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Audisse sit satis kune de his studiis ita meritum ut omnibus 
inter nostrates qui se iisdem studiis maxime devoverint dignus 
omnimodo laurea nostra videatur. 
LIEBREICH. 
Salutamus deinceps virum e finibus Germaniae insignem. 
Ille secreta cerebri feliciter rimatus ad ipsa materiae atoma 
penetrando phosphorum capitalem Phosphorus et Lucifer ipse 
clarissimus nobis primo patefecit. Idem acerbissimos animi 
corporisque dolores impune extinxit, 
Spargens chlora venena soporiferumque papaver. 
Immo somnum insomnibus attulit, mollem, mortique similli- 
mum. 
MOIssAN. 
Praesento vobis virum illustrem Lutetiis Parisiorum pro- 
essorem. iri hujus ingenium illustre, diligentiam, eru- 
ditionem in ea scientia quam ad illustrandam unice se devovit, 
jamdiu confessi sunt qui eadem in re florentissimi extiterunt. 
Sed nomini suo immortalitatem quandam justissimo titulo 
meruisse videtur, invento uno scientiae suae utilissimo ; scilicet 
Fluorii elementum segregando, id quod nulli ante facere contigit, 
neque sine vitae periculo prioribus constabat experimentum 
hujusmodi ; (scilicet qui sese ante nostrum experimento huic 
dedicaverant, duo, ante victoriam partam, occubuerunt, lauream 
tamen reportavit noster, periculo superstes atque, utinam diu 
superstes sit !) 
NEWCOMB. 
Sequitur deinceps vir insignis qui trans fluctus Atlanticos 
transvectus ad nos venit—senex antistes Naturae. Hunc 
virum scitote per multos annos astrorum motus rationemque 
coeli ita ingeniose perscrutatum fuisse ut multa non solum 
nova reperiat sed etiam sermone dilucido expressa argumentis 
confirmaret certissimis. Idem lIuminis velocitatem et quantum 
sol ab orbe terrarum distet singulari cura investigavit, et 
tabulas Lunae motus correxit. 
“*Scire juvat magni penitus praecordia mundi.” 
At the Enczenia, on June 21, the honorary degree of D.C.L. 
will be conferred upon the Earl of Elgin, Lord Kitchener, Sir 
Charles Parry, F. W. Maitland, F. D. Godman, Father Ehrle, 
Cecil Rhodes, and J. G. Frazer. 
The eleventh annual report of the delegates of the Uni- 
versity Museum (for 1898) is published in the Uzdversz/y 
Gazette for June 6. This publication, which increases in 
dimensions every year, contains the reports of the Regius Pro- 
fessor of Medicine, the Linacre Professor of Comparative 
Anatomy, the Waynflete Professor of Physiology, the Professor 
of Human Anatomy, the Hope Professor of Zoology, the Pro- 
fessor of Experimental Philosophy, the Waynflete Professor of 
Chemistry, the Professor of Geology, and the Waynflete Pro- 
fessor of Mineralogy, and records substantial progress in all 
these departments. 
Mr. E. S. Goodrich has been re-appointed Aldrichian Demon- 
strator of Anatomy. 
Dr. J. F. Payne has been elected a member of the Medical 
Council of the United Kingdom, in place of Dr. W. S. 
Church, resigned. 
Scholarships in Natural Science are advertised at the fol- 
lowing Colleges :—Balliol, November 21; Merton, June 27 ; 
New, June 27; Magdalen, October 10; Corpus Christi, June 
27; Christ Church, November 21; Trinity, November 21. 
On June 14, a statue of Charles Darwin, by Mr. Hope 
Pinker, which has been presented to the University by Prof. 
Poulton, will be inaugurated at the University Museum. 
CAMBRIDGE.—Mr. H. M. MacDonald, of Clare College, 
fourth Wrangler 1889, has been appointed University Lecturer 
in Mathematics in place of Prof. Love, now of Oxford. 
Mr. A. E. Shipley, of Christ’s College, has been re-appointed 
University Lecturer in Invertebrate Morphology. 
The Adams prize for an essay on the Theory of the Aber- 
ration of Light has been divided between Mr. J. Larmor, 
F.R.S., Fellow of St. John’s, and Mr. G. T, Walker, Fellow 
of Trinity, Senior Wranglers in 1880 and 1889 respectively. 
The Smith’s prizes for 1899 are adjudged to Mr. W. H. 
