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lectures on " Demonology, " on Saturdays, Marcli 2 to 23. 

 The Friday evening meetings will commence on January 13- 

 The Friday evening discourses l)efore Easter will probably be 

 given by Mr. \V. li. Grove, the Archbishop of Westminster, 

 Professors Odling and Humphrey, Dr. Gladstone, Messrs. C. 

 AV. Siemens, K. Liebreich, and John Evans, and Prof. Tyndall. 

 Dr. Wm. A, Guy, F. R.S. : three lectures on "Statistics, 

 Social Science, and Political Economy," on Tuesdays, April 

 9, 16, and 23. Mr. Edward E. Tylor, F.R.S. : six lectures on 

 " The Devxiopinent of Belief and Custom amongst the Lower 

 Races of Mankind," on Tuesdays, April 30 to June 4. Prof 

 Tyndall, F.R.S. : nine lectures, on Thursdays, April 11 to 

 June 5. Mr. R. A. Proctor, F.R.A.S. : five lectures on "Star 

 Depths," on Saturdays, April 13 to May 11. Prof. Roscoe, 

 F.R.S. : four lectures on "The Chemical Action of Light," 

 on Saturdays, May 18 to June S. 



The following Lectures to Women, on the Elements of Physical 

 Science, will be delivered during the ensuing term, in the Lecture 

 Theatre of the South Kensington Museum, by Professors Huxley, 

 Guthrie, and Duncan. Professor Duncan : ten lectures on " Ele- 

 mentary Physiography," commencing on Saturday the iSlh 

 November, and ending on the 20th December ; Saturdays and 

 Wednesdays at 2.30. Professor Guthrie: fifteen lectures on 

 "Elementary Physics and Chemistry," commencing on Wednes- 

 day the loth January, and ending on Wednesday the 28th Feb- 

 luary ; Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 2.30. Professor Huxley : 

 ten lectures on " Elementary Biology," commencing on Saturday 

 the 2nd March, and continued on Saturdays only at 2.30 p.m., 

 on the gth, i6lh, 23rd March ; 13th, 20th, 27th April ; 4th, 

 uth, iSth May. 



A CLASS for tlie teaching of Natural Science has been formed 

 at the College for Women, at Hitchin. Until very recently, 

 classics and mathematics were almost exclusively the subjects 

 brought under the consideration of the students ; but a demand 

 for the teaching of Natural Science has arisen, and under the ad- 

 vice of Prof. Livting, of Cambridge, the subject of Chemistry has 

 been taken to begin with. Prof. I.iveing is on the li.-t of lecturers 

 at the College for Women, but in consequence of the weak state 

 of his health — the result of overwork — he is unable to undertake 

 the teaching himself. The actual professor at Hitchin is Mr. 

 Hicks, Natural Science Lecturer at Sidney Sussex College, Cam- 

 bridge. The lecturer gives one lecture a week, illustrated 

 by experiments ; and Mrs. Whelpdale, a lady who has had 

 experience in teaching the subject, also gives supplementary 

 teaching once a week. This lady works under the direction of 

 Mr. Hicks, and acts as a tutor preparing for the lectures. So 

 far as this has been worked, tlie plan seems to answer exceedingly 

 well. The apparatus considered by Prof. Liveing and Mr. 

 Hicks to be indispensable, has been provided by the college, but 

 the authorities would be glad to make it more complete. Prof. 

 Liveing has kindly promised to lend from Cambridge some of the 

 more expensive things which are not in constant use. It is quite 

 evident, however, that until there is a completely furnished 

 laboratory, with all the appliances requisite for the study of 

 Physical Science, the efforts made for the teaching of such science 

 must be, to a certain extent, partial. It is to be hoped that funds 

 will be forthcoming from some of the friends of the liigher edu- 

 cation of women to furnish the means for all that is needed in the 

 new college building near Cambridge, to which the College for 

 Women will, in time, be removed. 



