Marcu 18, 1897 | 
NATURE 
VS) 
The Story of the Earth’s Surface, by Prof. H. G. Seeley, illus- 
trated ; The Story of Religion, by E. D. Price, with map, &c. 
Messrs. Kegan Paul,Trench, Triibner, and Co. Ltd., announce : 
—Studies in Psychical Research, by Frank Podmore ; Creation 
with Development, by Captain J. D. K. Hewitt, with diagrams 
and an illustration ; Fichte’s Science of Ethics, translated by A. 
E. Kroeger, and edited by Prof. the Hon. W. T. Harris; new 
volume of ‘‘The International Scientific Series”: What is 
Electricity? by Dr. John Trowbridge, illustrated; the ‘‘ Agri- 
cultural Series”: Chemistry, by R. H. Adie and T. B. Wood ; 
Botany, by Dr Wm. Fream ; Physiology and Feeding, by T. B. 
Wood and R. H. Adie; Agriculture, by Robert Menzies ; 
Horticulture, by E. Pillow and W. K. Woodcock; The Con- 
version of Arable Land to Pasture, by Prof. W. J. Malden. 
The Rebman Publishing Company, Ltd., will issue :—Year- 
book of Medicine and Surgery, 1897, collected and arranged by 
eminent specialists and teachers, under the editorial charge of 
Dr. George M. Gould ; The Diseases of Women : a handbook 
for students and practitioners of medicine, by J. Bland Sutton 
and Dr. Arthur E. Giles, illustrated ; Injuries and Diseases of 
the Ear : being various papers on Otology, by Macleod Yearsley ; 
Archives of Clinical Skiagraphy, by Sydney Rowland, part iv. 
Messrs. L. Reeve and Co. have in the press :—Respiratory 
Proteids, by Dr. A. B. Griffiths. 
Among the forthcoming books of the Scientific Press, Ltd., 
we notice :—The Romance and Mystery of Alchemy and 
Pharmacy, by C. J. S. Thompson, illustrated; Elementary 
Physiology for Nurses, by Dr. C. F. Marshall; ‘*The Burdett 
Series” of popular Text-Books on Nursing: No. 1, Practical 
Hints on District Nursing, by Amy Hughes; No. 2, The 
Matron’s Course: an introduction to hospital and private 
nursing, by S. E. Orme. 
Messrs. Walter Scott, Ltd., will add to their ‘* Contem- 
porary Science Series’’:—Hallucinations and Illusions, by E. 
Parish ; Psychology of the Emotions, by Ribot; The New 
Psychology, by Dr. E. W. Scripture; Man and Woman, by 
Havelock Ellis, second edition; Hypnotism, by Albert Moll, 
fourth edition. 
The announcements of Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 
Ltd., include :—Aristotle’s Psychology, including the Parva 
Naturalia, translated and edited, with commentary and intro- 
duction, by Prof. William A. Hammond: Ethics, by Prof. W. 
Wundt, translated under the supervision of Prof. E. B. Titchener, 
2 vols. ; Physiological Psychology, by Prof. W. Wundt, 
translated by Prof. E. B. Titchener, 2 vols., illustrated ; Intro- 
duction to the Study of Philosophy, by Prof. Oswald Kiilpe, 
translated by W. B. Pillsbury, under the supervision of Prof. 
E. B. Titchener; Text-Book of Paleontology for Zoological 
Students, by Theodore T. Groom, illustrated ; _Text-Book or 
Embryology: Invertebrates, by Drs. Korschelt and Heider, 
vol ii., Crustacea and Arachnoids, translated and edited (with 
additions) by Eric Pritchard; Practical Plant Physiology, by 
Prof. Wilhelm Detmer, translated by S. A. Moor; A 
Student’s Text-Book of Zoology, by Adam Sedgwick, 2 vols., 
illustrated ; Handbook to Practical Botany, for the botanical 
laboratory and private student, by Prof. E. Strasburger, edited 
by Prof. W. Hillhouse, new edition; The Young Beetle- 
Collector's Handbook, by Dr. E. Hofmann, translated and 
edited with an introduction by Dr. W. Egmont Kirby, illus- 
trated ; Organic Chemistry : Introduction to the Study of, by J. 
Wade ; Among the Wild Flowers, by the Rev. H. Wood, vol. i. 
(Spring), vol. ii. (Summer); Fishes, by the Rev. H. A. 
Macpherson; Handbook of Grasses, by W. Hutchinson, 
illustrated ; Mammalia, by the Rev. H. A. Macpherson ; Birds’ 
Eggs and Nests, by W. C. J. Ruskin Butterfield ; The Dynamo: | 
how made and how used, by S. R. Bottone, new edition, 
illustrated, and an appendix on the construction of a six-unit 
dynamo; Radiation, by H. H. F. Hyndman and Cecil H. 
Cribb, with an introduction by Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson ; 
Williams’ British Fossils, new edition ; Specimens of Bushman 
Folk-lore, by Dr, W. H. J. Bleck and L. C. Lloyd, with a 
preface by Dr. George McCall Theal. 
