NA TURE 



[February i, 1906 



meteorological services were asked to furnish data of the 

 heights and flow of rivers and lakes whenever possible. 



M. Teisserenc de Borl reported from the commission on 

 the atlas of clouds, and gave particulars of certain alter- 

 ations in the plates in that atlas and in the definition of 

 stratus cloud. 



M. Teisserenc de Bort and Dr. Rotch gave an account 

 of an expedition through the regions of the trade wind 

 and equatorial calms in the North Atlantic. M. de Bort 

 gave the history of the expedition and the results of the 

 observations obtained bj means of captive balloons, and 

 Dr. Rotch gave those obtained bi kites. Prof. Hergesell 

 followed with the results similarlj obtained in the Mediter- 

 ranean on board the yacht belonging to the Prince of 

 Monaco. 



Dr. Koppen announced that the German hydrographical 

 expedition to the Bismarck Archipelago would similarlj 

 use balloon^ and kites during the voyage. 



Prof. Mohn reported from the commission on meteor- 

 ological telegraphy. 



M. Polis directed attention to the fact that the Daily 

 Telegraph already announces the coming of storms from 

 the Atlantic, using observations sent by means of wireless 

 telegraph) from ships at sea. The conference then passed 

 the full,, wing resolution: — "This conference is convinced 

 that wireless telegraphy is chosen to render in the future 

 great service in the forecasting of the weather in the 

 Atlantic, but before introducing it into the current service 

 of the meteorological institutions it is indispensable to take 

 satisfactory precautions for the control of the observations 

 transmitted. The conference asks the Meteorological Office 

 in I. Minion to prepare as quickh as possible a report on 

 this question, and communicate with the other meteor- 

 ological institutions that may I,,- specialh interested in the 

 matter." 



During this meeting it was announced that M. Mas, art 

 had been elected president. and Prof. Hilclebi andssi in 

 secretary, to the committee, and that the following com- 

 missions had been renewed : -Magnetii commission, presi- 

 dent, General Rykatcheff (St. Petersburg); aeronautical 

 commission, president. Prof. Hergesell (Strasburg) ; solar 

 commission, president, Sir Norman Lockyer (London); 

 commission on radiation, president, Prof. Angstrom 

 (Upsala). After thanking the reporters of the various com- 

 missions for their reports, the president declared the session 

 at Innsbruck to be at an end. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Oxford.— The Vice-Chancellor has appointed Lord 

 Curzon of Kedleston to be Romanes lecturer for iqo6. 



The following elections have been made to the Uni- 

 versity mathematical scholarships: — to the senior scholar- 

 ship, A. Holden (Balliol College); to the junior scholarship, 

 A. V. Billen (Universit) College); to the exhibition, 

 J. Hodgkinson (Jesus College). 



',. E. Beaumont (Magdalen College School) has been 

 elected to a natural science scholarship at University 

 College. 



Scholarship examinations in natural science will take 

 place on March 13 at Keble College, and on April 24 at 

 Merton College, New College, and Corpus Christi College. 



Cambridge. — The board of biology and geology has re- 

 ported to the Senate on the disposition of its share of the 

 Cordon Wigan fund, which amounts to about 150/. The 

 following assignment has been made for 1905 and following 

 years : — (a) A grant ol 50/. a year to Dr. D. Sharp, for a 

 period of live \ears (1005-,,), or such part of it during 

 which he holds the curatorship in zoology; (hi a grant of 

 50Z. out of the income for 1005 to Prof. Hughes, to enable 

 Mr. E. A. Arber to continue his researches into the strati- 

 graphical and geographical distribution of fossil plants; 

 (r) the balance of the fund for 1005, and a grant of 50/. 

 for each of the years iqo6 and 1007.' to Mr. A, t '.. Seward, 

 to enable the botanic garden syndicate 10 offer greater 

 facilities for plant-breeding experiments. The same board 

 strongly recommends that the agreement between the Uni- 

 versity and Dr. Dohrn, director of the zoological station 



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at Naples, be renewed for a further period of five years, by 

 the payment to him of 100/. per annum out of the Worts 

 travelling bachelors' fund, such period to date from 

 Michaelmas, 1906. 



