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[SEPTEMBER 25, 1913 
been filled by the appointment of Mr. W. Harrison, 
of the Manchester Municipal School of Technology. 
The medical school of the University of Leeds will 
hold its opening function on October 1, when Prof. 
C. S. Sherrington, F.R.S., will distribute the prizes 
and deliver an address. 
Lonpon.—Prof. E. W. MacBride, F.R.S., has been 
appointed successor to the late Prof. Adam Sedgwick 
in the chair of zoology at the Imperial College of 
Science, South Kensington. 
Tue presidency of Denison University has been 
accepted by Prof. C. W. Chamberlain, who, in con- 
sequence, has resigned the chair of physics at Vassar 
College. 
THE new session of the Charing Cross Hospital 
Medical College will be opened on October 1 by an 
address from the dean, Dr. W. Hunter, on Univer- 
sity medical education. 
Tue first Hunterian Society’s lecture will be 
delivered at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital on October 8 
by Dr. F. J. Wethered, who will take as his subject 
‘“Fever in Pulmonary Tuberculosis: its Significance 
and Therapeutical Indications.”’ 
A cuarr of hydrology and hygiene has been estab- 
lished at the Superior School of Pharmacy in Paris, 
which will take the place of one of mineralogy and 
hydrology. Prof. Délépine, the holder of the last- 
named chair, will occupy the new one. 
Dr. J. E. WopsEpatex, of the zoological depart- 
ment of the University of Wisconsin, has been ap- 
pointed professor of zoology and head of the depart- 
ment of zoology and entomology at the University of 
Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, in succession to Dr. J. M. 
Aldrich. 
An apprenticeship course in animal husbandry has 
been established at the Ohio State University. The 
course covers four years—two in the university and 
two in practical work on a stock farm. Many stock 
men in the United States are interested in the move- 
ment, and are cooperating with the University in 
carrying it out. 
We learn from Science that a bionomic laboratory 
has been established in connection with the Univer- 
sity of Chicago, and that Prof. W. L. Tower, who 
has been appointed its curator, has left for South 
America to obtain material for it. The laboratory is 
to be equipped for the study of genetics and the 
problems of experimental evolution. 
A SCHEME has been completed for the amalgamation 
of Bolton Grammar School and the High School for 
Girls in the town, and Sir William Lever has now 
endowed them as from January next with 50,o00l. 
Lever Brothers 20 per cent. cumulative preferred 
ordinary shares, producing an income of 10,0001. per 
annum. The funds are placed at the discretion of 
the trustees, and it is proposed to use the first five 
years’ income to build a new school with an adminis- 
trative block, 
A scientiFIc and technical school of kinematography 
is to be inaugurated at the Polytechnic, Regent 
Street, W., on Wednesday, October 1. The opening 
meeting (which will be free) is to be followed by a 
course of twenty-four weekly lectures by Mr. R. Bruce 
Foster, who will deal with the subject under the fol- 
lowing heads :—Historical development; modern film 
machines and intermittence mechanisms; films, their 
production and treatment; exhibiting; colour kine- 
matography; the kinematograph combined with 
musical accompaniment; the Kinematograph Act and 
Regulations. 
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Tue following lectures, among others, have bee 
arranged for delivery at University College, Lon. 
don :—‘‘ Early Cylinders and Scarabs,” Prof. Flinder 
Petrie, F.R.S.; “Primitive Religion in Egypt,” Miss 
Margaret A. Murray; ‘‘ The Scope of General Physic . 
logy,’ Prof. Bayliss, F.R.S.; ‘“*The Range of Con- 
sciousness in Organic Nature,’’ Mr. Carveth Read; 
‘““Mental Energy,” Prof. Spearman; ‘‘The Palzo- 
botanist, his Past and Future,’’ Dr. Marie Stopes. 
Particulars, syllabuses, &c., may be obtained from 
the Provost or the Secretary of the College. - 
Ar University College, University of London, a 
course of lectures on the physical applications of the 
principle of relativity will be delivered on Fridays, a 
5 p-m., by Dr. L, Silberstein, lecturer in natural 
philosophy at the University of Rome, beginning 
October 10. The syllabus includes consideration ot 
the fundamental concepts and postulates of the theory 
of relativity, dynamics of radiation, fundamental 
electromagnetic equations, optical problems, the 
problem of gravitation, and Einstein’s recent 
generalisation of the theory of relativity. Another 
course of lectures on the principle of relativity is 
to be given at Battersea Polytechnic by Mr. E. 
Cunningham, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 
on Thursdays, at 6 p.m., beginning on October 23. 
The lectures will deal with the development of the 
principle and some consequences of the universal 
admission of the principle. Admission to this course 
is free and no ticket is required. 
Tue next session of Birkbeck College, which is 
the ninety-first, commences on September 29. The 
opening address will be given at 7 p.m. by Sir 
Francis Darwin, F.R.S., and visitors are invited to 
be present. The college is conducted in relation with 
the University of London, and classes are held both 
in the day and evening. We notice that thirty-two 
members of the staff are recognised teachers of the 
University of London. The courses of study provide 
for degrees in the faculties of arts, science, laws, 
and economics. It is again pointed out in the 
calendar, which contains full particulars of the 
numerous courses of study, that the usefulness of the 
college is curtailed by its limited accommodation. Its 
most pressing need is for increased space. More 
spacious college buildings, with additional class-rooms 
and larger laboratories better adapted to modern 
requirements, would give a great stimulus to the 
work of the college and add to its public utility. 
Tue report of the United States Commissioner of 
Education for the year ending June 30, 1912, has 
reached us from Washington. It consists of two 
large volumes, one dealing with educational topics 
in a broad way and the other devoted almost entirely 
to statistics. The section of the report concerned 
with the work of universities and colleges in the 
United States shows that the total amount of gifts 
to these institutions for higher education for the 
year I9II-12 was 4,956,600l., excluding grants by 
Federal, State, and local political bodies. This amount 
represents an increase of 363,989l. over the benefactions 
for 1910-11. Of these gifts 1,274,960l. was for the 
increase of plant in the institutions, 745,9S8ol. for cur- 
rent expenses, and 2,935,660l. for endowment. These 
amounts do not include subscriptions or promises 
received in campaigns for endowment, though they 
do include some property not producing an income at 
the present time. Fifty-four institutions reported 
gifts during the year of more than 20,000l. Five 
universities received more than 200,000l., namely, 
Yale, Chicago, Harvard, Columbia. and Cornel 
Columbia University seems to have been most fc 
tunate with its 378,256. 
