OcTOBER 16, 1902] 
NATURE 
623 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
CAMBRIDGE.—The following is the letter of congratulation, 
written by the Public Orator, Dr. Sandys, on behalf of the 
University of Cambridge, and presented to the University 
of Christiania by Prof. A. R. Forsyth, F.R.S., the delegate 
appointed to represent the University of Cambridge on the 
occasion of the recent commemoration of the centenary of the 
birth of Niels Henrik Abel :—‘‘ Litterae vestrae, viri doctissimi, 
ad nos nuper perlatae sunt, in quibus certiores facti sumus, 
annum centesimum ex eo quo natus est alumnus vester insignis, 
Nicolaus Henricus Abel, Universitatem vestram Nonis Septem- 
bribus esse celebraturam. Alumnus ille vester, ut studiorum 
mathematicorum inter peritos ubique constat, inter scientiae 
illius ipsos principes merito iamdudum numeratus est, neque in 
sua tantum vita, intra annorum septem et viginti spatium 
angustum, nomen immortale est adeptus, sed etiam saeculo in 
eodem inter Europae gentes scientiae analyticae cultoribus 
plurimis novos stimulos indidit, et studiorum suorum ad regiones 
novas explorandas excitavit ; e quibus unus, non secus atque 
alumnus ille vester, provinciae suae pulchritudine singulari 
commotus, existimavit ‘functiones ellipticas non aliis adnu- 
merari debere transcendentibus, sed speciem quandam iis inesse 
perfecti et absoluti.’ Iuvat vitae illius annales ab uno e profes- 
soribus vestris summa cum scientia, summa cum humanitate, 
conscriptos evolvere; iuvat inter socios illius exteros, unum 
audire suis laudibus, suis laboribus omnibus illum maiorem esse 
dicentem; alterum, ab illo temporis exigui intra terminos 
‘monumentum aere perennius’ esse exactum, quod indicaret 
quantum ex ingenio eius sperare licuisset, ‘ni fata obstitissent ’ ; 
iuvat nos quoqgue inter praeceptores nostros nonnullos numerare, 
qui alumni vestri vestigiis institerunt, alumni vestri famam 
indies latius extenderunt. Unum ex eis, etiam in Scandinavia 
horum studiorum cultoribus non ignotum, nuntium et legatum 
ad vos honoris causa mittimus, qui nostrum omnium vota optima 
ad vos perferat, et nostrum omnium nomine viri tanti memoriae 
celebrandae laetus intersit. Valete.” 
Mr. R. P. Gregory, St. John’s, has been appointed a demon- 
strator in botany. 
The following have been elected to fellowships at Trinity 
College :—A. E. A. Watt Smyth, P. V. Bevan, O. W. Richard- 
son, F. J. Pollock. 
Dr. D. MacAlister has been appointed assessor to the regius 
professor of physic ; Prof. Thomson, F.R.S., an elector to the 
Isaac Newton studentship in physical astronomy; Mr. J. B. 
Peace, Emmanuel, demonstrator of mechanism and applied 
mechanics ; and{Mr. R. C. Punnett, Caius, demonstrator of 
comparative anatomy. Mr. Punnett has also been elected to a 
fellowship at his college. 
Ir is stated in the Arztesh Mfedical Journal that Prof. 
Johannes Orth, of Gottingen, has been invited to succeed 
Prof. Virchow in the chair of pathology at Berlin. 
THE following appointments have been made at the Hartley 
University College, Southampton :— Assistant lecturer in physics, 
Mr. O. W. Griffith ; assistant lecturer in electrical engineering, 
Mr. E. H. Dixon; assistant lecturer in civil engineering, Mr. 
R. Baldwin Wiseman. 
As already announced, the Manchester School of Technology 
is to be opened by Mr. Balfour as we go to press with this 
number. The school has occupied about seven years in build- 
ing, and represents an endowment of nearly 300,000/., largely, 
but not entirely, of municipal origin. A sum of no less than 
25,000/. has been expended upon the plant of the department of 
mechanical engineering alone, and the other departments have 
been equipped in the same liberal spirit. The city of Man- 
chester thus possesses a technical school which should become 
an important factor of national progress. 
