_ DEcEMBER 21, 1916] 
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Notices of the work of Morgan W. Crofton, W. H. H. 
Hudson, Benjamin Williamson have already appeared 
in the Proceedings. In Sir James Stirling, Senior 
Wrangler of 1860, lately Lord Justice of Appeal, we 
have lost another of the survivors of our early -days, 
whose interest in our science never flagged, whose 
mathematical training and gifts were the foundation 
of a legal and judicial eminence not often arising in a 
eration. In William Esson, Savilian professor, and 
au Griffith we have lost two Oxford mathematicians 
long connected with us. Though F. W. Frankland, 
an early member, had passed out of sight owing to 
distance of domicile, his combination of mathematical 
and philosophical interests had not become dormant. 
I may be permitted to add the name of John Henry 
Poynting; though his life-work attached him to sister 
societies, his wide physical outlook, combined with 
mental exactness and penetration, has made for him 
an enduring name in mathematical, as well as experi- 
mental, physics. 
It is our pride and sad privilege to recall the names 
of the cultivators of our science who, in response to 
their country’s appeal in time of national peril, have 
already laid down their lives on her behalf. In E. K. 
Wakeford, scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, not a 
few of us had recognised a future leader in geometrical 
science. A’‘colleague mote senior and more widely known, 
S. B. McLaren, professor of mathematics at Reading, 
coming from Australia, and taking a high degree at 
Cambridge, had become a learned and philosophical 
inquirer in the difficult domain of statistical molecular 
dynamics and the relations of the ather to material 
systems; the work which formed the basis of the 
recent award of an Adams prize may remain, I fear, 
unpublished in any finally revised form. We are 
entitled also to recall the name of H. G, J. Moseley, 
who, though he would not have claimed to be a 
mathematician, had in a brief and brilliant career at 
Oxford and Manchester. contributed fundamentally to 
the data of the mathematical physics of the future, by 
revealing the earliest universal and unmistakably quan- 
titative relation in the fascinating domain of the cor- 
relations of the chemical elements. 
. Such heavy sacrifices of colleagues who. could so ill 
be spared we must deeply deplore, but not as if they 
were made in vain. May we not detect beyond them, 
and on account of them, the promise of nobler and 
more disinterested times, when the vast destruction 
of perishable material resources will be far more than 
compensated in the remembrance of the heroism of the 
youth of our generation, and in the gain in moral and 
‘intellectual wealth that it will stimulate as an abiding 
possession ? 
The world’s great age begins anew, 
‘The golden years return. 
The Earth doth like a snake renew 
Her winter weeds outworn. 
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A brighter Hellas rears its mountains 
From waves serener far: 
A new Peneus ro:ls his fountains 
Against the morning star. 
_ UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
: INTELLIGENCE. 
Lonpon.—The title of emeritus professor of physics 
in the University of London has been conferred by the 
Senate on Dr. F. T. Trouton, who held the Quain 
chair of physics at University College from 1902 to 
1907, and after the incorporation of the college held 
it in the University from 1907 to 1915. 
The. following doctorates have been conferred :—In 
anthropology, Mr. B. G. Malinowski, an internal 
student, of .the London School of Economics, for a 
thesis entitled ‘‘The Natives of Mailu’’; in botany, 
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Mr. F. J. F. Shaw, an internal student, of the Impe+ 
rial College of Science and Technology (Royal College 
of Science), for a thesis consisting of five papers on 
mycology; in economics, Miss E. D. Proud, an in- 
ternal student, of the London School of Economics, 
for a thesis entitled ‘‘ Welfare Work: Employers’ 
Experiments for Improving Working Conditions in 
Factories’’; in physics, Mr. David Owen, an external 
student, for a thesis consisting of two papers on 
“Solid Rectifying Contacts,’ and subsidiary contribu- 
tions; in psychology, Mr. G. H. Miles, an external 
student, for a thesis entitled ‘‘ Preference and Affec- 
tive Influence as Factors in Recall,’ and subsidiary 
contributions; in engineering, Mr. N. W. McLachlan, 
an external student, for a thesis entitled ‘‘ Magnetic 
Properties of Iron,” and subsidiary contributions. 
Ir is announced that friends of the University Col- 
lege of Wales, Aberystwyth, have expressed their in- 
tention of contributing 100,o00l. to the funds of the 
college, subject to a reservation of their right to make 
proposals to the council as to either the capital or the 
income. , 
Tuer governors of the Royal Technical College, 
Glasgow, at the request of certain donors, offer prizes, 
amounting to 7ol., for essays on the best methods of 
training and employing in industries, other than agri- 
culture, returned soldiers and sailors, maimed or other- 
wise. The prizes will be awarded by a committee of 
the governors, and may be withheld in the event of 
no essay of sufficient merit being submitted. Essays 
must be sent in not later than March 1, 1917, addressed 
to the director, the Royal Technical College, Glasgow. 
WE learn from the issue of Science for November 17 
that the General Education Board and the Rockefeller 
Foundation have each granted 200,000. for the estab- 
lishment of a medical department in the University 
of Chicago. This gift brings Mr. Rockefeller’s con- 
tributions to the University up to nearly 7,400,000l. 
The University will set aside at least 400,o00l. for the 
same purpose, will give a site valued at 100,000l., 
and will raise a further sum of 660,o00l. The medical 
school will therefore start with an endowment of some 
1,600,000l. } 
Ar the request of the Right Hon. A. Henderson, 
when. President of the Board of Education, the Royal 
Drawing Society has presented to the Committee on 
| the Teaching of Science a memorial setting forth the 
value to the ‘scientific worker of drawing and the 
cognate crafts, and the need for including drawing as 
an integral part of general education. This, the society 
maintains, is best accomplished, not by special classes, 
but by encouraging the faculty which is manifested 
in nearly all children, and by making it a natural 
mode of expression in the various branches of school 
work, e.g. history, geography, nature-study, and 
physical science. The memorial is signed by H.R.H: 
the Princess Louise, as president, and by many dis- 
tinguished workers in pure and applied science, some 
of whom are members of the society’s council. In 
connection with the Conference of Educational Asso- 
ciations, the society has arranged a discussion on the 
subject, with lantern illustrations, at the University of 
London, on January 1, at 5.30 p.m. Among the 
speakers will be Dr. P. S. Abraham, Dr. F. A. Bather, 
Mr. J. P. Maginnis, and Mr. Ablett. 
Tue first meeting of the Senate of the new Univer- 
sity. of Mysore was held on October 12. The pro- 
ceedings are reported in the Educational Review 
(Madras) for October. In 1913-14 two educational 
officers of the State studied modern university condi- 
tions in foreign countries; a draft scheme drawn up 
in November last year embodied the joint views of the 
