JUNE 29, 1899] 
The following diagram will, however, represent approximately | 
the variation, which amounted to nearly one and a half seconds 
in the rotation period :— 
My observation of 1898 November 29 was probably not very 
accurate, as the planet was low and very faint in the fog 
which prevailed. It is, however, in part confirmed by an 
observation obtained by Prof. G. W. Hough in 1898 December 
10, who found the spot in the computed position, and saw no 
indication of the accelerated rate, which soon afterwards began 
to operate. In preparing the diagram I have, however, pre- 
ferred to think that my autumn observation was a little late, 
as this requires a less sudden and extreme variation in the 
motion of the spot. This object should be carefully watched 
until the close of the present opposition, and the times of its 
transit secured on all possible occasions, There will be little 
difficulty in continuing observations until the end of August. If 
the red spot itself is not sufficiently distinct to be well observed 
when presented on the central meridian, transits of the middle 
of the hollow or bay in the southern side of the south equatorial 
belt will answer the purpose equally well. 
Since the spot became a very prominent feature in 1878 it has | 
exhibited an increasing rate of rotation, the period rising from | 
gh. 55m. 37s. to gh. 55m. 42s. This increase has not been per- 
NATURE 
PHA 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
CAMBRIDGE.—The Harkness Studentship in Geology has 
been awarded to Mr. A. L. Hall, Caius, first class in Natural 
Science Tripos, Part II., 1899. 
The following College awards in 
announced :— 
Clare: Scholarships to Cassidy, Goodchild, and F. G. Smith ; 
Exhibition to H. B. Jackson. 
Trinity Hall: Scholarship to H. S, Newbould, 
King’s: Scholarship to Barger; Exhibitions to Kewley, 
Natural Science are 
| Mollison, Matthews, and Cartwright. 
Emmanuel: Exhibitions to Walker, Heaton, Nixon, Sutton, 
Austin. 
Mr. G. T. Bennett (Senior Wrangler 1890) has been elected a 
Senior Fellow, and Mr. H. S. Carslaw (Fourth Wrangler 1894) 
a Junior Fellow, at Emmanuel College. 
At the beginning of the Michaelmas term, the General Board 
will proceed to elect a University Lecturer in Physical Anthro- 
pology for five years, with a stipend of 50/7. a year. Names 
must be sent in to the Vice-Chancellor by September 30. 
At Caius College, E. P. Widdicombe (Downing) and H. E. 
Wimperis have been elected to Salomons Engineering Scholar- 
ships, and R. H. Yapp (St. John’s) to a Frank Smart Student- 
ship for Botany. 
At Christ’s College, Scholarships for Natural Science have 
been awarded or continued to Hocking, Howlett, Brown, 
Gottschalk, Leake, Hoffmann, Fox, Muff, and Cumberlidge. 
At Sidney Sussex College, Science Scholarships have been 
awarded to Bullough, Coales, Colt, Fearnsides, Fyson, and 
Stenhouse. 
Sir W. T. THISELTON-DveEr, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., has been 
elected to an honorary studentship at Christ Church, Oxford. 
Dr. MaGnus MAc EAN has been elected Professor of Elec- 
trical Engineering in the Glasgow and West of Scotland 
Technical College. 
Pror. Frep W. McNair has been elected president of the 
Michigan College of Mines. Prof. McNair has been for some 
years in charge of the department of mathematics and physics. 
Pror. A. R. ForsyTu, F.R.S., Sadlerian professor of pure 
mathematics in the University of Cambridge, has had the 
| honorary degree of LL.D. conferred upon him by the University 
of Dublin. 
fectly regular, for the motion has shown many irregularities 
similar to that which affected it during the past winter. 
doubt the time will come when the maximum rate will be 
reached, to be followed thereafter by a marked shortening of | 
the period. This appears to have been the case in 1859, and 
there is indication that the cycle of variations extends over 
a period of about 484 years; if so, we cannot expect a decided 
acceleration in the mean rate of the spot until the year 1907 or 
1908. 
There is every prospect that in a few years we shall be much 
better acquainted with the surface phenomena of Jupiter, and the 
variations affecting them, than we are at the present time. A 
very large number of useful observations were obtained in 1898, 
and many more are being secured during the present year. 
Observers are now generally recognising the necessity of 
accumulating observations of all the visible details of the sur- 
face, and determining the velocities of the various and varying 
currents in which they are situated. 
The planet has recently afforded a singularly abundant dis- 
play of spots and irregularities. Dark and white masses of 
material are thickly arranged near the equator, and from a 
partial investigation these appear to be moving rather slower 
than in 1898, the rate being now gh. 50m. 25s., as against 9h. 
50m. 234s. during the previous opposition. A considerable 
number of white and dark spots are also distributed along the 
northern edge of the northern equatorial belt, which give a 
period slightly less than that of the red spot, but some of these 
markings are moving much more rapidly than others. The 
quickest of all is a small dark spot now in long. 145°, which has 
given a period of gh. 55m. 15s., or about 27 seconds less than 
that of the red spot. In other latitudes a vast amount of detail 
is exhibited, and it is fortunate that the planet is being so 
sedulously studied by Mr. A. S. Williams, Prof. Hough, Mr. 
Gledhill, the Rev. T. E. R. Phillips, Captain Molesworth, and 
other able observers. W. F. DENNING. 
NO. 1548, VOL. 60] 
No | 
Tue London School of Economics and Political Science, 10 
| Adelphi Terrace, W.C., offers the following research student- 
ships, which will be awarded on examination in July : (1) One 
of 1007. a year, for two years, presented by the Hon. Bertrand 
Russell, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. (2) One of 50/. 
a year, for twoyears. (3) The ‘‘ Lucy Rose” studentship of 50/. 
a year, for two years, presented by Mr. Edward Rose—open to 
women students only. Preference will be given to a woman 
student sprung from the working classes. The studentships are 
intended to enable students to become trained investigators, and 
to promote the execution of definite pieces of original work re- 
lating either to past or present economic or political conditions. 
Tue Zimes states that the Association o: Directors and 
Organising Secretaries for Technical and Secondary Education 
have addressed a memorial to the Government with regard to 
the alteration made in the Board of Education Bill in the Stand- 
ing Committee of the House of Lords at the instance of Lord 
Spencer. The association entreat the Government to induce 
the House of Commons to restore Clause 3 (1) to its original 
shape, on the ground that the term ‘‘ school supplying second- 
ary education” (used in that clause) is a very wide one, and, if 
interpreted in the light of the report of the Royal Commission 
on Secondary Education, must include polytechnics, higher grade 
schools, science schools, art schools, commercial schools, and 
agricultural schools. These, it is submitted, are the very types 
of schools which are being founded or developed all over the 
kingdom by the county councils, which supply the pressing in- 
dustrial needs of the day, and demand that guidance and 
encouragement which it is the object of the Bill to supply. 
THE second reading of the Board of Education Bill was 
agreed to by the House of Commons on Monday. Sir John 
| Gorst, in moving the second reading, explained that the object 
| of the Bill is to enable the Government to create a department 
