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In connection with tlie conference there was a trade ex- 

 hibition of school building and furnishing appliances, which 

 consisted chieflv of school furniture ; and the Board of Educa- 

 tion, the Scotch Education Department, the Technical In- 

 struction Department for Ireland, the London County 

 Council, Home Office, S.C., contributed loan exhibits. 



A conference upon school hygiene, international in char- 

 acter, is to be held in London in 1907. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge. — The subject selected for the Adams Prize in 

 1906 is "The inequalities in the moon's motion due to the 

 direct action of the planets." The successful candidate will 

 receive about 225!. 



The syndicate appointed to draw up a scheme of instruction 

 and examination in mining engineering has issued a second 

 and amended report to the Senate. It is proposed that a 

 diploma in mining engineering be granted to students who 

 have passed the previous examination and have kept nine 

 terms, and who have attained an honours standard in 

 geology and chemistry in part i. of the natural sciences 

 tripos and a second class standard in certain of the papers 

 in the special examination in mechanism. The candidates 

 have also to produce a certificate in mechanical drawing. 

 This amended scheme meets the objections which had at one 

 time been raised to the recommendations of the syndicate, 

 and it was warmly welcomed at the discussion in the 

 Senate house a week or two ago. 



Mr. William Loring, formerly fellow of King's College. 

 Cambridge, and late director of education under the County 

 Council of the West Riding of Yorkshire, has been ap- 

 pointed warden of the Goldsmiths' College, Xew Cross. 



Science states that the Emperor of Germany has directed 

 the German Ambassador, to the United .States to lay before 

 President Roosevelt in official form the suggestion for an 

 exchange of professors between German and .American univer- 

 sities which he made to the .American .Ambassador on New 

 Year's Day. 



The administration of the Board of Education in respect 

 of secondary schools under the board's regulations for 

 secondary schools, as also of charitable trusts and endow- 

 ments connected therewith, will be conducted in future in 

 the board's offices at Whitehall, and not at .South Ken- 

 sington. All correspondence on these matters should therefore 

 be addressed to the Secretary, Board of Education, Whitehall, 

 London, S.W. This change does not apply to the board's 

 administration under the regulations for evening schools, 

 technical institutions, and schools of art and art classes, 

 which will remain for the present at South Kensington. 



In the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society for 

 December 31, Mr. L. L. Price contributes a paper on 

 the accounts of the colleges of Oxford, 1S93-1903, 

 with special reference to their agricultural revenues. 

 An interesting feature of the discussions was the reference 

 to the disastrous results arising from the new statutes 

 drawn up by the last commission, consequent on the fact 

 that the work of the commission was done at a time when 

 agriculture was prosperous, and no sooner had the sittings 

 ceased than agricultural depression came on the country, 

 and the resources of the colleges were seriously hampered. 



The trustees of the Peabody Education Fund have, we 

 learn from Science, voted to dissolve their trust. An appro- 

 priation of 20o,oooL for the George Peabody School for 

 Teachers in Xashville, Tenn., was made by a unanimous 

 vote, the State and city having together voted an equal 

 sum for the school. This appropriation leaves a fund of 

 approximately 240,000!., which will be distributed later 

 among other educational institutions. From the same source 

 we learn that the trustees of Syracuse L'niversity are about 

 to construct, with the bequest made to the university by the 

 late Mr. John Lyman, which is said to amount to 40,000!., a 



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building to be known as the John Lyman Laboratory of 

 Natural History. Mr. Adolph Lewisohn, of New Y'ork, has 

 given 1000!. for the reconstruction of the chemical labora- 

 tories at Dartmouth College. 



The following recent appointments are announced : — 

 Dr. Ernst Neumann, associate professor of physics at 

 Marburg ; Dr. Emil Wiechert, professor of geophysics at 

 Bonn ; Dr. HoUeman, of Groningen, professor of inorganic 

 chemistry at Amsterdam ; Dr. Bernhard Dessau, of Bologna, 

 professor of physics at Perugia ; Dr. C. Russjan, of 

 Cracow, professor of mechanics at Lemberg ; Dr. L. Cour- 

 voisier, of Heidelberg, observer at the Berlin Observatory ; 

 Dr. Ferdinand Henrich, associate professor of chemistry 

 at Erlangen ; Dr. Boehm, associate professor of mathe- 

 matics at Heidelberg ; Dr. Kueser, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Breslau ; Dr. Th. A'ahlen, of Kiinigsberg, asso- 

 ciate professor of mathematics at Greifswald ; Dr. M. 

 Weber, professor of mechanics at the Hanover Technical 

 College; Mr. B. H. Camp and Dr. G. D. Richardson, 

 instructors in mathematics at Wesleyan and Y'ale Uni- 

 versities respectively. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 

 London. 



Royal Society, June 16, 1904. — "On the Icifluence of 

 the Time Factor on the Correlation between the Barometric 

 Heights at Stations more than 1000 Miles apart." By 

 F. E. Cave-Browne-Cave, Girton College, Cambridge. 

 Communicated by Prof. Karl Pearson, F.R.S. 



The conclusions drawn from the results given in this 

 paper are as follows : — 



(i) The correlation between the barometric readings at 

 two stations upwards of 1000 miles apart depends upon the 

 interval between the readings. In the case of Halifax and 

 Wilmington, the correlation is sensible for at least nine 

 days, and it reaches a maximum for an interval of about 

 sixteen hours in summer and twenty-three in winter. For 

 these stations, and also for St. Helena and Cape Town, 

 the observation at the more easterly station should be taken 

 later for maximum correlation. 



(2) There is a considerable correlation between the daily 

 rise at Halifax and Wilmington, and this correlation 

 changes with the interval in a manner somewhat analogous 

 to that in which the correlation between simultaneous 

 heights at two stations approximately on the same meridian 

 depends upon the distance between them. 



{3) There are considerable differences between the sum- 

 mer and winter correlations, and these differences are of the 

 same general nature for both pairs of stations considered. 



(4) It is possible to predict the barometric height at one 

 statioji from an earlier height at a second station more than 

 1000 miles awav, with a fair degree of accuracy, the mean 

 observed error for forty dates, taken at random, for Halifax 

 and Wilmington, being o"-i5. 



January 19. — " On the Comparative Effects of the Try- 

 panosomata of Gambia Fever and Sleeping Sickness upon 

 Rats." Bv H. G. Plimmer. Communicated by C. J. 

 M.artin, F.R.S. 



The organisms used in these experiments were given to 

 the author bv Col. Bruce, F.R.S.. and they were taken 

 from monkey's which had been inoculated in .Africa from 

 cases of the respective diseases ; so that when the author's 

 experiments were commenced each organism had been 

 through one monkey, and they were therefore similar as 

 regards conditions. 



Rats inoculated with the Trypanosomata from Gambia 

 fever lived about two and a half months; the Trypanosomata 

 were present in the blood from about four weeks after 

 inoculation until death. Post mortem the organisms were 

 present in the blood and in all the organs ; the spleen was 

 very much enlarged, and the liver and kidneys were con- 

 gested. The Ivmphatic glands were enlarged. 



Rats inoculated with the Trypanosomata from sleeping 

 sickness lived without any symptoms for a period of from 

 six to nine months, when thev became paralysed, first in 

 one hind leg and then in the other, and they died in from 



