June 4, 1903] 



NATURE 



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|LL who are interested in the invertebrata of the Trias 

 ► will be pleased to see the supplement recently issued 

 Die Cephalopoden der Hallstatter Kalke," by Dr. 

 mund Mojsisovics {Ahhanilungen der k.k. Geologischen 

 Reichsanstalt, Band vi., 1902). The first volume of this 

 detailed and beautifully illustrated memoir, published in 

 1873 and 1875, contained 174 pages of text and 70 finely 

 executed lithographic plates. The second volume appeared 

 in 1893, and extended to 835 pages and 130 plates. The 

 part now published is a supplement to the first volume, and 

 continues the paging from 175 to 356, while the plates are 

 numbered from i to 23 as supplementary. It is somewhat 

 difficult for geologists familiar only with the English Trias 

 to realise the richness of the fauna described in this memoir, 

 which, for the sufficient illustration of the Cephalopoda 

 alone, needs 223 large quarto plates. The author speaks 

 in the preface of the somewhat primitive nomenclature of 

 the earlier parts of the first volume, but the most forward 

 student will have nothing to complain of in this direction 

 in the present supplement, unless it be the use of such im- 

 possible names as Pompeckjites. Some interesting remarks 

 are made on the subdivisions now adopted for the " Hall- 

 statter Kalke," and a table of these is given on p. 34;;. 

 Among the forms of Cephalopods here described, none 

 perhaps arc more remarkable than the primitive types in- 

 cluded in the Belemnitidae. In transitional deposits such 

 as the Trias one expects to find the lingering of antique 

 forms and the foreshadowing of types yet to come ; but it 

 is a little startling to find the Carboniferous genus Pleuro- 

 nautilus so nearly associated with such forms as Rhaco- 

 phyllites, which so strongly reminds us of the Liassic 

 Phylloceras hcterophyllus. The author is to be congratu- 

 lated on the successful completion of this monumental 

 work, which has engaged his attention for so many years, 

 and, by this supplement, is brought fully abreast of the 

 present time. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Oxford. — The Romanes lecture will be delivered by Sir 

 Oliver J. Lodge, P'.R.S., in the Sheldonian Theatre on 

 Friday, June 12, at 5 p.m. The subject of the lecture is 

 " Modern Views on Matter." 



On Saturday last Prof. Tylor, F.R.S., was elected an 

 honorary fellow of Balliol College, of which he has been 

 a member since his appointment as Keeper of the University 

 Museum and reader in anthropology in 1883. 



Last week's Gazette contained the report of the museum 

 delegates for 1902. Considerable additions have been made, 

 particularly to the Pitt Rivers and Hope collections. An 

 important change in administration took place after Prof. 

 Tylor resigned the keepership, this office being abolished 

 and replaced by a secretary to the museum delegates. Prof. 

 Miers, F.R.S., was appointed to the new position. During 

 the past vf-ar three new laboratories have been added to the 

 chemical department, and an electric installation has been 

 put into the museum 



The Junior Scientific Club held a conversazione in the 

 museum on the evening of Tuesday, May 26. Lectures were 

 given by Sir David Salomons, Bart., on " Motor Cars," 

 by Prof. Arthur Thomson on " Man's Cranial Form," and 

 by Prof. Miers on " Klondyke." Among the exhibits were 

 an excellent demonstration of the properties of radium by 

 Mr. F. Soddy, a show of collotype and three-colour printing 

 from the Clarendon Press, an improved form of capillary 

 electrometer by Mr. H. S. Souttar, photographs of the new 

 star in Gemini by Prof. Turner, a collection of living 

 British fresh-water fish by Mr. Morison, a demonstration 

 of the principles of wireless telegraphy by Mr. Littlehailes 

 and Mr. Lattey, and a collection of apparatus from the 

 Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company and the Mag- 

 dalen College Laboratory. 



Cambridge. — Dr. Chase, president of Queens' College, 

 lias been re-elected Vice-Chancellor for the ensuing 

 .irademical year. 



