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Government of India, the deputation, and various 
public officials; in April last a committee was ap- 
pointed to give effect to the draft scheme, and the 
Bill to establish and incorporate a university in Mysore 
was unanimously passed last July. There are at pre- 
sent two constituent colleges, the Maharaja’s College 
at Mysore and the Central College at Bangalore. De- 
grees (B.A. and B.Sc.) may be obtained after a con- 
tinuous three-years’ course, and a course leading to 
a degree in teaching is to be established in the near 
future. There are 890 students under university super- 
vision, and there are twenty-two professors or assistant- 
professors. The new University is the first offshoot 
of the University at Madras, and it is foreshadowed 
that other universities may be founded at Travancore 
and Hyderabad. A scheme of university extension 
work is under consideration... The Chancellor, H.H. 
the Maharaja, in his speech, stated that the new Uni- 
versity was the first to be established outside the limits 
of British India. © 
Tue ‘‘ Handbook” of the West Riding of Yorkshire 
Education Committee is published in parts, which 
deal respectively with the various grades of education 
aided by the committee. The pamphlet numbered 
Section X. of Part II. gives full particulars of the 
scholarships and exhibitions to be offered in 1917 for 
the pursuit of higher education, The committee ap- 
pears to have made provision for the needs of every 
class of student in the area over which it presides. 
Among the scholarships and exhibitions offered may 
be noticed the fourteen county major scholarships of 
the estimated value of 6ol. to 65/1. per annum to be 
held at universities, university colleges, or other insti- 
tutions of higher education; the four county techno- 
logical scholarships of the value of 6ol. per annum; 
and others of the value of sol, or less, tenable for day 
courses ‘or for combined day and evening courses at 
institutions where higher technical instruction is car- 
ried on, and intended for young workmen having three 
years’ general practical experience in an occupation ; 
the county scholarships for women to enable them, for 
example, to be trained in midwifery and nursing, 
horticulture, and other vocations; the county agricul- 
tural exhibitions; and the travelling scholarships 
awarded as occasion may arise. Full particulars of 
the scholarship scheme may be obtained from the 
Education Department, County Hall, Wakefield. 
SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 
Lonpon. 
Royal Society, December 7.—Sir J. J. Thomson, 
president, in the chair.—J. T. Carter: The cyto- 
morphosis of the marsupial enamel-organ and its sig- 
nificance in relation to the structure of the completed 
enamel.—Margaret Tribe: The development of the 
pancreas: the pancreatic and hepatic ducts in Tricho- 
surus vulpecula. The history of the three pancreatic 
primordia has been followed out in detail. Their 
development is traced through the earlier stages where 
the three are separate from one another; through the 
later stages where fusion has occurred, but where the 
primordia are still individually recognisable, up to the 
late pouch-foetus in which the identification of the 
various component parts of the gland is still possible. 
—H. J. Watt: The typical form of the cochlea and its 
variations. The data and conclusions may be summed 
up by saying that the cochlea is built according to a 
constant plan, of which the scale alone varies from 
case to case. This scale shows a decidedly high cor- 
relation with the size of the organism as a whole. A 
change of scale will obviously alter all the dimensions 
recorded except the number of whorls. But even that 
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searches on the belemnite animal. 
number, when it varies independently, does not alter i 
The only other 
the other dimensions of the cochlea. 
variant thus far detected is the rate of curvature of 
the spiral, which is greater in the bigger scale organs. 
—Dr. A. D. Imms: The structure and biology of 
Archotermopsis, together with descriptions of new 
species of intestinal protozoa, and general observations 
on the Isoptera. Archotermopsis wroughtoni, Desn., 
is exclusively confined to coniferous forests in the — 
N.W. Himalaya, and lives in dead timber, no true 
nest being constructed. The queen exhibits no indica- 
tions of degeneration or increase of size common to 
most species of Termitidae. True workers are absent, 
but gynzecoid, egg-laying, worker-like forms occur. 
The soldiers are remarkable in retaining the external 
secondary sexual characters, and the gonads in this 
caste, and in the worker-like forms also, are fully 
developed. Abundant protozoa occur in the large in- 
testine of the ‘sterile’ castes and nymphs, they are 
scarce in the winged forms, and absent in the queens 
and young larvae. These organisms usually have been 
regarded as parasites, but it appears more probable’ 
that they are symbiotic in their relations to their hosts, 
By breaking down ligneous matter they contribute 
towards the digestion of the latter by the Termites. 
Polymorphism ,in Termitidz is not adequately ex- 
plained on the grounds of special nutrition, nor does 
the theory of ‘castration parasitaire’’ account for the 
observed facts. The Mendelian inheritance of muta- 
tions appears to offer a reasonable solution of several 
of the outstanding difficulties associated with poly- 
morphism and the inheritance of germinal characters 
in sterile castes. Archotermopsis is one of the most 
primitive of the Termitidae, and its structure and bio- 
nomics throw light upon important biological 
problems.—J. J. Guest and F. C. Lea: Torsional 
hysteresis of mild steel. In this paper a series of 
experiments is described which show that, when mild 
steel is subjected to a torsional reversal of stress, the 
material does not follow Hooke’s law, and that there 
is a distinct stress-strain hysteresis loop even for com- 
paratively small ranges of stress. 
Physical Society, November 24.—Prof. C. V. Boys, 
president, in the chair.—H. R. Nettleton : The measure- 
ment of the Thomson effect in wires. The paper de- 
scribes how absolute measurements of the Thomson 
effect may be made in wires. The theory is fully 
worked out, and the sources of error likely to arise— 
especially owing to the smallness of the area of cross- 
section—are considered. The method is sensitive, con- 
sistent, and very rapid; its ultimate object is to deter- 
mine the Thomson effect at different temperatures in 
a number of metals, both rare and base, at the same 
time, and with the same specimens, finding their 
thermo-electric powers.—C. R. Darling and A, W. 
Grace : The thermo-electric properties of fused metals. 
One of the authors has for some time been investigat-— 
ing the possibility of using base metal thermo-couples 
at temperatures above the melting point of one of the 
constituents. For this purpose it was necessary to 
determine whether any peculiarities in the thermo- 
electric behaviour of metals occur at fusion. In the 
case of lead. tin, zinc, and cadmium there is no per- 
ceptible break in the continuity of the curves obtained. 
In couples containing bismuth, however, several cases 
were noted in which the E.M.F. remained constant for 
a wide range of temperature after the fusion of the 
bismuth. This occurs with silver, aluminium, iron, 
or nichrom as the other element. Useful applications 
of this property are discussed, 
Geological Society, December 6.—Dr. Alfred Harker, 
president, in the chair.—G. C. Crick: Recent re- 
Attention was con- 
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