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lishing definitely which of the Arctic Medusae are cer- 

 tainly produced in those seas; for such floating buoys 

 are sometimes of great assistance in indicating the 

 origin, northern or southern, of the constituent waters 

 of ocean currents. The Medusae have the advantage, 

 as compared with Arctic diatoms, of larger size 

 and easy identification. Dr. Bigelow points out that 

 there is at least one Anthomedusa, Sarsia princeps, 

 which has now been recorded from so many parts of 

 the Arctic and from currents flowing from it {e.g. the 

 Labrador current), but from nowhere else, that it 

 can safely be taken as an indicator of Arctic water. 

 The report on the Isopoda has been extended to in- 

 clude other material from the Arctic, and forms a 

 summary of our present knowledge of the Isopoda 

 of that region. The Amphipoda reported are, for the 

 most part, well-known Arctic species, but one — a 

 species of Synurella — is new, and this genus is re- 

 corded for the first time in American waters. Katius 

 nbesus, known previously only from the Atlantic, is 

 now reported for the first time from the Pacific. Ap- 

 pended to the report on parasitic Copepoda is a useful 

 list of the species which have been recorded from the 

 Arctic up to the present. 



University and Educational Intelligence 



Birmingham. — The Huxley lecture is to be delivered 

 on November 25 by Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, who has 

 chosen as his subject "A Philosophy of Evolution." 



Cambridge. — A congratulatory address to Dr. G. D. 

 Liveing, for forty-seven years professor of chemistry 

 in the University, was read by the Public Orator at 

 the Congregation on November 5. The address was 

 presented by the Vice-Chancellor to Dr. Liveing at 

 St. John's College on Sunday, November 13. 



Dr. J. Chadwick has been elected to a fellowship 

 at Gonville and Caius College. 



Manchester. — The University has received from 

 Messrs. Lewis's, Ltd., an offer of loooL a year for 

 three years. A portion of this sum is to be utilised 

 in providing scholarships each of the value of 200Z. 

 for one 3-ear, to encourage further study on the part 

 of graduates who propose to enter industry and com- 

 merce. Under the proposed scheme one scholarship 

 would be offered annually in each of the subjects, 

 economics, commerce, and applied psychology. It is 

 proposed that these scholarships should be open to 

 graduates of any approved university, and that they 

 should be awarded by the University. They will be 

 known as the ''Lewis's Scholarships in Commerce." 

 The council has accepted the offer with gratitude. 

 Detailed proposals for the scheme are at present under 

 consideration, and will be announced in due course. 



Mr. R. W. Palmer, of the Geological Survey of 

 India, has been appointed senior lecturer in geology. 



Mr. Stanley Wyatt, investigator to the Industrial 

 Fatigue Research Board, has been appointed special 

 lecturer in psychology. 



Mr. J. W. ScHARFF has been ^appointed lecturer in 

 biology at King Edward VII. Medical School, Singa- 

 f>ore. 



The Times announces that Sir Philip Magnus, 

 member of Parliament for London University for the 

 last sixteen years, has written to Sir Forrest Fulton, 

 president of the London University Unionist Associa- 

 tion, stating that, as he has entered his eightieth year, 

 he has decided not to offer himself for re-election at 

 the close of the present Parliament. 



It is announced that five or more commercial re- 

 search fellowships of the approximate value of 500L 

 NO. 2716, VOL. 108] 



each are to be . instituted by the executive council of 

 the British Empire Exhibition, 1923. The fellowships 

 will be identified with those towns the chambers of 

 commerce of which obtain the highest aggregate of 

 guarantees for the exhibition in proportion to their 

 membership, and these bodies will also have the right 

 of selecting the recipients. Each fellowship includes 

 a first-class return ticket to the Dominion or Depen- 

 dency to be visited, and research will be carried out 

 under the following headings : — (i) The best means 

 of promoting inter-Imperial trade in a selected staple 

 industry; (2) the methods by which the forthcoming 

 exhibition can promote this trade ; (3) the potential 

 resources in raw material of the country visited and 

 the best means for their exploitation in the mutual 

 interest of the producing country and Great Britain ; 

 and (4) the means whereby undeveloped resources 

 may be adequately represented at the forthcoming 

 exhibition and brought to the notice of the industrial 

 and financial groups concerned. The subject for in- 

 vestigation will be determined by the local chamber 

 through which the fellowship is awarded, and the 

 fellows selected must proceed to their destinations 

 before the end of March next. The closing date for 

 entries for the competition is December 15, and the 

 results will be announced on December 24. 



Bulletin No. 42, 1920, of the United States Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, Bureau of Education, provides 

 evidence that American colleges are suffering in the 

 matter of staffing in much the same way as British 

 universities and colleges, and for the same reasons. 

 The bulletin contains reports of conferences on educa- 

 tion for highway engineering and highway transport. 

 The American colleges are very desirous of helping in 

 the solution of highway problems, but they are limited 

 in many ways, and especially in the matter of money. 

 A large number of college faculty members are leav- 

 ing because manufacturers offer higher salaries than 

 the colleges can pay. " Under war conditions the 

 teaching staffs were badly disorganised. Last year 

 there was a tremendous influx of new students, and 

 the appropriations have, in general, been far less than 

 the enlarged needs. Salary budgets have not been 

 revised to meet the competition of industrial engineer- 

 ing organisations, with the consequent loss of very 

 many of the best qualified professors and instructors." 

 There is a great deal more to the same effect, and 

 the committee recommends that more ample funds 

 must be provided from private sources, from co-opera- 

 tive efforts with industries, and from taxation. 



We have received two papers on " International 

 Language in English and Ido," by Prof. Otto Jes- 

 persen, and a pamphlet on "The Auxiliary Language 

 Ido," by M. L. de Beaufront. These papers trace 

 the origin of Ido as a development from Esperanto, 

 and claim that it is free from many defects to be 

 found in the earlier artificial language. In 1907 an 

 International Committee met in Paris to decide which 

 artificial language was the most suitable to be intro- 

 duced for international communications. After much 

 discussion the Committee decided in principle to adopt 

 Esperanto, but with the reservation that several 

 changes should be made by a Permanent Commission. 

 The changes made by this Commission were, however, 

 not accepted by the supporters of Esperanto, so that 

 the auxiliary language finally adopted by the Com- 

 mission, instead of taking the place of Esperanto, 

 appeared as a rival language under the name of Ido. 

 The recent report of the Committee on an Inter- 

 national Auxiliary Language made to the meeting of 

 the British Association at Edinburgh recommends an 

 invented language, and adds that EsperantopiKl Jdo 



