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CONTENTS. 
University and Secondary Education 
Technology of Fuels. By Prof. John W. Cobb 
The Teaching of the Calculus. By G. H. B. . 2 
a Wren and the Tom Tower. By 
D. 
ink meee of of Arctic Lands. ‘By Dr. Hugh Robert 
Our Bookshelf . F ° . 
Letters to the Editor :— 
Dr. Kammerer’s_ Experiments. — Prof. E. W. 
MacBride, F.R.S. 
Law governing the Connexion between the Number 
of Particles and their Diameters in grinding Crushed 
Sand. (With Diagram. )—Charles E. Blyth, 
Dr Geoffrey Martin, and Harold Tongue 3 
Adsorption and Hemoglobin.—Prof. A. V. Hill, 
F.R.S. ; J. Barcroft, F.R.S.; N. K. Adam 
Relation between Hemoglobin- “Content and Surface 
- of Red Blood-Cells.—Dr. E. Gorter . 
A Lost Collection of Indian Sketches. —Lieut. Col, 
H. H Godwin-Austen, F.R.S. . 
Science and Economics.—W. Wilson Leisenring . 
Separation of Isotopic lons.—John G. Pilley . 
Haze on Derby Day—June 6.—Dr. J. S. Owens 
Perseid Meteors in July 1592.—W. Denning 
Tactile Vision of Insects and Arachnida. —G. 
Locket . “ 
The Eétvés Torsion Balance and its Use in the 
Field. By Capt. H. Shawand E. tail Jones 
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Science and Industry in Sweden : 
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Our Astronomical Column . ° : : 3 
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South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies 
The Constitution of the sigs of Iron and Nickel. 
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The Indian Eclipse Expedition, 1922. By Dr. 
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Liberal Education in Sithidary Schools . : 
Rothamsted Experimental Station. ANNUAL V IsITA= 
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New Principle of Therapeutic Inoculation 
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University and Secondary Education. 
T the break of gauge between school and university 
some confusion and loss of time must be expected 
in a country where both systems are not subject to the 
control of a state department, and will be excessive 
unless the responsible authorities on both sides are 
in general accord as to aims and principles. In 
England the Board of Education has, during the past 
twenty years, worked steadily for such an accord and 
has provided machinery, such as the Secondary School 
Examinations Council, for making it effective. The 
report of the Committee on Natural Science in Educa- 
tion helped to focus attention on the subject. 
‘This Committee held that it is desirable on educa- 
tional and other grounds that boys who intend to pass 
“on to a university should, as a rule, remain at school up 
to the age of 18; that a general course, which should 
“include science work planned as a self-contained course 
of physics and chemistry with some study of plant and 
animal life, should be completed normally about the 
age of 16, when the First School Examination should 
“be taken. This should be followed by two years of 
advanced work at school during which those specialising 
in science should continue some literary study and those 
specialising in literary study should give some time to 
"Science work, Then the universities should adopt such 
an examination as the First School Examination as 
the normal test for entrance, with such limitations or 
amplifications as they may find necessary, e.g. “‘ credit ” 
in a certain number of subjects or some measure of 
success in the Second Examination. It was also con- 
sidered most important that university degree courses 
in pure science should be so arranged that students 
who come well prepared from secondary schools should 
not be put back to do elementary work. 
* The dovetailing (without wasteful overlapping) of 
two years of specialised study in the secondary school 
with the first year of university work presents certain 
difficulties. Endeavouring to guard against the mis- 
handling of these difficulties, the Committee points out 
that it is undesirable that work of pupils between 
16 and 18 should be disturbed by having to prepare for 
an examination (for example, the University Inter- 
mediate) not primarily designed to meet school needs ; 
candidates in a Second School Examination who do 
satisfactory work in any of the subjects required for 
the Intermediate should, therefore, be exempted from 
further examination in these subjects. This warning 
is emphasised in Sir Frederic Kenyon’s report of 
conferences on secondary and university education 
between the Council for Humanistic Studies and the 
Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies. The following 
resolution was passed by the conference :- 
