134 



NATURE 



[x\pRiL 6, 19 1 6 



1916-17 

 SCIENCE AND ART. 



Institutions of science and 



art 



Schools of science and art, 



etc. 



Geological Survey 



Examinations in courses of 



instruction conducted in 



technical schools 



49.224 



99.350 

 1.749 



750 



1915-16 



50,136 



94.950 

 2,171 



850 



Total 



;£5"lI4,000 ;^I24,000 



Summary, 

 education, science, 

 United Kingdom and 



Board of Education 15, 



British Museum 



National Galler}' 



National Portrait Gallery ... 



Wallace Collection ... 



London Museum 



Scientific investigation, etc. 



Universities and colleges, 

 Great Britain, and inter- 

 mediate education, Wales 



Universities, 

 ijrants 



etc., special 



and art. 



England. 



186,732 



128,599 



1 1 ,489 



3.485 



4.591 



2.570 



121,671 



321,200 



Scotland. 



Public education 

 National galleries 



Ireland 



Public education 



Intermediate education (Ire- 

 land) 



Endowed Schools Commis- 

 sioners 



National Gallery 



Science .ind art 



Universities and colleges 



.544.742 

 4.522 



,812,704 

 40,000 



15,481,378 



148,645 



15.670 



4.993 

 7,962 



5.465 

 115.582 



316,200 

 145,000 



2,609,905 

 4,878 



1,805,919 

 40,000 



Total 



...^20,448,508 ;^2o,974,949 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



INTELLIGENCE. 



A PRIZE fellowship of about looZ. is offered by the 



Federation of University Women for research of 



direct national value In the present crisis. Candidates 



must have published original work. .Applications will 



NO. 2423, VOL. 97] 



be received during the present month. Full particu- 

 lars will be furnished, on request, by the honorary' 

 secretary of the federation, 28 College Court, Ham- 

 mersmith. 



The President of the Board of Education will 

 address a meeting to be held at Caxton Hall, \\'est- 

 minster, at 6.30 on Friday, April 14, on the future 

 development of education in relation to science and 

 commerce. Applications for tickets should be ad- 

 dressed to the secretary, Teachers' Registration 

 Council, 47 Bedford Square, W.C. 



At the invitation of the Hon. Rupert Guinness 

 there was an inspection of the new chemical labora- 

 tories of University College, London, on Friday i - 

 The building is complete except in a few minor Jt-: - 

 but much remains to be done before it can b( 

 used for llie purposes for which it has been desi^ 

 To fit up the "" William Ramsay Librarj'," provid' 

 electric current throughout the building, and equi| 

 the important department of physical chemistry, the 

 sum of i4,oooL is needed at once; and a further 

 amount of at least 6oooi. will be required for the de- 

 velopment of research work, making 20,oooZ. in all. 

 Of this amount. Sir Ralph C. Foster, Bart., the 

 generous benefactor who had previously given 34,500?. 

 towards the cost of the laboratories, has alleady 

 contributed 5000Z., and Dr. R. Messel has given 500!. 

 for the installation and equipment of the joint work- 

 shop for the departments of chemistry and physics. 

 The provision of such a workshop as common ground 

 for two branches of science, each of which formerly 

 kept within its own compartment, is a sign of the 

 times. Many of the most important advances made 

 in chemical science of late years belong to physical 

 chemistry^ and the future rests largely with workers -in 

 this joint domain. When the laboratories at Univer- 

 sity College are properly equipped, the best possible 

 provision will have been made for satisfactory instruc- 

 tion in all branches of chemistr}'. There will be a 

 technical laboratory in which chemical processes can 

 be tested on a large scale, with a view to their utilisa- 

 tion for manufacturing purposes, and several separate 

 rooms are provided for general chemical research. The 

 sum required to equip all the new laboratories as they 

 ought to be equipped is small in comparison with the 

 national gain which it will ensure. We trust that a 

 few generous benefactors will see that it is speedily 

 forthcoming. Donations should be sent to the Hon. 

 Rupert Guinness, treasurer of the equipment and 

 endowment fund. University College, W.C. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 

 London. 

 Royal Society, March 30.^ — Sir J. J. Thomson, presi- 

 dent, in the chair.— Prof. W. J. Sollas : Skull of 

 Ichthyosaurus, studied in serial sections. The anatomy 

 of the palate, including the form and disposition of the 

 vomer, is described ; there is no transverse bone. The 

 parietal is split into two wings, an inner, which con- 

 tributes to the roof of the cranial cavity, and an 

 outer, which unites \yith the post-frontal and pre- 

 frontal to form a part of the orbital arch. This feature 

 and the separate opisthotic recall the Chelonia. The 

 columella cranii is an important bone which rises 

 from the surface of the pterygoid to meet the descend- 

 ing limb of the parietal. A rather large pre-ariiculai 

 or goniale is present in the lower jaw. The hyo- 

 branchial apparatus proves more complicated than had 

 ' been supposed, and is more akin to the Amphibia than 

 , the Reptiles. The relations of the bones in general 

 ! are also more complicated. The prevalent squamous 



