June 13, 1901] 



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birth or extraction and of sixteen years of age and upwards, or 

 scholars who have given two years' attendance after the age of 

 fourteen years at State-aided schools in Scotland, or at such 

 other schools and institutions in Scotland as are under the 

 inspection of the Scotch Education Department. Any surplus 

 remaining in any year from the income applicable to this head 

 of expenditure is to be applied to the first head of expenditure. 

 In the case of schools or institutions in Scotland established to 

 provide technical or commercial education, the committee may 

 recognise classes which, though outside the present range of the 

 University curriculum, can be accepted as doing work of a Uni- 

 versity level, and may allow them and the students thereof to par- 

 ticipate under both heads of the trust deed. The benefit of the 

 trust is to be available to students of both sexes. The trustees are 

 to have full power, by a majority of two-thirds of their number, to 

 modify the conditions under which the funds may be applied so 

 as to secure that these shall always be applied in the manner 

 best adapted to meet the purposes of the donor as is expressed 

 in the constitution, according to the changed conditions of the 

 time. 



The new Pathological Institute at the London Hospital will 

 be formally opened by Sir Henry Roscoe, vice-chancellor of the 

 University of London, on Wednesday, July lo, at 3 o'clock. 



The American Chemical Society has elected the following 

 honorary members : — Prof. W. Ramsay, Sir Henry E. Roscoe, 

 Prof. E. Fischer, Berlin, Prof. A. Baeyer, Munich, and Prof. 

 G. Lunge, Zurich. 



The gentlemen selected by the council of the Royal Society 

 for admission as Fellows this year were elected at the meeting 

 held last week. The qualifications of the new Fellows were 

 given in Nature of May 9 (p. 36). 



The sixty-ninth annual meeting of the British Medical 

 Association will be held at Cheltenham on July 30 — Augusta. 

 The president-elect is Dr. G. B. Ferguson. An address in 

 medicine will be delivered by Dr. J. F. Goodhart and an 

 address in surgery by Sir William Thomson. The scientific 

 business of the meeting will be conducted in thirteen sections. 



The establishment of a Ministry of Commerce, under a 

 minister of business experience, is being actively urged by the 

 Daily Express. A provisional committee has been formed, 

 consisting of a large number of Members of Parliament, civic 

 authorities, presidents of Chambers of Commerce, and heads of 

 important business firms. It is proposed to hold a public meet- 

 ing in London at an early date, with the object of forming an 

 association and generally to take practical steps in the organisa- 

 tion of the movement. 



The Paris correspondent of the Times announces that 

 M. Th. Ribot, professor of experimental psychology at the 

 College de France, the founder of the Kevue Philosoplnque and 

 the inspirer of an entire generation of students and professor 

 of the new psychology, not only in France but all over the 

 world, will retire on a pension, at his own request, at the 

 beginning of November. 



We are informed that, in the unavoidable absence of the 

 president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Mr. Alex- 

 ander Siemens (past president) will, at the unanimous request 

 of the council, assume the leadership of the Institution party 

 throughout the visit to Germany. Members are reminded that 

 their applications for tickets should be forwarded before Saturday 

 next, June 15. 



According to the latest returns the population of Paris in- 

 creased during the last five years by 6-98 per cent. At the last 

 census, which was taken at the end of March 1S96, the inhabi- 

 tants numbered 2,536,834 ; but at the present time the total is 

 2,714,068. 



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At the annual meeting of the Akademie der Wissenschaften, 

 of Vienna, on June I, it was announced that Prof. Eduard 

 Suess had been unanimously re-elected president for a further 

 period of three years. Thereupon the Professor delivered his 

 presidential address, which contained, amongst other scientific 

 statements, some valuable references concerning the life and 

 works of the late Prof Max Miiller, of Oxford, who for many 

 years was honorary member of the Akademie. Prof. Berthelot, 

 of Paris, was nominated honorary member, and the following 

 gentlemen were elected as foreign corresponding members : — 

 Profs. Schlegel (Leyden), Oppert (Paris), Linde (Munich), 

 Retzius (Stockholm), Kowalesky (St. Petersburg). 



By the courtesy of the editor of the Chemist mid Druggist 

 we are able to give an illustration of the monument to Pasteur, 

 shi-irlly to beerecic.l at D.Me, where he was boni. The statue. 



the sculptor of which is M. Antonin Carles, is in bronze, and 

 stands on a pedestal eight metres high. The figures at the base 

 of the monument represent Humanity bringing two children to 

 Pasteur, while Science offers him a palm. 



The Electrician announces that the system of etheric signal- 

 ling devised by Sir William Preece has been successfully 

 installed for the purpose of placing Rathlin Island in telegraphic 

 communication with Ballycastle. The distance over which the 

 signals are transmitted is about ten miles, as the waves go, and 

 the lengths of inductive wire employed on each side are one and 

 six miles respectively, the shorter length being on the island. 

 The telephone was used as the receiver, with Morse signals 

 transmitted by means of a "buzzer" — a more rapid if less 

 sensitive arrangement than the Marconi coherer. 



Referring to the death of the ethnologist Dr. Arthur 

 Hazelius, on May 27, in his sixty-eighth year, the Athenaeum 

 says he was the founder of the Ethnographical Nordische 

 Museum and of the unique and interesting Skansen, the open- 

 air museum in the Zoological Garden of .Stockholm, the result 

 of nearly thirty years of labour, where the national life of old 



