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NATURE 



[September 17, 1903 



"The Brussels Catalogue of 10,792 Stars (18650)," "The 

 Harvard College Catalogue of 8627 Stars, A.G. Zone 

 4-50° to +55° " (Leipzig, 1892), and " The Bonn Cata- 

 logue of 18,457 Stars (18750), A.G. Zone +40° to +50°," 

 published at Leipzig in 1894. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Oxford. — An examination for a geographical scholarship 

 of the value of 60I. will be held on Wednesday, October 14. 

 Candidates, who must have taken honours in one of the 

 final schools of the university, should send in their names 

 to the reader in geography not later than Thursday, 

 October i. The scholar elected will be required to attend 

 the full course of instruction at the School of Geography 

 during the academic year 1903-4, and to enter for the 

 university diploma in geography in June, 1904. 



Dr. F. H. Newman, principal of the Carlisle Technical 

 School and director of higher education in that city, has been 

 appointed principal of the Norwich Technical Institute and 

 organiser of higher education. 



It is stated in Science that a gift of ten thousand dollars 

 has been made to Washington and Lee University by Mrs. 

 Cjrus H. McCormick and her three sons, of Chicago, the 

 interest of which sum is to be devoted to the development 

 of the department of physics. A new laboratory of engineer- 

 ing and physics, the gift of an anonymous donor, is ex- 

 pected to be ready for occupation in the summer of next 

 year. 



The evening continuation schools in connection with the 

 School Board for London reopened on September 14. As 

 the School Board will cease to exist after the end of April 

 next the present session will be the last under the Board. 

 .Among the numerous classes arranged we notice that 

 doctors and nurses will teach first aid and home nursing 

 in upwards of two hundred schools. There will also be 

 facilities for women and girls to learn practical cookery, 

 dress-cutting and making, and laundrywork, and for men 

 and boys to receive instruction in woodwork. The lantern 

 will, in many cases, be used to illustrate the lessons in 

 geography. The Board has arranged for medical men to 

 give simple lectures on health in twenty schools ; the sub- 

 jects will include the air and ventilation, the house, pre- 

 vention of consumption, the care of the skin, personal 

 hv-riene, how to prevent the spread of infectious disease, 

 the care cf infancy and childhood, ill-health in women, &c. ; 

 all the lectures will be illustrated by diaorams, and many 

 simple experiments will be shown by the lecturers. 



The Board of Education, South Kensington, has issued 

 the following list of candidates successful in the IQ03 com- 

 petition for the Whitworth scholarships and exhibitions :— 

 Scholarships, 125L a year each (tenable for three years), 

 John S. Nicholson, Alford, Aberdeenshire ; Leonard 

 Southerns, Retford, Notts. ; Alec J. Simpson, Edinburgh ; 

 Alexander Gray, Edinburgh. Exhibitions, 50/. (tenable for 

 one year), Frederick G. Turner, Southsea ; James Cunning- 

 ham, Banbury ; William Welch, London ; Edmund W. 

 Spalding, Lincoln ; William E. Hogg, London ; Alfred R. 

 Stamford, Plumstead, Kent ; Joseph Lloyd, Pembroke 

 Dock ; John A. Davenport, Liverpool ; Stewart S. Spears, 

 Sheerness-on-Sea ; James Lees, Southsea; William H. 

 Powell, London ; Edwin C. Trew, Landport, Portsmouth ; 

 Frederick W. B. Sellers, JSutton, Surrey; John E. Lister, 

 Doncaster ; Richard W. Bailey, Manor Park, Essex ; 

 Laurence H. Pomeroy, London ; Christopher J. Lees, 

 London ; Fred Newell, Plumstead, Kent ; Edmund G. 

 Nicholls, Swansea; Maurice K. Pedlar, East Stonehouse, 

 Devon; George F. Sutherland, Aberdeen, N.B. ; Charles I. 

 Sutton, Plumstead, Kent ; Robert H. Barr, Barrow-in-Fur- 

 ness ; William H. Hemer, Devonport ; James Nicol, Barr- 

 head, N.B. ; Frederick E. Pollard, Eastwood, Notts.; 

 Arnold Sykes, Huddersfield ; Wilfred C. Kimber, London ; 

 Henry F. Elliott, Plumstead, Kent; David Richardson, 

 Crewe. 



