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pensate for annual variation in the water-supply. 
ne power-current will be sent along the line by two 
dependent cables, each capable of carrying the full 
wer at twice 30,000 volts, with earthed neutral. The 
_urrent will be transformed down to 7500 volts at first, 
nd 15,000 volts later on, if the experience gained with 
he lower pressure should warrant the increase to 
louble pressure. This will not involve any additional 
plant, since the secondary winding of transformers 
oth along the line and on the locomotives can from 
he first be arranged with this alteration in view. It 
s also contemplated to establish sub-stations in Biasca, 
Goeschenen, Lavorgo, and Bellinzona The trolley 
ires will be suspended from gantries, each wire in- 
‘dependently insulated. The section varies according to 
the gradient from 100 to 160 square millimetres, The 
feeders are separate for the up and down line, and 
are 100 square millimetres in section. At all railway 
stations there are change-over switches for trolley wire 
and feeders. In the tunnels the wires are carried by 
brackets fastened to the crown of the tunnel. The 
t ails will be bonded, and, in addition, there will be a 
‘bare return conductor either laid in the ground or 
ae between the trolley wires. A variation in the 
pply of voltage of from plus ro to minus 15 per cent. 
is allowed for. There will be no motor coaches used, 
only electromotives. It is intended to haul express 
trains weighing 420 tons with a speed ot 50 kilometres 
er hour on grades of 26 per mille, for which service 
e electromotive will have to develop 3000 horse- 
ower on the rails. Goods trains weighing up to 670 
tons will run with a speed of from 27 to 28 kilometres 
per hour, and have two electromotives, one in front 
‘and one in the rear, each rated at 2800 horse-power. 
Passenger trains will be heated by steam, the boiler 
being carried in a special heating coach. Except for 
the stipulation that the traction must be single-phase 
at 15 frequency and a voltage of 7500, which may 
eventually be raised to 15,000, no definite type of 
electromotive has as yet been selected, but there can 
be no doubt that several of the already existing 
types of mono-phase electromotive can be adapted to 
‘the special requirements of the Gothard line. 
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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
BrrmincHaM.—Prof. P. F. Frankland, F.R.S., has 
been elected dean of the faculty of science in succes- 
sion to Prof. S. M. Dixon. 
Dr. F. C. Lee has been nominated to the chair of 
civil engineering vacated by Prof. S. M. Dixon. 
CaMBRIDGE.—The director of the psychological 
laboratory has appointed Mr. Cyril Burt, psychologist 
to the London County Council, to be assistant in 
experimental psychology. 
The professor of zoology and comparative anatomy 
has appointed Mr. T. J. Saunders to be demonstrator 
of comparative anatomy. 
At Emmanuel College, Mr. J. B. Peace, bursar of 
the college, resigned the tutorship in mathematics at 
Michaelmas, and Mr. P. Worsley Wood has been 
appointed his successor. The exhibition of 5ol. offered 
to a research student commencing residence this 
October has been awarded to Mr. J. Conway Davies 
for research in history. An additional exhibition of 
3ol. has been awarded to Mr. H. Ogden for research 
in physics. 
The next combined examination for fifty-six entrance 
scholarships and a large number of exhibitions, at 
Pembroke, Gonville and Caius, Jesus, Christ’s, St. 
John’s, and Emmanuel Colleges, will be held on 
Tuesday, December 2, and following days. Mathe- 
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the subjects of examination at all the above-mentioned 
colleges. Most of the colleges allow candidates who 
intend to study mechanical sciences to compete for 
scholarships and exhibitions by taking the papers set 
in mathematics or natural sciences. A candidate for 
a scholarship or exhibition at any of the six colleges 
must not be more than nineteen years of age on 
October 1. Forms of application for admission to the 
examination at the respective colleges may be ob- 
tained from the masters of the several colleges, from 
any of whom further information respecting the 
scholarships and exhibitions and other matters con- 
nected with the colleges may be obtained. 
Giascow.—Prof. Archibald Barr has resigned the 
Regius chair of civil engineering and mechanics, 
which he has, held since 1889. The magnificent 
James Watt engineering laboratories, in which the 
department is accommodated, were erected and 
equipped under his direction. The Crown has ap- 
pointed Prof. J. D. Cormack, dean of the faculty of 
engineering in University College, London, and a 
governor of the Imperial College of Science and 
Technology, to the vacant chair. Prof. Cormack is 
a graduate of Glasgow, and was formerly a lecturer 
in the engineering department. 
Mr. C. R. Bury has been appointed assistant lec- 
turer and demonstrator in chemistry at the University 
College of Wales, Aberystwyth. 
A Girt of ten lakhs of rupees for the promotion of 
scientific technical knowledge has been made by Dr. 
Rash Bahari Ghosh to the University of Calcutta. 
Tue McCosh professorship of philosophy at Prince- 
ton University has been resigned by Prof. A. T. 
Ormond, who has accepted the presidency of Grove 
City College. 
We learn from Science that by the will of Miss 
Katherine Allen, of Worcester, the Worcester Poly- 
technic Institute has received a bequest amounting to 
about 20,000. 
Mr. L. C. Prant has resigned his position as head 
of the department of mathematics in the University 
of Montana on accepting a similar post in the 
Michigan Agricultural College. He is succeeded by 
Dr. N. J. Lennes, of Columbia University. 
By a trust settlement of Dr. Gavin P. Tennent, of 
Bath Street, Glasgow, the sum of 25,0001. is be 
queathed to the governing body of the University of 
Glasgow, to be applied for such objects or object in 
connection with the faculty of medicine as the trustees 
may determine. 
Tue Gresham lecturer on astronomy, Mr. Arthur R. 
Hinks, F.R.S., will deliver a course of four lectures 
on astronomy in daily use on October 14, 15, 16, and 
17, at 6 p.m., at the City of London School, Victoria 
Embankment. The subjects of the four lectures are 
respectively :—The determination of time; the dis- 
tribution of time; the determination of position; and 
measurement of the size and shape of the earth. The 
lectures are free to the public. 
A STRONG committee, mainly consisting of old 
students of the Royal Agricultural College, Ciren- 
cester, is about to issue a special appeal with the view, 
in the first place, of collecting the balance of 168sI. 
still required to complete the s5oo0ol. necessary to 
secure the advance of a similar sum from the Develop- 
ment Fund for erection of King Edward’s wing 
of the college. When this sum has been subscribed, 
the appeal will still be continued so as to provide for 
The honorary secre- 
