3, l'M s 



URE 



85 



wherewithal to I 



It is ni - I "in thi li ctun s 



shed scientific men 



ing \\ ith thi essitl F01 • u e, and 



ind a| '}•'•• • - ce; the 



d ,ii.'. ,i\ s hav( provided, 



num.; 3 \: the same tinv, any column 



- will provide num. rous 



examples similai • the following which are quoted 



from sements." A 



well-known Scottish college asks for "an ass 



lii-iii! • ■ - 150I." A 



for .1 large t< aching institution in 



Londi "a high honour 



man, v ith thai 1 youth who 



has and 240/. i> 



1 hus, either we ar< sa ished thai a largi 



proportion of university and ci Wng shall be 



in the hands of men and wonv market value 



about Jim/, a nan .1 modi 



genl manual labourer in a munition factory can 



bes -trained and keenest men 



and women, ju^t because the\ happen to have the 



ability to teach or a liking for teaching, to acci 



which will not allow them to live in a manner 

 fitting to their station, ami renders th( proper 

 f.-. ding anil schooling of 1 1i« i : children a constant 

 anxiety, anil sometimes almost an impossibility. Cer- 

 tainly there is a third possible explanation: thi 

 one has ever troubled to think- about the matter' Fs 

 it not time for something definite to b 1 med> 



•hi- state of affairs a state which if obvious to any- 

 one who happens to nail both the text and the adver- 

 ents of any scientific jou ■ Moreover, the 

 outlook for science teaching becausi on< 



result of the wai will be to open m.m\ promising 

 nen and women with scientific training, and 

 hat, unli 5! he position of the 

 univei is very much improved, no one 



who can possibly obtain an appointment elsewhi re will 

 undertake thi work of teaching or shi bi .1 



person of independent means. E. R. Marle. 



B.E.I 5 r 17. 



The Arboreal Descent of Man. 



Pai u evidence for the arboreal habit of 



las been adduced by Matthew- 



In particular, for thi ation 



Insei tivores 



resembling in main- and Ptilocercus 



is indicated by many considerations (Grej 



pi lei the 



Hominkl.-v >tB such a stock, 



and this is what Prof. Wood-Ji - or indirectly 



— that is, through an intermediate anthropoid stag" . 

 hi lil by Ami rican palaei mti sts; bul even in 

 this case, as monkeys I animals, it is 



evident thai Hominidae never passed through a quad- 



Istituto .li Antiopnlogia, R. Univers 

 Napoli, September 17. 



A Curious Rainbow. 



Is North Wales, on August 20, about two hours 



inset, I saw a radnbow-effeci which was quite 

 ■ me. 

 The summit of Tryfaen (some fo mili-s north-easl 

 from that of Snowdon) has threi ky peaks 



running roughly north and south. 



M 1 >L. I02] 



\\. had 1 limbed up I istern cliff in a 

 ught up much cloud with 

 light - I top ol 



the southern peak, ["he Hoi . ,,! 1.0 north-easl 



and ti , ighl por- 



tion of a brilliant rainbow. Al the of its circle 



if our peak with thos 1 if the othi 1 

 two peaks to the left of it, all defined. 



Wound the -ha. low of our peak was a most vivid and 

 stent bow, the smallest I haw . t h>- 



radiiis of the inner edge being about half li 

 the outer. The central space changed a 



frequently almost filled by a 11 How 



glow, which sometime- ...... 1. n ards 



the centre until it resembled a nebulous sun r.n a 

 whitish ground, while at intervals little yellow 



3 peaks of Tryfaen 



Streamers seemed to radiate from it to the inner 

 of the bow. Outside this bow (which had the colour- 

 in regular rainbow order, red outside) was part of a 

 third bow of perhaps double the diameter, but dim 

 and intermittent. 



We stood up and made gestures, expecting some 

 sort of Brocken effect, but could detect none. How- 

 ever, as we were not on the extreme summit, and the 

 cloud was very distant, our shadows would at best 

 have been extremely minute. 



Out of manv " Brockens " thai I have seen in 

 different parts of the world the most vividly coloured 

 was in Arctic Norway, the most curious and un- 

 expected was on a blazing An sea-level in 

 Portugal, and the most realistic on the Mendip Hills 

 in Som. 



The last was all the more effective for being' within 

 an uncoloured and inconspicuous ring. 



Vv. P. H.-S. 



GERMAN INDUSTRY AND THE WAR. 

 II. 



IN addition to explosives and what are ordinarih 

 comprised under the term munitions, war re- 

 quires for its prosecution a great variety of other 

 articles, all of them more or less essential. I 

 among- these are coal, metals, alcohol, petrol, oils 

 and fats, soap, glycerin, textiles, leather, wood, 

 rubber, turpentine, lubricants, food, surgical ap- 

 pliances, and medicaments. It is of interest to 

 learn how Germany has hitherto managed, in 