Austin and Mr. G. W. Walker, of Trinity, senior and fourth 
Wranglers respectively in 1897. Mr. Frankland, of Clare, and 
Mr. Whipple, of Trinity, receive honourable mention. 
Prof. Thomson announces a course of demonstrations in 
Physics, to be given in the Cavendish Laboratory during the 
Long Vacation, beginning July 5. 
NO. 1546, VOL. 60] 
The Council of the Senate propose to expend 125/. in pre- 
paring an appropriate exhibit for the Educational Exhibitions 
to be held in London and in Paris in 1900. 
The accommodation in the new chemical laboratory is already 
insufficient for the numbers seeking instruction, and it is accord- 
ingly proposed to expend 609/. in adapting the attic story as an 
additional laboratory for elementary students, 
The Senior Wranglership this year is divided between Mr. 
G. Birtwistle, of Pembroke, and Mr. R. P. Paranjpye, of St. 
John’s. Pembroke has had no Senior Wrangler since Sir George 
Stokes in 1841, and does well thus to mark the year of his 
jubilee as Lucasian Professor. Mr. Paranjpye is a Mahratta 
student, who gained numerous distinctions in the University of 
Bombay before coming to Cambridge: he is the first native 
of India who has attained the highest mathematical honours. 
There are forty names (including two ladies) in the list of 
Wranglers, indicating that the ‘‘ year” is a strong one. 
In Part II., Messrs. Hudson, of St. John’s, and Cameron, 
of Caius, are alone in the First Class (first division). These 
were senior and second Wranglers respectively in 1898. Miss 
F. E, Cave-Browne-Cave, of Girton, appears in the third 
division of the First Class. 
In the Mechanical Sciences Tripos, Part I., six students 
have attained the First Class. In Part II. Mr. B. W. Head, 
of Emmanuel, has the First Class to himself. Mr. H. E. 
Wimperis, of Caius, has in the same Tripos qualified for his 
degree as an ‘‘advanced student.” 
Mr. J. E. Marr, F.R.S., of St. John’s, is appointed a member 
of the General Board of Studies, in place of Dr. Langley, 
resigned. 
Dr. D. MacAlister, Mr. C. E. Grant, and Mr. C. Warburton 
are appointed members of the new Board of Agricultural Studies. 
WE learn from Sczence that Dr. C. E. Beecher, professor of 
historical geography in Yale University, has been appointed to 
succeed the late Prof. O. C. Marsh as Curator of the geological 
collections of the Peabody Museum. 
Tue Education Department has received from Berne an an- 
nouncement that an educational exhibition will be held in that 
city next autumn. The authorities organising the exhibition 
will welcome exhibits illustrating education in this country. 
Communications from those willing to take part in the exhi- 
bition should be addressed to the Director, Schweizerische Per- 
manente Schulausstellung, Berne, from whom further particulars 
can be obtained. 
WITH a view to assisting teachers of schools and classes to 
acquaint themselves with the methods and principles of natural 
science, especially as bearing upon aspects of school and class 
work, the Technical Instruction Committee of the Liverpool 
City Council have made arrangements with Prof. W. A. Herd- 
man, F_R.S., Professor of Zoology at University College, to 
give a short course of lectures and laboratory demonstrations on 
the study of natural history. 
Ir has already been pointed out in these columns that the ap- 
pointment of particular authorities to be responsible for technical 
and secondary education within their districts will reduce the over- 
lapping which at present exists in many places. The London 
County Council was recently appointed as the sole authority to dis- 
tribute the Science and Art grant in London, and as such it has 
taken exception to certain items of expenditure by the London 
School Board on technical or secondary education, on such lines 
as to compete injuriously with similar work in the Council’s 
polytechnics and institutes in the same districts. The Zimes 
reports that the Local Government Board auditor has now ruled 
that such expenditure by the School Board is illegal, and can 
only be carried through as financial aid from the County Council. 
It is stated that the London School Board will appeal against 
this decision. Meantime, it is understood that the ruling will 
apply, not only to the London Board, but also to other School 
Boards throughout the country. 
SOME statistics relating to engineering education are given by 
Dr. M. E. Wadsworth in a paper published in the Zransactions 
of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Engineering 
education in the United States has been, on the whole, a thing 
of comparatively recent date—the pioneer schools being the 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, established in 1824 ; the Law- 
rence Scientific School, dating from 1846; and the Sheffield 
School, from 1847. But little further prominent work was done 
until 1863, when the Columbia School of Mines was established 
and followed rapidly by numerous other engineering schools, 