Mr. F. W. \V. Griffin, King's, has been appointed to the 



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university table in the Plymouth Marine Biological 

 Laboratory. 



In the mathematical tripos, part i., sixty -five men and 

 eighteen women have acquitted themselves so as to deserve 

 mathematical honours. 



The memoirs of Mr. J. Parkinson, advanced student of 

 St. John's College, on the geology of Tintagel and David- 

 stow, and on the rocks of Guernsey, have been adjudged 

 to be " of distinction as a record of original research." 



Dr. Thomas Slater Price has been nominated to succeed 

 Mr. Woodward as director of chemical studies at the 

 Birmingham Municipal Technical School. 



An exhibition of practical work executed by candidates 

 at the technological and manual training examinations of 

 the City and Guilds Institute will be opened at the Imperial 

 Institute on Thursday, June 11, at 3 p.m., by the Marquess 

 of Londonderry, K.G. 



Science announces that Prof. William H. Brewer has 

 resigned the professorship of agriculture at Yale University 

 and has been appointed professor emeritus. At Cornell 

 University Prof. T. F. Hunt, dean of the Agricultural 

 College, of the Ohio State University, has been appointed 

 professor of agronomy, and Dr. B. F. Kingsbury has been 

 appointed assistant professor of embryology. 



On the occasion of the commemoration day proceedings 

 at Livingstone College, Leyton, on June 10, the Bishop of 

 St. Albans will preside. Livingstone College has rendered 

 valuable services, not only to missionaries, but also to 

 many travellers in unhealthy regions, and it is hoped that 

 the present opportunity will lead to much greater interest 

 being taken in the work carried on under its auspices. 



It is worthy of note that in connection with a short 

 course of popular lectures on nature-study just given by Mr. 

 C. Carus-Wilson at Ramsgate and Margate, excursions 

 were arranged to places of geological interest in the neigh- 

 bourhood. Field-work and personal observation of natural 

 objects and phenomena are essential in the study of nature, 

 and it is to be hoped that wherever popular lectures are 

 given on natural science subjects, outdoor work will be 

 arranged in connection with them. 



The draft charters incorporating universities in Man- 

 chester and Liverpool have, the Times reports, been 

 approved by the Privy Council and laid before Parliament. 

 In the case of Manchester, the charter provides that the 

 University shall be called " the Victoria University of Man- 

 chester." A description is given of the powers conferred 

 upon the University relating to such matters as the grant- 

 ing and conferring of degrees, the granting of diplomas, 

 the provision of instruction in such branches of learning as 

 the University may think fit, the examination and inspec- 

 tion of schools, and the affiliation of other institutions. The 

 authorities of the University will be the Chancellor, the 

 Vice-Chancellor, two Pro-Vice-Chancellors, the Court, the 

 Council, the Senate, the Board of Faculties, and the Con- 

 vocation, besides a treasurer and other proper officers. In 

 the case of Liverpool, the charter provides that the Uni- 

 versity shall be known as " the University of Liverpool." 

 It is provided that Lord Derby shall be the first Chancellor 

 of the University, and Mr. A. W. W. Dale, now principal 

 of University College, Liverpool, the first Vice-Chancellor. 

 The supreme governing body of the University is to be the 

 Court, and the governing body and executive of the 

 University is to be the council ; and the Senate, consisting 

 of the Vice-Chancellor, the deans of all the faculties, all the 

 professors of the University, and the librarian, will, subject 

 to the statutes of the University and the control and 

 approval of the council, regulate and superintend the educa- 

 tion and discipline of the University. 



It is announced in the Times of May 28 that the council 

 of the Yorkshire College has agreed upon the principles 

 upon which the charter for the proposed new Yorkshire 

 University should be based. These are that the Yorkshire 

 College be merged in the University ; that the University 

 be founded on a non-federal basis, but that it be empowered 

 to affiliate other institutions ; and that the University be 

 governed by a court of governors and by an executive 



