100,000/. endowment fund for 

 Oberlin College has made possible the following additions 



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to the college resources : — the men's building, 30,000/. ; a 

 new administration building, io,ooo/. ; the completion of 

 the men's gymnasium, 10,000/. ; for higher salaries, 

 40,000/. ; and other endowments, 12,000/. 



W'e regret to learn that the position of Hartley Uni- 

 versity College, Southampton, at the present time is 

 extremely critical, and unless a further sum of 10,000/. is 

 raised by April i it is to be feared that the college will 

 lose its status as a university college for Hampshire, 

 Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and the Isle of Wight. This will 

 mean a very serious setback to education in the south of 

 England, especially in view of the rapid growth of 

 secondary schools throughout the area, all of which look 

 to Southampton as their university. Inspectors appointed 

 by the Advisory Committee of the Treasury visited 

 Southampton in 1909, and although their report was 

 entirely satisfactory as regards the work and development 

 of the college, and its educational value to the area which 

 it is intended to serve, yet the buildings were condemned 

 as inadequate, and attention was directed to the lack of 

 voluntary local support. On these grounds it was proposed 

 that the annual grant of 2250/. should be reduced to 

 1500/. for the year ending March 31, 19 11, after which 

 date the grant should be entirely discontinued. Eventually, 

 however, as the result of representations made by the 

 college, the full grant was paid, and was renewed for the 

 year ending March 31, 1912, on the understanding that 

 about 31,000/. should be raised by that date, to be appor- 

 tioned approximately as follows : — (a) 5000/. for the pur- 

 chase of the new college site; (b) 21,000/. for the erection 

 of two blocks, to accommodate the arts department (in- 

 cluding the day training department) ; (c) 5000/. to form 

 the nucleus of an endowment fund. Strenuous efforts have 

 been made to raise this sum, sixteen committees being 

 formed in various districts, with the result that 15,962/. 

 has been given or promised, while the college can dis- 

 pose of property in Southampton estimated at 5000/., 

 making a total of 20,962/. An excellent site has been pro- 

 cured, and satisfactory plans for the new buildings 

 obtained in open competition. The amount available is 

 therefore about 10,000/. short of the sum required to be 

 raised by April i, and if this sum is not forthcoming the 

 college must collapse. It has been the experience of 

 almost all university colleges that once the early difficul- 

 ties have been mastered the growth of the institution is 

 rapid and its success assured. There is every reason to 

 believe that the result will be the same at Southampton if 

 the additional sum of 10,000/. can be secured within the 

 limited time allowed. Donations will be gratefully received 

 bv Mr. D. Kiddle, The Registrar, Hartley University 

 College, Southampton. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 

 London. 

 Geological Society, February 7. — Prof. W. W. Watts, 

 F.R.S., president, in the chair. — Dr. A. H. Cox : An inlier 

 of Longmyndian and Cambrian at Pedwardine (Hereford- 

 shire). The inlier comprises a strip of country about a 

 mile in length and half a mile in breadth, situated near 

 the border of Herefordshire and Radnorshire, about fifteen 

 miles south of Church Stretton. Wenlock and Ludlow 

 beds occupy most of the area around Pedwardine, but the 

 occurrence of Cambrian Shale yielding Dictyonema has 

 long been known. The Dictyonema Shales dip steeply 

 westwards towards a series of red and green conglomerates 

 and grits, with which an occasional thin shale-band is 

 interbedded. The latter beds, previously mapped as 

 Llandovery, are here referred to the Longmyndian. They 

 also dip westwards, and have suffered disturbance, accom- 

 panied by overthrusting from the west. They are un- 

 fossiliferous, and neither on lithological nor on structural 

 grounds can they be regarded as Llandovery strata rest- 

 ing unconformably upon the Cambrian. The grits at Ped- 

 wardine have apparently been carried south-eastwards over 

 the Cambrian along an almost horizontal thrust-plane. 

 There is also present a remnant of Bala grits, which dip 

 gently eastwards, and rest with strong unconformity upon 

 the Cambrian shales. The undisturbed character of these 

 Bala beds suggests that the neighbouring thrust may be 