A BARONETCY has been conferred on Prof. Cliristison of Edin- 

 burgh in recognition of his well-earned position at the head of 

 the profession in Scotland. Prof. Christison already holds the 

 appointment of Honorary Physician to the Queen in -Scotland, 

 and is President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has 

 received the honorary doctorate of Oxford, and has been twice 



President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 

 He lias been a professor of the University of Edinburgh since 

 1S22, and is the author of a work on Poisons, which, althorgh 

 written many years since, is still a standard authority ; and of a 

 highly esteemed treatise on Materia Medica. Sir Robert 

 Christison is a Crown Member of the General Medical Cruncil, 

 and took a leading part in framing the authorised edition of 

 the Brilish Pharmacofa:ia issued by tlie Council. Recently, as 

 a mark of especial esteem and respect from his colleagues in the 

 University of Edinburgh and other friends, his bust was sculptu. cd 

 by subscription, and placed in the library of the University— an 

 honour which, according to the Brilish Medical Journal, had 

 not previously been conferred on any professor during life. 



Ix the year 1S72 there will be open for competition, at St. 

 John's College, Cambridge, four minor scholarships, two of the 

 value of 70/. per annum, and two of 50/. per annum, together 

 with three exhibitions of 50/. per annum, tenable on the same 

 tenns as the minor scholarships, and two of 40/. per annum, 

 tenable for four years. The examination of candidates for the 

 above-mentioned scholarships and exhibitions will commence on 

 Tuesday, the gth of April, 1872. The examination will consist 

 of three mathematical papers and four classical papers. Besides 

 the nine minor scholarships or exhibitions above mentioned, 

 there will be for competition an exhibition of 50/. per annum for 

 proficiency in natural science, the exhibition to be tenable for 

 three years in case the exhibitioner has passed withm two years 

 the previous examination as required for candidates for honours, 

 otherwise the exhibition to cease at the end of two years. The 

 candidates for the Natural Science Exhibition will have a special 

 examination on Friday and Saturday, the 12th and 13th of April, 

 1S72, in (I) chemistry, including practical work in the laoora- 

 tory ; (2) physics, viz., electricity, heat, and light ; (3) physiology. 

 They wiU also have the opportunity of being examined in one or 

 more of the following subjects — (4) geology, (5) anatiiiiy, (6) 

 botany, provided that they give notice of the subjects in which 

 they w-ish to be examined four weeks prior to the examination. 

 No candidate will be examined in more than three of these six 

 subjects, whereof one at least must be chosen from the former 

 group. It is the wish of the master and seniors that excellence 

 in some single department should be specially regarded by the 

 candidates. Candidates must send their names to one of the 

 tutors (Rev. S. Parkinson, Rev. T. G. Bonney, and Mr. J. 

 E. Sandys), fourteen days before the commencement of the 

 examination. The minor scholarships are open to all persons 

 under twenty years of age, whether students in the university or 

 not, who have not yet commenced residence in the university or 

 who are in the first term of their residence. 



Trinity College, Cambridge, offers one or more of its foun- 

 dation scholarships, of the value of So/, per annum each, for pro- 

 ficiency in the Natural Sciences. The examination will commence 

 on April 5, and will be open to all undergraduates of Cambridge 

 or Oxford, as well as to persons, under twenty-one, who are not 

 members of the Universities. Further information may be ob- 

 tained from the Rev. E. Blore, tutor of the college. 



The first course of Cantor Lectures of the Society of Arts 

 for the ensuing session %\ill be " On the Manufacture and Re- 

 fining of Sugar," by C. Haughton Gill, and will consist of four 

 lectures to be delivered Monday evenings November 27, and 

 December 4, 11, and 18. 



At the late examination for the Natural Science Moderator- 

 ship in Trinity College, Dubhn, the first senior moderatorship 

 was awarded to Phineas Simon Abraham, the second to Charles 

 B Ball ; the junior mcderatorships were given to R. D. Purefoy 

 and W. J. Smyly. The subjects for examination were — Com- 

 parative and Physiological Anatom", Zoology, Botany, Physicol 

 Geography, and Pala?ontology. 



