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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Oxford. — The examiners for iheBurdett-Coutts Scholarship 

 have reported that no candidate of sufficient merit has pre- 

 sented himself for examination. The Scholarship, therefore, has 

 not been awarded this year. 



There will be an election to a Geographical Studentship of 

 the value of ;^loo at the end of Hilary Term, 1895. Candi- 

 dates should send in their names to the Reader in Geography, 

 I Bradmore Road, Oxford, before Wednesday, February 27, 

 1S95. 



The Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Prof. H. H. Turner, 

 will lecture in the Schools on Thursday, November 8, on the 

 subject o( the Transit of Mercury on Saturday, November 10. 



In a Convocation held on Tuesday, November 6, the degree 

 of .Master of Arts, by decree of the House, was conferred on 

 Robert Warington, F.R.S., Sibthorpian Professor of Rural 

 Economy. 



CAMBRIDGE. — The Cavendish Laboratory Syndicate have 

 presented a report on the pressing needs of the department of 

 experimental physics. It appears that a large laboratory for 

 elementary classes and an additional lecture room, together with 

 certain accessory rooms, are urgently required. To erect and 

 furnish these on a suitable scale would require some ^10,000. 

 As the University is unable to meet any such expense at present, 

 it is proposed to put up part of the building at an expense of 

 ^4000, of which half can be provided from the accumulated fees 

 of students working in the laboratory. The Financial Board 

 think that ;/^2ooo more can be obtained from the Common 

 University Fund. Mr. Fawcett, the architect, has prepared 

 plans for the work, which are to be seen at the Cavendish 

 Laboratory. 



The Sedgwick Memorial Museum Syndicate state that the 

 tenders for the building designed by Mr. T. G. Jackson, 

 A. R. A., have been some ;i'45oo in excess of the estimate based 

 on the architect's calculations. They are reluctantly forced to 

 the conclusion that the University cannot afford to supplement 

 the Memorial Fund to the required extent, and they accordingly 

 ask powers to reconsider the plan, or to substitute a new one 

 for it. 



At the annual election to Fellowships at St. John's College, 

 on November 5, Mr. H. C. Pocklington was one of the success- 

 ful candidates. He was bracketed Fourth Wrangler 1S92, was 

 placed in the first division of the first class with Mr. Cowell, 

 the Senior Wrangler, in Part II. of the Tripos of 1S93, and this 

 year gained one of the Smith's Prizes, the other falling to Mr. 

 Hough, also a scholar of St. John's. Mr. Pocklington presented 

 a dissertation on the periods of the vibrations of a vortex-ring 

 constituted by fluid cuculating round a hollow core, in which 

 the periods of the unsymmetrical vibrations are for the first time 

 determined. The analysis also included a determination of the 

 effect which an electric charge would produce on the vibrations 

 and the stability of a vortex atom in a rotational ;ether. In a 

 minor investigation, which will appear in the next number of 

 the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, the 

 forms assumed by two parallel cylindrical hollow vortices moving 

 steadily through fluid, and the character of the surrounding 

 motion, are investigated in detail. 



Mr. S. Sand^irs has bequeathed to the University ;ii'2000 for 

 the endowment of a Reader in " Bibliography, paleography, 

 typography, bookbinding, book-illustration, and the science of 

 books and manuscripts." 



As the result of the prolonged discussion on post-graduate 

 study in the University, the Council of the Senate have 

 sanctioned a grace for the appointment of a syndicate to con- 

 sider (I) the best means of giving further help and encourage- 

 ment to persons who desire to pursue courses of advanced study 

 or research within the University ; (2) what classes of students 

 should be admitted to such courses ; aud (3) what academic 

 recognition, whether by degrees or otherwise, should be given 

 to such stutients, and on what conditions. 



Mr. Herman, of Trinity College, has been appointed Chair- 

 man of Examiners for the Mathematical Tripos, Part I. 



Dr. Forsyth, F.R.S., Sir K. S. Ball, F.R.S., R. T. Glaze- 

 brook, F. R.S., and Prof. G. B. .Mathews, have been appointed 

 I'xaniiners for Part. II. of the Mathematical Tripos. 



Prof. Ewing, F. R.S., Prof. Osborne Reynolds, F. R.S., and 

 W. N. .Shaw, F.R. S., have been appointed Examiners for the 

 Mechanical Sciences Tripos. 



