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memorem esse quantum et doctrine et hominum utilitatibus 
Astronomie scientia profuerit. 
In Arturo Willelmo Riicker ornando Academia nostra honore 
prosequitur alumnum suum, virum in docendo in rebus adminis- 
trandis in rerum natura cognoscenda preclarissimum. Huius 
laudes agnovit Collegium Aenei Nasi, cuius olim scholaris erat, 
cum eum inter Socios honoris causa adscisceret : agnovit etiam 
Societas Regalis qua duodeviginti abhinc annos Sodalem 
creatum numismate etiam regio pro singularibus meritis donavit. 
Huic de tenuissimarum bullarum natura subtiliter querenti 
contigit ut de magnitudine et ratione primarum illarum atomo- 
rum e quibus, ut antiquitus docuit Lucretius, omnis materia 
rerum constat, ipse multa reperiret, res altissimis tenebris 
abditas luce quadam scientize patefaceret et illustraret. Hic 
etiam de vi magnetica qua orbis terre animatur peritissime dis- 
seruit, et insularum Britannicarum descriptionem magneticam 
denuo faciendam curavit. Neque ei satis erat ut Naturee arcana 
ipse reseraret: idem, cum Britannic Societatis conventui 
preesset, contionem habuit luculentissimam de ratione quz 
intercedat inter sententias philosophorum et physicorum de 
materia rerum docentium, que effecit ut multi de hac re loque- 
rentur, plures cogitarent: idem in Regio Scientiz Collegio 
Professor physicorum et in docendo et in rerum gubernatione 
summa laude inclaruit : eodem denique Secretario Societas ipsa 
Regalis tanquam in dapem omnium virorum doctorum naturam 
rerum ubique indagantium symbolam maiorem contulit. Hic 
vir tam impiger tamque ingeniosus qui omni hominum societati, 
quz eo duce et auctore usa est, laudem et felicitatem semper 
attulit, nune Academize Londinensi denuo constitute primus 
Priefectus latiorem profecto campum inventurus est in quo 
virtutes eius excurrant et cognoscantur. 
CAMBRIDGE.—Prof. A. R. Forsyth, F.R.S., has been ap- 
pointed a governor of University College, Liverpool, and will 
represent the University of Cambridge at the Abel Centenary 
to be celebrated in Christiania next September. 
Mr. G. B. Mathews, F.R.S., senior wrangler 1883, has 
been re-elected to fellowship at St. John’s College. At the 
same college Mr. J. H. Vincent, D.Sc. London, has been elected 
to a Hutchinson studentship for research in physics. 
_ Mr. W. N. Shaw, F.R.S., secretary of the Meteorological 
Council, has been admitted to the degree of Doctor of Science. 
The late Rev. Henry Latham, master of Trinity Hall, is 
succeeded in the mastership by Mr. E. A. Beck, senior tutor. 
The late master has left some 17,000/. to the University to 
form a benevolent fund, from which grants, annual or 
occasional, may be made to members of the University who are 
incapacitated for their academic duties by age or infirmity, and 
to their widows and families when these have been left 
inadequately provided for. 
The complete degree of M.A. honoris causa has been 
conferred on Mr. T. H. Middleton, the new professor of 
agriculture. In presenting him the public orator referred to 
the short stay of Prof. Somerville, his predecessor in office, 
and added ‘‘Studiorum academicorum in provincia tam nova 
accupanda, speramus professorem nostrum novum iuventutis 
nostree ingeniis excolendis multo plus quam biennium esse 
impensurum,” 
Mr. G. W. RuNDALL, head master of the High School, 
Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs., from 1891 to 1900, has been 
appointed Registrar of the Teachers’ Registration Council, 
Board of Education. 
Mr. M. J.'R. Dunsvan, director of the Midland Agricultural 
and Dairy Institute, and director of technical instruction to the 
Notts County Council, has been appointed principal of the 
South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye, in succession to Mr. 
A. D. Hall, who was recently appointed director of the Rotham- 
sted Experiment Station. 
