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NATURE 



[September 9, 1915 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Dr. a. J. Ballantyne has been appointed lecturer 

 on ophthalmic medicine and surgery at the Anderson 

 College of Medicine, Glasgow, in succession to Dr. 

 A, F. Fergus. 



Mr. S. H. E. Barraclough, lecturer in mechanical 

 engineering at the University of Sydney, N.S.W., has 

 been appointed to the chair of mechanical engineering 

 at the same University. 



Mr. p. H. Fraenkel, at present in charge of the 

 classes in electrical engineering at the Working Men's 

 College, Melbourne, has been appointed lecturer in 

 electrical engineering at the University of Western 

 Australia, Perth, W.A. 



In consequence of the war, the winter session of 

 most of the medical schools will be begun without any 

 ceremony or opening address. At the Middlesex Hos- 

 pital Medical School, however. Dr. J. Cameron will 

 address the students on the opening day — October i ; 

 at the University of Leeds, on the same day, Sir 

 William Osier will deliver the inaugural address, and 

 at the London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medi- 

 cine for Women, Mrs. Willey, M.D., will speak. 



The City of Bradford Education Committee has 

 issued an abridged prospectus for the forthcoming 

 session of the Bradford Technical College day courses. 

 These courses of study are organised to provide 

 (a) diploma courses, (h) part-time technical courses, 

 and (c) courses for professional examinations. The 

 diploma courses afford a full training for the various 

 branches of the textile, chemical, and engineering 

 industries, including the underlying sciences; they 

 extend over three (or In some cases four) years, and 

 occupy the full time of the student. Much of the 

 work Is of an advanced character, and a special feature 

 is the great importance attached to scientific investi- 

 gation. The courses provide the necessary training 

 for the higher positions in works. Arrangements have 

 been made with the University of Leeds whereby 

 students of the University or of the college have the 

 use of certain equipment and other facilities at both 

 institutions. The part-time technical courses are in- 

 tended for those students who arrange to spend part 

 time In the works, or who attend the college for 

 special sudy. The diploma of the college is awarded 

 to each day student who has been In attendance for 

 three complete sessions subsequent to passing the 

 entrance examination, and who has passed the college 

 examinations In all subjects of the diploma course 

 taken. The diploma courses in chemistry, and in 

 chemistry and dj'eing, extend over four years. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



True Stories about Horses. By L. Gask. Pp. 266. 

 (London : G. G. Harrap and Co.) 3s. 6d. net. 



The Rare Earth Industry. By S. J. Johnstone. 

 With a chapter on The Industry of Radioactive Sub- 

 stances, by Dr. A. S. Russell. Pp. xIi+136. (Lon- 

 don : Crosby Lockwood and Son.) 75. 6d. net. 



The Human Side of Plants. By R. Dixon. Pp. 

 xviii + 201. (London: Grant Richards, Ltd.) 75. 6d. 

 net. 



La Radlologie de Guerre. By G. Masslot and 

 BIquard. Pp. viII + 216. (Paris: A. Malolne et Fils.) 

 3.50 francs. 



Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. New series. 

 Vol. XV. Pp. 441. (London : Williams and Norgate.) 

 I05. 6d. net. 



Manchester in 1915 : being the Handbook for the 

 Eighty-fifth Meeting of the British Association. Pp. 



NO. 2393, VOL. 96] 



viii + 120. (Manchester: University Press; London: 

 Longmans and Co.) is. net. 



The North-West Amazons. By Capt. T. Whiffen. 

 Pp. xvii + 319. (London : Constable and Co., Ltd.) 

 i2s. 6d. net. 



Structural Design. By Prof. H. R, Thayer. Vol. ii. 

 Design of Simple Structures. Pp. ix + 495. (Lon- 

 don : Constable and Co., Ltd.) 165. net. 



Index of Economic Material in Documents of the 

 States of the United States, New Jersey, 1789-1904. 

 By A. R. Hasse. Pp. 705. (Washington: Carnegie 

 Institution.) 



Constructional Data of Small Telescope Objectives 

 calculated at the National Physical Laboratory. Bv 

 T. Smith and R. W. Cheshire. Pp. 32. (London : 

 Harrison and Sons.) 2S. 6d. 



The Wireless Telegraphist's Pocket Book of Notes, 

 Formulae, and Calculations. By Prof. J. A. Fleming. 

 Pp. xiI + 347, (London: The Wireless Press, Ltd.) 

 65. net. 



Introduction to Magnetism and Electricity. By 

 E. W. E. Kempson. Pp. viii-f-240. (London : E. 

 Arnold.) 3s. 



Ministry of Finance, Egypt. Survey Department. 

 The Archaeological Survey of Nubia. Report for 

 iqo9-i9io. By C. M. Firth. Pp. 180 + 41 plates. 

 (Cairo: Government Press.) 



CONTENTS. PAGE 



Solar Myths 29 



Pocket Encyclopaedias of Petroleum and Chemistry 29 



Geographic Influences and the Old Testament . . 30 



Our Bookshelf 31 



Letters to the Editor:— 



The Probable Error of the Amplitudes in a Fourier 

 Series obtained from a Given Set of Observations. 



{fVzi/i Dm^ram.)—li. E. Sojper 32 



Antarctic Fossil Plants.— D. H. S. .33 

 Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley. By Prof. E. Ruther- 

 ford, F.R.S 33 



The British Association at Manchester: — 



Inaugural Address by Prof. Arthur Schuster, D.Sc, 



Sc.D., LL.D., Dr. es-Sc, F.R.S., President . 34 

 Section A. — Mathematics and Physics.— Opening Ad- 

 dress (slightly abridged) by Sir F. W. Dyson, 



M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., President of the Section 42 



Notes 46 



Our Astronomical Column :— 



Comet Notes S> 



The Total Solar Eclipse, August 21, 1915 51 



Colour Index and Distance of Stars - . . 52 



Recent Studies of Certain Tropical Diseases ... 52 



The Talgai Skull 52 



The Rainfall of Java. By Dr. Hugh Robert Mill . . 53 



University and Educational Intelligence 54 



Books Received 54 



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