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20o,oooi., including 3o,oooL to the Boston Medical Library 

 and' 10,000;. to Harvard University. It is also announced 

 that the increased appropriations for Miami University by 

 the Legislature of the State of Ohio at its last session have 

 rendered it possible to enlarge the science hall, given by 

 Senator Brice, to about three times its present capacity. 

 The new Brice Hall will be occupied by the departments of 

 chemistry, physics, and biologv of the Liberal Arts College, 

 and by the natural history department of the State Normal 

 School. The University of Southern California, at Los 

 Angeles, is also to be extended by a new building to cost 

 2o,oooi. It will be devoted to the science departments. 



An attempt is being made to establish an association of 

 teachers of science, art, and technology who are engaged 

 in teaching at London institutions. It is hoped that the 

 new association may become ultimately a national body. 

 It has been agreed at meetings already held that the principal 

 aims and objects of the association should be the general 

 advancement of technical education ; the interchange of 

 ideas regarding methods of teaching technical subjects; 

 the promotion and safeguarding of the professional interests 

 of the members of the association in such matters as tenure, 

 pensions, and registration ; to lay the views of the association 

 before educational authorities and before the public ; and to 

 enable the members to cooperate as a body with other 

 scientific and educational associations. Arrangements have 

 been made for a general meeting to be held on October 22 

 at the Birkbeck College, Chancery Lane, at 3.30. All 

 London teachers of science, art, and technology, other than 

 those employed in secondary schools, are invited to be pre- 

 sent. Fuller particulars may be obtained from Mr. J. 

 Wilson, head of the chemical department, Battersea Poly- 

 technic, who is acting as temporary honorary secretary. 



The annual report of the Glasgow and West of Scotland 

 Technical College, recently adopted by the governors of the 

 institution, shows that the first section of the new buildings 

 has proceeded satisfactorily. The main structure is nearly 

 completed, and the internal equipment is advanced 

 sufficiently to permit of the occupation of a few rooms during 

 the present session. It does not seem possible to proceed 

 immediately with the erection of the second section. The 

 subscriptions to the building fund amount to 186,525;. ; the 

 cost of the first section will be 140,000/., and to this must 

 be added 44,654/., the cost of the site. The second section 

 will cost at least 60,000/., and the governors appeal for 

 further contributions to enable them to erect the whole of 

 the buildings. It is estimated that the equipment of the 

 first section will mean an expenditure of 40,000/. Con- 

 ditional upon a new fund of this amount being raised for 

 the purpose, the Carnegie University Trust promised a 

 grant of 5000/. A second grant of 5000/. from the Educa- 

 tion Department and other subscriptions have been placed 

 to the credit of the fund, which now stands at 18,135/. 

 The governors hope that they will soon be placed in a 

 position to claim the grant conditionally promised by the 

 trust. It is worthy of note that the total number of 

 individual students reaches 5333, of whom 489 are adult 

 dav students, 4212 evening students, and 632 pupils of 

 .\lian Glen's School. 



.An article on the selection of Rhodes scholars in con- 

 nection with the Rhodes Scholarship Bequest was con- 

 tributed to the Times of October 13 by Dr. G. R. Parkin. 

 It appears that during the present month about seventy-five 

 men, the first large group of scholars selected, enter on 

 residence at Oxford University. Canada, Australia, South 

 .\frica. New Zealand, Newfoundland, Bermuda, and 

 Jamaica, within the Empire, and, outside the Empire, 

 Germany and the United States, with the exception of a few 

 States where no suitable candidate was found, will have their 

 representatives. In iqo5 a larger number will probably be 

 selected ; in 1906 scholars will be chosen only from colonies 

 of the Empire and from Germany, to which annual scholar- 

 ships are assigned, whereas each of the United States has 

 onlv two scholarships in three years. Thus in iqo6 the full 

 number — about 190 in all — provided for under the bequest 

 will be in residence. It is interesting to note that the men 

 sent as scholars are selected, where practicable, from colleges 

 or universities rather than from secondary schools. It has 



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been decided that throughout the United States generally 

 only those candidates shall be eligible who have done at least 

 two years' work at a recognised degree-granting university 

 or college. In cases where the committee of any State e.x- 

 pressly asks leave to appoint from secondary schools this 

 leave is granted. The limits of eligible age were placed 

 between nineteen and twenty-five. The public interest 

 taken in the organisation of the scheme of award has been 

 most striking. It will probably take some time to complete 

 a system of selection which is beyond criticism, but a fair 

 beginning seems to have been made in giving practical effect 

 to the conception of the testator. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



London. 