Mr. D. G. Hogarth will lecture on " Geographical 

 Conditions affecting Population in the Last Mediterranean 

 Lands " in the Sedgwick Museum on Tuesday, February 20, 

 for the board of geographical studies, and Dr. Hans 

 Gadow is to lecture to-day before the Antiquarian Society 

 on " Aztec Civilisation and its Origin." 



The council of the University of Liverpool at a meeting 

 held on January 23 passed the following resolution : — 

 " That on the recommendation of the Senate a readership 

 in ethnography be instituted in recognition of the scholar- 

 ship of H. O. Forbes, LL.D., director of the Public- 

 Museums of Liverpool, and that Dr. F'orbes be appointed 

 to the said readership." 



It is announced in Science that Mr. N. YV. Harris, of 

 Chicago, has presented 5000/. to North-western University, 

 to be used as an endowment for an annual series of lec- 

 tures to be delivered by some distinguished man, not a 

 professor of the university, upon the results of his own 

 investigations in scientific, literary, economical, or theo- 

 logical problems. From the same source we learn that by 

 the will of Andrew J. Dotger, of South Orange, N.J., the 

 Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute will, at the 

 death of the testator's wife, receive the residuary estate, 

 said to be about 100,000/. 



In an address delivered to the Manchester section of the 

 Society of Chemical Industry, Dr. G. H. Bailey, as chair- 

 man of the section, dealt with the question of higher educa- 

 tion and chemical industry, pleading for more cooperation 

 between manufacturers and teachers. If success is to be 

 achieved in the chemical industries of this country, Dr. 

 Bailey considers that there must be a great change in the 

 curriculum hitherto adopted in our universities and colleges ; 

 moreover, " a satisfactory curriculum can only be assured 

 by a more intimate association of the teaching authorities, 

 whoever they may be, and the leaders of industry." In 

 considering the present state of English industry and the 

 methods necessary to ensure its prosperity, Dr. Bailey re- 

 marks : — " progress in manufacture must indeed be regarded 

 as a safeguard to stability, far more potent than any- 

 political or economic device for the protection of inter, sis 

 and that nation must succeed in industry, which keeps this 

 clearly in view and possesses the talent wherewith to meet 

 the ever changing demands made upon it." 



Viscount Hayasiii, the Japanese Ambassador, distributed 

 the prizes to the successful students of the Northern Poly- 

 technic Institute, Holloway, on January 25. In the course 

 of a subsequent address, he said that scientific research 

 made such strides in the past century that it is no ex- 

 aggeration to assert that the present is the age of practical 

 application in every phase of modern life. Therefore there 

 is nothing more important in a national system of secular 

 education than institutions which keep abreast with the 

 stride of science. Viscount Hayashi explained then that 

 he took part in the administration of the technical college 

 in Tokio. That college was established some thirty years 

 ago with the help of many British professors and men of 

 science whose names are well known in Europe, and from 

 it thousands of students have been sent out to take part in 

 engineering and other works necessitating the scientific 

 application of the mechanical arts. Japan owes verv much 

 to that great educational work, and Viscount Hayashi 

 said his people felt grateful for the assistance which Croat 

 Britain had given in this department. 



The London County Council School of Marine Engineer- 

 ing at Poplar, which was described in Nature for October 

 10, 1005 (vol. lxxii. p. 623), was opened on January 24 by 

 Sir William Collins, M.P. An address was delivered by 

 Sir William White, K.C.B., who expressed a favourable 

 opinion of the arrangements, equipment, and course of 

 study provided in the new institute. He went on to de- 

 scribe the remarkable results attained during the last 

 twenty years bv a modest educational scheme which he 



