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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
CAMBRIDGE.—The following awards for post-gradu- 
ate research have been made at Emmanuel College :— 
A studentship of 150l. to J. Morrison for contin:1a-ion 
of research on the igneous rocks of the English Lake 
district; a grant of 25]. to G. Williams for study in 
animal nutrition; and a grant of 5ol. to \V. D. 
Womersley for investigation of the specific heat of 
gases at high temperatures. 
Lonpon (University CoLiece).—Dr. T. B. John- 
ston, lecturer on anatomy in the University of Edin- 
burgh, has been appointed lecturer and demonstrator 
of anatomy in the faculty of medical sciences, and Mr. 
G. N. Watson, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 
has been appointed a member of the staff of the 
department of pure mathematics for the session 
1914-15, in succession to Dr. A. N. Whitehead, who 
has resigned. 
Dr. D. Starr Jorpan, . Chancellor of Leland Stan- 
ford University, has been elected president of the 
National Education Association. 
Tue biennial Huxley lecture will be delivered by 
Sir Ronald Ross, K.C.B., F.R.S., at the Charing 
Cross Hospital Medical School on October 1. 
Tue University Court of Edinburgh University has 
received and approved a proposal from the honorary 
secretaries of the Royal Victoria Hospital for Con- 
sumption for the foundation of a chair of tuberculosis. 
, Mr. A. J. MarGetson, at present assistant professor 
at the City and Guilds (Engineering) College, Ken- 
sington, has been appointed to the professorship of 
civil and mechanical engineering at the Technical 
College, Finsbury, in the place of Prof. E. G. Coker. 
THE sum of 400,000 dollars has recently been given 
to the Yale Medical School of Yale University for the 
foundation of a fund to be known as the ‘‘Anna 
M. R. Lauder Fund,’’ in memory of the late Mrs. 
George Lauder. The donors stipulate that a memorial 
professorship in public health be established for the 
benefit of the state of Connecticut. 
THE report for 1914 of the Council to the members 
of the City and Guilds of London Institute has now 
been published. It deals fully with the work of the 
City and Guilds. (Engineering) College, the City and 
Guilds Technical College, Finsbury, the South I.ciidon 
Technical Art School, the Department of Technology, 
and the Leather Trades’ School. During the past 
session 4559 classes in technological subjects were 
registered by the Department of Technology in 315 
towns. These classes were attended by 54,510 
students, showing an increase of 511 on ::st year’s 
numbers. The examinations were held in 74 techno- 
logical subjects, for which 21,878 candidates entered 
from centres in the United Kingdom alone. In- 
cluding the candidates from India, and the Overseas 
Dominions and the candidates for special examina- 
tions and for teachers’ certificates in manual training 
aud domestic subjects, the total number examined 
was 25,339. Examinations were held this year in 
the following parts of the Empire outside the United 
Kingdom :—India, New Zealand, South Africa, 
Jamaica, Malta, and Singapore. The number of 
Indian candidates continues to increase and this year 
reached the total of 343; the number of candidates 
from New Zealand was 327. During the past session 
232 new names have been added to the Institute’s 
register of teachers in technology; 91 centres were 
visited by the Institute’s inspectors; and in numerous 
other ways the department has been extending its 
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activities. There can be no doubt, says the report, - 
that the teaching of technology has greatly improved 
during the past few years; but it is noted that the 
examiners have still to direct attention to the in- 
sufficient knowledge that some candidates possess of 
the principles of their subjects, and to the lack of 
practical knowledge shown by others, and they cannot 
escape from the conclusion that the unsatisfactory 
answers in certain groups of papers indicate faulty 
teaching as the source. 
SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 
DUBLIN. 
Royal Dublin Society, June 23.—Prof. William Brown 
in the chair.—Prof. H. J. Seymour: Preliminary notes 
on the bathymetric survey of some Wicklow lakes. 
Those dealt with were the two lakes at Glendalough, 
and the larger of the two loughs Bray. The latter, 
which is a typical moraine-dammed corrie lake, is at 
an elevation of about 1200 ft. above sea-level and 
has a maximum depth of about 150 ft. A noteworthy 
feature is the occurrence in one part of the lake of 
a steep cliff, about 54 ft. high, the upper edge being 
go ft. below the surface of the water. The shape 
suggests that it is composed of rock and not of 
moraine. The large lake at Glendalough, about one 
mile long and a quarter of a mile broad is shallower 
and more uniformly contoured than the above. The 
deepest sounding obtained was approximately roo it. 
There is fairly satisfactory evidence that the trough 
in which the lake lies is ‘‘overdeepened.’’—Prof. J. 
Joly: Experiments on the presence of thorium in 
Moss: (1) The preparation of 
cancers, etc.—R. J. ; 
radium emanation for therapeutic purposes. (2) The 
reduction of radium sulphate. 
Care Town. 
Royal Society of South Africa, June 17.—Dr. L. 
Péringuey, president, in the chair.—Dr. W. A. Jolly : 
The electrical discharge of narcine. Curves of the 
electrical discharge of a fish of the Torpedo family 
(species not yet determined) were exhibited. The 
curves were photographically recorded by the string 
galvanometer. The direction of the current through 
the fish is from the ventral to the dorsal surface. The 
deflections which make up the shock occur with a 
rhythm of about 50 a second.—K. H. Barnard ; Living 
Phreatoicus. Although in most respects an_Isopod 
Phreatoicus has peculiar features which link it on to 
the Amphipods. So far the only members of this 
family have been found in Australia, New Zealand, 
and Tasmania. Last year, however, another species 
was discovered on Table Mountain. This is further 
evidence of a former land connection between the 
southern continents.—L. Péringuey: Bushman paint- 
ings from Southern Rhodesia. The tracings throw 
quite a different light on the technique and probably 
the mental evolution of the Bush people who executed 
them. As usual, animals abound, but they are much 
more skilfully delineated than those from the Cape 
Colony, Orange Free State, Natal, etc. ; the graceful 
attitude and outline of some of them make those of 
the latter look commonplace. For instance, the spiral 
of the horns of the koodoo is very plainly indicated, 
which is not the case in any of the numerous transfers 
from the Cape, etc., known to the author. Then the 
representation of the human figure is of a much supe- 
rior type, and seems to indicate a slight phase of 
transition with the hieratic style of Egypt.—Prof. 
Roseveare : (1) A proof by elementary methods, without 
complex quantities, that every algebraic function (with 
real coefficients) has factors of the form x*—px+q 
(p, q real). (2) Malet’s proof that every equation has 
roots, real or imaginary, equal in number to its degree. 
