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[May 1, 1902 
summit.” Concerning the Kangchenjunga glaciers, Mr. Fresh- 
field says, ‘‘ Four glaciers radiate from the peak, pointing 
roughly to the north-east, south-east, north-west and south- 
west. Those are the}Zemu Glacier, eighteen miles long, and 
the Talung Glacier, both draining to the Teesta, the Kangchen 
Glacier, fifteen miles long, and Yalung Glacier, both draining 
to the Arun and the Khosi. The forked spurs that protrude 
south and west from Kangchenjunga, dominated respectively by 
Kabru and Jannu, enclose in the first case the Alukthang 
glaciers, united not long ago ina single stream and now divided | 
by little more than their moraines, and the southern glaciers of | 
Kabru, which fall into a separate glen; in the second case, | 
three considerable ice-streams, one of which almost meets the | 
Kangchen Glacier at its lower extremity, the second builds | 
across the valley, out of the rockfalls of the tremendous cliffs of 
Jannu which encompass its source, a remarkable wall of moraine 
stuff, similar to those of the Allalein, or the Brenva in the Alps, 
Wig 1.—Kanbachen in Nepal, with Jannu and the Dyke of the Jannu Glacier. 
while a third fills a glen the stream from which joins the 
Kangchen torrent at Khunza.” 
Mr. Freshfield was accompanied by Prof. Garwood, Signor 
Vittorio Sella and his brother, and Mr. Dover, now road in- 
spector at Sikhim, with an Alpine guide. Prof. Garwood 
devoted much labour to the compilation of a photo-topographic 
map of the region, which is to be published in an early number 
of the Geographical Journal, and is described by Mr. Freshfield 
as a ‘‘ specimen of the right method to delineate glaciers.” The 
paper is illustrated by a number of photographs taken by Prof. 
Garwood and Signor Sella. The specimen we reproduce repre- 
sents Jannu and the dyke of the Jannu Glacier as seen from 
Kanbachen. The ice crosses the valley at right-angles, over a 
great dyke of moraine débris, and the torrent from the higher 
valleys is squeezed against the western hill. There was at one 
time a lake above the moraine dyke. The cause of the ex- 
ceptionally large amount of moraine material is the great height 
NO. 1696, VOL. 66] 
and extent of the cliffs surrounding the head of the glacier. 
The glacier is now in retreat ; the ice has sunk somewhat and 
the lateral moraines appear above it. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
THE installation of the Prince of Wales as Chancellor of the 
University of Wales will take place at the University College, 
Bangor, on May 9. 
Lorn RoseBeEry has been formally nominated as Chancellor 
of the University of London, in succession to the late Lord 
Kimberley. As no other nomination has been made, he will 
be elected by Convocation at the meeting to be held on May 13. 
TueE London School Board, and the School Boards of most 
large towns, have for same years provided special schools where 
(From the Geographical Journal.) 
their pupil teachers receive instruction at specified times, It 
has now been decided that these schools are illegal. Mr. 
Cockerton, the Local Government auditor, has formally notified 
the London School Board that it has no authority in law to 
spend the rates in providing and maintaining special schools for 
the instruction of pupil teachers. 
In the House of Lords on Monday, in reply to a question by 
Lord Reay, referring to the new Regulations for Evening 
Schools, the Duke of Devonshire said :—‘‘It is intended that 
all local expenditure—by which is meant expenditure on even- 
ing schools other than that which is provided by Government 
grants—shall in future be provided by local authorities under the 
Technical Instruction Acts. As to whether the funds at the 
disposal of the local authorities will be sufficient for that purpose, 
the existing local authorities under the Technical Instruction 
Acts have by no means exhausted the funds at their disposal 
