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of the building and fittings is 49,389/. 25. 3d., of which 

 sum 26,125/. ^^^ been furnished by the Sedgwiclt meniorial 

 trustees, besides 1050/. appropriated to the bronze statue 

 sculptured by Mr. Onslow P'ord. 



In connection with the recently established diploma and 

 final examination for the degree in geography, the Board 

 of Geographical Studies has issued a list of eight lectures 

 which amply cover the syllabus for these examinations. 

 Besides the lectures on geography in general by Mr. Yule 

 Oldham, Mr. Hinks is lecturing on geographical survey- 

 ing, Dr. Marr on geomorphology, and Dr. Haddon on 

 anthropogeography. 



The recently established board of anthropology announce 

 some thirteen courses of lectures which seem to embrace 

 the world, ancient and modern. Prof. Ridgeway deals 

 with Greek and Roman numismatics, Mr. Green with 

 Egyptology, Mr. Johns with .\ssyriology and the social 

 customs of Babylonia, ^Ir. Chadwick with those of the 

 Anglo-Saxons, whilst Dr. Haddon lectures on the ethnology 

 of Southern Asia, Baron von Hiigel on the Melanesians 

 and Polynesians, and Mr. Minns on the ancient ethnology 

 of eastern Europe. .Special courses on the sacred character 

 and magical functions of kings in early society, and on 

 physical anthropology, are to be delivered by ^Ir. J. G. 

 Frazer and Mr. Duckworth. 



London. — The Drapers' Company has voted to Uni- 

 versity College the sum of 400/. a year for the next five 

 years towards assisting further the statistical work and 

 higher teaching of the department of applied mathematics. 

 The Mercers' Company has voted the sum of 1000/. for 

 providing for the chair of physiology at the college. Dr. 

 Atkinson has been appointed an honorary demonstrator in 

 the department of organic chemistry. 



Edinburgh. — The Senate has submited a resolution to 

 the University Court expressing the view that the time 

 has come for the recognition of geography as a subject 

 for graduation in arts and science, and requesting that 

 the court should take steps as soon as possible to obtain 

 such alteration of the ordinances as may be necessary to 

 that end. It was agreed that when the framing of a 

 new and amending ordinance in arts comes before the 

 court, the question of giving an adequate position to 

 geography shall be given due consideration. 



Dublin. — The Provost and senior fellows of Trinity 

 College have accepted an offer made by .Sir John Nutting, 

 of St. Helens, county Dublin, to endow for a period of 

 five years ten annual entrance exhibitions each of the 

 value of 100/. (50/. per annum for two years). The 

 e.xhibitions are to be awarded without further examin- 

 ation, and at the discretion of the Board of Trinity College, 

 to ten young men or women who have competed with 

 success at the senior or middle grade examinations of 

 the Board of Intermediate Education in Ireland. The 

 exhibitions will be confined to pupils of Irish secondary 

 schools (Protestant and Roman Catholic) which have no 

 other endowment than the " results fees " of the Inter- 

 mediate Board, any other endowment to act as a dis- 

 qualification. 



Mr. Stanley H. Turner, assistant in political economy 

 at Glasgow, has been appointed lecturer in political 

 economy in the University of Aberdeen, and a full qualify- 

 ing course of lectures will in future be given by him. 



Dr. Karl Boehm, of Heidelberg, and Dr. Hugo Kauf- 

 mann, of Stuttgart Technical College, have been appointed 

 extraordinary professors for mathematics and chemistry 

 respectively. 



Mrs. Maclogiilin, of Southport, recently made an offer 

 to the Royal College of Surgeons of England to found 

 scholarships in memory of her husband, the late Mr. 

 E. Percy P. Macloghlin. Mrs. Madoghlin proposes, in 

 five vears from the date of her husband's death, to give 

 to the college a sum of 10.000/. for the purpose of endow- 

 ing these scholarships, which are intended to assist young 

 students in need of financial help to proceed with their 

 professional studies. The council of the college has 

 accepted Mrs. Macloghlin's munificent offer, and has agreed 

 to administer the trust. 



