e total number of students. Many teachers, how- 
ever, were strongly in favour of the movement, con- 
tending that the establishment of universities in the 
ge industrial and commercial centres was an essential 
and necessary element in modern conditions of life. 
| It was a movement which should be strenuously sup- 
ported. Side by side with this question arose that of 
| the standard required for the doctorate. The congress 
considered it should be made imperative for all univer- 
‘sities to demand a thesis embodying independent and 
eriginal research work from the candidate. 
Tue second annual report of the King Edward VII. 
British-German Foundation states that there is an 
increase in the expenditure, due to a larger number 
of cases assisted, and to the fact that several of the 
} permanent allowances have been raised. We learn 
} from The Times that in accordance with the terms 
of the trust deed, which provides for an annual joint 
sitting of the two sections of the foundation, alter- 
nately in England and Germany, the first joint con- 
ference was held last September, at Sir Ernest Cassel’s 
residence in London. The question of the best way 
of employing the surplus funds was discussed, and 
it was agreed finally to adopt the following resolu- 
tion :—‘‘ That a certain proportion of the surplus 
funds of the German section be employed in enabling 
British subjects to attend or visit universities, schools, 
institutes, or business establishments in Germany, or 
to reside in Germany, and that a certain proportion 
of the surplus funds of the British section be employed 
in enabling Germans to attend or visit universities, 
schools, institutes, or business establishments in the 
United Kingdom, or to reside in the United King- 
dom.” It is hoped that this scheme will serve to 
assist students who are not possessed of the necessary 
means in pursuing a course of studies abroad, and 
give them an insight into the customs and character 
| of the German people, affording them an opportunity 
of making lasting friendships with Germans, and 
thus help in promoting a good understanding between 
the two nations. The second joint conference of the 
two sections was held in Berlin on October 25. Its 
main object was to discuss the merits of the scheme 
of studentships and the desirability of continuing it. 
SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 
Paris. 
Academy of Sciences, October 20.—M. F. Guyon in 
the chair.—Pierre Termier: The Ar excursion of the 
} twelfth International Geological Congress: the 
- Appalachian region of Canada.—R. Lépine and M. 
Boulud : The presence, in the vascular walls, of a fer- 
ment setting free a reducing sugar at the expense 
| of the virtual sugar of the blood, and capable of 
_ hydrolysing phloridzin. These experiments show that 
the vascular walls possess a new function, hitherto 
ascribed to the liver alone.—Léon Lichtenstein : Some 
applications of the notions of functions of an infinity 
| of variables in the calculus of variations.—Frangois 
| Lukacs : Laplace’s series.—Pierre Idrac : Experimental 
researches on the vol plané. Photographic experi- 
ments with small balloons show that in places where 
birds are capable of hovering flight there is an ascend- 
_ ing current of air with velocities of the order of 
3 to 4 metres per second. This corresponds to the 
magnitude of the velocity of air currents in the vol 
plané of an aéroplane.—R. Fortrat: An abnormal Zee- 
man phenomenon with the sodium doublet, A=2853. 
| Whe use of a ferro-cobalt electromagnet, made according 
to the indications of P. Weiss, enabled the author to 
place an ordinary spark in a field of 49400 Gauss. 
The experimental results obtained agree closely with 
the theory of Voigt—Raoul Dupuy: Functional arte- 
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rial hypertensions. Pseudo-arterio-sclerosis. A dis- 
cussion of the means of differentiating arterio-sclerosis 
from functional hypertension.—P. Chaussé: The path 
of penetration of the tuberculous virus in the calf and 
the tuberculigenic power of cow’s milk. Inhalation 
is the usual mode of tuberculous infection in the young 
calf; intra-uterine infection must also be taken into 
consideration, since the. latter furnishes an important 
proportion of the graver cases. Although the calf is 
much more exposed than the adult animal to infection 
through the alimentary canal, this is relatively the 
least important mode of infection. The milk of the 
cow is not the cause of infection of the calf to any great 
extent._—J. Danysz: The use of some new medicinal 
combinations in the treatment of trypanosomiasis. A 
compound obtained by the action of silver nitrate upon 
arsenobenzene, was found capable of sterilising the 
| blood of rabbits infected with Surra by a single injec- 
tion. Trypanosoma rhodesiense was more resistant 
but succumbed to a mixture of the above reagent with 
trypan red.—Jules Amar: The physiological effects of 
work and the degree of fatigue——R. Anthony : The 
experimental study of the factors determining the 
cranial morphology of mammals deprived of teeth.— 
J. Chaine: The ilots of the Termites.—M. Lemoigne : 
The butylene-glycollic fermentation of glucose by 
staphylococci—Lucien Mayet and Jean Pissot: The 
discovery of the engraved bone of a mammoth show- 
ing a human figure, in the upper Aurignacian layer 
of La Colombiére, near Poncin. The drawing de- 
scribed would appear to be the first engraving of man 
of the middle Quaternary epoch.—Jean_Boussac : The 
geological constitution of Haute-Tarentaise.—F. 
Dienert : Remarks concerning some experiments with 
fluorescin. 
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