WE have received the calendar of the Bristol Merchant Ven- 
turers’ Technical College, which contains many illustrations of 
the workshops and. laboratories in that institution. The College 
provides full courses of training in mechanical, electrical and 
sanitary engineering, and also prepares students for the B.Sc. 
examinations of the University of London in the faculties of 
science, engineering and economics. There are courses of 
training in the various branches of applied chemistry, including 
metallurgy, and special classes for persons intending to became 
architects, builders or surveyors. There is also a navigation 
department, a school for boys, and numerous evening classes. 
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THE Clothworkers’ scholarship of 60/. a year for three years, 
awarded on the results of the matriculation or entrance examin- 
ation of the Central Technical College of the City and Guilds of 
London Institute, has been awarded to W. H. Grinsted, from 
Horsham Grammar School, who obtained first place at the 
examination. Free studentships have been awarded by the 
Institute to W. M. Hooton, from King’s Lynn Municipal 
Technical School, L. G. Morse, from Marlborough College, 
and H. K. B. Reed, from the South-Western Polytechnic, who 
came next in order of merit. 
AN address on the reorganised University of London was 
given by Sir Arthur Riicker, F.R.S., at the opening of the 
winter session of St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School on 
October 3. Referring to the educational equipment of London, 
he remarked that ‘* it was and isin many respects inferior to what 
is provided, not only in Germany and America, but in our own 
provinces. There is not a single laboratory in the metropolis 
devoted to pure chemistry and physics which will compare in 
magnitude or in the perfection of its details with some of those 
which exist elsewhere.” The hope was expressed that the 
teaching of the sciences connected with medicine would be 
combined with research ; so that the: University should contribute 
directly to the advancement of knowledge, and graduates of 
foreign and colonial universities might be attracted to London 
to study in research laboratories like those of the recently 
established physiological department of the University. 
THE proceedings at Oxford on October 8 and 9 in connection 
with the Bodleian tercentenary were marked both by their 
enthusiasm and by their picturesqueness. Among the multitude 
of distinguished guests were representatives of the universities, 
libraries and learned societies in every part of the world. On 
the evening of October 8, a reception by the Provost of Oriel, in 
his capacity of Vice-Chancellor of the University, took place in 
the Ashmolean Museum, where Mr. A. J. Evans exhibited a 
number of drawings, photographs, plans and casts illustrating 
the excavations at Knossos, in Crete. On the following morn- 
ing, a congregation, presided over by the Vice-Chancellor, was 
held for the purpose of conferring degrees upon certain of the 
eminent persons present as guests of the University, for receiving 
congratulatory addresses on the tercentenary of Sir Thomas 
Bodley’s library, and for welcoming the visitors by the Public 
Orator, Dr. Merry. Among the honorary degrees, that of 
doctor of science conferred upon Prof. C. S. Minot, pro- 
fessor of histology and human embryology at Harvard Univer- 
sity, may be mentioned as indicating that the claims of science 
were not forgotten. The congratulatory addresses, handed to 
the Vice-Chancellor by the delegates appointed for the purpose 
by the university or learned society they represented, were 
numerous, the list of universities and learned bodies presenting 
addresses included the following names :—Universities of 
Cambridge, Dublin, London, Birmingham, Durham, Wales, 
Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Toronto, Montreal (McGill), 
Sydney, Allahabad, Cape Town, Paris, Caen, Lille, Nancy, 
Breslau, Giessen, Gottingen, Leipzig, Kiel, Brussels, Ghent, 
Louvain, Cracow, Gratz, Copenhagen, Lund, Stockholm, 
Upsala, Geneva, Lausanne, Harvard, Cornell, Yale, Princeton, 
Columbia, Pennsylvania, Ireland (Royal), St. Andrews and 
Victoria, Royal Society, Royal College of Physicians, Royal 
College of Surgeons, Royal Geographical Society, Royal Irish 
Academy, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Royal Society of Sciences, 
Gottingen, Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, and Academy of 
Sciences, Vienna. After the congregation came the formal 
visit to the Bodleian Library. No preparations had been made, 
and the visitors found the Library wearing its every-day aspect. 
The celebrations were brought to a close by a dinner at Christ 
Church. 
SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 
Paris. 
Academy of Sciences, September 29.—M. Bouquet de la 
Grye in the chair.—New experiments on the limit of intensity of 
current from a battery which corresponds to external electrolytic 
work apparent in a voltameter, by M, Berthelot. In a circuit 
consisting of one or more Daniell cells and a voltameter, the 
external resistance was increased until the gas resulting from the 
electrolysis was barely perceptible, and the limiting value 
determined. From these and earlier experiments on the same 
