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Caius College. Dr. A. C. Haddon, university lecturer in 

 ethnology, has been elected to a senior fellowship at Christ's 

 College. 



A DEPARTMENT of experimental psychology has been estab- 

 lished, says Science, in the Western University of Penn- 

 sylvania, under the charge of Dr. Edmund B. Huey. 



The new medical buildings of the University of Liverpool 

 will be opened by the Chancellor, Lord Derby, on Saturday, 

 November 12, and on the same day Lord Kelvin will formally 

 open the new George Holt Physics Laboratory. 



The council of the University of Liverpool has just 

 appointed Dr. J. H. Grindley lecturer in engineering, Mr. 

 .\. Leitch assistant lecturer in engineering, and Mr. G. E. 

 Piper demonstrator in applied mechanics and engineering 

 design and drawing. 



We regret to learn of the death of Prof. D. W. Fiske on 

 September 17. The bulk of his estate, including the great 

 book collections, has been left to Cornell University. It is 

 stated in Science that the bequest amounts to between 

 roo,ooo?. and 200,000/. 



Dr. E. G. Coker, of the McGill University, Montreal, 

 has been appointed to the professorship of mechanical 

 engineering arid applied mathematics at the City and Guilds 

 Technical College, Finsbury, vacated by the appointment of 

 Prof. Dalby to the professorship of engineering at the 

 institute's Central Technical College. 



Mr. Francis Galton, F.R.S., has endowed a research 

 fellowship in the University of London for the promotion of 

 the study of " national eugenics," defined as " the study of 

 the agencies under social control that may improve or impair 

 the racial qualities of future generations either physically 

 or mentally." The fellowship is of the annual value of 

 250!., is tenable for one year in the first instance, and is 

 renewable for two subsequent years. The person appointed 

 to the fellowship will be required to devote the whole of his 

 time to the study of the subject, and in particular to carry 

 out investigations into the history of classes and families, 

 and to deliver lectures and publish memoirs on the subject 

 of his investigations. 



The report on the work of the department of technology 

 of the City and Guilds of London Institute for the session 

 1903-4 has now been published. The general introduction 

 to the report points out that the encouragement now offered 

 by the Board of Education to the teaching of technology 

 is among the causes contributing to the increase in the 

 number of students in the institute's registered classes. 

 Compared with the figures given in last year's report, those 

 for the past session show a decided improvement. In the 

 different branches of technology, the number of students 

 in November last attending classes in the United Kingdom 

 was 41,089 as compared with 38,638 in the previous year, 

 and the number of examinees was 20,051 as against 17,989. 

 The closer connection of the work of the department with 

 that of the Board of Education is shown, also, not only by 

 the recognition of the City and Guilds of London Institute 

 as an organisation for the inspection of classes in 

 technology, manual training, and domestic economy, but 

 also by the stamping by the Board of Education of full 

 certificates granted by the institute to students who pass 

 in technology and have " qualified in the cognate science 

 or art subjects required by the institute." It is interesting 

 lo find that the question of arranging courses of instruction 

 adapted to the requiremehts of operatives engaged in ship- 

 building is under consideration ; it is intended to extend the 

 syllabus in ship carpentry and joinery so as to make it 

 suitable for artisans engaged in other branches of the 

 industry. Care is to be taken not to overlap the syllabus 

 in naval architecture of the Board of Education, and it is 

 expected that the new examination will appeal to a different 

 class of candidates from those who have hitherto presented 

 themselves for examination. It should be noted that the 

 department of technology of the institute occupies an inter- 

 mediate position between the central and local education 

 authorities and the several trade societies. The latter 

 bodies have shown a growing interest in technical instruc- 

 tion, and year by year the department has grown into more 

 intimate relationship with these trade organisations. 



NO. 1827, VOL. 71] 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 

 London. 

 Entomological Society, Oclober 19. — Prof. 



