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questions affecting forest pro4uction m ^well a,% 

 entomology, mycology, soil science, "and the like 

 should form part of the work of the central institution. 



It is proposed that the central institution should 

 be located at Oxford, incorporated with the Univer- 

 sity, and governed by a board appointed one half by 

 the Departments or Governments concerned and the 

 other half by the University. The director (who 

 should be the professor of forestry) and the staff 

 should be appointed by the • University with the 

 approval of the board. The Departments concerned 

 should jointly guarantee to the board an annual sum 

 sufficient to pay the costs of the institution, and 

 should defray any deficit in the annual working in 

 proportion to the number of students trained for the 

 services of each Department. It is estimated that 

 the annual cost of the permanent staff should not 

 at the commencement exceed 4000^. per annum. No 

 estimate of the capital cost of the proposed scheme 

 can be made until detailed plans of such buildings 

 as the University are prepared to provide have been 

 obtained and discussed, but pending the erection of 

 permanent buildings it has been ascertained that 

 arrangements can be made with the University for 

 temporary accommodation. 



Among other proposals is one that officers of every 

 forest service should at one period of their career 

 return to the institution for a special course. 



University and Educational Intelligence. 



Cambridge.— Dr. J. H. D. Scott and Mr. \V. W. 

 Harvey, of Christ's College, have been elected to John 

 Lucas Walker studentships in pathology. 



Mr. T. C. Wyatt has been elected to a fellowship 

 at Christ's College. 



The directors of Messrs. Barclays Bank, Ltd., have 

 given loooi, towards the cost of the new engineering 

 laboratory. 



Details of the latest proposals as to women students 

 at Cambridge have now been published. The 

 memorial (which has been signed by nearly two 

 hundred residents, including Sir Clifford Allbutt, Prof. 

 Eddington, Dr. Fenton, Dr. E. H. Griffiths, Prof. 

 Inglis, Sir William Pope, Dr. Rivers, Prof. Seward, 

 Sir Joseph Thomson, and Dr. Whetham) asks that 

 women shall be matriculated as members of women's 

 colleges ; shall be eligible for all degrees with all 

 privileges except membership of the Senate and of 

 the Electoral Roll; also that they shall be eligible 

 for scholarships, prizes and studentships, professor- 

 ships, readerships, lectureships, and examinerships of 

 the University and for membership of boards and 

 syndicates. Women would be present on the council 

 of the Senate as assessors without vote. There 

 would be provision against mixed colleges and against 

 an increase of resident women in statu pupillari 

 beyond 500. The council proposes to have this 

 scheme and the alternative scheme, which merely 

 offers the women titular degrees, voted on during the 

 present term. The new scheme is the result of a 

 conference between some of the supporters and some 

 of the opponents of the old Report A, and is backed 

 by the signatures of 115 supporters of Report A and 

 of 50 opponents of this report. 



London. — ^The first of a course of eight advanced 

 lectures in phvsiology was given in the physiological 

 laboratorv, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smith- 

 field, E.C.I, on Tuesday, by Prof. W. D. Halliburton 

 upon the subject of Cerebro-spinal Fluid. The 

 re^maining lectures will be as follows : — May 10, Prof. 



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M. S. Pembrey, The Secretion of Milk; May 17, Mr. 

 J.' Barcroft, Alpitirsm; May 24, Prof. W. M. Bayliss, 

 The Reaction of the Blood; May 31, Prof. J. B. 

 Leathes, Tyrosine; June 7, Prof. E. H. Starling, The 

 Heart in Exercise; June 14, Dr. H. H. Dale, Ana- 

 phylaxis; and June 21, Dr. Leonard Hill, The Capil- 

 lary Circulation. 



Another course of eight lectures on " Reception of 

 Sensory Stimuli " will be given by Prof. H. E. Roaf 

 in the physiology theatre, London Hospital Medical 

 College, Turner Street, Mile End, E.i, at 4.30 p.m., 

 on Thursdays, May 12, 19, and 26 and June 2, 9, 16, 

 23, and 30. The lectures in each course are addressed 

 to advanced students of the University and to others 

 interested in the subject. Admission is free, without 

 ticket. 



The Zionist Organisation is prepared to send a lec- 

 turer on the Jewish national movement free of all 

 charge to any organisation or society. The lecture 

 can be illustrated by lantern-slides dealing with Pales- 

 tinian life and scenery. Persons interested should 

 write to the Lecture-Secretary, Zionist Organisation, 

 77 Great Russell Street, London, W.C.i. 



A PROVISIONAL programme has been issued of the 

 summer meeting of the Institution of Electrical En-" 

 gineers to be held at the Scottish centre (Glasgow) on 

 June 7-10. On the first day of the meeting Mr. R. B. 

 Mitchell will describe the Dalmarnock generating 

 station, which will be followed by a visit to this power 

 station. On the second day Prof. M. Maclean will 

 give a paper entitled "The Hydro-electric Resources 

 of the Scottish Highlands." The last day of the 

 meeting will be spent at Oban, and a visit will be 

 paid to the hydro-electric installation of the British 

 Aluminium Co. 



Acting in co-operation with the Royal Academy of 

 Sciences in Holland, the Anglo-Batavian Society is 

 attempting to foster a fuller understanding between 

 scientific men in Holland and England by arranging 

 for addresses to be given by Dutch lecturers in 

 London and by English men of science in the four 

 universities of the Netherlands. In March last the 

 lectures in Holland were inaugurated at Leyden by 

 Dr. Thomas Lewis, of University College Hospital, 

 who gave an account of his recent work on the heart. 

 On April 14 and 16 Prof. Elliot Smith delivered ad- 

 dresses at Groningen and Utrecht respectively on 

 "Vision and Evolution." In 1912 Prof. Elliot Smith 

 directed attention (Nature, September 26, 1912) to 

 the far-reaching results in the evolution of the 

 Primates of the substitution of vision for smell as the 

 guiding sense in man's arboreal ancestors. In the 

 Montgomery lecture in Dublin last autumn he de- 

 veloped this theme further by demonstrating the pro- 

 found influence exerted upon the evolution of the 

 brain by the acquisition of stereoscopic vision. In 

 the lectures given in Holland attention was concen- 

 trated on the changes which are brought about in 

 the cerebral cortex of an animal which for the first 

 time acquired powers of true observation and the 

 means of appreciating form, space, and time. The 

 possession of acute vision in conjunction with extreme 

 mobility and co-ordination of the eyes and such deli- 

 cate tactile instruments as the hands, which under 

 the guidance of vision explore the surrounding world 

 and learn by experiment, gave the animal the curiosity 

 and the incentive to embark upon the voyage of dis- 

 covery which eventually led to the emergence of 

 man's intelligence and aesthetic appreciation, and as 

 a result the attainment of his distinctive knowledge 

 and powers of discrimination. 



