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NATURE 
[Marcu 10, 1904 
with special reference to the otter-trawl. Mr. R. A. Todd 
writes on the invertebrate fauna and fish-food of the bays 
between the Start and Exmouth, Mr. Robert Gurney on the 
larve of certain British Crangonide, and Mr. Frank Balfour 
Browne on the eggs and larve of Teleostean fishes. The 
number, which is of larger size than usual, contains three 
plates and a chart. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
CamsripGe.—The Smith’s prizes in natural philosophy for 
Bachelors of Arts are awarded to Mr. E. Cunningham, St. 
John’s; Mr. J. C. M. Garnett, Trinity; Mr. H. A. Webb, 
Trinity ; and Mr. P. W. Wood, Emmanuel. The names are 
in alphabetical order, and are respectively those of the 
senior wrangler, sixteenth wrangler, and the two (bracketed) 
third wranglers in 1902. 
The Worshipful Company of Girdlers has made a grant 
of rool. a year to the university for the endowment of a 
university lecturer in economics. The appointment is in the 
first instance for three years. 
The general board proposes the appointment of an 
assistant curator of the Botanical Museum at a stipend of 
tool, a year. 
A special syndicate proposes the establishment in the uni- 
versity of a board of anthropological studies, for the purpose 
of systematising and directing work in anthropology by 
advanced students. 
Prof. Adami and Prof. Bovey, F.R.S., of McGill Uni- 
versity, Montreal, have been appointed representatives of the 
university at the jubilee of the University of Wisconsin, to 
be celebrated at hiadison in June. 
The Senate has adopted an address of sympathy with the 
University of Turin on the destruction by fire of the 
Biblioteca Nazionale. 
Dr. G. E. RicuMonp has been appointed demonstrator of 
hygiene and public health at University College, London. 
Tue Misses Riddell, of Beckmount, Belfast, have presented 
s500ol. to Queen’s College, Belfast, for the establishment 
of a Riddell demonstratorship of pathology. 
WE learn from Science that Lord Strathcona has given 
4ooo0l. to Manitoba University to extend its scientific work, 
and that Mr. John A. Creighton has given a further sum 
of about 50,000/. to Creighton University, a Catholic insti- 
tution at Omaha, Nebraska. 
Tue death is announced, at the early age of thirty-nine, 
of Dr. E. A. de Schweinitz, director of the Biochemic 
Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, dean 
of the Medical Department of Columbia University, and 
well known for his contributions to bacteriology. 
A. Britt on higher education has, says a Times corre- 
spondent, been introduced in the Second Chamber of 
Holland by Dr. Kuyper. The Bill has for its object the 
granting to private universities, under certain guarantees, 
of the same rights and privileges as are accorded to the 
State universities, including the faculty of conferring degrees 
upon students wishing to enter the public service. The 
Premier, it appears, attaches great importance to this piece 
of legislation, and the Standaard, the recognised organ of 
his party, has already threatened the resignation of the 
Cabinet should the Government fail to obtain a majority in 
the final division. 
Tue authorities of the Yorkshire College, Leeds, have re- 
ceived a letter from the Committe of the Privy Council to 
announce that the committee ‘‘ see no reason to modify their 
opinion that the proper title to be assumed by a university 
with its seat in Leeds is the University of Leeds.’’ Their lord- 
ships have recommended to His Majesty the restriction of the 
title, both on the score of precedent and convenience. The 
Charter will now soon be laid on the table of the House of 
Commons, and it is not expected there will be any further 
delay in the matter. The movement for a new university at 
Leeds, towards establishing which some 4o,oool. has been 
promised, has been throughout regarded as a county move- 
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ment. The West Riding County Council has promised 
something like 6oool. in the aggregate annually towards the 
Leeds and Sheffield Universities. 
In a lecture at University College, London, on the uni- 
versities and colleges of the United States, Dr. T. Gregory 
Foster, one of the members of the Mosely Education Com- 
mission, referred to social and industrial conditions as affect- 
ing university life. He pointed out that at every university 
and college he visited—whether at ancient Yale and Harvard 
or at the infant University of Chicago, or at the State uni- 
versities—at all alike one found rich and poor. Each 
university issued a leaflet to show how the poor man could 
pay, or help to pay, his way during the university course 
without loss of caste. Business men in the United States 
are glad to employ men who have more than a common 
school or high school education. There is a certain prospect 
of employment for all who have passed through a university 
course. 
Tur Committee of the Privy Council has considered the 
case presented on behalf of the petition of the University 
College of Sheffield praying for the grant of a Charter in- 
corporating a university in Sheffield and the resolutions in 
its support adopted by various bodies. The committee under- 
stands that the promoters are engaged in raising a sum of 
170,000l. for the purposes of the university, by the appropri- 
ation of part of which new buildings of a suitable character 
will be in readiness by the spring of 1905, and that in addi- 
tion to a considerable yearly sum which the city council 
has promised to provide, material assistance may be looked 
for from the county council of the West Riding of York- 
shire, and probably from Derbyshire and the large urban 
communities in the neighbourhood of Sheffield. In these 
circumstances their Lordships are willing to entertain 
favourably the application, and, subject to a substantial 
realisation of the hopes mentioned, will be prepared to re- 
commend to His Majesty the grant of a Charter in general 
conformity with the draft accompanying the petition. 
Mr. Lyrtrerton, Secretary of State for the Colonies, was 
the guest of the Liverpool University Association on March 5 
on the occasion of the first dinner under the auspices of the 
association. The right hon. gentleman, in replying to the 
toast of his health, said ‘‘ the object of all education is to 
endow the mind of the student with strength, accuracy, and 
elevation. It is well also that such a mind should have 
power to express its thought with clearness and, if possible, 
with attractiveness. That is the reason that classical 
languages have been for so long the main study of the 
country. But things have altered now. Around and com- 
peting with us are all the great communities of Europe, 
which are becoming more and more organised, intelligent, 
and specialised in knowledge. Hence has arisen a necessity 
for the equipment of our young men by study for the 
immediate struggles of life. We have been frequently met 
by the criticism that to teach the young to snatch greedily 
at mental improvement with the sole purpose of disposing 
at a profit of what has been learned is but a narrow educa- 
tion; but it is well competent for us to learn worthily the 
great principles which underlie practical professions, and not 
to despise those principles because they have practical 
achievement as their result.”” 
Mr. Gray, M.P., has asked in Parliament for an explan- 
ation why the Board of Education have recently reduced the 
value of the national and research scholarships from 30s. 
to 25s. per week, and whether, having regard to the de- 
sirability of keeping these scholarships open to students 
unable to supplement them by private means, he would 
advise the Board to reconsider their decision. In the course 
of his reply to the question, Sir W. Anson remarked :— 
‘The Board have never intended that these scholarships 
should be of an eleemosynary character. They believe that 
the amount of the scholarships is sufficient to attract good 
candidates, and that in the majority of cases they provide 
an adequate supplement to the other resources of the 
students, and they consider that in any cases where more 
is needed the assistance should be provided under the super- 
vision of local authorities rather than from funds adminis- 
tered by the Board. The students who gain these scholar- 
ships have, as a rule, been for a period of years under the 
direct observation of local school authorities, who thus 