"Mr. Fisher Unwin’s list contains :—Glimpses into Plant Life, 
by Mrs. Brightwen, illustrated ; Mother, Baby, and Nursery, a 
Manual for Mothers, by Mrs. Genevieve Tucker. 
Messrs. Frederick Warne and Co. announce :—Wayside and 
Woodland Blossoms, by Edward Step, third edition ; Favourite 
Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, edited by E. Step, vols. ii. 
and iii. 
Messrs. 
NO. 1429, VOL. 55 | 
Whittaker and Co. announce :—Central Station 
Electricity Supply, by Gay and Yeaman ; A Series of Electrica 
Engineering Designs, by Gisbert Kapp ; Horseless Road Loco- 
motion, by A. R. Sennett; A Railway Technical Vocabulary 
(French, English, and American), by Lucien Serraillier ; A 
Technological Dictionary in Four Languages (English, French, 
Italian, and German) ; Loppéand Bouquet’s Alternating Currents, 
a practical treatise, translated from the French by F. J. 
Moffett; The Alternating Current Circuit, by W. Perren 
Maycock ; Railway Material Inspection, by G. R. Bodmer: 
Organic Chemical Manipulation, by J. T. Hewitt ; Industrial 
Electro-Chemistry, by Dr. Hoepfner; Whittaker’s Engineers’ 
Pocket-Book ; Practical Electrical Measurements, by BH. °H- 
Crapper ; Vol. ii. of Electric Lighting and Power Distribution, 
by W. Perren Maycock ; A School Geography, by C. Bird. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
Oxrorp.—The degreee of D.C.L., honoris causa, will be 
conferred on Dr. Nansen to-day, March 18, in the Sheldonian 
Theatre at 3 p.m. ; 
Dr. James Ritchie has been appointed Lecturer in Pathology 
for two years, from January 1, 1897. 
The bust of Sir Henry Acland, Bart., K.C.B., formerly 
Regius Professor of Medicine, has been placed in the Court of 
the University Museum. 
The Romanes Lecture will be delivered on Wednesday, 
June 2, 1897, by the Right Hon. John Morley, M.P., D.C.L. 
The subject will be Machiavelli. 
The Junior Scientific Club held its last meeting on Friday, 
March 12, Mr. A. W. Brown (Ch. Ch.), President, in the 
chair. Mr. E. H. Hunt (Balliol) gave an account of some ex- 
periments made by himself on the ‘‘ Excretion of Urea and 
Phosphates.” Mr. W. B. Billinghurst (St. John’s) read a paper 
on * Pentacarbon Rings,” and Mr. J. N. Ramsden (New Coll.) 
on ‘*Coal in Kent.” The following were elected Members of 
Committee for next term:—Mr. R. A. Buddicom, Keble 
(President), Mr. J. E. H. Sawyer, Ch. Ch., Mr. A. Hartridge, 
Exeter (Secretaries), Mr. A. E. Boycott, Oriel (Treasurer), Mr, 
A. R. Wilson, Wadham (Editor), and Messrs. W. B. Billing- 
hurst, St. John’s, N. B. Odgers, Lincoln, and W. M. G. 
Glanville, Ch. Ch. 
CAMBRIDGE.—THE following is the speech delivered by the 
Public Orator, Dr. Sandys, Fellow and Tutor of St. John’s, in 
presenting Dr. Nansen for the honorary degree of Doctor in 
Science, on March 16 :— 
Scandinaviae filium intrepidum, oceani septentrionalis ex- 
ploratorem indefessum, post tot pericula terra marique per tres 
annos fortiter tolerata, salvum et sospitem reducem salutamus. 
Quid referam viri indomiti iuventutem primam disciplina severa 
assidue exercitam, et rerum naturae studiis feliciter dedicatam ? 
Quid itinera per priora animi et corporis patientiam et 
fortitudinem spectatam probatamque ? uid itinere in ultimo, 
adiutoris optimi auxilio, tot observationes sive magneticas sive 
meteorologicas e regione prius ignota reportatas? Quid dicam 
de bene ominati nominis nave illa, quae glaciei solidae in mediis 
molibus, velut Symplegadum novarum in amplexu, constricta 
et compressa, ductoris tamen providi vota non fefellit, sed, 
mobili in glacie immobilis inhaerens, ad ulteriora sensim delata 
est? Navam illam, navisque rectorem, ipsum Vergilium 
praedixesse crediderim :— 
* alter erit tum Tiphys et altera quae vehat Argo 
delectos heroas.” 
Quis autem pro rei dignitate laudare poterit par nobile illud 
comitum, qui, nave ipsa relicta, glaciei asperrimae per solitudines 
immensas audacter progressi, in regionem tandem pervenerunt 
orbis terrarum vertici septentrionali proximam, quo ex ipsa 
mundi origine nulla hominum vestigia prius umquam pene- 
traverant? Etiam arctoi pelagi tum demum patefacti de navita 
primo Horati verba licet usurpare : 
‘ illi robur et aes triplex : 
circa pectus erat qui fragilem truci 
commisit pelago ratem. 
Talium virorum exemplo admoniti discimus nihil magnum, 
nihil memorabile, nisi labore longo curaque infinita posse perfici. 
Talium virorum in orbe terrarum explorando providentia et 