The following list of successful candidates for royal ex- 

 hibitions, national scholarships, and free studentships 

 (science), 1903, has been issued by the Board of Education, 

 South Kensington : — Frederick G. Turner, Southsea ; James 

 M. Mackintosh, Inverness, N.B. ; Samuel Lees, Broughton, 



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Manchester ; John H. Hugon, Eccles, Manchester ; Arthur 

 A. Rowse, Southsea ; William E. Hogg, London ; William 

 L. Perry, Plymouth, royal exhibitions ; Archibald Ward, 

 Sheffield ; Alexander Gray, Edinburgh ; Edwin S. Crump, 

 Wolverhampton ; Leslie G. Milner, New Brompton, Kent ; 

 Archibald R. Richardson, London ; Francis G. Steed, 

 Devonport, national scholarships for mechanics (group A) ; 

 Harold H. Broughton, Huddersfield ; George F. Suther- 

 land, Aberdeen, N.B., free studentships for mechanics 

 (group A) ; William H. L. Patterson, Chiswick ; Arthur E. 

 Hall, Swindon ; William F. G. Swann, Brighton ; James 

 Hoggarth, Bath ; John Watson, Sunderland, national 

 scholarships for physics (group B) ; Charles I. Robinson, 

 London, free studentship for physics (group B) ; Frederick 

 Dewhurst, Middleton Junction, Manchester ; William 

 Godden, Canterbury ; George S. Whitby, Hull ; John F. 

 Stansfield, Morley, Leeds ; Henry Holmes, Middlesbrough ; 

 Thomas Jackson, Middlesbrough, national scholarships for 

 chemistry (group C) ; Frederic W. Caton, Hove, Sussex ; 

 John Keegan, Burnley, free studentships for chemistry 

 (group C) ; Edward Hindle, East Bierley, Bradford ; Ethel 

 Mellor, Burnley, national scholarships for biology (group 

 D) ; Ellis L. Jones, Blaenau Festiniog, free studentship for 

 biology (group D) ; Winifred M. Clune, Bristol ; Fred 

 Thistlethwaite, Burnley ; Diogo F. de Souza, London, 

 national scholarships for geology (group E). 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



Paris. 

 Academy of Sciences, September 7. — M. Albert Gaudry 

 in the chair. — Parthenogenesis of the larvae of Asteriae by 

 the action of carbonic acid, by M. Yves Delage. By 

 modifying the conditions, the larvae develop to the stage 

 when all the essential organs are well marked. — On the 

 production of glycogen in fungi cultivated in weak sugar 

 solutions, by M. Emile Laurent. The production of reserve 

 carbohydrates is related both in fungi and in vascular 

 plants to a food supply containing an abundance of sugar 

 or analogous substances. The author has discovered an 

 interesting exception to this rule, four species of moulds, 

 Mticor racemosus, Sclerotinia Libertiana, Botrytis cinerea, 

 and Saccharomyces cerevisiae, all giving considerable 

 quantities of glycogen when grown in very dilute organic 

 solutions. — Observations of the planet MA (August 24, 

 1903) made at the Observatory of Besan^on, by M. P. 

 Chofardet. — On a bacterial disease of tobacco, " chancre " 

 Of " anthracnose," by M. G. Delacroix. This disease is 

 due to a bacillus, not previously described, and to which 

 the name of Bacillus oeruginosus is given, on account of 

 the coloration it develops in certain culture media. 



CONTENTS. PAGE 



The Worth of Experimental Psychology. By Dr. 



C. S. Myers '. . . . 465 



Hydraulics 465 



Our Book Shelf:— 



Fischer : " Synthesen in der Purin- und Zucker- 



gruppe." — T. M. L 466 



Pearson : " Report on Field Experiments in Victoria, 



1S87-1900" 467 



The British Association 467 



Section A. — Sub-section of Astronomy and Meteor- 



ologv. — Opening Address by W. N. Shaw, 



Sc.D., F.R S., Chairman of the Sub-section . 468 



Section B. — Chemistry.— Opening Address by Prof. 



W. N. Hartley, D.Sc, F.R.S., F.R.S.E., 



President of the Section 472 



Section C— Geology. — Opening Address by Prof. 

 W. W. Watts, M.A., M.Sc, President of the 



Section 481 



Notes 488 



Our Astronomical Column : — 



Search-ephemeris for Comet 1896 v. (Giacobini). . . 491 



Intensity of Spectral Lines 491 



A Provisional Catalogue of Variable Stars 491 



Mass of Mercury 491 



Corrections to Existing Star Catalogues 491 



University and Educational Intelligence 492 



Societies and Academies 492 



