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NATURE 



[February 23, 1922 



that the examination of the moths can be undertaken 

 when they have undergone natural desiccation, and 

 the Noserna, if present, is likely to be in the form of 

 the readily recognisable spores. In India the eggs 

 hatch out within eight days after they are laid, and 

 during this period all the moths must be examined. 

 Rapid desiccation prevents the Nosema forming 

 spores, and the number of spores present in a 

 rapidly dried moth may be so small as to escape 

 detection by the Pasteur method. The author's revised 

 method, depending on the fact that infection is chiefly 

 in the chyle stomach, is to remove with needles a por- 

 tion of this organ to a slide, rub it up in water, and 

 examine it microscopically. Incidentally he remarks 

 on the inefficiency of the copper sulphate solutions 

 usually employed for sterilising rearing houses and 

 appliances in Bengal, but he found that formaldehyde, 

 employed as vapour or in i per cent, solution, com- 

 pletely destroyed the infective power of Nosema spores. 

 A hopeful line of inquiry seems to be opened up by 

 experiments which indicate that resistance to infection 

 is increased by hill rearing. 



University and Educational Intelligence. 



Birmingham. — A post-graduate course of lectures on 

 " Medical Aspects of Crime and Punishment " has 

 been arranged. 



The council of the University has appointed Mr. 

 Alfred Piney to be lecturer on pathological histology. 



Acting on the recommendation of the Senate, the 

 council has approved of the following grants in aid 

 of research for the current year : — Physics, looL ; 

 chemistry, 250Z. ; and zoology, 200Z. 



The Vice-Chancellor, Treasurer, Principal, and Vice- 

 Principal have been appointed representatives of 

 the University for the Conference of Universities to 

 be held in London on May 13 next. 



Cambridge. — On the recommendation of the General 

 Board of Studies it has been decided that Mr. C. G. 

 Lamb shall be appointed reader in electrical engineer- 

 ing, and that, subject to confirmation by the Special 

 Board for Mathematics, Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham 

 shall be appointed reader in geodesy. 



It is proposed to confer the honorary degree of 

 Sc.D. upon Baron A. A. A. von Hiigel, Trinity Col- 

 lege, late curator of the Museum of Archaeology and 

 Ethnology. 



A visiting fellowship of the annual value of 2000 

 dollars, tenable for not more than three years, has 

 been founded at Princeton University by Mr. William 

 Cooper Procter for residential study and investigation 

 in the Graduate College of Princeton University. An un- 

 married male graduate who is a citizen of this country, 

 and not more than thirty years of age, is eligible for 

 appointment, and the visiting fellow must give himself 

 wholly to study and investigation in one of the purely 

 liberal arts and sciences while holding the fellowship. 

 Applications must be made to the Vice-Chancellor 

 not later than the end of March. 



It is notified that the Royal Commission for 185 1 

 has decided to establish certain senior studentships 

 of the value of 400L a year, for which nominations 

 may be made by the University of Cambridge, 

 amongst others. Applications will be made through 

 the professor or head of a laboratory or department 

 under whom the candidate has already carried out 

 research. 



The Royal Agricultural Society has offered for the 

 Agricultural School at Cambridge the Income of the 

 Hills Bequest for the investigation of the value and 

 uses of the rarer forms of ash in the cultivation of 

 crops. 



NO. 2730, VOL. 109] 



Leeds. — The council of the University has ap- 

 pointed Mr.' A. Wormall demonstrator in bio- 

 chemistry. 



London. — The following doctorates have been con- 

 ferred r—P/z.D. {Science): Mr. H. T. Flint, for a 

 thesis entitled " Integration Theorems of Four-dimen- 

 sional Vector Analysis "; Mr. R. J. Ludford, of Uni- 

 versity College, for a thesis entitled " Studies in 

 Gametogenesis : Pt. i, Contributions to the Study of 

 the Oogenesis of Patella, containing the Mitochondria 

 and Gogli Apparatus in relation to Vitellogenesis in 

 Patella ; Pts. 2 and 3, Dictyokinesis in Germ-cells, 

 and the Gogli Apparatus during Cell-division "; Mr. 

 H. Moore, for a thesis entitled "The Season-cracking 

 of Brass and other Copper Alloys " ; and Mr. S. H. 

 Tucker, for a thesis entitled "Carbazole." 



St. Andrews (United College). — The Gray prize 

 in logic for an essay on Kant's " Deduction of the 

 Categories " to Mr. Norman McLeish, and the 

 Tyndall Bruce logic prize for an essay on "The Con- 

 ception of Substance " in Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, 

 and Hume to Mr. Norman McLeish. 



Three fellowships, each of the yearly value of 200Z., 

 tenable for two years, are offered by the University 

 of Wales to graduates of that University. Informa- 

 tion respecting the fellowships can be obtained from 

 the Registrar, University Registry, Cathays Park, 

 Cardiff. The latest date for the receipt of applications 

 for the fellowships is May 31 next. 



Mr. L. P. W. Renouf, assistant lecturer in zoology 

 in the Technical College, Bradford, has recently been 

 elected to the professorship of zoology in University 

 College, Cork. Prior to his appointment at the 

 Technical College, Mr. Renouf was lecturer and 

 examiner in zoology in the University of Glasgow and 

 director of the Bute Laboratory and Museum. 



The annual general meeting of the Association of 

 Technical Institutions will be held at the Leather- 

 sellers' Hall, St. Helen's Place, London, E.C., on 

 Friday and Saturday, March 3 and 4. On the Friday 

 morning the president, Viscount Burnham, will intro- 

 duce the presidentelect, the Right Hon. Waltfer 

 Runciman, who will deliver an address. Papers to 

 be presented are: — "Diplomas," Dr. Clay; "Certi- 

 ficates for Evening Students," Principal Hogg ; and " A 

 Mechanical Engineering Diploma," Brig. -Gen. Mowat. 

 Sir Alfred Keogh, Rector of the Imperial College of 

 Science and Technology and a past-president of the 

 association, will attend the meeting on Friday after, 

 noon and speak on the subject of diplomas for higher 

 technical education and work of a university standard. 



The report for 192 1 of the Association of Science 

 Teachers contains the findings of a sub-committee 

 appointed to consider the new regulations relating to 

 the examination for the clerical class of the Civil 

 Service. Referring to the science syllabus, the com- 

 mittee is of opinion that, In view of the fact that 

 pupils of secondary schools are expected to take the 

 First School Examination at the age of 16^ years, 

 it is to be regretted that the science syllabus in the 

 Civil Service regulations Is not more in accordance 

 with that adopted for the First School Examination ; 

 further, that teaching along the lines laid down in 

 the new Civil Service syllabus would tend to the 

 acquisition of a superficial knowledge of useful^ facts 

 in modern science without necessarily affording _ a 

 training in scientific method. The report also in- 

 cludes an account of the general meeting of the asso- 

 ciation held In London on January 3 last, and referred 

 ! to In Nature of January 12, p. 57. 



