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NATURE 



I' I BRUARY 20, 1<)I>) 



[uly 4; mm. (r-g in.); and here also the winter, as a 

 whole, i- considerabl) rainier than the summer. 

 1 he other pap, 1 , "La \ ariazione 1 >iurna 



Temj .1 1 hum., 1 a Messina" {BolletHno dell' 



nia .// J, ien e Vaturuh \n < a 

 iv., Luglio, tgfi8), shows that, excep 

 the months of June, July, and August, which 



''alls identical mean tern] n 'Tease 



[ing betwei n 22 and 26 C. (72 1.. 

 79 F. circ), the lattei place is distinctly colder. The 

 reno is in Januarj , w hi n the mean for 



alia is 9-5° C I4.C1" I-'. I, and fur Messina 11-6° C. 



(52-8° K.). The difference is attributed to the fact 

 that for the major portion of the year Mount Etna, 

 being snow-clad, exert- a chilling effect upon III, 



i' Catania, rendered the more marked from the cir- 

 cumstance that the prevailing wind direction is N.W '. 

 at both places. Thus the wind at Messina blows 

 -traight in from the warm sea surface, but blows 

 •down on Catania from the snows of Etna. The 

 mean diurnal range of temperature is greater at 

 Catania in every month of the year except August, 

 the greatest difference occurring" in November. In 

 this month the daily range is 5-1° C. at one place 

 and 2-q° C. at the other, or a difference of 2-1°. Thi 

 regulating action of the sea is thus more marked at 

 Messina. At both places the diurnal range of tem- 

 perature is small, but, as is very generally the case, 

 greater in summer than in winter. 



Cunliffe, Trinitj College, Cambridgi , 

 lecturers, thi - being the first appointment 

 quest. 



\t tie 



">' s <M l! " ' ommittee for Rural Economy was pre- 



,, s ,n Sandford-on-Thames had been 

 For the purpose of providing fai il 

 experiments and demonstrations in connection with die 



work of the School of Agriculture and Fori 



The Regional Association— an organisation for the 

 promotion oi regional research— is arranging for a 

 vacation meeting .,, Malvern from April 9 to 

 V" 1 "'- All further particulars can be obtained from 

 the hon. secretary, Mr. Geo. Morris, 7 VVest Road, 

 Saffron YVald, n. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge.— Lord Moulton, of Christ's College, 

 honorary fellow of St. John's College, has been ap- 

 pointed Rede lecturer for the present year. 



Mi. A. Hopkinson, of Emmanuel College, has been 

 appointed additional demonstrator of human anatomy 

 for five years. 



Capt. J. T. Saunders, formerly junior fellow of 

 Christ's College, has been elected "to a senior fellow- 

 ship, and Capt. C. G. Darwin, lecturer in malhe- 

 al the college, to a junior fellowship. Capt. 

 Sau.nd I- is University demonstrator of animal 

 morphology, and Capt. Darwin was bracketed Fourth 

 Wrangler in 1909. 



Oxford.— By thi di ath oi the late Provost of Oriel, 

 Dr. C. L. Shadwell, the University has lost a well- 

 known and characteristic figure. Though but slightly 

 in sympathy with many of the movements and aspira- 

 tions of present-day Oxford, Dr. Shadwell ga 

 universal respect by the acutely legal turn of his mind, 

 l>\ his remarkable business ability, and by the devi 

 with which he threw himself into the "public all., 



ith University and city. A life-long advocate ,,| 

 education on a wide and general basis, he vet found 

 ,nd opportunity to become a master in many 

 departments of curious and specialised learning, 

 surprising his hearers by the sudden display of some 

 unusual piece of erudition. These dicta were delivered 

 with a characteristic incisiveness, and not without a 

 suggestion of latent and kindly humour. Amongst his 

 accomplishments was .-, wide and then, ugh knowledge 

 of botany, which he turned to account as a curator of 

 the botanic garden. For the last four years he h 

 been living in r< irement, but his- loss will bi deej 

 felt by his own coll ind bj thi I niversity at large". 

 On February t8 , .. .,s introduced in th 



Warden of Wadham providing for the acceptance by 

 Convocation of an offi r by the trustees of the 

 Christopher Welch benefaction to provide 45,, 

 each for five years foi a lecturer in clinical pin si, ,1,, 

 and in economic zoology respectively. Mr. II. 1 

 Bazett, fellow of Magdalen College, and Mr. \. 

 NO. 2573, VOL. I02] 



We learn from the Times thai at a meeting of the 

 Edinburgh University Court, on February t8, a letter 

 was read from the Treasury intimating" that an ad- 

 vance of yoool. by way of a grant from the Develop- 

 ment Fund would be made to the University in aid 

 of the endowment of a chair of forestry on thi cond - 

 tion already accepted by the University — that the 

 remaining 7000/. required" was provided by the I n ; - 

 versity from other sources. The Court resolved to 

 institute a chair. 



Sir Ernest Cassel • has placed in the hands of 

 trustees a sum of 500,000/. for the following educa- 

 tional purposes: — (1) The promotion of adult educa- 

 tion in connection with the Workers' Educational 

 Association or any other association or bodv appi 

 of by the trustees. (2) The establishment "of scholar- 

 ships for the encouragement of the education of work- 

 men or their sons and daughters. (3) The prom, 

 of the higher education of women by the assis 

 of colleges for women. (4) The promotion of the 

 study of foreign languages. (5) The establishment of 

 a faculty of commerce in the University of London 

 in such terms as may be approved by the trustees. 

 The trustees are Mr. Asquith, Mr. Balfour, Miss 

 Philippa Fawcett, Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, Lord llal- 

 dane, Sir George Murray, and Mr. Sidney W 

 their secretary is Mr. A. E. Twentyman, 6 Stanhope 

 Gardens, Highgate, N.6. 



Annoi ncement is mad,- that the general committee 

 of Lloyd's Register of Shipping will grant the fol- 

 lowing scholarships for the Study of naval architec- 

 ture and marine engineering : — Three scholarships in 

 naval architecture at Glasgow, Durham, and Liver- 

 pool I niversities, tenable for three years; three 

 scholarships in marine engineering at the Univei 

 of Liverpool, tenable for three years; and two 

 scholarships in marine engineering in connection with 

 the Institute of Marine Engineers, tenable for two 

 years. The regulations governing the scholarships 

 have been amended in order that the field of com- 

 petition may be widened. Before [915 five scholar- 

 ships were competed for each year, and were of a 

 value of 50I. ; the committee has resolved to ini 

 this amount to 100/., and since no scholarships have 

 been awarded during the pasl three years, and also 

 that probably there will be a larger number of candi- 

 dates offering themselves than has hitherto been the 

 case, to authorise the grant of more than one 

 scholarship to each institution for the present year, 

 provided the authorities ran recommend that such a 

 an be adopted with advantage. Full par- 

 ticulars of the qualifications and details of the sub- 

 jects of examination can be obtained from thi 

 tary, Institute of Marine Engineers, 85-88 The 

 Minories, Tower Hill, London, E.i. 



