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[February io, 192 i 



instruments and apparatus for his researches on 

 nutrition. 



(3) National Veterinary School of Toulouse : 3000 

 francs to Jean Lafon, for his researches on the com- 

 parative physiology of the secretions in different 

 animal species. 



II. Grants to Establishments Called to the Consulta- 

 tive Committee of the Foundation by the 

 President of the Academy. 



(1) Conservatoire national des Arts et Metiers : 

 6000 francs to Henri Chaumat, for his studies on the 

 electrical and magnetic properties of electrolytic iron. 



(2) Central Electrical Laboratory : 10,000 francs for 

 the researches, under the direction of Paul Janet, on 

 the absolute standards of the international ohm. 



III. Grants Given on Personal Application. 



(i) 10,000 francs to Charles Alluaud and to R. 

 Jeannel, for the study of the zoological and botanical 

 material collected by them in the high mountains of 

 eastern Africa and for the publication of the results. 



(2) 5000 francs to Jules Baillaud, for the establish- 

 ment of a recording microphotometer of the type sug- 

 gested in 1912 by P. Koch. 



(3) 3000 francs to Henry Bourget, director of the 

 Marseilles Observatory, for the Journal des Observa- 

 teurs. 



(4) 2000 francs to Clement Codron, for his re- 

 searches on the sawing of metals. 



{5) 5000 francs to the School of Anthropology, for 

 the publication of the Revue d'Anthropologie. 



(6} 4000 francs to Justin Jolly, for the publication of 

 a work on blood and haematoporesis. 



(7) 7000 francs to Louis Joubin, for the publication 

 of the results of the French Antarctic Expedition. 



(8) 3000 francs to the late Jules Laurent, for the 

 publication (under the direction of Gaston Bonnier) 

 of a work on the flora and geography of the neigh- 

 bourhood of Rheims. 



(9) 3000 francs to Henri Brocard and L6on 

 Lemoyne, for the publication of the second and third 

 volumes of their work entitled "Courbes g^ometriques 

 remarquables planes et gauches.'' 



(10) 2000 francs to A. Menegaux, for the Revue 

 franfaise d'Ornithologie. 



(11) 5000 francs to Charles- Nordmann, for his Re- 

 searches on stellar photometry. 



(12) 8000 francs to the Zi-Ka-Wei Observatory, in 

 China (director, R. P. Gauthier), for recording time- 

 signals from distant centres. 



"(13) 2000 francs to O. Parent, for his studies on a 

 group of Diptera. 



(14) 10,000 francs to G. Pruvot and G. Racovitza, 

 directors of the Archives dc Zoologie expirimentale et 

 genirale, for this publication. 



(15) 6000 francs to Alcide Railliet, for the publica- 

 tion of researches on the parasites of the domestic 

 animals of Indo-Chinn. 



(16) 4000 francs to J. J. Rcy, for the publication of 

 a botanical geographv of the Central Pyrenees. 



(17) 10,000 francs "to Maximilien Ringelmann, for 

 researches relating to the physical and mechanical 

 constants of metals intended to be used in the con- 

 struction of agricultural machines. 



(18) 12,000 francs to the .Academy of Sciences, for 

 the establishment of a catalogue of scientific and 

 technical periodicals in the libraries of Paris. 



It was pointed out bv the council in T017 that, 

 although the special obiect of this foundation was 

 the promotion of original research, up to that time 

 requests for assisting work to be carried out accord- 

 ing to a well-defined scheme had been exceedingly 

 few in number. For the three years 1914-17 the 

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majority of the requests had for their object the estab- 

 lishment or improvement of equipment more suitable 

 for teaching than for personal work. These remarks 

 still apply, and a possible modification in the method 

 of dealing with the revenue of this foundation is 

 foreshadowed. 



University and Educational Inteliigrence. 



BiRMiNunA.M. — .\t a special degree congregation 

 held in the Great Hall of the University on Saturday, 

 February 5, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws 

 was conferred on the Prime Minister, the Right Hon. 

 David Lloyd George, who had a most enthusiastic 

 welcome. After receiving the degree the Prime 

 Minister made a short speech in which he expressed 

 his admiration of the way in which the universities 

 of the country had come to her aid in the great war, 

 and his own surprise at the discovery of the vital 

 importance of the universities, not only as centres 

 of culture and learning, but also as essential factors 

 in the strength of the nation. He paid a generous 

 tribute to the energy and foresight of the founder of 

 the Universitv of Birmingham (Air. Joseph Chamber- 

 lain), and hoped that the Midland area generally, 

 realising its obligation, would come to the assistance 

 of the University in this its time of serious financial 

 need. 



On behalf of the subscribers to tlie Poynting 

 Memorial Fund, the portrait of the late Prof. J. H. 

 Poynting (by Mr. Bernard Munns) has been presented 

 to the University, and Mr. W. Waters Butler has 

 presented the portrait of the late Prof. Adrian Brown 

 by the same artist. The council has expressed its 

 w'arm appreciation of these gifts, both of which now 

 hang in the Great Hall of the University. 



In response- to the appeal for 500,000!., the sum of 

 28o,jJ4L has been received or promised. 



Cambridge. — Dr. C. S. Myers, Gonville and Caius 

 College, has been appointed reader in experimental 

 psychology, and Mr. F. A. Potts, Trinity Hall, demon- 

 strator of comparative anatomy. 



A grant of 150!. from the Craven Fund has been 

 made to the managing committee of the British 

 School at Athens in aid of further excavations at 

 Mvcenae. 



A LECTURE on "The Innervation of Striped Muscl 

 Fibres and Langley's Receptive Substance" will b 

 given at the rooms of the Roval Society of Medicin< . 

 I Wimpole Street, W.i, by Dr. J. Boeke, professo: 

 of embrvologv and histology in the University 01 

 Utrecht, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, February 16. Thi< 

 lecture has 'been arranged under a scheme for the 

 exchange of lecturers in medicine between England 

 and Holland. Four other Dutch lecturers will also 

 give one lecture each, particulars of which will be 

 Announced later. The chair at the lecture of 

 February 16 will be taken by Prof. W. M. Bayliss. 

 Admission is free, without ticket. 



The Universitv of Bristol will shortly possess as 

 fine a block of universitv buildings as can be found 

 in the United Kingdom' outside Oxford and Cam- 

 bridge. The entire expense of erecting these build- 

 ings was, from the outset, undertaken jointly by Mr. 

 George A. Wills and Mr. Henry H. Wills. The cost 

 of completing the work will vastly exceed even the 

 liberal sum contemplated when the gift was originally 

 made. .Additional contributions were made by the 

 two brothers during the course of the war, and since 

 the present year commenced they have placed in the 



