82 ‘NATURE 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
‘INTELLIGENCE. 
Lonpon.—At University College a public lecture—the 
first of a series of six—will be delivered by. Prof. J. A. 
Fleming on ‘Long-distance Telegraphy and Tele- 
phony,”’ on Wednesday, October 18, at 5.30 p.m. Prof. 
J. Norman Collie, director of the chemical laboratories, 
will give a lecture on Tuesday, October 31, at 5.30 
p-m., on ‘The Scientific Work of Sir William Ram- 
Mr. A. L. MacAutray, a son of Prof. A. MacAulay, 
has been appointed demonstrator in physics in the 
University of Melbourne. 
THE next election to Beit Memorial Fellowships for 
Medical Research (of which there will not be more 
than ten awards) will take place on or before January 1, 
1917. Applications must reach the hon. secretary, Beit 
Memorial Fellowships for Medical Research, 35 Clarges 
Street, W., on or before October 15. 
A series of popular lectures on ‘‘ The Tropical Coun- 
tries of the Empire,” illustrated by the collections of 
the Imperial Institute, will be delivered by Miss Edith 
A. Browne on Wednesdays in October, November, 
and December, at the Imperial Institute, at 3 o’clock, 
commencing on Wednesday, October 4. Admission to 
the series of lectures will be free by ticket, for which 
application should be made to the director of the 
Imperial Institute, South Kensington. 
Ir is announced in the issue of Science for Septem- 
ber 8 that a recommendation that a fund of more than 
600,000l. for the treatment of cancerous, nervous, and 
disabling ailments be given to the University of Penn- 
sylvania Hospital has ‘been’ made by Dr. W. H. Smith, 
superintendent of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti- 
more, who was selecte| by the trustees of the fund 
to visit Philadelphia and make a survey of its hos- 
pitals and medical work and give his opinion as to 
where the fortune would work the greatest benefit. 
The fund is the estate and its increment willed for 
the purpose by the late Anna J. Jeanes, a noted Friend 
philanthropist, who died in 1908. 
Tue governing body of the Northampton Polytechnic 
Institute, Clerkenwell, E.C., is not this year publish- 
ing the usual annual issue of its ‘“‘ Announcements,” 
but will start and carry through during the current 
session as many of the courses and classes announced 
for last year as may be justified by the applications 
for enrolment received at the commencement of the 
session. It is hoped that day and evening courses 
will be held in civil, mechanical, and electrical en- 
gineering, in technical optics, and in horology. The 
engineering courses include subsections in automobile 
work, aeronautics, and radio-telegraphy. In addition 
there are to be evening courses in electrochemistry, 
metallurgy, and domestic economy. 
THE instruction given in the evening courses in 
technology in the University of Leeds, a prospectus 
of which for the current session has been received, 
are. co-ordinated with the city scheme for evening 
instruction, and Leeds students under twenty-two years 
of age are required to produce certificates of satisfac- 
tory attendance at preparatory classes, or give evidence 
of adequate preparation. Advanced _ technological 
courses are held at the University in civil, mechanical, 
and electrical engineering, coal-mining, textile indus- 
tries, tinctorial chemistry and dyeing, leather indus- 
tries, and geology. The University of Leeds, .too, 
works in co-operation with the Bradford Technical Col- 
lege, from. which we have also received a prospectus 
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[SEPTEMBER 28, 1916 
and time-table.. Senior day students of the chemistry 
and dyeing department of the Bradford College may 
attend without. payment of fee certain lecture courses 
at the University. University students may similarly 
attend for work in the college practical dye-house and 
finishing shed. Third-year stifdents of engineering in 
the college may attend the University engineering 
laboratory for work on the refrigerator plant, air- 
compressor, and hydraulic installation without pay- 
ment; and University students may similarly attend 
for work in the college power-house. a 
A MEETING of the Committee for the Management of 
the British Prisoners of War Book Scheme was held 
on Friday last “at Whitehall, when the following 
officers were elected :—Chairman, Mr. A. T. Davies — 
(Board of Education); treasurer, Rear-Admiral J. F. 
Parry, C.B., hydrographer to the Navy. 
ment of a secretary was held over. A_ gratifying, 
report was read from the principal examiner to the 
Board of Trade (Marine Department) on the result 
of the recent examinations held at the camp at Gron-. 
ingen, in Holland. Evidence is also coming to hand 
from camps as far distant as Asia Minor of consider- 
able development in the organisation of educational. 
work among the men. interned there. From these 
camps a continuous stream of applications for books 
for serious study was reported to the committee, who 
expressed the hope that the public will continue, by 
offers of suitable books (new or second-hand), to sup- 
port a war charity the need for which was daily 
becoming more and more evident and the machinery 
of which was being increasingly taken advantage of 
by the friends and relatives of prisoners in all parts 
of the British Empire. Further particulars respecting 
this war charity and its work can be obtained on 
application:to Mr. A. T. Davies, at the Board of 
Education, Whitehall. London, S.W. All communica- 
tions should have the words “Prisoners of War” 
written in the left-hand corner of the envelope. 
Sir CHARLES WAKEFIELD, Lord Mayor of London, 
announces that the council of the Lord Kitchener 
National Memorial Fund has resolved to found a number 
of scholarships which will enable young Britons destined 
for a commercial career to travel, study, and gain’ 
business experience in the countries of the Allied 
nations—viz. France, Russia, Italy, Japan, Belgium, 
Rumania, Portugal, and Serbia. The scholarships will 
be continued from year to year for all time, and will 
be of the annual value of about 1501. each. They 
will be for the sons of deceased and disabled officers 
and men of the Navy and Army, and young men from 
eighteen to twenty-five years of age who have served 
with the Forces. The intention is that those elected 
to hold scholarships should begin their studies almost 
immediately, that they should receive instruction (a) 
in Russian, French, Italian, and other languages; 
(b) in economics; (c) in business principles and busi- 
ness methods (in offices or factories as circumstances 
may determine), and that immediately at the close of 
the war they should be sent for a year to travel in 
one or other of the Allied countries and to continue 
their studies in that country with the view of gaining 
(1) a close familiarity with its language, and (2) an 
intimate knowledge of its commercial methods, needs, 
and opportunities. In developing this scheme the 
council is being advised by business men and educa- 
tional experts, so that in the end it may be carried 
through with the highest degree of efficiency. Con- 
tributions towards the fund necessary to establish 
the scheme on a sound footing without delay ‘should 
be sent to the Lord Kitchener National Memorial — 
Fund, Mansion House, London. Envelopes should be 
marked “Kitchener Scholarshios.”’ ; ; 
The appoint- 
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