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NATURE 



[November 3, 1923 



The University of King's College, Windsor. Nova 

 Scotia, is to be moved to Halifax, A large part of its 

 buildings was destroyed by fire in 1920, and its work 

 lias since been carried on with much difficulty in 

 cramped and unconifortable (quarters. The Carix ^i'- 

 Corporation of New York will make a large gr.mi 

 towards the expenses of re-establishing the college at 

 Halifax, where its work will be carried on in association 

 with the University of Dalhousie. Its engineering 

 courses will be discontinued. 



In accordance with the terms of the will of the 

 late Sir Archibald Dawnay, the Royal Institute of 

 British Architects has awarded one scholarship of 

 50/, per annum to Mr. R. W. Donaldson (University 

 of Liverpool), and two scholarships of 25/, per annum 

 each to Mr. R. H. Turner (University of Liverpool) 

 and Mr. A. E, Cameron (Architectural Association). 

 Mr. C. H. Hutton (University of Liverpool), who was 

 awarded a scholarship of 25/. for 1 922-1923, has been 

 granted a renewal of his scholarship for 1923-1924. 

 The scholarships are intended to foster the advanced 

 study of construction and the improvement generally 

 of constructional methods and materials and their 

 influence on design. 



A PRIZE fellowship of 1000 Swedish kroner, offered 

 for research in science by the Swedish Federation of 

 University Women, has been awarded to an English- 

 woman, Mrs. Muriel Wheldale Onslow. Mrs. Onslow 

 is distinguished for her work on the biochemistry 

 of plants. She has already been an " N " Fellow 

 of Newnham College, Cambridge, and in 1915 was 

 awarded a fellowship of the British Federation of 

 University Women. The Swedish award proves 

 that the work of British women in science is note- 

 worthy not only in Great Britain but also in com- 

 petition with that of other scientific workers, for the 

 fellowship was open to the university women of 

 eighteen countries, 



A LIST of qualifications for teachers in technical 

 schools recognised by the Burnham Committee for 

 salary purposes as equivalent to a degree has been 

 approved by the Board of Education, and has recently 

 been issued as Appendix III. to the Report of the 

 Standing Joint Committee on Salaries for Teachers 

 in Technical Schools. (H,M. Stationery Office : 

 Imperial House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2. \d. net. 

 By post, \\d.) In Section (c) Science and Technology 

 the following qualifications are accepted : — (i.) Aca- 

 demic Qualifications : Associate of the Royal College 

 of Science, London or Ireland, of the City and Guilds 

 of London Institute, or of the Royal School of Mines ; 

 (ii.) Membership of Professional Societies : Associate 

 membership of the Institutions of Civil Engineers, 

 Mechanical Engineers, or Electrical Engineers, pro- 

 vided that the Associate Membership Examination 

 has been passed, and that three years' engineering 

 experience after the age of 21 is reckoned as part of 

 the qualification ; associateship of the Institute of 

 Chemistry, provided that the Institute's Examination 

 for Associateship has been passed ; and membership 

 of the Pharmaceutical Society and Pharmaceutical 

 Chemist, provided that the Qualifying and Major 

 Examinations have been passed, and followed by 

 three years' professional experience ; (iii.) Miscel- 

 laneous : Whitvvorth scholarship if gained between 

 1887 and 1922 ; and the first-class Collier\' Managers' 

 Certificate if the holder has three years' industrial 

 experience after the age of 21, and has also obtained 

 the diploma of a recognised mining college. This list 

 may be modified from time to time, and qualifications 

 not included can be submitted to the Board of Educa- 

 tion by Local Authorities for approval, 



NO. 2818, VOL. 112] 



Societies and Academies. 



Paris, 



Academy of Sciences, October 8. — M. AiiMi. 

 in the chair — A. Lacroix : Notice on P, Klic ' 



The greater part of Colin's life was spent in X. 



gascar, where his work in geodesy, meteorology, and 

 magnetism formed the foundation of all subM*<iuciit 

 work in these subjects in the island. — Jean ?■ 

 Radio-chemistry of fluorescence. The tho<^(r\ 

 oped in an earlier communication is moditi' 

 with the ttbservation that in certain cases ■ 

 cent body may enter into chemical combii. :ii 



the solvent (glycerol) or with oxygen. Tl. .^.c 



of temperature on photo-chemical reactions is also 

 investigated. — Ch,Dep6ret, F, Arcelin, and L, Mayet: 

 The discovery of fossil remains of man of the Auri- 

 gnacian age at So!utr6 (Sa6ne-ct-Loire). 1 hrce com- 

 plete skeletons were discovered in positions which 

 definitely prove burial. Drawings of rh<' three 

 skulls, with descriptions, are given. The men 

 belonged to the Cro-Magnon race, Aurignacian period, 

 but differ in some respects from the Cro-^' •""'•" ^ ni 

 V6z6re and Grimaldi, — Alex. V^ronnet : i 

 tion of planetary systems and stellar .. 

 R. Fortrat and P. Dejean : An attempt to coi 

 a bobbin without iron giving intense magnetic 

 The solenoid was constructed of wires of electrolytic 

 copjjcr, rectangular in section, cooled by a rapid 

 current of water. The apparatus as made could 

 carry a current of 4740 amperes and absorbed 277 

 kilowatts, A field of more than 40,000 gauss was 

 obtainable, — Louis de Broglie : Quanta, the kinetic 

 theory of gases and Fermat's principle. — L. P, Clerc : 

 A question of photographic persi>ective. — Albert 

 Portevin : Remarks concerning the relation between 

 Young's modulus and the atomic volume. The 

 equation expressing the relation between Y'oung's 

 modulus, the density and the atomic mass given in 

 a recent communication by Th, Peczalski is identical 

 with results arrived at by Fesserden in 1892. There 

 is approximate agreement between the formula and 

 experiment for certain metals, but for others, notably 

 rhodium, tantalum, and tungsten, there are wide 

 discrepancies, tungsten, for example, giving 42*2 as 

 the modulus against 8-o calculated. — P. Vaillant : 

 The influence of small variations of temperature on 

 the conductivity of sohd salts and the role of the 

 humidity in this phenomenon. The results of the 

 experiments described lead to the conclusion that in 

 sohd salts the electrical conductivity is largely 

 superficial and due to a particular condition of the 

 surface layer. This accounts for the marked influence 

 of traces of moisture on the obserx'ed conductivities, 

 — V, Sorrel : Polarisation capacities with alternating 

 currents. — Marc Bridel : Biochemical study on the 

 composition of Monotropa hypopitys. Isolation of a 

 new methyl salicylate glucoside, monotropitine. The 

 extracts of this plant contain two glucosides, mono- 

 tropeine and monotropitine, the latter being new : 

 they are readily separated by their different solu- 

 bilities in acetic ester. The new glucoside, mono- 

 tropitine. has been isolated in the pure, crystalline 

 state. Some ph^'sical and chemical properties are 

 given : it does not appear to be identical with 

 gaultherine. — Rene Wurmser : Energy yield and 

 chlorophyll assimilation. — A. Maige : Remarks con- 

 cerning the formation and digestion of starch in 

 plant cells. The theon,- best in accord with known 

 facts on the formation and digestion of starch in 

 plants consists in regarding these two phenomena as 

 due to entirely distinct catah^c actions. — G. Truffaut 



