JANUARY 29, 1914] 
logued. The section which deals with the geological 
and geographical aspects of Yorkshire is believed to 
be unequalled. 
An anonymous donor has presented the sum of 2ol. 
to be used for the purchase of a unique collection of 
fossils from the Marine Bands of the Coal Measures 
of Yorkshire, made by the late Mr. Henry Culpin, of 
Doncaster. The University has also received the con- 
chological collections and library of the late Mr. 
William Nelson. Mr. Nelson was a working man 
who accumulated a collection of land and fresh-water 
shells of extraordinary variety and great interest. On 
his death a memorial committee was formed to acquire 
his collection and library, which will now be handed 
to the zoological department of the University, where 
they will be a valuable addition to the resources for 
zoological research. 
TR 
Oxrorp.—On Tuesday, January 27, Convécation 
passed a decree giving the consent of the University to 
the establishment of three professorships, in anatomy, 
chemistry, and experimental philosophy. These 
will be styled Lee’s professorships, and the provisions 
relating to them “ will not come into effect until there 
is a vacancy in the existing Lee’s readerships in the 
three subjects respectively.” The readership in chem- 
istry is now vacant. The holder of each of the first 
two professorships will receive gool, from Christ 
Church annually; the holder of the last-named will 
receive the same amount, provided mainly by Christ 
Church, but partly from other sources, including a 
grant from Wadham College. The Lee’s professor- 
ship in chemistry will be an actual addition to the 
present staff; the other two will be ultimately merged 
in the existing professorships of human anatomy and 
experimental philosophy. Christ Church will retain 
the power of appointing Lee’s readers in anatomy, 
chemistry, and physics, in addition to finding nearly 
the whole emolument of the Lee’s professorships. It 
is to be honed that the University funds set free by 
the action of Christ Church will continue to be applied 
to scientific objects. 
Congregation has made some progress in the 
amendment stage of the statute proposing extensive 
changes in Responsions, but it is doubtful whether 
the statute will reach a final reading. 
Tue December number of The Central, the journal 
of the old students of the Central Technical College, 
South Kensington, continues to display those features 
which make it one of the best of the old students’ 
magazines. Of the scientific article and the technical 
articles on chemical and electrical subjects respec- 
tively, little need be said, as they do not differ mate- 
rially from corresponding articles which might be 
found in the technical Press. The article on ‘‘ Ambi- 
tions—Commercial v. Technical,” by a young sales 
manager, is well worth the careful consideration of 
technical students. It puts very clearly the advantages 
of a commercial career for those who have any doubts 
as to their capabilities as constructional engineers. 
The problems which confront a commercial engineer 
are as interesting, and may often be solved by the 
same methods as those a technical engineer encounters, 
while the rewards of success are both larger and come 
more swiftly. The rest of the number is devoted to 
the events of the past session, including changes in 
the staff, with photographs and views of the new 
buildings, and to the changes of positions of a large 
number of old students. It is the last characteristic 
which makes the journal so invaluable to all old 
Centralians. 
A SHORT account of the work and objects of the 
Sutherland Technical School, built several years ago 
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by the late Duke of Sutherland and Mr. Andrew 
Carnegie, near Golspie, in Sutherland, is given in the 
issue of The Times for January 23. In a letter to 
The Times of January 26, the Duchess of Sutherland 
makes an appeal for 20,0001. as a partial endowment 
for the school, and points out that 10,0001. has been 
raised among a few of her friends, and that it should 
not be difficult to secure the remainder. The aim of 
the school is to give boys from the small farms and 
fishing villages of the Highlands an opportunity to 
continue their school life in conditions which shall 
enable them to develop their special aptitudes and to 
learn the essentials of appropriate industries. The 
pupils are drawn from primary schools, and begin the 
course at the age of thirteen. The boarding-house 
attached to the school has room for forty-eight boys, 
and bursaries are provided to the number of forty. 
The secretary of the Scotch Education Department 
has spoken of the school as one of the most interest- 
ing educational experiments in recent times in Scot- 
land. This successful attempt to provide a much- 
needed link between schooldays and the years of wage- 
earning is, in fact, worth the study of those education 
authorities now contemplating the inauguration of 
junior technical schools in rural districts. 
SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 
Lonpon. 
Royal Society, January 22.—Sir William Crookes, 
O.M., president, in the chair.—Dr. R. T. Glazebrook 
and D. W. Dye: The heat production associated with 
muscular work: a note on Prof. J. S. Macdonald’s 
paper, Proc. R.S., B, vol. Ixxxvii. Prof. Macdonald’s 
results are analysed graphically by plotting, equations 
being obtained from curves connecting the various 
quantities—heat produced, work done, mass of indi- 
vidual.—M. Wheldale and H. L. Bassett : The chemical 
interpretation of some Mendelian factors for flower 
colour. These researches deal with the Mendelian 
factors for flower-colour in varieties of Antirrhinum 
majus. Two varieties, ivory and yellow, are chiefly 
considered. Ivory is a simple Mendelian dominant to 
yellow and contains a factor ‘‘I,’’ which is absent from 
yellow. The authors have previously identified the 
pale yellow pigment of the ivory variety with a flavone, 
i.e. apigenin. In the present paper it is shown that 
the yellow variety contains, in addition to apigenin, 
another flavone pigment, t.e., luteolin, which is present 
in the epidermis and accounts for the deeper yellow 
colour of the flower. Hence the dominant ivory factor 
may be expressed as the power to inhibit the formation 
of luteolin in the epidermis.—Prof. G. Dreyer and 
Dr. E. W. A. Walker: The determination of the mini- 
mum lethal dose of various toxic substances and its 
relationship to the body weight in warm-blooded 
animals, together with considerations bearing on the 
dosage of drugs. In warm-blooded animals of some. 
species but different weights, dosage must be calcu- 
lated in relation to body surface.—Prof. R. Kennedy : 
Experiments on the restoration of paralysed muscles 
by means of nerve anastomosis. Part ii., Anastomosis 
of the nerves supplying limb muscles.—Dr. F. Norman 
White: Variations in the sex ratio of Mus Rattus 
following an unusual mortality of adult females. 
Geological Society, January 7.—Dr. Aubrey Strahan, 
president, in the chair.—C, I. Gardiner and Prof. S. H. 
Reynolds: The Ordovician and Silurian rocks of the 
Lough Nafooey area (county Galway). The Lough 
Nafooey area forms a ridge about four miles long and 
slopes steeply down to Lough Nafooey on the north. 
The rocks are of Arenig, Llandeilo, and Silurian age, 
together with intrusive felsites, bostonités, labradorite- 
