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Caird as principal of the University. He 
instrumental in raising a special fund of nearly 100,000l. 
for improving Glasgow University. 
was mainly 
A RevuTtER message from Samarkand reports that the 
eclipse of the sun on January 14 was observed from a 
point at the 1481 verst on the railway between the stations 
of Kuropatkino and Mijulnskaja. The first sign of the 
eclipse was noticed shortly after 9 a.m., and at 9.53 the 
period of total eclipse set in, lasting for two minutes. 
Throughout the time of observation snow was falling. 
In celebration of the twenty-first year of work, the 
president and council of the Biological Society of Liver- 
pool have invited members of the society and their friends, 
along with distinguished biologists from other 
towns, to a conversazione to be held on Friday, January 25, 
in the museum and laboratories of zoology in the Uni- 
versity of Liverpool. The hon. sec. of the society is Mr. 
J. A. Clubb, Free Public Museums, Liverpool. 
some 
“zoo” for York- 
Tue Daily Chronicle announces that a 
shire on an scale has been definitely settled 
upon. A twenty-seven acres site near Roundhay Park, 
Leeds, has been selected. Herr Hagenbach, of Germany, 
is acting for the promoters of the scheme. An ostrich 
farm is to form a leading feature. A correspondent at 
Leeds informs us that the City Council, to whom Round- 
hay Park belongs, is not concerned with this project, which 
is a private venture for purposes of profit. 
extensive 
A ser of Watson magnetographs has been installed in 
the new magnetic house at Helwan Observatory, 
Cairo, Egypt. The equipment comprises recorders for 
declination, horizontal intensity, and vertical intensity. The 
temperature coefficients of the intensity instruments are 
now being determined, and it is hoped that this work will 
be completed in February, and regular observations com- 
menced. 
near 
Tue rules of the aéroplane race, which is to take place 
on July 14, 1908, dre published in the Paris Matin of 
January 14. All the machines which start, without dis- 
tinction of name or of form, but of French make, will be 
admitted as competitors. Whatever may be the meteor- 
ological conditions on the date arranged, they will have 
to travel from the offices of the Matin in Paris to the 
office of the same journal in London within a maximum 
period of twenty-four hours, using only their own means 
of propulsion. The winner of the race will receive a prize 
of 250,000 francs (10,000!.). 
EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt in the following places on 
January 10:—Christiania.—Two rather severe shocks of 
earthquake were felt at 1.30 a.m.; they were accompanied 
by rumbling sounds. The shocks were felt in towns on 
both sides of the Christiania Fjord. Fredevikstad.—A 
slight shock was felt at 12.15 a.m., a more severe one 
at 1.30 a.m. Gothenburg.—Two severe shocks were felt 
in the district between Kornsjo and Mellerud at 1.30 a.m. 
A strong shock was also felt at Stromstad at the same 
time. Arvika (Wermland).—A violent shock occurred at 
2.25 a.m. Upsala.—At 1.33 a.m. the Upsala seismograph 
recorded a slight shock which lasted twenty seconds. A 
despatch from Honolulu on January 10 states that the 
Mauna Loa volcano, Hawaii, is in active eruption. 
A REUTER message from Kingston, Jamaica, announces 
that on January 14 the sixth agricultural conference, under 
the auspices of the Imperial Department of Agriculture, 
was opened there by Sir J. A. Swettenham, the Governor. 
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Sir Daniel Morris delivered the presidential address, which 
reviewed the work accomplished by the department in 
developing tropical industries. The attendance at the open- 
ing meeting was large, those present including men of 
science and agriculturists from all parts of the West Indies. 
A VIOLENT earthquake occurred at Kingston, Jamaica, 
at 3.30 on Monday afternoon, January 14, and caused 
great loss of life and property. No details of the disaster 
are known at the time of going to press, but it is reported 
that many houses and other buildings have been destroyed 
by the earthquake and the fires which started immediately 
after the shock. A Reuter message from New York states 
that cable communication with the Bermudas was broken 
on Monday night. The Commercial Cable Company’s lines 
to the West Indies are also interrupted. The Hamburg- 
American Line Agency has received a message from 
Holland Bay, January 15 (5.38 p-m.), stating that a slight 
earthquake occurred there on Monday, but no damage was 
done. The seismograph at the offices of the U.S. Weather 
Bureau, Washington, recorded vibrations beginning at 
3h. 38m. 23s. on Monday afternoon. Mr. Metcalf, Secre- 
tary for the U.S. Navy, has cabled to Rear-Admiral Evans, 
commanding the U.S. Fleet off Guantanamo, Cuba, direct- 
ing him to investigate the extent of the Jamaica disaster 
and report to the Navy Department. A Daily Mail corre- 
spondent at Christiania reports’ that un earthquake was 
felt on Monday afternoon at Trondhjem and over the 
greater part of northern Norway. | At some places the shock 
was severe enough to shake the houses. 
Mr. Hatpane, Secretary of State for War, has approved 
of the amalgamation of the Army Medical Advisory Board 
and the Army Hospital and Sanitary Committee. The re- 
constituted Army Medical Service Advisory Board is com- 
posed of the following members :—chairman, the Director- 
General, Army Medical Service; vice-chairman, the 
deputy Director-General, Army Medical Service. Members : 
Lieut.-Colonel D. Bruce, C.B., V'.R.S. (as expert in 
tropical diseases); Colonel G. K. Scott Moncrieff, C.I.E., 
Assistant Director of Fortifications and Works; Lieut.- 
Colonel C. H. Melville (as expert in sanitation). Civilian 
members: Sir F. Treves, Bart., G.C.V.O., C.B.; Dr. J. 
Rose Bradford, F.R.S., professor of medicine, University 
College, London; Dr. Louis Parkes, consulting sanitary 
adviser to H.M. Office of Works; Dr. M. S. Pembrey, 
lecturer in physiology, Guy’s Hospital; Sir Charles A. 
Cameron, C.B., professor of chemistry and hygiene, Royal 
College of Surgeons, Ireland. Representative of the India 
Office: Surgeon-General A. M. Branfoot, C.I.E. Secre- 
tary : Lieut.-Colonel C. H: Melville. 
Tue British Academy has received the sum of 10,0001. 
for the purpose of establishing a memorial to the late 
Mr. Leopold Schweich, of Paris. In accordance with the 
wishes of the donor, the endowment is to be called ‘* The 
Leopold Schweich Fund,’’ and is to be devoted to the 
furtherance of research in the archeology, art, history, 
languages, and literature of ancient civilisation, with refer- 
ence to Biblical study. There are to be annually not fewer 
than three public lectures—‘ The Leopold Schweich Lec- 
tures ’’—to be delivered in London, and as the ordinary 
rule in the English language, dealing with some subject 
or subjects coming within the scope of these studies. The 
residue of the income of the fund, with all sums which 
may hereafter be added thereto by gift, bequest, or other- 
wise, is to be applied for the purposes of excavation, and 
for the publication of the results of original research in 
connection with one or more of the subjects named. 
