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BONAPARTE FOUNDATION. 
The committee has had to examine thirteen requests 
for grants from the Bonaparte Fund. The following 
grants are recommended :—(1) Charles Alluard (4000 
francs), for continuing the publication, in conjunction 
with R. Jeannel, of the scientific results of three 
expeditions in eastern Africa (1903 to 1912). 
(2) M. Bondroit (2000 francs), for collecting the 
material in France necessary for the constitution of a 
fauna of French ants. , 
(3) Pierre Lesage (2500 frances), for the continuation 
of his experiments on the plants of the coast zone, and 
in particular his researches on the transmissibility of 
the characters acquired by plants watered with salt 
water. 
(4) The Touring Club de France (3000 francs), to 
contribute to the establishment of the new botanic 
garden at Lautarel (Hautes-Alpes), 
(5) Camille Sauvageau (3000 francs), for extending 
to the species of Laminaria of the Mediterranean and 
the Channel the remarkable discoveries of the author 
on the development of a single species which grows 
in the Bay of Biscay. 
(6) Em. Vigouroux (2000 francs), to contribute to 
the purchase of apparatus useful for the continuation 
of his interesting researches on the state of silicon 
dissolved in metals. 
_%) Raoul Bayeux (2000 frances), to aid him in con- 
tinuing his researches on the physiological effects and 
the therapeutics of hypodermic injections of gaseous 
oxygen. The author proposes to study experimentally 
the action of hypodermic oxygenation on the defensive 
reactions of the organism against asphyxia and: against 
infections. : ares 
(8) Joseph Lais, as a contribution to the expense 
of photogravures relating to the photographic chart 
of the heavens, the copper-plates to become the pro- 
perty of the Paris Observatory. 
The committee has in reserve, 
these grants, 55,000 francs. 
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UNIVERSITY AND .- EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
Tue fifth election to Beit Fellowships for Scientific 
Research will take place on or about July 15, Not 
more than three fellowships will be awarded. Appli- 
cations must be received on or before April 16. Forms 
of application and all information may be obtained, 
by letter only, addressed to the Rector, Imperial Col- 
lege, South Kensington, London, S.W. 
Dr. W. H. Hapow, Principal of Armstrong College, 
Newcastle, and Vice-Chancellor of Durham Univer- 
sity, has been appointed a member of the committee 
to consider and report on: the scheme of examination 
for Class I. of the Home Civil Service in lieu of Mr. 
H. A. L. Fisher, who has found it necessary to resign 
membership of the committee on assuming the duties 
of the President of the Board of Education. 
‘“ Epucation in the Universities after the War” is 
the subject of a lecture to be delivered by the Master 
of Balliol next Tuesday evening, at 5 o'clock, at the 
meeting-room of the Society of Antiquaries, Burling- 
ton House, Piccadilly. Mr. Fisher, Minister of Edu- 
cation, will preside. The lecture will be one ofa series 
on * Reconstruction,” to be given every Tuesday during 
January and February. Applications for reserved seats 
may be made to the hon. secretary, United Workers 
175 Piccadilly, W. i 4 
_Own December 15 last the degree of Doctor of Medi- 
cine honoris causa was conferred by Malta University 
on Col. Ch. A. Ballance, C.B., M.V.O.. Col. Wm. 
Thorburn, C.B., Col. Arch, E. Garrod, C.M.G., F.R.S., 
NO. 2463, VOL. 98] 
after payment of 
and Col. Howard H. Tooth, C.M.G. -Lord Methuen, the 
Governor of Malta, presided, and a Latin address was 
delivered by Prof. A. Bartoli, and a speech made by 
the rector, Prof. E. Magro. In this concluding re- 
marks Lord Methuen said Col. Ballance had been in 
Malta from the time the hospitals were started, Col. 
Thorburn arrived shortly after, and, together with 
Col. Garrod and Col. .Tooth, they had rendered ser- 
vices to the patients that could not be over-estimated.. 
Tue shortage of colour sensitisers for photographic 
plates, and the difficulties thereby incurred in the 
colour-printing trade, are affording another example of 
the fact that when the requisite stimulus is applied 
the chemical resources of the country are quite able to 
meet industrial needs. : The Leeds Education Com- 
mittee, through its Technical School, having become 
aware of the situation-in the colour-printing. trade, 
approached the Leeds University, and the work of 
supplying the necessary ‘sensitisers has been taken in 
hand under a joint scheme of research. A preliminary 
report gives a full description of the preparation of two 
dyes, formocyanine and tolucyanine, which are stated 
to be identical in their sensitising powers with those’ 
of the German products hitherto used. The work is 
being continued. 
Tue School of Oriental Studies at the London Insti- 
tution is, we learn from the Times, to be formally 
opened by the King near the end of next month, but 
classes will begin on January 18. A preliminary an- 
nouncement which has been circulated states that at - 
the outset teaching will be provided in seven groups of 
languages, comprising twenty different tongues; but it 
is hoped at an early date to extend the scope of the 
school. Courses on the history, religion, and customs 
of Oriental and African countries will form a special 
feature in the teaching of the school. The Senate of 
the University of London has assented to the transfer 
to the school of the teachers in the Oriental depart- 
ments at University and. King’s Colleges, excluding 
certain subjects, such as Egyptology, Assyriology, and 
Hebrew. The Oriental staffs have accordingly been 
transferred to the school. but since the teaching at the 
colleges has been on a restricted scale numerous addi- 
tional appointments have been made. The school is 
intended to provide London with a centre for Oriental 
teaching adequate to the needs of the metropolis and 
of the Empire. and one that will remove the reproach 
that London has hitherto been without an Oriental 
School comparable with those of Paris, Petrograd, and 
Berlin. 
Unpver the will of the late Miss A. F. Yule, the 
daughter of the late Sir Henry Yule, the house and 
rrounds of Tarradale, or Taradale, in the county of 
Ross and Cromarty, where Sir Roderick Murchison 
was born in 1792, are left in trust ‘‘to be preserved 
for ever to the use and enjoyment of my countrymen 
under the style and title of the Murchison of Taradale 
Memorial.”” The executors are left a wide discretion 
in interpreting the objects of the testatrix, but the 
idea expressed is that the house, with all its contents, 
including a library extending to more than 20,000 
volumes, should form ‘ta place of rest and refresh- 
ment for poor scholars or other students, preferentially, 
but not exclusively, those no longer young.” and pre- 
ferably also of Scottish birth or descent. If funds do 
not permit otherwise, the house may only be kent open 
for three or four months in the year. The desire is 
also expressed that the grounds of Tarradale House 
should form a sanctuary or reserve for the preserva- 
tion of the wild life of the Highlands, more especially” 
for wild birds, and the trustees are given power to 
lend the house and grounds to any one or more of 
the Scottish universities, for a limited period, for pur- 
poses of scientific research, exclusive of experiments 
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