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NATURE 



[June 25, 1903 



menced." The larva fed on the buds of the inflorescence, 

 scooping out the interior, and (when not hurried) using the 

 empty shells in preference to whole buds for its covering. 

 " When irritated, the larva curled up in the attitude repre- 

 sented in the sketch, and it remained in this position for 

 fifteen or twenty minutes." At other times it would sway 

 about, looking like a branchlet blown by the breeze. The 

 larva spun up on May 28, forming a silk cocoon covered 

 with green buds, but it was, unfortunately, destroyed by 

 ants, and as no other specimen could be discovered, it is 



supposed that, as is well known to be frequently the case 

 with specially protected insects, the species must be very 

 rare. The perfect insect is, of course, at present unknown. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge. — The Harkness geological scholarship has 

 been awarded to Mr. R. H. Rastall, Christ's, and the Wilt- 

 shire prize in palaeontology to A. Blackie, Peterhouse, and 

 H. H. Hodgson, Trinity, equal. 



The Museum of Zoology has received an important 

 addition through the bequest of the late Mr. T. E. Buckley, 

 of Trinity College. The collections include some 440 

 volumes of books, and about 400 birds. 



In the natural sciences tripos, part i., thirty men and one 

 woman gain first classes. In part ii. thirteen men and one 

 woman appear in the first class. 



The Raymond Horton-Smith prize for the best M.D. 

 thesis of the year is awarded to the Hon. G. H. Scott, 

 Trinity. 



At St. John's College the Hockin prize for experimental 

 physics is gained by Mr. J. H. Field, late Lieut. R.E. 

 The Adams memorial prize in astronomy is awarded to 

 Messrs. Gold and Phillips, equal. The Hutchinson student- 

 ship for research in botany goes to Mr. R. P. Gregory, 

 University demonstrator. 



^ Dr. A. F. Dixon, professor of anatomy in University 

 College, Cardiff, has been appointed to the chair of anatomy 



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in Dublin University, lately held by Prof. Daniel 

 Cunningham. 



Mr. J. Stuart Thomson, lecturer on biology at the 

 Municipal Technical School, Plymouth, has been appointed 

 to the post of assistant to the Government Marine Biologist 

 at the Cape of Good Hope. 



Dr. K. J. P. Orton, demonstrator in practical chemistry 

 at St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, has been 

 appointed professor of chemistry at the University College 

 of North Wales, Bangor, in succession to Dr. Dobbie. 



The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has estab- 

 lished a laboratory of physical chemistry to be opened in 

 September, which is to be devoted exclusively to research 

 work. The laboratory is to be under the directorship of 

 Prof. A. A. Noyes, with whom will be associated Profs. 

 H. M. Goodwin and Willis R. Whitney. The researches 

 will be carried on in large part by a staff of research 

 assistants and associates working under their direction. 

 Every facility will also be offered to advanced students 

 who wish to carry on investigations in this branch of 

 science. 



An appeal for funds to extend the department of experi- 

 mental and applied science and natural sciences is being 

 issued by the University of Dublin. It is pointed out that 

 the University of Dublin must either obtain external aid 

 to build and equip laboratories and lecture rooms for 

 physical science, electrical and mechanical engineering, 

 botany and zoology, or teach these subjects under grave 

 disadvantage. A full report, drawn up by a committee 

 appointed by the board of Trinity College to consider the 

 ])resent scientific requirements of the college, shows that 

 a sum of ioo,oooL is needed to provide for the require- 

 ments of the scientific schools of the University. Owing 

 to the generosity of Lord Iveagh, however, the appeal is 

 reduced to a request for an increased income of 2700Z. 

 The entire capital outlay, 34,000/., is undertaken by Lord 

 Iveagh if the necessary income for upkeep is forthcoming 

 within the next three years. 



For a long time past the Merchant Venturers' Tech- 

 nical College, Bristol, though a large building, has been 

 inadequate to meet the demands of the increasingly large 

 number of adult day and evening students. Negotiations 

 have, however, just been concluded by which an additional 

 building will become available for the purposes of the 

 college in September next. It is hoped to make provision 

 in this new building for an extensive boot and shoe shop, 

 and for new shops for printers, painters, bookbinders, and 

 plumbers. In order that the new workshops may be fitted 

 up with the latest improvements, the teachers of the college 

 are to visit workshops of the same kinds in other towns. 

 ! It is hoped also that the local manufacturers interested in 

 [ the trades in question will be willing to contribute funds 

 I or apparatus. The total floor space in the new building 

 will be close upon 12,000 square feet. The space available 

 ' for the mechanical and the electrical engineering labor- 

 atories will be more than dt)ubled. The present small 

 hydraulic laboratory will be replaced by one many times 

 larger, and a new large physical laboratory will be pro- 

 j vided. Arrangements are being made to provide as early 

 as the manufacturers can make them a large experimental 

 ■ steam engine, with two additional dynamos and all 

 j necessary measuring apparatus, at a cost of about 2000?. 

 Three months ago, on March 26 (vol.. Ixvii. p. 500), a 

 note was given of the gifts to science and higher education 

 announced in Science for the preceding quarter. Since 

 then the following benefactions have been published in our 

 contemporary :— Harvard University has received two 

 anonymous gifts, respectively 2000L and 10,000/., for Emer- 

 son Hall, to be erected for the department of philosophy, 

 for which the necessary 30,000/. required has now been 

 obtained; a fund of 2100/. has been subscribed to establish 

 a lectureship in memory of Edwin L. Godkin ; 2000/. for 

 the establishment of a scholarship and 1000/. for the 

 Semitic Museum by the will of Jacob A. Hecht ; Mrs. John 

 Markoe has given 1000/. to establish a scholarship in 

 memory of her son ; and the Harvard Club of Chicago has 

 given 1000/. to found a scholarship in memory of Dunlop 

 Smith. Mrs. Anderson has given 200,000/. to Barnard 