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The president of the Board of Education has appointed 

 the Right Hon. R. B. Haldane, K.C., .M.P., to be chair- 

 man of the departmental committee which is inquiring 

 into the present and future working of the Royal College 

 of Science and Royal School of Mines, South Kensington, 

 in succession to Sir Francis Mowatt, G.C.B., who will,, 

 however, remain a member of the committee. It may be 

 remembered that the terms of reference to the committee 

 are as follows : — To inquire into the present working of 

 the Royal College of Science, including the School of 

 Mines ; to consider in what manner the staff, together with 

 the buildings and appliances now in occupation or in course 

 of construction, may be utilised to the fullest extent for 

 the promotion of higher scientific studies in connection 

 with the work of existing or projected institutions for 

 instruction of the same character in the metropolis or 

 elsewhere ; and to report on any changes which may be 

 desirable in order to carry out such recommendations as 

 they may make. 



The annual meeting of the Incorporated Association of 

 Headmasters was held at the Guildhall on January 11 

 and 12. In his presidential address, the Rev. James "VVent 

 said that, speaking broadly, the difference between the 

 English and the German educational ideal has been that 

 the Germans have recognised the paramount importance 

 of secondary education and the English have not. It is, 

 however, being recognised gradually that the word 

 " secondary " connotes, not a social distinction, but one 

 of attainment. The recognition of this fact is, Mr. Went 

 believes, largely due to boys of ability and good character 

 who, under the name of exhibitioners or county council 

 scholars, have during the last thirty years been admitted 

 freely into grammar schools, and of whom many have 

 afterwards won the highest distinctions at the universi- 

 ties. It appears likely that the number of boys of this- 

 class will be increased as time goes on. The address also 

 dealt with the education of pupil teachers at secondary 

 schools and with the recent regulations for secondary- 

 schools issued by the Board of Education. The following 

 resolution was adopted : — " That this association regards 

 the new regulations for secondary schools with satisfac- 

 tion in general, but regrets that the Board of Education 

 does not provide (a) for the calculation of grants upon 

 terminal attendance ; (6) for the recognition of advanced 

 courses to follow upon the existing four-years' course;; 



(c) for ensuring comparative freedom of curricula to schools 

 satisfying certain tests of a higher liberal education ; 



(d) for an elastic percentage division of the whole school 

 time when prescribing for groups of subjects, in place of 

 the existing rigid minima of hours or periods in each 

 week. A rider was adopted also declaring that the 

 financial basis on which grants are calculated is not at 

 all adequate, and protesting against any application of 

 the new regulations to secondary schools hitherto earn- 

 ing grants from the board, which would result in such' 

 schools receiving grants on a lower basis than in the past. 



.^T the second day's meeting of the Incorporated Associ- 

 ation of Headmasters the following resolutions were 

 adopted after discussion : — (i) That in the opinion of this, 

 association it is desirable that the universities should 

 institute a twofold entrance examination (a) for candidates- 

 proceeding to degrees in arts, in general as at present, 

 but with a higher standard in literary subjects ; (b) for 

 candidates proceeding to degrees in mathematics and 

 science, with a modern language, including translation at 

 sight, composition, and an oral test, as an alternative 

 for Greek. (2) That the provision for papers in English 

 and history, and for the omission of Paley's " Evidences 

 from the Cambridge previous paper as laid down in the 

 first report of the Cambridge Studies Syndicate, should 

 be insisted upon in examinations under both (a) and (h\ 

 above. (3) That a new degree in mathematics and in 

 science should be instituted, differing in title from the 

 degree in arts, but of precisely the same university stand- 

 ing. The Rev. R. D. Swaliow, in moving the resolu- 

 tions, said he would not add anything to the arguments 

 on either side of the vexed question as to whether the 

 study of Greek is to be compulsory for students who 

 sought admission to the ancient universities. It is a 