Tue Storey Institute of Science and Art at Lancaster was 
given to the town by the late Sir Thomas Storey to commemorate 
the jubilee of Queen Victoria. But though excellent work has 
been done in the Institute it has been handicapped in recent 
years by the want of accommodation for the technical and 
secondary departments. The handsome coronation gift of 
10,000/, which Mr. Herbert L. Storey has just placed at the 
disposal of the Corporation of Lancaster, for the purpose of 
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erecting a technical school on a site adjoining the Institute, will 
make a desirable educational development possible. Wealthy 
men in other centres should emulate Mr. Storey’s public-spirited 
action. 
THE Hartley Institution, Southampton, which has just been 
added to the list of University Colleges, and will in future be 
styled the Hartley University College, was founded in 1850, 
and has in recent years been greatly improved as a centre of 
scientific influence. The Institution is at present regulated by 
a scheme established by the High Court of Chancery in 1859 as 
altered or supplemented by eight schemes of the Charity Com- 
missioners. The movement for the formation of a University 
College has been enthusiastically supported locally, and as soon 
as it became known that H.M. University Commissioners had 
pronounced the local University income to be 600/. short of the 
required 4000/. per annum, three gentlemen, interested in the 
College, combined together to supply the deficiency for this 
year, and the governing body was assured that the income 
should be maintained at the required sum in the future if a 
portion of the Treasury grant'to University College was allotted 
to the Hartley University College. The College is primarily 
intended to provide the residents in the counties of Hampshire 
and the Isle of Wight, Dorset and Wilts with higher education, 
and is admirably situated geographically for that purpose. The 
south of England is generally supposed to be deficient in 
educational enterprise, and this is an additional reason why the 
activity which is being displayed by Southampton in the forma- 
tion of this College should be welcomed by all those interested 
in education. It is felt that the present buildings of the 
Institution are inadequate for the growing number of students, 
and a movement is on foot for raising a sum of 100,000/. to 
enable the University College to be suitably housed. It is 
hoped that a beneficent millionaire will be found willing to 
interest himself in the scheme, and help in supplying a great 
deficiency in the educational equipment of the south coast. 
The principal of the college is Dr. S. H. Richardson. 
ON June 25, in the House of Commons, the consideration of 
the Education Bill in Committee was resumed on the second 
clause, which empowers the new authorities to make provision 
for higher education. From the 7zes report, we learn that an 
amendment was moved with the object of introducing words 
defining the duties of the education authorities, and directing 
them to supply secondary, technical and higher education, and 
to provide for the organisation and coordination of all forms of 
education, including the training of teachers. It was not 
accepted by the Government, but a compromise was arrived at ; 
and it was agreed that the authorities should take such steps, 
after consultation with the Board of Education, as might seem 
desirable to secure the training of teachers and the general 
coordination of education. An amendment was carried pro- 
viding that the funds colloquially known as whisky money 
should be used without deduction by the county councils in 
promoting higher education. On Monday the Bill was again 
before Committee of the House, A proposal that the county 
boroughs should be exempted from the operation of the provision 
which restricts to 2d. the amount of the rate leviable for higher 
education was accepted by the Government. An amendment was 
brought forward empowering the Board of Education to authorise 
the county councils to strike a rate exceeding 2@. The clause 
gives the Local Government Board the right to increase the rate 
by provisional order on the application of a county council. 
Objection was made to this clause, and after discussion it was 
decided to dispense with the elaborate machinery of provisional 
orders and to substitute for it the simple assent of the Local 
Government Board to a proposed extension of the 2d. rate. The 
limit to the rating power for secondary education has thus been 
abolished entirely for county boroughs and conditionally for 
rural counties. Passing to the third clause, which proposed to give 
to the councils of boroughs with a population of more than 10,000 
and to thecouncils of urban districts witha population of more than 
20,000 the right to levy a penny rate for the purpose of supply- 
ing higher education, an amendment was agreed to on Tuesday 
conferring the same right on all non-county boroughs and urban 
districts. Another amendment which would have given non- 
county boroughs and urban districts unlimited rating power was 
negatived. After further discussion it was agreed that the 
clause as amended should stand part of the Bill. 
