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NATURE 



[October 28, 1920 



University and Educational Intelligence. 



Birmingham. — At the last nieciinf; of the council 

 profound rejjret was expressfd at the death of Mr. 

 Arthur Godlee, who since 1914 had filled the office of 

 treasurer of the University, and whose death at the 

 present juncture was }<reatly to be deplored. 



The Worcestershire County Council has increased 

 its grant to the University for the current year from 

 300/. to ifiol. 



The following appointments have recently been 

 made : — Mr. T. G. Madgvvick, assistant professor in 

 petroleum technology ; Mr. Kenneth Neville Moss, 

 assistant professor in coal-mining; Mr. T. Spencer, 

 demonstrator and instructor in petroleum drilling ; 

 Miss Nora 1. Calderwood and Mr. T. .\. Lumsden, 

 assistant lecturers in mathematics; Mr. F. H. Boden, 

 lecturer in machine design; Mr. T. G. Bamford, lec- 

 turer in metallurgy; Mr. H. Baker, assistant lecturer 

 in machine design ; and Mr. Harold Harris, demon- 

 strator and instructor of assaying. 



Bristol. — Mr. H. G. Hughes has been appointed 

 assistant lecturer in physics, and Miss G. Gilchrist 

 demonstrator in botany. 



The number of full-time day students who have 

 already entered the faculty of engineering this term 

 is 223, as compared with 207 last session. 



Cambridge. — Mr. W. G. Dixon, Downing College, 

 has been re-appointed reader in pharmacology and 

 Mr. S. W. Cole, Trinity College, lecturer in medical 

 chemistry. Mr. T. R. Parsons, Sidney Sussex Col- 

 lege, has been re-elected to the Michael Foster re- 

 search studentship. Field-Marshal Viscount .Mlenby 

 is to receive an honorary degree on October 29. 



Dr. L. E. Shore, St. John's College, and Mr. 

 W. B. Hardy, Gonville and Caius College, have been 

 re-appointf^d Universitv lecturers in physiology. 



The Gedge prize has been awarded to G. E. Briggs, 

 St. John's College, for an essay on "Photosynthesis 

 in Plants." 



The Board of Research Studies has. recommended 

 to the Senate that degrees of M.Litt. and M.Sc. be 

 established in the Universitv on a two years' post- 

 graduate research course. 



Edi.vburgh. — The University Court has approved 

 of the minute of the order of the proceedings at the 

 laying of the foundation-stone of the first of the 

 "King's Buildings" by his Majestv the King and the 

 I^aureation of her Majestv the Queen on Tuesdav. 

 July 6,. and directed that it be printed and circulated 

 among the graduates and alumni of the t'niversity 

 throughout the Empire and el.sewhere, and that an 

 appeal be made for the financial assistance necessary 

 to further the schemes now in progress. 



The following appointments have been made to the 

 newly instituted office of reader : — Dr. Cargill G. 

 Knott (applied mathematics). Mr. George G. Chi'iholm 

 (geography), and Dr. R. Stewart Macdougall (en'.o- 

 mology). 



The War Office has authorised the utilisation of 

 the estate of Stobs as a forest area in connection with 

 the department of forestry. • 



London. — .A course of three public lectures on 

 " Present Tendencies of Philosophy in .America " com- 

 mences to-day at King's College with a lecture on 

 " New Realism : Its Background and Origin," bv Prof. 

 W. P. Montague, professor of philosophy in Columbia 

 University, New York City. The two other Ipctures 

 will be "New Realism: Its Tmolication and Pro- 

 mise " (October 29), also by Prof. Montague ; and 

 on Monday. November i. "Pragmatism: Its Right 

 and Left Wine's," by Prof. J. E. Boodin, professor in 



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Carleton C'ollege, Minnesota. The lectures are at 

 5.30 p.m., <nnd admission is free without ticket. 



Dr. Edwin Deller, assistant secretary of the 

 Royal Society, has been appointed academic registrar 

 of the University in succession to Mr. P. J. Hartog, 

 now Vice-Chancellor of the Universitv of Dacca. 



Dr. N. Morris, assistant to the professor of physio- 

 logy in the L'niversity of Glasgow, has been appointed 

 to the chair of physiology at the Anderson College of 

 Medicine, Glasgow. 



.•\ LF.CTLRE on " Eugenics and Religion" is to be 

 delivered at the Wigmore Hall at 5.30 on Tuesday. 

 November 16, by Dean Inge, under the auspices of 

 the Eugenics Education Society. 



Mr. F. J. Harlow, head of the department of 

 mathematics and physics at the Sir John Cass 

 Technical Institute, .Aldgate, has been appointed 

 principal of the Municipal Technical College, Black- 

 burn, in succession to Dr. R. H. Pickard, now 

 principal of Battersea Polytechnic. 



.\ LECTURK on " Rare Gases in the .\tmosphere " will - 

 be given by Prof. J. Norman Collie at University 

 College, Gower Street, W.C.i, on Friday, Novem- 

 ber 19, at 6 p.m., as one of the London County 

 Council's lectures for teachers. The chair will be 

 taken by Mr. A. Chaston Chapman. 



.\ COURSE of twelve free Swiney lectures on geology 

 is announced for delivery by Dr. J. D. Falconer in 

 th? geology lecture theatre. Royal School of Mines, 

 .South Kensington, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and 

 Fridays, at 5.30, beginning on Monday, November 8. 

 The subject will be "The Modelling of the Earth's 

 Crust." 



Societies and Academies. 

 Paris. 

 Academy o! Sciences, October 4. — M. Henri Deslandres 

 in the chair. — E. Picard : The International Congress 

 of Mathematics at Strasbourg. — The President an- 

 nounced the death of Sir Norman Loclcyer, and 

 described Ijie main lines of the scientific work carried 

 out by this distinguished astronomer and correspondant 

 of the Academy. — A. Lacroix : A series of alkaline 

 syenitic potassic rocks in sodium minerals from 

 .Madagascar. — G. Bigourdan : Corrections of the normal 

 time-signals sent out by the Bureau international de 

 I'Heure from January i to March 19, 1920. Two types 

 of signal are sent out : ordinary signals for the pur- 

 posej of navigation, railways, etc., and scientific or 

 rhythmic signals for use in observatories. The 

 corrections for the directing clock are tabulated ; 

 those for the time-signals will be given later. — C. 

 Sauvageau : The membranes of some algae (Florideae) 

 and the setting of the gelosic hydrosol. — M. Gevrey : 

 The determination of Green's functions. — T. Varo- 

 poulos : Some theorems of M. Remoundos. — J. Soula : 

 Generalisation of a theorem of M. Leau relating to 

 the determination of the singular points of a function 

 defined by a Taylor's series.— -A. Bilimovitch : The 

 intrinsic equations of rnotion of a solid body. — V. 

 Vaicovlci : The hvdrodyriamical forces in movements 

 differing between themselves by a uniform rotation of 

 space. — J. Andrade : The problem of the spiral cylinder. 

 — A. Vela: Observations' of Nova Cygni. \x\ account 

 of work done on the new star at the Madrid Observa- 

 tory. Maximum brightness, about 1-4 magnitude, 

 was attained on .\ugust 24. h number of spectro- 

 scopic observations were made. — J. Bergengren ^ The 

 absorption spectrum of phosphorus for the X-ra\s. 



