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SEPTEMBER II, 1913] 
NATURE 
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be devoted to “Telegraph and Telephone Conductors, 
and part ii. to ‘‘ Electric Light and Power Conductors.” 
Tue Maharaja of Jaipur has made a contribution of 
three lakhs towards the establishment of a Women’s 
Medical College at Delhi. 
AMONG recent appointments at American universi- 
_ ties we notice the following :—Dr. A. H. Ryan to the 
chair of physiology in the medical department of the 
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University of Alabama; Dr. J. A. Bullitt to the chair 
of pathology in the University of North Carolina. 
Mr. D. C. MartHEson, at present on the veterinary 
staff of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, and 
formerly connected with the veterinary school of the 
University of Liverpool, has been appointed to the 
chair of pathology and bacteriology in the Royal 
(Dick) Veterinary College, Edinburgh. 
Ir is stated in The Lancet that of the scholarships 
to be founded at Aberdeen University by the bequest 
of Mr. W. Robbie (briefly referred to in our issue of 
August 21) one is to be for chemistry. The principal 
of the sum left to the University by Mr. Robbie is to 
be kept intact, and the interest used in providing 
perpetual scholarships. 
An alarming outbreak of fire took place on Friday 
morning last at Dulwich College, damage being done 
to the extent of about 300]. The fire appears to have 
been the work of Suffragettes. The scene of the 
outrage was one of the chemical laboratories on the 
first floor of a block of buildings devoted partly to the 
engineering section of the college and partly to chem- 
istry. Before the fire could be extinguished a lecture 
platform was destroyed, the floor of the room badly 
damaged, and the windows broken by the heat. 
Tue recently published reports for 1911-12 from 
those universities and university colleges in Great 
Britain. which are in receipt of grants from the Board 
of Education show that, in the twenty-five institu- 
tions of higher education concerned, there were 22,895 
students, excluding 238 who were preparing for 
matriculation. In English colleges there were 7827 
full-time students, 3370 part-time day students, and 
7295 part-time evening students. Of this number it 
appears that 1596 were engaged upon post-graduate 
work. In Wales there were 1377 full-time students 
and 343 part-time students, none of them attending 
in the evening. Of the total number of full-time 
students admitted during the session 1911-12 to Eng- 
lish colleges, 4-6 per cent. were under seventeen years 
of age, 11-9 per cent. between seventeen and eighteen 
_ years of age, 27-6 between eighteen and nineteen years 
_ technic diploma. 
of age, and 55-9 per cent. more than nineteen years 
old. In Wales, 33-7 per cent. of the students were 
between eighteen and nineteen, and 54-1 per cent. 
more than nineteen years of age. 
A copy of the calendar of the day and evening 
classes to be held at the Battersea Polytechnic during 
the session which begins on September 16 has been 
received. Courses have been arranged both during 
the day and in the evening in preparation for degrees 
in science, engineering, and music at the University 
of London. In the day technical college, full-time 
courses are arranged in mechanical, civil, electrical, 
and motor engineering, architecture, and building, 
and chemical engineering, each covering a period of 
three years, at the end of which time students pass- 
ing the necessary examinations are awarded the poly- 
There are also courses in mathe- 
matics, physics, chemistry, and botany. The training 
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department of domestic science offers two, three, or 
four year courses in preparation for the teachers’ 
diplomas in domestic subjects. In the evening, classes 
have been arranged to meet the needs of every class 
of student. Science, technology, commerce, art, and 
literature are all to be taught in a thoroughly prac- 
tical manner, and the social and physical education 
of the students is not neglected. 
THE new session of the Sir John Cass Technical 
Institute, Aldgate, E.C., will commence on September 
22. The syllabus of classes, which has reached us, 
shows that the educational needs of the district are 
being cared for admirably. In connection with the 
higher technological work, several new departures are 
being made for the coming session. The curriculum 
in connection with the fermentation industries has 
been much developed, and now includes courses of 
instruction on brewing and malting, bottling and 
cellar management, brewery plant, and on the micro- 
biology of the fermentation industries. A connected 
series of lectures dealing with the supply and control 
of power has also been arranged to meet the require- 
ments of those engaged in works connected with 
chemical, electrical, and the fermentation industries. 
These will comprise a course of lectures on the supply 
and control of liquid, gaseous, and solid fuel, a course 
on electrical supply and control, and a course on the 
transmission of power. The courses in the metall- 
urgical and other departments will be of the same 
character as in previous years, and the object will be 
to meet the needs of the industries in the districts 
served by the institute. 
Tue ninth annual report of the Education Com- 
mittee of the County Council of the West Riding of 
Yorkshire is an excellent account of a good year’s 
educational work. From the section dealing with 
higher technical education we learn that in considera- 
tion of the grants received from the County Council 
the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield have been 
engaged in the organisation and supervision of classes 
in coal mining, the Leeds University in the area of 
the West Yorkshire Coalfield, the Sheffield University 
in the area of the South Yorkshire Coalfield; and 
each University has made provision for the training in 
mine gas testing, of persons selected by the Education 
Committee as prospective teachers of this subject. 
The Joint Agricultural Council of the three Ridings 
of Yorkshire have continued the work connected with 
education and instruction in agricultural subjects, 
acting through the agricultural department of Leeds 
University, on the same lines as before. The two 
outstanding features of the year’s work in the tech- 
nical and evening schools which call for special men- 
tion have been, first, a successful summer meeting of 
teachers in evening schools, and secondly, a consider- 
able development in regard to the provision of evening 
classes for adults in non-vocational subjects. 
SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 
Paris. 
Academy of Sciences, August 25.—M. A. Chauveau 
in the chair.—Kr. Birkeland : Remarks on the attempts 
made by Hale to determine the general magnetism 
of the sun. The results recently published by Hale 
are at variance with the author’s views, if the general 
magnetism of the sun is similar to that of the earth. 
The objection made by Hale to the theory of local 
vortices is discussed. According to the author’s re- 
searches, the magnetic moment of the sun is of the 
order of 10** C.G.S. units, and the magnetisation is 
directed in a sense contrary to that of the earth.— 
