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generally effective, if scientific workers are incapable 

 f learning lessons from administrative life, it stands 

 J reason that the collective interests of science and 

 of the body scientific must remain unrepresented and 

 unvoiced — to the great detriment of progress and of 

 the public. 



Science must be organised, in fact, as other pro- 

 fessions are organised, if it is to be an effective agent 

 in our civilisation; the problems pressing upon us are 

 of such magnitude and of such infinite importance 

 rhat we can no longer afford to be without wisdom. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge. — At Emmanuel College the exhibition 

 of 50/. offered to a research student commencing 

 residence in the present term has been awarded to 

 L. Harrison, University of Sydney, for research in 

 zoology. An additional exhibition of 50Z. has been 

 awarded to A. J. Philpot, University of London, for 

 research in physics. 



The authorities of the Imperial College of Science 

 and Technology, including the Royal College of 

 Science, the Royal School of Mines, and the Cit\' and 

 Guilds (Engineering) College, have information of 

 some three hundred of their present staff and students 

 who are now serving with the forces of the Crown, 

 but they have no means of knowing to what extent 

 old members of the college have answered their 

 country's call. They desire it to be known that they 

 will be glad to receive from these or their friends any 

 particulars in respect of service and welfare which may 

 be of interest to the college. The registrar will be 

 glad to deal with any matters of this kind. 



In 1902 Dr. and Mrs. Christian A. Herter, of New 

 York, gave to the Johns Hopkins University the sum 

 of 5000^. " for the formation of a memorial lectureship 

 designed to promote a more intimate knowledge of the 

 researches of foreign investigators in the realm of 

 medical science." .According to the terms of the gift, 

 says Science, some eminent worker in physiology or 

 pathology is to be asked each year to deliver lectures 

 at the Johns Hopkins University upon a subject with 

 which he has been identified. The selection of the 

 lecturer is to be left to a committee representing the 

 departments of pathology, .physiological chemistry, 

 and clinical medicine, and if " in the judgment of the 

 committee it should ultimately appear desirable to 

 open the proposed lectureship to leaders in medical 

 research in this country there should be no bar to so 

 doing." The eighth course of lectures on the Herter 

 foundation will be given by Dr. T. Lewis, lecturer on 

 diseases of the heart. University College Hospital 

 Medical School, London. 



A COPY of the current calendar of University College, 

 University of London, has been received. It is 

 arranged on the same general lines as in previous 

 years and provides full particulars as to the prepara- 

 tion for various degrees of the University, the scholar- 

 ships, and exhibitions available, the facilities for post- 

 graduate study and research, lists of graduates from 

 the college, and much other useful information. A 

 full account is given at the end of the volume of the 

 assembly of the faculties of arts, laws, science, 

 engineering, and medical sciences held last July when 

 Sir Archibald Geikie presided. The provost, Dr. T. 

 Gregory Foster, in his report on the work of the 

 session 19 13-14, pointed out that the progress of the 

 college in the matter of buildings and equipment, as 

 well as of endowment, continues to be greatly advanced 

 by the work of the equipment and endowment fund 



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committee, which was established in 1902. The com- 

 pletion of the new school of architecture and the 

 erection of the building for the department of applied 

 statistics and eugenics, as well as that for chemistry, 

 had been seriously hindered owing to the labour dis- 

 putes — in fact, little work had been done on either 

 building for more than twenty weeks. The delay caused 

 the greatest inconvenience, and it has also largely 

 increased the cost of both buildings. The college is 

 still short of the funds necessary to complete the 

 equipment of the new chemical laboratories, and is 

 looking anxiously for a benefactor who will come for- 

 ward and provide the amount yet needed. It is also 

 looking for a benefactor who will give the funds 

 requisite for the purchase of All Saints' Church and 

 its equipment as a great hall for the college. Rapid 

 development of the work in almost everj- department, 

 the demand and necessit\- for the institution of new 

 courses and new departments, make it more difficult 

 every day, with the present accommodation, to pro- 

 gress with the times and to meet the new require- 

 ments. The provost then went on to announce the 

 grant of 30,000/. by the London County Council, and 

 said that at least another similar amount is necessary 

 to complete the works in progress. The calendar also 

 includes a list of the honours and appointments of 

 former students and other persons connected with the 

 college, and a comprehensive list of original papers 

 and other publications from the various departments of 

 the college during the session 19 13-14. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 

 Paris. 

 Academy of Sciences, October 5. — M. P. .Appell in the 

 chair. — G. Bigourdan : The passage of Mercurj^ across 

 the sun of November 7, 19 14. Precautions are sug- 

 gested for the observations of the forthcoming transit 

 of Mercurj-. — J. Boassinesq : Addition to a recent note 

 on the coefficient of filtration with sand with more or 

 less fine grains. Calculation of the coefficient for the 

 heterogeneous sand used by Darcy in his experiments. 

 — L. Landouzy : The auxiliary hospital of the institute, 

 No. 265. — A. Laveran : Experimental infection of mice 

 by Leishmaiiia tropica. Twelve white mice were 

 inoculated, eight males and four females. None of 

 the latter were infected, but six out of the eight males 

 developed the disease, of which full details are given. 

 — E. Delorme : General considerations on the treat- 

 ment of wounds received in battle. Disease in the 

 French Army is almost non-existent, dysentery and 

 typhoid fever scarcely reaching the figures in times 

 of peace. The conditions under which the present 

 campaign is being carried out differ from those in 

 1870 in that battles are carried on continuously for 

 days and weeks, and prompt removal of the wounded 

 from the firing line is impossible. It follows that by 

 the time the wounded are received at the rear sup- 

 puration has in many cases already set in. This 

 especially applies to wounds caused by shrapnell and 

 fragments of shell, in which infection by earth is 

 common. As a result cases of gaseous gangrene and 

 tetanus are widespread, and necessitate a complete 

 change in the surgical practice at the front. Hospitals 

 must now be concentrated as close to the firing line 

 as possible, and the work to be done at these hospitals 

 is sketched out. The frequency of complications due 

 to gaseous gangprene and tetanus is specially men- 

 tioned, and the best means of dealing with them close 

 up to the firing line discussed. — Remarks by A. 

 Laveran on the preceding communication. Sugges- 

 tions as to the best means of using anti-tetanus serum. 

 — Observations of M. Rons. Remarks en anti-tetanus 

 serum. — Reply of L. Landouzy to the communication 

 of E. Delorme. — E. Maurant : Ephemeris of the 



