NATURE 



\yan. II, 1872 



rating medical authorities, and to report their proceedings 

 to all the said authorities. 



IX. That there be two or more examinations on profes- 

 sional subjects, and that the fees of candidates be not less 

 than thirty guineas to be paid in two or more payments. 



X. That every matriculated student of an English uni- 

 versity who shall have completed the curriculum of study 

 required by his university, and shall have passed such an 

 examination, or examinations, at his university as shall 

 comprise the subjects of the primary examination, or 

 examinations, conducted by the Board, be eligible for ad- 

 mission to the final examination ; and that every candi- 

 date so admissible to examination be required to pay a fee 

 of five guineas, but he shall not be thereby entitled to the 

 license of the Royal College of Physicians of London, nor 

 to the diploma of member of the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons of England, without the payment of an additional 

 fee of not less than twenty-five guineas. 



XL That every candidate who shall have passed the 

 final examination conducted by the Board shall, subject 

 to the by-laws of each hcensing body, be entitled to receive 

 the license of the Royal College of Physician of London, 

 and the diploma of member of the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons of England. 



This is signed by George Burrows, President of the 

 Royal College of Physicians, and George Busk, President 

 of the Royal College of Surgeons. 



Sir Roundcll Palmer, Mr. Denman, and Mr. Bevis have 

 given their opinion that this scheme can be legally carried 

 fnto effect by means of by-laws to be adopted by the re- 

 spective Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. This 

 opinion was presented at the meeting of the Joint Com- 

 mittee on the 3rd inst. The examiners in surgery will be 

 chosen fromamong the examiners whohavebeen appointed 

 under the charters of the College of Surgeons, and the 

 Court of Examiners will adopt the certificate of the new 

 examining body. 



Meetings are being held in Dublin with a view to the 

 formation of a conjoint examining board for Ireland. So 

 far, no insurmountable difficulty has arisen in the several 

 matters which have come under the notice of the deputed 

 representatives of the Universities and of the other licens- 

 ing bodies, and it is hoped that the board, as proposed, 

 will become an accomplished fact. A claim was put for- 

 ward by the Universities that the first part of the profes- 

 sional examination conducted by the conjoint board 

 should not be required of university students who had 

 passed their examination on the same subjects ; and that 

 in their case the examination should be confined to the 

 final one. To this, however, the other licensing bodies 

 properly objected ; but an offer has been made by the 

 other corporations that the preliminary examination 

 should be wholly conducted by examiners appointed by 

 the Universities. 



NOTES 



The celebrated ethnological collection of the late Dr. Gustavus 

 Klemm, of Dresden, which had obtained a world-wide celebrity 

 from its riclmess in illustrations of dress and ornaments, house- 

 hold utensils, furniture, warlike, fishing, and hunting implements, 

 &c. extending from the earliest times down to the immediate 

 present, has been purchased by suliscription, and transferred to 

 Leipsic, where it forms the nucleus of tlie new German Central 

 Museum of Ethnology, and around which is to be grouped what- 

 ever additional material can be procured in illustration of the 

 "eneral plan. ,A.n earnest appeal is made by the officers and 

 others interested in this enterprise to their countrymen and 

 others in the United States for contributions. It will occupy the 

 place in Germany of the great Archajological Museum of 

 Copenhagen : of that of Mr. Blackmore at Salisbury, in England ; 



of the Museum of St. Germain, near Paris, under direction of 

 M. Mortillet ; and of the Smitlisonian and Peabody Museums in 

 the United States. 



The Exhibition of Neolithic Instruments by the Society of 

 Antiquaries at Somerset House will be re-opened to-morrow, 

 and will finally close on Thursday, January iS. For tickets apply 

 at the Society's apartments. 



On Saturday last, at an early hour in the morning, the female 

 hippopotamus in the Zoological Society's gardens gave birth to a 

 young one — being the second occasion on which this interesting 

 occurrence' has taken place. As in the former case, it has been 

 found necessary to close the building in which the female is 

 placed entirely, not even the keepers entering into it except 

 when absolutely necessary, in consequence of the extreme savage- 

 ness and jealousy exhibited by the fond mother. Some days 

 must therefore elapse before the " little stranger " can be prepared 

 to undergo the ordeal of public exhibition. 



Another interesting addition just made to the Zoological 

 Society's collection is a young specimen of the King Penguin 

 {Aplcrodytes pcnnanti) from the Falkland Islands. For this re- 

 markable bird, which is still in the down-plumage, the Society 

 aie indebted to the kind exertions of F. E. Cobb, Manager of 

 the Falkland Islands Company, who has been for some time en- 

 deavouring to obtain living examples of this species for the 

 Society. The King Penguin is placed in the great eastern aviary, 

 along with a specimen of the Cape Penguin (Sphemsciis di-iiiersi(s) 

 which has been for some time under the Society's care. 



We have just received the fourth report of the Radcliffe 

 Trustees from the Radcliffe Librarian, Dr. Henry W. Acland, 

 uicluding also a catalogue of the transactions of societies, periodi- 

 cals, and memoirs, available for the use of professors and of students 

 in the Libraiy ; a catalogue of books recommended to students 

 in physical science by the museum professors ; and the Regula- 

 tions of the Library. The additions to the Library are made, as 

 far as the annual grant of 500/. will allow, either on the judgment 

 of the librarian as to the intrinsic value of a work, or on the 

 advice of a professor, or upon the knowledge that students re- 

 quire it. 



It is stated that the average yearly number of visitors at the 

 South Kensington Museum during the last five years has been 

 905,084. 



The University Court of the University of Edinburgh, at a 

 meeting held on Tuesday, Jan. 2, declined to give effect to the 

 recommendation of the Senatus, that the regulations in reference 

 to the medical education of women should be rescinded. The 

 Court guarded itself against being understood to indicate any 

 opinion as to the claim of women to proceed to gi'aduation, or as 

 to the powers of the University to confer on women degrees in 

 the faculty of medicine. 



The Second Course of Cantor Lectures of tlie Society of Arts 

 for the session will be delivered by the Rev. Arthur Rigg, M. A., 

 on "Mechanism." Tlie first lecture will be given on Monday 

 evening, Feb. 5, at eight o'clock, and the remainder of the course 

 will follow on the five succeeding Monday evenings. 



At the annual meeting of the Birkbeck Literary and Scientific 

 Institution, Sir John Pakington, M.P., in the chair, it was stated 

 that, during the past year, the following new subjects have been 

 introduced into the curriculum of the Institution : — Acoustics, 

 Light and Heat, Practical Chemistry, Mineralogy, Metallurgy, 

 and the Theory of Music. 



The authorities of the American Museum of Natural Histoiy, 

 at the Central Park in New York, have set apart Monday and 

 Tuesday especially for the use of those persons who may desire 



