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NA TURE 



[August 5, 1897 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Mr. William Esson, F.R.S., Deputy Savilian Professor of 

 Geometry in the University of Oxford, has been appointed to 

 succeed the late Prof. Sylvester as Savilian Professor. 



Dr. Arthur A. Rambaut, Royal Astronomer of Ireland, 

 has been appointed Radcliflfe Observer at Oxford, in succession 

 to the late Dr. E. J. Stone, RR.S. 



The John Lucas Walker Studentship at Cambridge, having 

 an annual value of 250/. and tenable, under certain conditions, 

 for three years, will be awarded in October next. The holder 

 of the studentship is required to devote himself (or herself) to 

 original research in pathology. Applications should be sent, 

 before October 15, to Dr. A. A. Kanthack, Pathological Labor- 

 atory, Cambridge, to whom also requests for further information 

 should be addressed. 



The following resolution, with reference to the London Uni- 

 versity Commission Bill, has been adopted by the Technical 

 Education Board of the London County Council : "That the 

 Board, being satisfied that the Bill now before Parliament makes 

 adequate provision for inclusion within the scheme of the Uni- 

 versity of duly-qualified teachers and students in the polytechnic 

 institutes (and other institutions aided by the Board), and that 

 the special interests with which the Technical Education Board 

 is concerned have been duly safeguarded, hereby approves the 

 Bill and expresses its des.ire that it may be passed into law this 

 session." 



In the House of Commons on Monday, Mr. Balfour announced 

 with very great regret that he believed it to be impossible to 

 take the London University Commission Bill in the course of 

 the present Sessioni He felt to the full the objections as to 

 leaving over for another year the settlement of a question in 

 which a large number of independent educational bodies were 

 concerned, and on which, speaking broadly, they had come to 

 an agreement. But he recognised at the same time that there 

 was serious opposition taken to it in its present shape, and the 

 Government could not face the expenditure of time necessary to 

 deal with the measure in the present Session. The Government 

 must therefore postpone the Bill. He earnestly hoped that next 

 year, at all events, the Government would be in a position to 

 settle this long-standing and perplexing controversy. 



The circumstances and the legislative proceedings which re- 

 sulted in the reconstitution of the French Universities were 

 described in Nature rather more than a year ago (vol. liv. 

 p. 64, May 21, 1896). The Paris correspondent of the Times 

 now reports that, under the law which has come into force, 

 decrees have just been issued for the government of the Uni- 

 versities. Each University is to have a council, consisting of 

 the rector, the heads of faculties, and two delegates of each 

 faculty elected triennially by the professors. The council, 

 subject in certain cases to the approval of the supreme education 

 council, will have control over the teaching, discipline and 

 property of the University. It will, however, have merely a 

 consultative voice on the finances, and on the creation, abo- 

 lition, or transformation of professorships, for the State will 

 continue to pay the stipends. The maintenance of buildings, 

 on the other hand, will fall on the University, and must be 

 defrayed from students' fees or from endowments. The State 

 takes the fees for examinations and State diplomas, but all 

 other fees go to the University treasury. It will, therefore, 

 be to the interest of each University to attract as many students 

 as possible. The receipts of Paris University are estimated at 

 600,000 francs, and of Lyons at 130,000 francs, but Besancon 

 and Clermont have at present only 700 francs or 800 francs, 

 and will obviously have to solicit subsidies either from the State 

 or from local bodies. Failing this, the smaller Universities are 

 likely to succumb. One of the features of the new system is 

 that a student will, as in Germany, be able to migrate from one 

 University to another without lengthening his studies or delaying 

 his degree. 



Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 

 have made the following appointments to Science Research 

 Scholarships, for the year 1897, on the recommendation of the 

 authorities of the respective Universities and Colleges. The 

 scholarships are of the value of 150/. a year, and are 

 ordinarily tenable for two years (subject to a satisfactory 



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report at the end of the first year) in any University at 

 home or abroad, or in some other institution approved of by 

 the Commissioners. The scholars are to devote themselves 

 exclusively to study and research in some branch of science, 

 the extension of which is important to the industries of the 

 country. A limited number of the scholarships are renewed 

 for a third year where it appears that the renewal is likely to 

 result directly in work of scientific importance. 



The following scholarships, granted- in 1896, have been con- 

 tinued for a second year on receipt of a satisfactory report of 

 work done during the first year : — 



Nominating institution 



University of Glasgow 



University of Aber- 

 deen 



Mason College, Birm- 

 ingham 



University College, 

 Bristol 



Yorkshire College, 

 Leeds 



University College, 

 London 



••Owens College, Man- 

 chester 



Durham College of 

 Science, Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne 



University College, 

 Nottingham 



University College of 

 Wales, Aberystwyth 



Queen's College, Gal- 

 way 



University of Toronto 



Dalhousie University, 

 Halifax, Nova Sco- 

 tia 



University of New 

 Zealand 



William Craig 



Henderson 

 Alexander Ogg 



Thomas Slater 



Price 

 Emily Comber 



Fortey 

 Harry Medforth 



Dawson 

 Joseph Ernest 



Petavel 



John Leathart 



Heinke 

 John Armstrong 



Smythe 



George Blackford 



Bryan 

 Spencer William 



Richardson 

 John Henry 



Arthur Melville 

 Scott 



Douglas Mcin- 

 tosh 



John Angus Er- 

 skine 



Places of study 



Cavendish Laboratory, 



Cambridge 

 University of Gottingen 



University of Leipzig 



University College, Bris- 

 tol, and Owens College 

 University of Berlin 



University College, Lon- 

 don, and Davy- Faraday 

 Laboratory 



Owens College and Uni- 

 versity of Tiibingen 



University of Gottingen 



Cavendish Laboratory, 



Cambridge 

 Cavendish Laboratory, 



Cambridge 

 Cavendish Laboratory, 



Cambridge 

 University of Gottingen 



Cornell University 

 University of Berlin 



The following scholarships, granted in 1895, '^^^'^ ^leen ex- 

 ceptionally renewed for a third year : — 



Nominating institution 



University of Glas- 

 gow 



McGill University, 

 Montreal 



University of New 

 Zealand 



Places of study 



Walter Stewart 



Robert Owen 

 King 



Ernest Ruther- 

 ford 



Universities of Glasgow 



and Berlin 

 McGill University and 



Harvard University 

 Cavendish Laboratory, 



Cambridge 



The Scholarships Committee consisted of Sir Henry Roscoe, 

 chairman ; Lord Rayleigh, Lord Kelvin, Lord Playfair, Mr. 

 Mundella, Dr. William Garnett, and Sir J. Norman Lockyer. 