Entomological Society, October 5. — Prof. E. B. 

 Poulton, F.R.S., president, in the chair. — Mr. G. H. 

 Verrall exhibited specimens of (a) Callicera yerburyi, 'Verr., 

 a Syrphid new to science, taken this year in Scotland by 

 Colonel J. W. Verbury, and {b) C. aenea, ¥., the other 

 British species of the genus, together with three European 

 species of Callicera, C. macquatii, C. spinolae, and 

 C. porrii. — Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited 

 Tetropiuin fiiscum, L. {(J and 9), and Abdera ^-fasciata, 

 Curt., taken by him at Market Bosworth, Leicestershire. 

 — The Rev. F. D. Morice exhibited cells constructed by 

 two wasps, Polistes galliciis and Eumencs coarctatiis, found 

 by him in the Balearic Islands. — Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited 

 specimens of the earwig Apterygida media (albipcnnis), 

 found originally by Westwood, and hitherto recorded only 

 from Norfolk. He had taken the species at Huntingfield 

 and Charing, Kent, this year. — Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited 

 a living specimen of Labidura riparia, (J , from the shore near 

 Christchurch, Hants, kept alive for more than a month, and 

 fed upon fruit, meat, &c. — Prof. Hudson Beare exhibited 

 on behalf of Mr. C. J. C. Poole specimens of Aulonium 

 sulcatum, Oliv., a beetle new to the British fauna. — Mr. 

 W. Dannatt exhibited a specimen of Papilio homcrus from 

 the Blue Mountains, Jamaica, and three new butterflies, 

 Chlorippe godmani. from Venezuela, Delias hempeli, from 

 Gilolo, and Moncthe johnsloni, from British Guiana. — Dr. 

 T. A. Chapman exhibited for Mr. Hugh Main a terato- 

 logical specimen of Arctia caja, bred this year. Immedi- 

 ately below the costa the left hind wing divided into three 

 layers, each of which was apparently a normal wing 

 so far as form, colour, and markings went, but which, 

 when the insect was alive, were so closely applied to each 

 other as to look like one normal wing, until they were separ- 

 ated. — Mr. F. Merrifield exhibited pod-like galls found on 

 a terebinthine shrub in the limestone region of Auvergne, 

 apparently those of Pemphigus cornicularius. — Mr. Norman 

 Joy exhibited the black variety of Bledius taurus. Germ., 

 taken at Wells, Norfolk, August, 1904; Bledius femoralis, 

 Gyll, from Wokingham, Berks, a species that has not been 

 taken in the British Isles for more than fifty years; Poly- 

 drucsus sericens, from Hampshire ; Neuraphes carinatus , 

 Mul., from Bradfield, near Reading; a small form of 

 Dyschirius polittis, Dej., taken at Bridlington and at 

 Wokingham; and a Rhizotrogus (? species), taken in some 

 numbers near Streatley, Berks. — Dr. F. A. Dixey exhibited 

 some preparations of the scent of male Pierine butterflies, 

 and read a note descriptive of the same. — Mr. H. J. Turner 

 exhibited living examples of the larva of Phorodesma 

 smaragdaria from the Essex marshes. He also contributed 

 notes on the life-histories, and living larvae and cases, of 

 several Coleophorids, among them C. vihicella, a species 

 which, although generally distributed on the Continent, has 

 only been recorded from a few English localities. — Mr. 

 G. J. Arrovw read a paper on sound production in the 

 lamellicorn beetles. — Prof. C. Aurivillius communicated a 

 paper on new species of African Striphnapterygidae, 

 Notdontidae, and Chrysapalonidie in the British Museum. 

 — Mr. A. H. Swinton communicated a paper on the 

 droughts and weather, and insect increase and migration. 

 . — Mr. E. Ernest Green communicated a paper on some new 

 mosquitoes from Ceylon, by Frederick V. Theobald. 