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Dublin. — The med.als in Natural Science, given at 

 Moderatorship, have been awarded as follows : — Gold medals to 

 R. A. Rossiter and T. B. Jobson ; silver medal to C. W. 

 Orpen. The Professor of Botany's prizes for practical work on 

 the Gymnosperms, to be accompanied by sections and draw- 

 ings, have been given to T. B. Jobson, for work on the 

 anatomy of the young stem of Ginkgo biloba and on the repro- 

 ductive organs of Ta.xiis haciala ; and to R. A. Rossiter, for 

 work on. the floral development of Thuja plicata a.od Larix 

 Ettropea. 



Lectures on the Experimental and Natural Sciences for 

 Michaelmas Term commenced on November 2. Prof Reynolds 

 lectures on Inorganic Chemistry, Prof. Fitzgerald on Heat, 

 Prof. Sollas on Mineralogy and Physical Geology. Prof. 

 Mackintosh lectures on Zoology, and gives demonstrations on 

 Comparative Anatomy. Prof. Wright lectures oa Algje and 

 Fungi, and gives a series of demonstrations on the Vascular 

 Cryptogams. The assistant to the Professor of Botany, Mr. H. 

 Dixon, gives a course of Laboratory instruction on vegetable 

 cells and tissues. 



The special courses in Natural Science for 1S95 are in Geology, 

 the Cambrian Period ; in Zoology, the Invertebrate Heart ; 

 in Botany, the Natural Orders, Cruciferje and Papilionacex. 



The Anthropological Laboratory has reopened for the session 

 1S94-95. Dr. C. K. Browne will, under the direction of Prof. 

 D. Cunningham, give, on three days in each week during 

 Term, demonstrations on Anthropological Methods. These 

 will be open to all students. 



Assisted by a grant from the Royal Irish Academy, Dr. C. R. 

 Browne visited, during the long vacation, the district of North 

 Erris, in the county of Mayo, believed to be one of the most 

 primitive regions in Ireland. The anthropological results ol 

 this visit will in due course be laid before the Irish -\cademy. 



The Dublin University Experimental Science Association held 

 its first meeting for its eighteenth session on the 6th iust. Prof. 

 Sollas delivered the opening address, in which he treated of 

 "Geological Time." 



From a Return made to the Department of Science and Art, 

 and published last week, it appears that the total amount spent on 

 technical education during the year 1S92-93, in England, Wales, 

 and Scotland, was /'529,7i8, and that the estimated total 

 amount allocated to technical education for the year 1893-94 

 was ^^696,328. Forty-one out of the forty-nine county councils 

 in England are applying the whole of the residue received 

 under the Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act to technical 

 education, and eight a part of it to the same purpose. Of the 

 councils of the sixty-one county boroughs, fifty-three are devot- 

 ing the whole of the residue to technical education, and seven 

 a part of it. The thirteen county councils and the three county 

 boroughs in Wales and Monmouth are not only devoting the 

 whole of the residue to intermediate and technical education, 

 but six of them are also levying a rate, or making grants out of 

 the rates, for the same purpose. In the case of Scotland, 

 twenty-three out of the thirty-three county councils are applying 

 the available funds to technical education, and seven a part. Of 

 the 194 burghs and police burghs, however, 122 are applying 

 the whole to the relief of rates. 



The Technical School Committee of the Birmingham 

 Corporation have appointed Dr. W. E. Sumpner, of the 

 Battersea Polytechnic School, from among seventy-five can- 

 didates, as Principal of the new local Technical School. The 

 salary is ;^50O per annum. 



The extensive buildings that have been lately erected as an 

 addition to the medical school at the Owens College, Manchester, 

 were formally opened by the Duke of Devonshire, the President 

 of the institution, on Tuesday. 



SCIENTIFIC SERIALS 

 American Meteorological JoHrnal, October. — The meteoro- 

 logical services of South America, by A. L. Rotch. In the 

 Argentine Republic there are now five stations of the 

 first order, forty of the second order, and one hundred 

 rain stations. The first of the AnnaUs was published 

 in 1878, and dealt with the climate of Buenos Ayres from 

 observations since 1801. In Uruguay there is one observatory 

 of the first order, at Villa Colon, near Montevideo, and in 1S90 

 a Meteorological Society was established, and publishes a 



