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[NovEMBER 13, 1913 
memorial will be determined by the success of the 
appeal which is being made to the friends and former 
pupils of the late professor in London, Liverpool, 
Oxford and elsewhere. In a circular that has been 
issued by the provisional committee, which includes 
the names of the Dean of Christ Church (Vice- 
Chancellor), the heads of Magdalen, Brasenose, and 
Keble, Profs. Bayliss, Bourne, Dreyer, Elliott, Sir 
W. Osler, Poulton, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sherrington, 
Arthur Thomson, H. H. Turner, and Dr. J. S. Hal- 
dane, attention is directed to his strenuous work in 
physiology and his wide sympathies in other branches 
of science and in art. Subscriptions may be sent to 
either of the secretaries (Dr. W. Ramsden, Pembroke 
College, and Dr. H. M. Vernon, Magdalen College), 
or to Messrs. Barclay and Co., Ltd., Old Bank, 
Oxford. 
The electors to the Waynflete professorship of physio- 
logy have elected Dr. C. S. Sherrington F.R.S., Holt 
professor of physiology in the University of Liver- 
pool, to succeed Dr, Gotch. 
An appeal is issued for the endowment of a pro- 
fessorship of forestry at Oxford. 
exact knowledge is this country more backward than 
in scientific forestry. Chairs of forestry at the univer- 
sities have existed on the Continent for more than a 
century. The higher forest instruction is now firmly 
established in tne United States of America. The 
Oxford Forest School has for many years been at the 
head of scientific forestry teaching in the British 
Empire. Founded originally for the training of Indian 
forest students, it has grown steadily under Sir Wil- 
liam Schlich’s guidance. It is no longer mainly 
occupied with the training of Indian forest officers. 
Of the thirty-five students at present under instruction 
only seven are destined for India. South Africa, which 
in forest organisation is some quarter of a century 
ahead of the other British Colonies, has long had its 
forest officers trained under Sir William Schlich. The 
appeal now issued states that a total of 3,744l. has 
been raised out of 10,oo00l. required to secure per- 
manently a fully competent professor of forestry. In 
the list of contributions, Sir W. Schlich and his pupils 
appear at the head with sool., and a like sum is con- 
tributed by the Secretary of State for India and by 
four other Colonial Governments. The Oxford col- 
leges promise donations amounting to 875I., and St. 
John’s College, Oxford, sol. a year permanently. 
When we reflect on 30,000,000l. going yearly out of 
this country to pay for the timber and paper pulp that 
could demonstrably be produced in it (Cd. 4460, 1909), 
and that this huge amount of rural employment is lost 
to us yearly, it will be seen that the appeal for the 
endowment of a chair of forestry at Oxford has claims 
oe in the truest sense are national as well as scien- 
tific. 
Sir Rickman GopLex, president of the Royal College 
of Surgeons, has had the honorary degree of Doctor of 
Laws conferred upon him by the University of 
Toronto. 
Tue University of Bristol has made a regulation 
whereby the Bath Municipal Technical School will 
be connected with the faculty of engineering of the 
University, which is provided and maintained in the 
Merchant Venturers’ Technical College. It will be 
possible for a student to take the preliminary and 
intermediate courses for the University certificate in 
engineering, either in whole or in part in evening 
classes in-the Bath Technical School, provided that 
the classes included in them have been approved by 
the Senate, and are conducted by teachers recognised 
by the Senate for the particular purpose. 
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In no branch of 
We learn from the issue of Science for October 31 
last that the General Education Board of the United 
States, in addition to a gift of*280,000l. to the Johns _ 
Hopkins Medical School, to provide professorial salaries 
which will enable the professors to be independent of 
private work, has made conditional grants of 40,oo00l. for 
Barnard College, Columbia University; 40,o0ol. for 
Wellesley College, and 10,0001. for Ripon College. 
From the same source we find that two gifts have 
been made to the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology from anonymous donors, sums of 100,000l. and 
20,0001. respectively. There is an understanding that 
the larger gift is to be used for the buildings, while 
the other has no restrictions. By the will of the 
late Mr. Simeon Smith, of Indiana, DePauw Univer- — 
sity has recently added 16,000]. to its productive 
endowment. By the terms of the will, 10,0001. of this 
amount has been set aside specifically as an endow- 
ment of the department of chemistry. 
Tue Board of Agriculture and Fisheries is not allow- 
ing the grass to grow under its feet, and in further- 
ance of its educational schemes for the benefit of 
agriculture it has just issued a memorandum (Cd. 7118) — 
“as to the constitution of the advisory councils for — 
agricultural education in England and of the agricul- 
tural council for Wales.” The Rural Education Con- 
ference recommended that joint councils should be 
constituted in each of the twelve divisions which were 
being formed in England and Wales in connection 
with the Board’s scheme for the provision of tech- 
nical advice to farmers, and that their duties should 
primarily be to promote the organisation of the 
different forms of agricultural instruction which are 
not provided for inside the agricultural colleges form- 
ing the divisional centres. The first appendix to the 
Memorandum sets out in detail the steps which have 
been taken to establish such advisory councils in 
nine of the ten divisions which cover England, with 
particulars as to their constitution and membership. 
No formal steps have, as yet, been taken to con- 
stitute such a council for Lancashire and Cheshire. 
The Board has rejected the proposal of the conference 
to establish two councils for Wales, and has preferred 
to constitute a single agricultural council for Wales 
and Monmouth. Details of its constitution are given 
in Appendix II. The function of these councils is 
twofold :—(a) Educational, including the assistance 
and advice of local education authorities on such points 
as the organisation and coordination of agricultural 
education each within its sphere of action, provision of 
agricultural experiments, demonstrations, and _ in- 
structors, inquiry into the need for farm schools and 
other educational centres of a type less advanced than 
the agricultural colleges, and so forth; (b) advisory : 
to keep the Board informed on the state of agricultural 
education within their respective provinces, and, 
through a live-stock committee, to assist the Board in 
furthering its schemes for the improvement of the live- 
stock of the country. Further developments will be 
watched with keen interest by all who have the welfare — 
of British agriculture at heart. = ‘ 
SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 
Lonpon. 
Royal Society, November 6.—Sir Archibald Geikie, 
K.C.B., president, in the chair.—Prof. E. W. 
MacBride: Studies in heredity. II., Further experi- — 
ments in crossing the British species of sea-urchins. — 
In this paper the results obtained two years ago 
and communicated to the society are confirmed and — 
extended. The hybrid produced by fertilising the egg 
of Echinus with the sperm of Echino-cardium is 
described. This hybrid was not obtained two years 
