100 
servatory at Eskdalemuir, and for the National 
Physical Laboratory. For salaries and other expenses 
of the National Physical Laboratory the grant for 
1914-15 is 7oool., as compared with 12,0001. in 
1913-14; but the grant for the Aeronautical Section 
of the National Physical Laboratory, which is given 
separate mention, is for 1914—15 12,550l., as compared 
with g15ol. in 1913-14. 
The following grants remain as they were in 1913- 
14 :—Meteorological Office, 20,o00l. ; Royal Geograph- 
ical Society, 1,2501.: Marine Biological Association 
of the United Kingdom, roool.; Royal Society of Edin- 
burgh, 600l.; Scottish Meteorological Society, iool. ; 
Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, 5oo0l.; Royal 
Scottish Geographical Society, 2o00l.; International 
Geodetic Association, 300l1.; Solar Physics Observa- 
tory, 3000l.; North Sea Fisheries Investigation, 1250l. ; 
International Seismic Association, 21ol. 
The grant to the Edinburgh Observatory is 1637l., 
an increase of 89]. on 1913-14; and the British Ant- 
arctic Expedition receives 5000l. for the year 1914-15. 
The grants in aid of the expenses of universities and 
university colleges amount for the year under con- 
sideration to 287,000l., precisely the same sum as in 
the previous year. 
The vote for science and art in Ireland reaches 
145,164l., as compared with 140,450l. in the previous 
year, a net increase of 4,714l. The estimate of the 
amount required for grants under the Irish Univer- 
sity Act, 1908, is 124,000l., a decrease of 18ool. 
The estimate of the amount required to pay the 
salaries and expenses of the Board of Education and 
of the various establishments connected therewith is 
14,730,6211., a net increase of 70,5521. Among the 
items included in this large sum the following are of 
interest in this connection :—Technical institutions and 
evening schools, 638,o00l., an increase of 23,2001. ; 
university institutions in respect of technological work, 
48,oool., an increase of 2000l.; Imperial College of 
Science and Technology, 30,o001.; Science Museum, 
21,3221., an increase of 28951.; Geological Museum, 
3925!., an increase of 176l.; and the Geological Sur- 
vey, 16,8281., a decrease of 1047l. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
GrLascow.—The first award of the Kelvin gold 
medal and prize (founded by Lady Kelvin), for the 
best dissertation in natural philosophy presented for 
the degree of D.Sc. during the three years 1911-13, 
has been made to Dr. A. D. Ross, now professor in 
the University of Western Australia. 
The first award of the William Jack prize (founded 
in honour of Emeritus Professor Jack), for the best 
dissertation in mathematics presented for the degree 
of D.Sc. during the four years 1910-13, has been made 
to Dr. R. J. T. Bell, senior University lecturer in 
mathematics. ; 
Lreps.—Mr. Aldred F. Barker, who has been head 
of the textile department of the Bradford Municipal 
Technical College for twenty years, has been appointed 
to succeed Mr. Roberts Beaumont as professor of tex- 
tile industries. Mr. Barker is an old student of the 
University, having worked under Prof. J. Beaumont, 
the first occupant of the chair to which he now suc- 
ceeds. He has had a considerable experience of actual 
mill work, and his publications are recognised as 
standard works on textiles. 
Mr. Robert Cattley has been appointed honorary 
fellow in pathology, and Mr. Lionel Walmsley as 
honorary curator of the Marine Laboratory, Robin 
Heod’s Bay. ; 
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NATURE 
[Marcu 26, 1914 
Mr. F. J. Norru, assistant in the geological 
laboratory, King’s College, London, has been 
appointed assistant keeper in the department of 
geology in the National Museum of Wales. 
A course of lectures on arts of East and West, by 
Laurence Binyon, will be given at the Battersea Poly- 
technic, London, S.W., on Wednesdays at 6 p.m., 
beginning May 6. The lectures are intended for ad- 
vanced students; admission is free, and no ticket is 
required. 
Mr. Percy CoLemMan, of the Northern Polytechnic 
Institute, Holloway, who has been appointed adviser 
in technical education and secretary to the National 
Board for Technical Education in the Union of South 
Africa, leaves for South Africa in the R.M.S. Kin- 
fauns Castle on April 11. 
A SvuMMER School in Geography will be held on 
August 2-22 next at the University College of Wales, . 
Aberystwyth. Prof. H. J. Fleure, lecturer in geo- 
graphy at the college, will give ten lectures on a 
regional survey of Europe, and eight on England and 
Wales. Mr. W. E. Whitehouse will give eight lec- 
tures on the teaching of geography by modern 
methods, five on the climate of the British Isles, and 
five on mathematical geography. In addition to the 
courses of lectures, practical work will be taken daily. 
Field classes will be held for practice in the use of 
simple survey instruments, while excursions will be 
made to places of interest, which afford material for 
the study of land sculpture, vegetation, and human 
facts. 
WE learn from the Times that in accordance with 
a resolution passed at the joint meeting of the Ger- 
man and English sections of the King Edward VII. 
British-German Foundation, instituted by Sir Ernest 
Cassel, the German Foundation will again, in the 
year I9gI4-I5, use part of its income in providing 
studentships to enable university graduates of British 
nationality to reside in Germany with the object of 
studying some branch of science or literature, or 
becoming acquainted with the commercial or indus- 
trial life of the country. The work of selection was - 
even more difficult than last year, as the number of 
candidates was far larger, and most of them had 
obtained first-class honours in their universities. 
Studentships of the value of, about 175]. were on 
March 21 awarded to Mr. B. Dickins, Magdalene Col- 
lege, Cambridge; Mr. R. A. Frazer, Pembroke Col- 
lege, Cambridge: Mr. S. W. Rawson, Queen’s Col- 
lege, Oxford; Mr. G. G. Williams, Christ Church, 
Oxford; Mr. F. P. Wilson, Birmingham University 
and Oxford University; Mr. T. Wright, King’s Col- 
lege, London University. Studentships of the value 
of about tool. were awarded to Mr. A. B. Mayne, 
Balliol “College, Oxford; Mr. J. S. Stephens, St 
John’s College, Cambridge. 
SOCGLEITES AN DA GADIEiT ESE 
LONDON. 
Geological Society, March 11.—Dr. A. Smith Wood- 
ward, president, and afterwards Dr. H. H. Bemrose, 
vice-president, in the chair.—E. T. Newton: A series 
of small mammalian and other remains from the rock- 
shelter of La Colombiere, near Poncin (Ain). During 
the year 1913, Dr. Lucien Mayet and M. Jean Pissot 
were working systematically at the prolific deposits of 
this locality, and towards the end of the year made 
known the discovery of a number of incised bones 
and stones, representing the human form as well as 
several animals. The upper part of the deposit is 
referred to the Neolithic and Magdalenian ages; but 
