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_ Paris Academy of ‘Sciences. 
BONAPARTE AND LoUTREUIL FuNDs. 
GRANTS for research from the Bonaparte and 
Loutreuil funds have been allocated as follows : 
Bonaparte Fund.—Six applications have been 
examined and two grants are recommended : 
(1) 5000 francs to the Association lyonnaise pour 
le développement des recherches de paléontologie 
humaine et de préhistoire, for carrying on excavations 
_in the celebrated prehistoric deposits of Solutré. 
(2) 2000 francs to Charles Morvan for com- 
pletion of the publication of the systematic and 
photographic map of the moon. 
 Loutreuil Fund.— Thirty-one applications were 
_ considered and grants were recommended as follows : 
(1) The National Museum of Natural History: 
8000 francs to Désiré Bois for the publication of the 
first two parts of a guide to the collections of cultivated 
nts at the museum. 
_ (2) The central council of observatories: 1000 
francs to the National Observatory of Besangon for 
the acquisition of an Abraham oscillograph ; 3000 
francs to Auguste Lebeuf, for the purchase of an oven 
equired for researches relating to the simultaneous 
action of temperature and pressure on chronometers, 
for aviation purposes. 
3) Council for the improvement of the Ecole poly- 
technique : 6000 francs to Alfred Perot, for the con- 
-structionof anapparatus designed for the verification of 
a formula given by the Russian physicist, W. Michelson, 
_ (4) National Veterinary School of Alfort: 1600 
francs to the school, which, together with balance of 
8000 francs remaining from the sum granted in 1920, 
s allotted as follows :—5000 francs to Adrien Panisset 
and Jean Verge, for researches on the chemicotherapy 
of the infectious diseases of domestic animals ; 2000 
1 to Edouard Bourdelle and André Rochon- 
avignaud, for researches on vision in animals ; 2000 
rancs to Albert Henry and Charles Leblois, for re- 
earches on the etiology, pathogeny, and treatment of 
Jarasitic cutaneous affections of domestic animals ; 
oo francs to Gabriel Petit, for the purchase of a 
u ‘ros ope. 
_ (5) National Veterinary School of Lyons: 4000 
tancs to Frangois Maignon, for the continuation of 
researches on organozymotherapy and for a study 
f the physico-chemical constitution of the diastases 
and the mechanism of their action; 4000 francs to 
Joseph Basset, for the purchase and feeding of experi- 
mental animals required for testing two new methods 
of producing immunity ; 2000 francs to G. Marotel, to 
allow him to continue his researches on the treatment 
of mange in the dog by a new method. 
_ (6) National Veterinary School of Toulouse: 2500 
nes to Charles Besnoit for an experimental study 
of the methods of intensive application applicable in 
bovine surgery, and for printing a phototype catalogue 
for general use; 2000 francs to Jean Lafon, for 
completing the previous grant of 3000 francs for 
the purchase of an Einthoven string galvanometer ; 
o francs to Charles Hervieux to enable him to 
sue his researches on the transformation in the 
imal organism of pyrrol groups contained in food, 
‘and the elimination of these groups by the urine ; 
1000 francs to Charles Besnoit and Victor Robin, for 
a study of the contagious diseases of poultry in the 
W. region. 
__ Independent Grants.—1o00 francs to Julien Achard, 
for completing his monograph on the Madagascan 
-coleoptera of the family of Scaphideidez ; 6000 francs 
to the Association amicale des éléves de 1’Ecole 
Nationale supérieure des Mines for a study of the 
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especially as regards the estimation of carbon dioxide 
in flue gases ; 5000 frances to the Ecole supérieure de 
perfectionnement industriel as a contribution to the 
expenses of this institution; 2000 francs to Wilfred 
Kilian to assist the publication of a_ geological 
bibliography of the south-east of France ; 5000 francs 
to Emmanuel de Margerie, for the preparation of the 
publication of a tectonic map of Eurasia; 15,000 
francs to Jean Mascart, for the publication of a part 
of the astronomical work of Luizet ; 3000 francs to 
M. Mugnier-Serand for his researches on atmospherics 
in wireless telegraphy and their application to the 
prediction of storms; 15,000 francs to the Academy 
of Sciences for the publication of the catalogue of 
scientific periodicals in Paris libraries. 

University and Educational Intelligence. 
BrrMINGHAM.—The twenty-third yearly meeting of 
the Court of Governors is to be held on February 8, 
and a summary of the events of the past academic 
year will be presented in the reports of the council 
and principal (Mr. C. Grant Robertson). The number 
of students during the past session showed a slight 
falling off, and the proportion of women increased, 
except in the Faculty of Medicine, in which it was 
lower than it had been for some years. It is hoped to 
repeat, during the present session, the post-graduate 
course on ‘‘ The Medical Aspect of Crime and Punish- 
ment,” for qualified practitioners, which was given 
last year by Drs. Maurice Nicolls (lecturer in Se New 
therapy), Hamblin Smith, W. A. Potts, an ercy 
T. Hughes. Sir Frederick Mott has been Je gs 
for three years, lecturer in morbid psychology. A 
Board of Research in Mental Diseases, on which 
the University and the Asylums Committee of the 
City Council are represented, has been formed. Sir 
Frederick Mott is honorary director of research, 
and the funds are being supplied by the Asylums 
Committee of the City Council. The most urgent 
need of the University at present is the removal 
of the biological oe of sciences to new buildings 
at Edgbaston. his would set free room at Mason 
College which is urgently required for the Faculties 
of Arts and Medicine. Reference is made to the 
successful work of the Workers’ Educational Associa- 
tion, and the importance of the co-operation of 
the University in that work:—‘‘ It is essential that 
the educational work should be controlled by the 
Universities, if only to secure the right standard . . ., 
and the need of additional qualified University 
instructors . . . is already apparent.” 
Mr. A. W. Nash has been appointed senior lecturer 
in petroleum technology under Prof. R. R. Thompson. 
Mr. Nash has had experience in petroleum produc- 
tion and refining in Persia, Russia, and other parts 
of the world. 
CAMBRIDGE.—Sir Alfred Yarrow has offered money 
for a three-year studentship in Assyriology to provide 
for the training of a suitable student in a subject 
which has for the time vanished from the University. 
He atid Lady Yarrow further offer, ‘‘ if the student 
prove himself a competent scholar and is prepared to 
continue the study of Assyriology,’’ to establish with 
a stipend of 500/. a year an ‘‘ Eric Yarrow lectureship 
for the study of Assyriology "’ in memory of Sir Alfred's 
son, who fell in the war. 
A new University lectureship in Psychopathology 
is advertised as vacant. 
Prof, Zschokke, head of the faculty of zoology in 
the University of Basle, will lecture this term on the 
European fauna. 
The governing body of Emmanuel College offers to 
a research student commencing residence at the 