Poulton, F.R.S., president, in the chair. — Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman exhibited a series ol Lozofera deaurana, 

 Peyr., bred last spring at Hyires, a species regarded 

 as lost, or mythical, until he re-discovered it three years 

 ago at He Ste. Marguerite, Cannes. He also exhibited 

 on behalf of Mr. Hugh Main a specimen of 

 Pieris brassicae, the anterior and posterior wings of 

 which had been symmetrically injured, probably by the 

 girdle when in the pupal stage. — Mr. G. C. Champion ex- 

 hibited specimens of Nothorrhina muricata, Dalm., from 

 Las Navas, Spain, found trapped in the earthenware cups 

 used to collect the exuding resin on the trunks of pines. — 

 Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited specimens of the 

 rare beetle, Cis bilamellatKS, Wood, taken at Shirley on 

 October 10 last. — Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited a 9 speci- 

 men of the rare dragonfly Agrion armaliiin. He said that 

 a cJ and a 9 were taken in the Broads by Mr. F. B. 

 Browne last year, and this year about ten more, probably 

 all 9 9, were taken in the same district. Besides these 

 there are possibly no other examples in Britain. It is quite 

 distinct from our other six blue Agrionines in form and 

 colouring. — Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited five specimens of 

 Dianthoecia hiteago, var. ficklini, from North Cornwall, 

 taken during the first week of July, 1901, and remarked 

 that while the typical D. lutcago of the Continent was toler- 

 ably constant, wherever it occurred in Britain it assumed 

 a special local form. — Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., ex- 

 hibited a number of specimens of the genus Sphecodes, five 

 species in all, and of Ocyptera brcvicornis, a Tachinid, their 

 mimetic fly, illustrative of Mr. Edward Saunders's recent 

 paper on the aculeate Hymenoptera from the Balearic 

 Islands and Spain. — Mr. C. A. J. Rothney sent for ex- 

 hibition a series of the Indian ant Myrmicaria fodiens, from 

 a colony established thirty-two years in the big banyan tree 

 in Barrackpore Park ; and specimens of Monomoriuni 

 salomonis, Lin., and Solenopsis gcminata, Fab., success- 

 fully encouraged in Madras as a protection against white 

 ants — termites. — Mr. E. E. Green exhibited a spider from 

 Ceylon mimetic of some coccinellid beetle, at present un- 

 identified. — Colonel J. W. Yerbury exhibited specimens, and 

 read notes upon, deer gadflies taken by him this year in 

 Scotland. 



Manchester. 

 Literary and Philosophical Society, October 18.— Prof. 

 W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., president, in the chair. — Dr. 

 W. A. Bone read a paper entitled " The Mode of Com- 

 bustion of Hydrocarbons," in which he gave an account of 

 researches carried out by Messrs. R. V. Wheeler and W. E. 

 Stockings and himself, at the Owens College, on the slow 

 combustion of hydrocarbons below their ignition points. — 

 Dr. Charles H. Lees exhibited a modification of the 

 U-tube used in electrolysis which he had devised, and which 

 diminishes lo about one-half the correction for pressure due 

 to the column of liquid in the unsealed limb of the tube. 



Paris. 

 Academy of Sciences, October 24. — M. Mascart in the 

 chair. — Stereoscopy without a stereoscope : J. Violle. In a 

 camera, furnished with two objectives, directly in front of 

 the plate is placed a grating, ruled with 100 black lines to 

 the inch. The negative from this contains the two sets 

 of images, each crossed with a set of fine bands. When 

 this is looked at through a similar ruled plate the picture 

 appears in relief. — On the modifications of glycolysis in the 

 capillaries caused by local modification of the temperature : 

 R. Lepine and M. Boulud. The experiments were made 

 on dogs. Relatively to the arterial blood, the venous blood 

 of the warmer part always contains a little more sugar. 

 In the case of the paw kept cool, this difference is in- 

 creased to about double, and is in the same direction. — 

 On integral functions of finite order : L. Leau. — On certain 

 partial differential equations of the second order : 

 S. Bernstein — On the period of antenn.-E of different 

 forms : C. Tissot. On account of the high value of the 

 deadening, the rotating mirror method does not give 

 accurate figures for the period, and the author describes 

 another method which is free from this objection. It is 



