Marcu 28, 1907 | 
NATURE 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
Mr. J. E. S. Moore has been elected to the chair of 
experimental and pathological cytology, recently estab- 
lished in the University of Liverpool by the Liverpool 
Cancer Research Committee. 
A sERVICE for members of the University of London will 
be held in Westminster Abbey on Wednesday, May 8, 
presentation day, at 6 p.m. The Dean of Westminster 
has consented to preach the sermon. 
Pror. M. p’OcaGnr, of the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées, 
will deliver in April, at the University of Paris, a free 
course of lectures on graphic calculus and nomography. 
In the second part he will give for the first time in a 
public lecture a complete account of his own methods on 
the subject. 
Mr. BirRELL announced in the House of Commons on 
March 23 that the Treasury has agreed to place at the dis- 
posal of Ireland a sum of 40,o00l. a year for a period of 
three years to assist to remedy the present disgraceful 
condition of Irish school buildings. There is no intention 
of stopping the grant at the end of three years, but it is 
felt, Mr. Birrell said, that 40,o00l. is as much as can be 
spent profitably and usefully in a year. 
We have received an interesting description of the 
central electric power station of the Victoria Jubilee 
Technical Institute, Byculla, Bombay, which was opened 
by the Governor of Bombay on February 20. The instal- 
lation, the first of its kind in India, is thoroughly up to 
date, and it is interesting to note that the erection of 
the boiler, engines, dynamo and motors, as well as all 
piping and wiring work, was carried out by the institute 
students. 
In the Engineering Magazine (vol. xxxii., No. 6) Com- 
mander W. F. Worthington discusses the United States 
Naval Academy as an engineering school. With the aid 
of numerous excellent photographs he shows the number, 
variety, and interesting character of the practical exercises, 
and expresses the opinion that the academy graduate at 
the end of a term of years after graduation should rank 
high among engineers of his own age from other schools, 
no matter what branch of the work he might take up. 
A cIRcULATING library from which the most recent scien- 
tific and technical books may be obtained without trouble 
and at a moderate expense is a great convenience alike 
to teachers and students of science. Mr. H. K. Lewis, of 
Gower Street, London, W.C., has realised this fact, and 
his recently published list of medical and scientific books 
issued during the last quarter of 1906 shows that he makes 
every effort to keep his library up to date, and that the 
conditions under which books may be borrowed have been 
made as simple as possible. 
In connection with the Federal Educational Conference 
which the League of the Empire has arranged for May 24, 
the nature-study section intends to make (for the benefit of 
the colonial representatives) an exhibit typical of nature- 
study work in this country. The section will also meet 
during the week devoted to the conference, in order to 
discuss matters connected with the promotion of nature- 
study. Suggestions as to topics that might be considered 
should be sent to Mr. Wilfred Mark Webb (honorary 
secretary of the nature-study section), at Caxton Hall, 
Westminster. 
THE organising committee of the International Congress 
for Hygiene and Demography, which is to be held in 
Berlin on September 23-29, is making arrangements to 
render it possible for members of the congress to visit the 
numerous hygienic institutions in and near Berlin. The 
meetings of sections will not be extended later than 
2 o’clock, so as to leave the afternoons free for visiting. 
More than a hundred institutions will be thrown open to 
visitors, and a ‘‘ Hygienic Guide ’’ giving a short descrip- 
tion of each of them in three languages is to be published, 
so that members of the congress will be assisted in choosing 
which institutions they will inspect. A local committee 
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composed of representatives of interested Imperial and 
State offices, the Berlin Council, and other bodies and 
societies, is actively engaged in preparing for the congress. 
Tue President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 
has appointed a departmental committee to inquire as to 
the provision which has now been made for affording 
scientific and technical instruction in agriculture in England 
and Wales, and to report whether, in view of the practical 
results which have already been obtained, the existing 
facilities for the purpose are satisfactory and sufficient, 
and, if not, in what manner they may with advantage be 
modified or extended. The committee will be constituted 
as follows, viz.:—Lord Reay (chairman), the Lord 
Barnard, Lord Moreton, Mr. F. D. Acland, M.P., Mr. 
D. Davies, M.P., Mr. N. Lamont, M.P., Mr. T. Latham, 
Mr. J. C. Medd, Prof. T. H. Middleton, Prof. W. Somer- 
ville, and Mr. H. Staveley-Hill, M.P. Mr. A. E. Brooke- 
Hunt, of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, will act 
as secretary, and Mr. H. L. French, of the Board of 
Agriculture and Fisheries, as assistant secretary to the 
committee. 
Tue general committee responsible for the arrangements 
in connection with the second International Congress on 
School Hygiene, to be held under the presidency of Sir 
Lauder Brunton in London next August, is sparing no 
pains to make the congress a complete success. A meet- 
ing to promote the interests of the congress was held on 
March 20 at the Mansion’ House, and was well attended. 
Sir Lauder Brunton explained the objects in view, and 
gave a detailed description of the groups of subjects to 
be considered by the congress. There will be eleven 
sections, as follows :—the physiology and psychology of 
educational methods and work; medical and hygienic in- 
spection in school; the hygiene of the teaching profession ; 
instruction in hygiene for teachers and scholars; physical 
education and training in personal hygiene; out-of-school 
hygiene and the relations of home and school; contagious 
diseases, ill-health, and other conditions affecting attend- 
ance; special schools for the feeble-minded ; special schools 
for blind, deaf, dumb, crippled, and invalid; hygiene of 
residential schools; the school building and its equipment. 
Already the donations promised and received reach 9271. 
Further subscriptions are solicited, and should be sent to 
the treasurer, Sir Richard B. Martin, Bart., at the 
Congress Office, Royal Sanitary Institute, Margaret Street, 
London, W. 
Mr. McKenna, M.P., President of the Board of Educa- 
tion, was present at the annual dinner of old students of 
the Royal School of Mines on Tuesday, and in the course 
of a speéch he made the announcement that the school is 
to retain its name and individuality in the Royal Technical 
Institute to be established at South Kensington. Mr. 
D. A. Louis presided at the dinner, and in proposing the 
toast of the evening, ‘‘ Prosperity to the School of Mines,” 
he said it is of vital importance that there should be a 
well-equipped national institution for the training of 
mining engineers, and that the institution should grant a 
distinctive diploma. The Royal School of Mines is such an 
institution; yet it has been proposed to relegate it to some 
hole-and-corner place in a big jumble of institutions which 
have nothing in common with it, excellent though they 
are in their own way. Mr. McKenna, in the course of 
his remarks, said that the school needs more and better 
equipment in order to provide it with the means of coping 
with rival institutions in various parts of the world. He 
hopes that in future the failure to make this provision will 
be remedied. In a memorial from past students of the 
Royal School of Mines to a departmental committee which 
inquired into the formation of the new technological 
college three requests were made, namely :—‘‘ (1) that the 
title be retained as ‘ The Royal School of Mines’; (2) that 
the diploma of ‘ Associate of the Royal School of Mines’ 
be retained as heretofore; (3) that the school, even though 
it may be affiliated to some central institution, be pre- 
served as a separate entity as regards mining and metal- 
lurgical training with its own special staff and organisa- 
tion.’? As an answer to these requests, Mr. McKenna 
read a paragraph from a draft of a charter, which may 
be issued hereafter. The clause states that “‘ One of the 
