NATURE 



[November 2, 1905 



■ating replicas, unmounted, transmit the more 



refrangible radiations up to A 2613, practically without 



11, but the glass used as supports for the copies 



is opaque beyond A. 3400, therefore Prof. Wood has pro- 



posed that mica should be employed for the supports where 



" ultra-violet " work is to be prosecuted. Reproductions 



ol some spectrograms obtained with and without the mica 



as show the value of Prof. Wood's ^u^pvstion. 



Mr. Wallace recommends the "copying" process as 



tlie most efficient method of cleaning a dirty grating, and 



he has also tried it for the production of replicas of 



concave gratings, but as yet without any notable success. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Oxford. — Mr. T. S. Moore has been elected to a fellow- 

 ship at Magdalen College after an examination in 

 chemistry. Mr. Moore was educated at the East London 

 Technical College ; he gained a postmastership in natural 

 science at Merton in 1S98, was placed in the first class in 

 mathematical moderations in 1900, and in the natural 

 science school in 1902. He was lately appointed lecturer 

 in chemistry in the University of Birmingham. 



St. John's College recently procured an important 

 change in its statutes which will be of great assistance in 

 the new forestry scheme. The college was bound by the 

 statutes of 1877 to endow a chair of mechanics and civil 

 engineering so soon as its revenue permitted ; by the new 

 statute this obligation is removed, and instead St. John's 

 is to contribute in and after 1908 600/. a year to the 

 Sibthorpian professorship of rural economy. It is under- 

 -0 od that the main subject to be entrusted to the future 

 professor is pathological botany, so that he will have an 

 impe riant share in the instruction of the forestry students. 

 St. John's has also placed a considerable plot of land near 

 Bagley Wood at the disposal ol Prof. Schlich for the 

 purpose of starting a "forest garden." 



At the first meeting of the delegacy which is to super- 

 intend the instruction of the Indian forestry students Prof. 

 Schlich was appointed secretary, and Mr. D. II. Nagel 

 (Trinity College) assistant secretary. 



Prof. Osier and Prof. Miers were among the new 

 members of the hebdomadal council who were elected on 

 ( ), tober 26. 



The examinations for natural science scholarships this 

 tern will take place at the following dates : — December 5, 

 Balliol, Christ Church, and Trinity ; December 12, 

 University, Lincoln, and Magdalen; December 19, Jesus 

 College. 



Cambridge. — A memorial has been presented to the 

 council of the senate requesting the council to take steps 

 by the nomination of a special syndicate or otherwise to 

 ensure the consideration of the following questions : — 

 (r) the advisability of imposing on all such candidates, 

 as may not otherwise be qualified for exemption, the pass- 

 in" id' the previous examination or of another examin- 

 ation, in lieu of the previous examination, as a condition 

 precedent to matriculation in tin university; (2) the possi- 

 bility of obtaining the cooperation of the Universit) of 

 On lord with the University of Cambridge in establishing 

 a joint examination which should qualify for matriculation 

 in either university. This memorial has been signed by 

 some seventy influential members of the university. It has 

 been referred by the council of the senate to the studies 

 and examinations syndicate. 



I he electors to the Allen scholarship give notice that 

 the) are prepared to receive applications from candidates. 

 Any graduate ol the university is eligible for the scholar- 

 ship provided that his age on the first day of the Lent 

 Term 1906 does not exceed twenty-eight years. Next year 

 the scholarship is open to candidates who propose to under- 

 take research in medicine, mathematics, physics and 

 chemistry, biolog) and geology, moral science. The 

 scholarship is tenable for one year, during which period 

 it will be the duty of the student to devote himself to 

 research in Cambridge or elsewhere. 'The emolument of 

 the student is 250/., or such smaller sum as the fund, aftet 



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payment of all expenses, shall be capable of providing. 

 Every candidate must send to the Vice-Chancellor, Trinity 

 Hall Lodge, on or before February 1, 1906, his name and 

 a definite statement of the course of research which he 

 proposes to undertake, together with such evidence of his 

 qualifications as he thinks proper, and with the names of 

 not more than three referees to whom the electors may 

 apply for information. The election will be made towards 

 the end of the Lent term, 1906. 



In its report upon its reserve fund, the museums and 

 lecture rooms syndicate enumerate a number of varying 

 sums spent upon the museums. It has granted 100/. 

 toward the expenses of housing Prof. Bonney's collections 

 in the Sedgwick Museum, and has also allotted some 

 smaller sums to the furnishing of the rooms in the new 

 medical schools. It is a pity there are not sufficient funds 

 at the disposal of the syndic ate to fit up the Humphry 

 Memorial Museum, the bare yvalls of which cry for shelves 

 and shoyy case 



'The annual general meeting of the Association ol 

 Teachers in Technical Institutes will be held at the Birk- 

 beck College on Saturday, November 4, at 3 p.m., with 

 Mr. W. J. Lineham, chairman of the association, in the 

 chair. 



A COURSE of eight lectures on fields of force will be 

 given in Columbia University, New York City, by Prof. 

 V. F. K. Bjerknes, professor of mechanics and mathe- 

 matical physics in the University of Stockholm, on Fridays 

 and Saturdays in December. The lectures will be open, 

 without charge, to teachers and advanced students in 

 During March and April, 1906, a course of 

 lccimc, yvill I., given by Prof. H. A. Lorentz, professor 

 of physics in the University of Leyden. 



'The Berlin correspondent of the Times stales that in 

 the presence of the German Emperor, the American 

 Ambassador, the German Foreign Secretary, the Prussian 

 Minister of Education, and other men of distinguished 

 eminence, an inaugural lecture was delivered in English 

 by Prof. Peabody, of Harvard University, in the central 

 hall of Berlin University on Monday, October 30. Prof. 

 Peabody discussed the advantages of the scheme put for- 

 ward by the German Emperor for the exchange of 

 lecturers between German and American universities, and 

 read a letter which he had received from President 

 Roosevell approving of the scheme. 



We have received an advance copy of the report of the 

 work of the department of technology of the City and 

 Guilds of London Institute for the session 1904-5. The 

 report refer, to some of the ways by which the institute 

 is aide to cooperate with the central educational authori- 

 ties lor Great Britain and Ireland, in assisting and guiding 

 schools in their arrangements for the provision of techno- 

 logical instruction, and in effecting a proper coordination 

 betyveen workshop and class teaching. The department 

 of technology -u^r-ts schemes for complete courses of 

 evening instruction for artisans and others engaged in 

 different industries, and prepares detailed syllabuses in the 

 technology of each trade subject. The institute registers 

 classes in any of the subjects contained in its programme, 

 provided the conditions preliminary to registration are 

 fulfilled. During the past session 2601 classes were 

 registered in 304 towns. These were attended by 41,618 

 students, being 671 more than in the previous ssion. 

 Before' registering a class, the institute requires that the 

 qualifications of the teacher shall be submitted to, and 

 approved by, the department of technology. During the 

 session under review, 195 new names have been added to 

 the institute's register of teachers in technology, and 140 

 have' been provisionally approved. The institute has in- 

 augurated a system of inspection of trade classes by pro- 

 fessional experts. During the past session 149 

 were inspected by members of the institute's staff. The 

 report also contains full statistics relating to affiliated 

 technological classes, and instructive extracts from some 

 of the examiners' reports on the results of the examin- 

 ations, 1905. 



