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nearl) approaches 25,000!., the sum in view when it 

 tiled M has handed 



to the college a National War Hon. I for 1000I. 

 donation to the fund. Sir Georg< Beilb) was re- 

 appointed chairman of the governors, and Dr. Mac- 

 kenzie vice-chairman. Lord Weir was elected to the 

 vacancy in the board caused b\ the death ol Dr. Dyer. 



I in 1 ). tober issue of the Scientific Monthly 

 some interesting particulars of the arrangements made 

 in the United States to train students in colleges and 

 universities for the Vrm a students' 



has been in training in more than four huni 

 institutions, \i eighl institutions in New York 

 men an in ti aining, and it thei e 

 ill .1- mam in other institutions throughoul the 

 si !>. 500,001 1 re< ruits fi om whom 

 will bi selei didates for commissions and tech- 



nical posts in the U.S. Army. Thi student-soldiers 

 will be given military instruction under Army officers, 

 and will be kepi under observation and tesl to deter- 

 mine their qualifications as officer-candidates, and 

 technical experts such as engineers, chemists, and 

 doctors. Vftei a certai a< h man will be 



ording to his performance and assigned to 

 militan duty, li cannot al present bi sl ited de- 

 finitely how long a particular studenl will remain at 

 ge, for this will depend on thi requirements of 

 tin mobilisation and tl oup to which he 



ed i" devote thi 

 il pi of the institution to the 



■ desired b\ the 1 . 



In moving the second n - 1 ■ 



S lerannuation) Bill on Monday, Mr. Fisher, Fresi- 

 il the Board of Ed 1 thai the 1 iovern- 



ment has come to the conclusion thai it is essential 

 at the earliest possible moment to bring undei 



pension scheme all qualified 

 school?, of all kinds below thosi ol university rank. 

 The schemi nnuation will be non-contribu- 



tory. The terms upon which the benefits have been 

 calculated closely resemble those oi the Civil Service 

 pension system. \ teacher with an a 1 agi salarv of 

 400/. .1 yeai during the lasl fivi i-ears ol teaching 

 service will, upon retirement at tl sixtv, 



receivi a superannuation allowanci ol 2 ! a 



and in addition a lump sum of 533/. No system'of 

 pensions for teachet s can be n I 11 ton 



- it provides for the frei passage ol teachers 

 from one type of grant-aided school to another. The 

 Bill places no obstacle in the wa\ ol such migration. 

 Under the Hill no service in future will be pension 

 able except thai which is rendered in grant-aided 



ils, with an exception in favour of those schools 



which come upon the grant list within the next five 



Vl present the pension scheme differentiates 



linsi women, but in future tin- benefits to both 



men and women will lie pro| ionati to theit salaries. 



Mr. Fisher is confident that thi Bill will achieve three 

 objects ol great educational importance: it will pro- 

 mote the unity of the teaching profession; it will 

 improve the qualirv ol tin it iven in the 



ils ; and ii w ill secun fn im velop- 



ments which an- bound to 1 om. undei thi opei 

 of the n.-w Education \. t an arm) of men and 

 women tpachers who will 1.. a heir calling, 



not mereh b; the material benefits .vhich the mea 

 will confer, hut also In- the knowledge that for thi 

 first lini. tli.' Stati has given ad ignition 



to the teaching profession, ["he cost additional ti 

 of the present pensions scheme will be, in ten 



time, j. 000. J. per annum, hut the total cost will be 



about 2,428,0 10I. 



NO. 2556, VOL. 102] 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 

 Paris. 



U;idcin\ "I Sciences, Septen \l. P. Painlevi 



in the chair. A. Lacroix : A noti b) Doloinieu on 

 Lisbon basalt-, addressed in 1-79 to the Royal 

 Aoiilom ..I Sciences E. Fournler : 1 riterion of the 

 forms of hulls favourable to thi highesl velocities. 

 I 1 . Vuillemin : Tin- principles oi '• ii. il classifica- 

 tion. G. Scorza : Vhelion functions with three inde- 

 pi ii-1. iii variables. < ■. Sizes : The tei 

 its transformation into the modei n chr. 

 scale. I.. Daniel: Action of a marine 1 In 

 infloresceno ..I Isphodelus lute as. Cultivati 

 this plant on tin- sea-coast resulted in marked differ- 

 in behaviour of tin- (lowers as compared with 

 grown inland. I.. I.eger and G. Mouriquand : 

 Anopheles and ancient malarial foci in the Alps 

 J. Boochon : Lymphatii bleeding as a means of dis- 

 infection of war-wounds. An account of a practical 

 method lor carrying out the lymphatii bleeding su^- 

 gested in a recent note bj Prof. Yves Delage. 



September 30. M I. 1 Guignard in the chair. — 



P. Appell ; An ordinar\ differential equation connected 

 with certain systems of linear and homogeneous partial 

 differential equations. -H. Le Chatelier ami I>. Bogitch : 

 The heterogeneity of steel. Remarks on the macro- 

 graphii as opposed to the micrographic stud}' of steel 

 structure. Six illustrations of the structures induced 

 by melting electrolytic iron under varying conditions 

 .11. given. The experiments show that the macro- 

 graphic heterogeneity of steel is due to the presence 

 of oxvgen in solid solution in the iron. — F . Vuillemin : 

 Classification of the dicotyledons. — E. Cartan : The 

 varieties of Beltrami of three dimensions. — E. Bauer, 

 P. Weiss, and A. Picard : The magnetisation co- 

 efficients of oxygen and nitric oxide and the theory of 

 the magneton. Exacl measurements of the magnetisa- 

 tion coefficients of oxygen and nitric oxide lead to 

 results which are not in agreement with the magm ion 

 theory. Possibli causes of 'be divergences are dis- 

 cussed. — H. Pecheux : The thermo-electricity of tung- 

 sten. Details of the change of resistance with tem- 

 perature and thermo-electric powei (agains*! copper) ol 

 three drawn tungsten wires of unequal purity. M. 

 de Chardonnet : Sections of artificial silks. In tin case 

 ol collodion silks it is possible from the section to 

 distinguish between fibres formed by projecting the 

 liquid into air or into water. In the latter case an 

 estimate of the concentration of the liquid collodion 

 employed is possible from the stud) of the section. — 

 P, Gaubert : [somorphous mixtures. F. Grandjean : 

 I'he interference fringes developed by friction and .lec- 

 tin ii\ in certain anisotropic liquids. A. (iuebhard : 

 Remarks on the protosphere or primitive scoria shell 

 of H. Douville. — H. Beclere ; Anthropometric radio- 

 graph) of the thumb. A. Vernes : Syphilimetric 

 indices. Colorimetric determination of the deviations 

 of stability. MM. Defressine and II. Violle : The pro- 

 phylaxy and treatment of influenza. Vaccination with 

 an antipneumococcic serum is advocated, and. in the 

 case of persons unavoidably exposed to infection, the 

 use of a gauze mask'. 



Octobei 7 M. F. Painleve' in the chair. J. 

 Boussinesq : The theor) of punching and the flow of 

 plastic blocks: the elastic phase of these phenom.ua. 

 _P. Vuillemin: The classification of di ol 

 1, A. Boulen^er : The place of the Chelonians ii 

 fication. I . K. de Periet : S\ stems of parti; I d • 

 tial equations verified b\ hyperspherical polynomials. 

 P. Humbert: Partial differential equations verified by 

 Hermite polynomials, deduced from an exponential. 

 C. Camiehel : Great velocities ol .' itei in pipes. Flu 



