October 17, 19 1 8] 



NATURE 



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methods : physics. We made each studenl 



verify Ohm's law, measure the specifii capacity for 



copper, or the wave-length of sodium licdit ; 



and thai method, di 1 special purpose for 



which I Mill think ii the most useful, lent itself to 



miner and the teacher as a method by, which 



- of pupil- could be instructed and examined. 

 Ii has been extended and developed b) mam able 

 and enthusiastic men; too often it i- elaborated so 

 far as to !>• little more than press the button and 

 note what happens. You have then proved thai the 

 pressure ol a gas at constant volume is proportional 

 to it- temperature. 



In the casi ol the ordinary boy and girl th< results 



Ii more influence on their lives than the lists 



of the kings ol Israel 01 I ol Rome, 01 



itions to si >me absl 1 use rule of grammai . 



I hej havi bi en foi ced to leai n bj heart in 01 dei to 



train their memory. Sir Napiei Shav has recenth 



iliu-: "When we comi to consider such 

 provision as there i- foi scienci in general education 

 as repi 1 si nt< d bj the oppoi tunitii - actual!) offered to 

 girls ai school, it i- foi me impossibli to 

 avoid the conclusion that what the exponents of 

 physical science have evolved as the elements ol 

 scientific education i- quite unworthy of the subjects 

 we wish to expound. " 



If this be so, how then are \vi to remed) it? The 

 question i- one too' difficult to answer at the end of a 



inn. I think a remedy is possible. I in 



teacher ought, I feel sure, to be able to arousi an 



in the principles of his subject without a 



ne attention to detail-; to give to a class the 

 general idea of what i- involved in the ordina 

 of Nature; of what we mean by energy or momentum, 



servation ol energy or the mechanical equiva- 

 lent "f heat ; of th( connei tion betw een elei trii it} 

 and magnetism and the historical developmerjl of the 

 various laws about which he has been speaking in 



give the pupil some knowledge of the relation 



of the -' : - to One another ami a JUSl concept inn 



of the means b\ which tin ad 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



\ coNFERENCt on w..meti in industry will In held 

 under the auspices of the Industrial Reconstruction 

 Council on Tuesday, October 22, at (> p.m., in the 

 hall of tin Institute of Journalists, 2 and 4 Tudor 



. E.C.4. The subject will he introduced b) Miss 

 Lilian Dawson, after which the discussion will be 

 open. No ticket- an 



A (ill RSB of three public lecture- on "France's Share 

 in th. Progress ol Science" will bi delivered at Uni- 



vei -it ■ 1 1 illl ge 'Hi I ui -.1 1 . Oi 1 "i 22 .and 29 and 



Novembet 5, al 5 p.m., h\ M. Henri I.. Joly, pro- 

 ciences ph\ siques et naturelles au I .) cee 

 ln-iitut Frangais du Royaume Uni). rhi 

 '.\ ill in- taken at the in >l Ii 1 ture by Prof. J. 

 Norman Collie. A leaflet containing a full syllabus of 

 the lectures ma) in- obtained h\ sending .a stamped 

 addressed envelope to the Publications Secretary, Uni- 

 versity College, London (Gowei Street, W.C.i). 



lilt. Armstrong College (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 

 (.di ndar will not he published fm the current session, 

 but tin prospectus of day classes, a cop} of which has 

 reached us, contains the essential particulars respect- 

 ing the courses of work in pun and applied scienci 

 which have been arranged for tin- academic year 



NO. 2555, VOL. 102] 



[918-19. Students ol eehnical science in the 



college me 1 i ..-in science of the 



Universit) ol Durham, hich the college is a part, 

 .in.l, a. . ording to thi nur ai - ..1 stud) , ma; 



present themselves foi gi iduatio a- bachelor, master, 



1,1 doctoi nl -. 1 ,oi . .t philosoph) . 



For the degrees ol master ai 01 great import- 



,1. . is attached to succes 1 We havi 



received also the current calendar of thi Royal (Dick) 

 Veterinan College, Edinburgh, wh - [ounded in 

 iSj^ by the late Prof. Dick, and b) him, 



his sister, and Mr. V L Mac( 'ulluni. Tl coll |i 

 pi . .1 . - it- students for the diploma tup 



,,1 m e Ro; al < )olli ge oi Veterinai j 5 arid 



degrees in vetet inai j si ieni a in 1 he Un of 



Edinburgh, and also offers facilities for post-graduate- 

 work. 



SOCIETIES AND^ ACADEMIES. 

 Melbourne. 



Royal Society of Victoria, Jul) II.— Mr. J. A. 



Kershaw, president, in the chair. C. Fenner : The 



ographj of the Werribee River.— Prof. T. H. 



l.ab\ and E. O. Hercus : The thermo-conductivity of 



air. 



Sydney . 



l.innean Society of New South Wales, March 27.— 

 Prof. II. G. Chapman, president, in the chair.— Dr. 

 \ B. Walkom . The geolog) of the Lower Mesozoic 

 recks :f Queensland with special referenc: to then 

 distribution and fossil flora, and theii correlation with 

 the Lower Mesozoic rock- of other pan- oi Australia. 

 The Low., Mesozoii rocks of Queensland comprise 

 three division- the Ipswich, Bundamba, and Walloon 

 serii -. The Ipswich and Bundamba series are ol com- 

 paratively limited distribution, and are confined to 

 the -outh-eastern portion of the Stale. The Walloon 

 series has a mtich greater extent; in addition ti 

 curring in south-eastern Queensland, in associa 

 with the Inswich and Bundamba series, it outcrops in 

 a belt alom; the western slope of the Mam Divide 

 from the New South Wale- border to (ape N.irk, 



dipping westerly beneath the marine Cretaceous. It 

 probably underlie- the Cretaceous strata over the 

 greater part of western Queensland. In eastern 



Queensland there are a numl I < 1" isolated 



decurn no - of the Walloon series. I h thicknesses ol 

 the three series are. approximately ; Ipswich series 

 2000-2500 ft.; Bundamba series, 5000-5000 ft;-, and 



\\ alloon series, up to 10,1 ft. A comparison ol the 



Oueensland Lower Mesozoic strata with other occur- 

 rences in Australia of similai age -ems to show 

 Ml that the Narrabeen and Hawkesbury Sandstom 

 stages in New South Wales are older than the Ipswich 

 series; (2) that the Wianamatta stage of the Hawkes- 

 burv -e,i,s in N.w South Wales, and also possibly 

 par i f the Lowei Mesozoic strata of Tasmania, are 

 of the same age as the Ipswich series; and (3) that 

 the following series in the other Slates are of the same 

 a ge .,- the Walloon series: The Artesian series, 

 Clarence series, and Talbragar beds in New S 

 Wales; the (urassic strata of the South Gipp; 



C a pe Otway, and Wannon area- of Victor': 



I eigh's Creek beds in South Australia; p 



1 ower Mesozoic strata of Tasmania, an 1 v 



[urassic series in Western Australia.- Dr. . J- 



miyard: (1) Studies in Australian Neuroptera. 

 \,. ;: The structure of the cubitus in the wings of 

 Mvrmeleontidae. An examination of the pupal 

 i eradication of the fore-wing of Kantholeon helms,. 



