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Mr. W. T. a. Emtage, principal of the Wandsworth 

 Technical Institute, has be n appointed Director of Public 

 Instruction in Mauritius. The post has been newly created, 

 and Mr. Emtage will have tlie oversight of all the educational 

 work under Government in ihe Colony. His first task will be 

 the organisation of a system of technical education. 



At University College, London, Andrews Entrance Scholar- 

 ships of 30/. each have been awarded to Mr. L. Graham, of 

 Mason College, Birmingham, and to Mr. C. E. K. Mees, of St. 

 Dunstan's College, Calford. The Atchison Scholarship of 55/. 

 per annum for two years has been awarded to Mr. R E. Lloyd 

 for the greatest proficiency as a student of the medical facuUy 

 and the lio.spital during the past two years. The Bruce medal 

 has also been awarded to Mr. R. E. Lloyd for proficiency in 

 pathology and surgery. 



The Senate of the University of London has resolved that 

 one sum of 100/. be oflfered as the Rogers Prize open for com- 

 pttition to all the members of the medical profession in Great 



who, before entering the University, have attended an agri- 

 cultural school for two years will be exempted from this rule. 



An illustrated prospectus of the courses of chemistry and 

 chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology has recently been received. The prospectus includes 

 descriptions of the various chemical laboratories, and the 

 accompinying illustration of the main laboratory of industrial 

 chemistry is of interest as indicating the provision made, in one 

 of the foremost technical institutions in the United States, 

 for work by students taking a general course in chemical 

 industries. The ordinary course in chemistry in the Institute 

 extends over a p.-iiod of four years, and embraces almost all 

 branches of chemical science. The aim throughout the whole 

 course of instruction is not only to impart the necessary 

 professional knowledge, but also to teach the student self reliance, 

 to accustom Him to habits of accurate thought and work, and to 

 in'>tuct him in the methods of investigation of new problems. 

 The course is designed primarily to prepare students for actual 



Fig. I. — L.nboratory of Industrial Chemistry of the Massachusetts Ins 



: of Technology. 



Piita'n and Ireland, for an ess? y upon the production of im- 

 munity in specific infective diseases generally ; and with par- 

 ticular reference to any one disease on which the writer of the 

 essay has made original investigations. The essay is to be sent 

 to the Registrar, University of London, South Kensington, 

 S.W., on or before June i, 1901. 



The Yorkshire College, Leeds, is now one of the university 

 centres that grant a degree to students of agriculture. At a 

 meeting of the Court of Victoria University (on May 3) a report 

 of the Council recommending the inclusion of agriculture as a 

 .■-ubject for the B.Sc. degree was adopted. Among other 

 lequirements, the scheme provides that students before taking 

 their degree must conduct at an experimental farm controlled by 

 a College of the University an experiment on some agricultural 

 subject, and submit a report of the same. On'y those students 



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work in connection with manufactures based on chemical 

 principles, but it provides also for those who expect to become 

 teachers of chemistry, and for those who intend to devote them- 

 selves to scientific research. The object of the instruction in 

 industrial chemistry is to set before the students a.s fully as 

 po.«sible the present status of the chemical industries. The 

 laboratory instruction includes the preparation of pure chemicals, 

 and the refinement or purification of technical products, by 

 industrial processes. Among the processes carried out in the 

 laboratory are the manufacture of dyers' mordants, soaps, 

 phosphates from bone ash, and soda crystals ; and also the 

 preparation of salts of ammonium, barium, calcium, iron, copper, 

 tin, chromium, &c., from minerals or other crude material. In 

 addition, about eighty lectures are given on the most important 

 industrial processes, and excursions are frequently made to 

 manufacturing establishments. 



