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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



London. — ^Arrangements are to be made for special 

 intermediate examinations for refugee students, in- 

 ternal and external. 



A new syllabus has been approved for hygiene at 

 the M.B., B.S. examination. 



The Paul Philip Reitlinger prize has been awarded 

 to Alfred Hope Gosse, London Hospital Medical Col- 

 lege, for an essay on the heart in acute rheumatism. 



The Sir John William Lubbock Memorial prize for 

 mathematics has been awarded to Ruth Wilks, Bed- 

 ford College, on the result of the B.A. and B.Sc. 

 honours examination. 



Two courses of free lectures in scientific subjects 

 for advanced students of the University and other 

 |>ersons interested are announced in the issue of the 

 London University Gazette for December 30, 19 14. A 

 course of nine lectures with practical work in 

 dynamical meteorology will be held at the Meteoro- 



NO. 2^';8. VOL. QaI 



logical Office, South Kensington, by Dr. W. N. 

 Shaw, on Fridays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., beginning 

 on January 22. A course of fourteen lectures on, 

 development and life-cycles in the Protozoa will be 

 given at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine 

 by Prof. E. A. Minchin, at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays antt 

 Fridays during the second term, beginning on 

 January 26. Each lecture will, when possible, be 

 followed by exhibits of microscopic preparations illus- 

 trative of the .subject of the lecture. 



At the Sir John Cass Technical Institute, Aldgate, 

 E.C., on Wednesday, January 13, Sir Robert G. C. 

 Mowbray, Bart., prime warden of the Worshipful 

 Company of Goldsmiths, will distribute the prizes and 

 certificates and open the new metallurgy laboratory 

 for the mechanical testing of metals and alloys, pre- 

 sented to the institute by the company. 



It appears from the new issue of "The Classified 

 Directory to the Metropolitan Charities " that the 

 approximate income for 1913-14 of the various groups 

 of benevolent institutions with headquarters in or near 

 London was 8,705,980^., an increase of 617,202^. on 

 the previous year, notwithstanding that upwards of 

 four millions and a quarter had been given to the 

 National Relief Fund, and great sums were raised for 

 other purposes to ameliorate the conditions arising out 

 of the war. The institutions receiving this help in- 

 clude hospitals, religious organisations, charities for 

 the afflicted, and so on, and among them we notice 

 educational institutions which together received 

 625,289^. The educational institutions which have 

 received such aid include training colleges for teachers, 

 public schools for boys and girls, and colleges where 

 scholarships and exhibitions endowed by City com- 

 panies and other corporations are held. 



The report to the Clothworkers' Company of the 

 advisory committee on the work during 1913-14 of 

 the departments of textile industries, tinctorial chem- 

 istry, and dyeing and art in the University of Leeds 

 has been circulated. The department of textile indus- 

 tries is now under the direction of Prof. A. F. Barker, 

 who had under his supervision during the session 

 154 students, 53 of whom were day students. The 

 report points out that the South African Government 

 is undertaking most exhaustive experiments on the 

 effects of various sheep dips on the wool during the 

 subsequent processes of combing, spinning, weaving, 

 and finishing. Half the specially treated wool is 

 being manufactured in the department, duplicate lots 

 being treated at the Bradford Technical College. 

 Most useful results from this interesting work are 

 anticipated. The department of tinctorial chemistry 

 has continued to take a prominent part in the move- 

 ment directed by the Textile Institute to bring about 

 legislation dealing with falsification of " indigo dyed " 

 woollen materials, and Prof. Green, the head of the 

 department, was a member of a deputation from this 

 body which was invited by the Board of Trade to lay 

 the case before them. The work conducted has 

 already had a marked influence on the qualit}' of the 

 dye used for " indigo " cloths. 



The first number of the fiftieth volume of the Bulle- 

 tin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 Boston, that for December, 1914, takes the form of 

 a catalogue of the officers and students of the insti- 

 tution, with a statement of the requirements for 

 admission and a description of the courses of instruc- 

 tion. Regular four year courses of study leading to 

 a degree are offered in fifteen branches of science and 

 engineering. In most of these courses distinct options 

 are offered in the later jears which enable the student 

 to concentrate more of his attention upon some one 

 side of his profession. In no case, however, is the 



