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NATURE 



[February 2, 191 1 



Mais les faits pr6spnt(5s suflisent k montrer le grand intdret 

 des <5tudes sur I'atmosph^re solaire supdrieure et la 

 n^cessit^ de les continuer. 



L 'atmosphere solaire est la seule que nous puissions 

 observer dans son ensemble et dans scs couches successives. 

 Nos appareils enregistreurs donnent en quelques minutes 

 son aspect g^n^ral et ses mouvements principaux ; ^ ce 

 point de vue, elle nous est mieux connue que 1 'atmosphere 

 terrestre que nous observons seulement dans ses parties 

 basses et sur une ^tendue restreinte, mSme avec I'aide du 

 t^l^graphe. 



20 mai, 1909. 



iSjuin, 1909, 



Fig. 4. — Images de lacouche superieure de I'atmosphere solaire qui montrent les filaments noirs 

 caract^ristiques et en particulier les filaments polaires. Ces images, obtenuts avec I'aide de 

 d'Azambuja, out t\i. relevees sur les epreuves monochromatiques du soleil obtenues avec la 

 partie centrale des raies Ha de I'hydrogene ou K du calcium. Elles montrent seulement les 

 filaments noirs sans les alignements. Les plages brillantes des Epreuves au-dessus des 

 facules n'ont pas 6t6 representees. 



Mk. Frank Howson has resigned the lectureship in 

 physiology in the College of Medicine of the University 

 of Durham to accept a similar appointment at Sydney, 

 New South Wales. 



Dr. T. J. Mac.vamara, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary 

 to the Admiralty, will distribute the awards of prizes and 

 certificates at the Battersea Polytechnic, and deliver an 

 address, on Tuesday evening, F"ebruary 28. 



Mr. James Lees, assistant lecturer in the faculty of 



engineering at the University of Bristol, has been 



appointed to the post of lecturer in 



engineering in the South African College, 



Cape Town. 



The annual distribution of prizes to 

 students of the City and Guilds of London 

 Institute will be held on F"ebruary 17 at 

 the Mansion House, the Lord Mayor pre- 

 siding. Dr. R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., of 

 the -National Physical Laboratory, will 

 deliver an address. 



It is announced in Science that the fund 

 .>f 150,000/. for the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity is now complete. This insures the 

 payment to the fund of a further 50,000/. 

 offered conditionally in February of last 

 year by the General Education i3oard, as 

 was explained in our note last week on the 

 report of the president of the Johns 

 Hopkins University for the year ended 

 August 31, 1910. 



Dr. Hermon C. Bumpus has resigned 

 the post of director of the American . 

 Museum of Natural History, New York, 

 which he has held since 1902, and has 

 accepted an appointment as " business 

 manager " of the University of Wisconsin. 

 The post is a new one, the University 

 having recently decided to divide the 

 administrative work between the president 

 and an ofificer of this name. The office 

 will be entirely separate from academic or 

 leaching functions. 



The Drapers' Company has made a grant' 

 of 15,000/. for the erection of a new wing 

 for the department of applied science of thej 

 University of Sheffield. The new building 

 will be used to house the mining sectioil 

 and the research department for the silvefl 

 and allied trades. The council of the Uni- 

 versity on January 27 passed a resolutior 

 thanking the Drapers' Company, and exJ 

 pressetl a desire to associate the name 

 the Drapers' Company with the extension^ 

 as a record of the company's generosity. 



Le r^seau de courants de convection et les filaments 

 curieux reconnus dans les couches hautes du soleil, peuvent 

 se retrouver aussi sur la terre, et c'est ainsi que I'^tude du 

 soleil peut nous apprendre k mieux connaitre notre propre 

 atmosphere. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge. — The Adams prize for 191 1 is awarded to 

 Prof. A. E. H. Love, F.R.S., formerly fellow of St. 

 John's College, for his essay entitled " Some Problems of 

 Geodynam'cs." 



The adjudicators of the Hopkins prize awarded by the 

 Philosophical Society for the period 1900-3 have awarded 

 the prize to Prof. J. H. Poynting, F.R.S., for his re- 

 searches on the transmission of energy in the electric field 

 and on the pressure exerted by radiation. 



NO. 2153, VOL. 85] 



The Birmingham Education Committe 

 has decided to recommend the Cit 

 Council to increase the grant to th 

 University of Birmingham from one halfpenny in ^Ii 

 pound to an amount equal to one penny in the pound ol 

 the assessable value of the city, which it is expected wi| 

 amount to about 12,000/. The Education Committee ha 

 agreed also to suggest to the University authorities th 

 need for increasing the number of scholarships availabi 

 for persons who would not otherwise be able to tat 

 advantage of the University teaching. 



The following gifts and bequests for higher 'educatic 

 in the United States have been announced recently 

 Science. An old student, who does not wish his nar 

 disclosed, has given 20,000/. to the University of Pent 

 sylvania for the endowment of a chair of physiologies 

 chemistry. It will be known as the " Benjamin Rus 

 chair of physiological chemistry." Dr. Alonzo E. Taylo^ 

 formerly of the University of California, will be the firs 

 occupant of the chair. The University of Vermont ha< 

 received 13,593/. from the Rockefeller Foundation, repre 



