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back of the boards compared to that at the back of the 

 small plates. Experiments were also made on a model 

 of a braced g-irder 29 feet long by 3 feet 7 inches deep, 

 and on a roof model the sides of which were 8 feet by 

 7 feet. The ratio of the resistance per unit of area of 

 the model girder to that of a square board in the wind 

 was found to be precisely the same as the ratio of the 

 resistance per unit of area of a small model of the girder 

 made to a linear scale of i in 42 to a square plate in the 

 experimental channel and uniform current used in the 

 previous experiments. The resultant pressures on the roof 

 were obtained, for both windward and leeward sides, at 

 angles of 30, 45, and 60 degrees inclination to the hori- 

 zontal, and indicated the considerable suction effects on 

 the leeward side of a roof when the pressure inside the 

 building is augmented from the windward side by open 

 doors or windows. The results lead to the conclusion that 

 the resistance of a complicated structure in the wind can 

 be accurately predicted from a determination of the resist- 

 ance of a small model of the structure in an experimental 

 channel. 



VNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge. — Sir James Dewar has nominated Mr. M. O. 

 Jones, of Clare College, as deputy for the Jacksonian pro- 

 fessor of mental philosophy during the Lent term 1908. 

 This nomination has received the consent of the Vice- 

 Chancellor and the Sex Viri. 



The sites syndicate recommends that a site on the 

 Downing ground 40 feet wide, situate to the south of the 

 botanical laboratory and parallel to it, be assigned for a 

 building in connection with the Department of .Agriculture. 



Mr. W. Bateson, F.R.S., has been appointed reader in 

 zoology. 



Dr. Baker has been appointed chairman of the examiners 

 for the mathematical tripos, part ii., 190S. 



Prof. Nuttall has appointed F. P. Jepson, Pembroke 

 College, to the studentship in medical entomology in place 

 of A. H. Lees, who has resigned the studentship. 



The board of agricultural studies is of opinion that the 

 subjects which come under its cognisance are now too 

 wide and too complex to be entrusted to a single professor. 

 The appointment of Mr. T. B. Wood, of Gonville and 

 Caius College, to the Drapers' professorship of agriculture 

 has adequately provided for the teaching of agricultural 

 chemistry, but the board is of opinion that it is urgently 

 necessary that a professor in agricultural botanv should 

 be appointed without delay. This proposal has been 

 brought within the range of possibility by the munificence 

 of the Drapers' Company, which h,us offered a further 

 grant of 200/. a year towards the stipend of a professor 

 of agricultural botany. The general bo.-ird has now put 

 forward a report in which it recommends the establish- 

 ment of such a professorship. This report will be discussed 

 at an early date next term. The teaching of practical 

 agriculture is entrusted to Mr. K. J. J. Mackenzie, late of 

 the South-Eastern .Agricultural College, Wve. 



London. — The committee of L'niversity College will 

 shortly proceed to appoint a Derby scholar in zoology. 

 The value of the scholarship is 6o7. per annum, the 

 scholarship being tenable for two years. .An examination 

 for the award of the scholarship will be held at Universitv 

 College on December iS. Full particulars can be obtained 

 on application to the secretary, Universitv College, Gower 

 .Street, W.C. 



M.\NCHESTER.— The Universitv will eventuallv benefit 

 under the will of the late Prof. Thomas Barker, who from 

 1865-1885 was professor of mathematics at Owens College. 

 The legacv, which it is estimated will amount to about 

 36,000^., is to found a professorship of crvptogamic 

 botany, and to establish scholarships for the assistance of 

 students, especially those of slender means, in the depart- 

 ments of botany and mathematics. 



Oxford.— .A portrait of Dr. .A. J. Evans, F.R.S., the 

 keeper of the .Ashmolean Museum, painted by Sir William 

 B. Richmond, was presented to the University on Satur- 

 day, December 7, in the presence of a large and dis- 



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linguished company. The presentation was made on 

 behalf of the subscribers by the principal of Brasenose, and 

 the Vice-Chancellor accepted the portrait for the 

 University. 



Mr. H.4LDANE, M.I'., will, on Saturday. December 14, 

 unveil the statue of the King, to be placed over the central 

 entrance of the new buildings of University College School, 

 Hampstead. 



The Melbourne correspondent of the Daily Chronicle 

 reports that Mr. T. W. Stanford, brother of the founder 

 of Stanford University, San Francisco, intends to leave 

 by his will 50,000/. to found eight annual scholarships at 

 .Stanford University for young Australians. -Ml candidates 

 must pledge themselves to return to .Australia and use thi' 

 knowledge gained at the University in developing thci, 

 native country. 



Speaki.ng at the Derby Municipal Technical College on 

 December 5, Mr. Victor Cavendish, M.P., said he wished 

 they could send forth from that gathering a message to 

 those engaged in educational controversies that would 

 result in placing education out of the range of controversy. 

 He believed that money spent in extending the operations 

 of institutions of that character was money well spent, and 

 money from which, at no distant date, a most adequate 

 and healthy return would be seen. .Another subject was 

 as to what extent we could improve our industrial and 

 commercial position in the world. Upon such a question 

 as foreign competition ho felt that, however much they 

 might differ on certain points, at any rate on the question 

 of education they could unite in doing something for the 

 future of the country by seeing that the youth of the nation 

 had the very best technical education tliat could be given. 

 .Any money spent on such objects ought to receive the 

 greatest support and consideration from all parties. 



During the course of last week the Society of Merchant 

 Venturers concluded the final arrangements for the re- 

 construction of the main building of their technical college 

 in Bristol, and the work will now proceed with all possible 

 speed. The society has devoted a large sum for additions 

 to and improvements in the equipment of the departments 

 of engineering, chemistry, and applied physics. In order 

 to benefit by the most recent experience gained elsewhere, 

 the principal and other members of the staff have visited 

 some of the best-equipped technical and university colleges 

 in Germany and in the United Kingdom. 



To encourage the teaching of facts regarding weather 

 and climate in schools, the council of the Royal Meteor- 

 ological Society invites elementary teachers and others to 

 send in essays in the form of an original nature-study 

 lesson on weather or climate (not exceeding 1500 words in 

 length), together with a brief synopsis of five other lessons 

 to cover the whole subject of climate and weather. If 

 essays of sufficient merit are received, three prizes will be 

 awarded of 5/., 3/., and 2I. respectively. The essaj-s are 

 to be sent in before January 31, 1908, and addressed to 

 Mr. .William Marriott, assistant secretary, Royal Meteor- 

 ological Society, 70 Victoria Street, London, S.W'., from 

 whom further information can be obtained. 



The fifth annual prize distribution of the Sir John Cass 

 Technical Institute was held on Tuesday, December 3, 

 when the prizes were distributed and an address given by 

 Dr. R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S. The chair was taken by 

 Sir Owen Roberts, chairman of Sir John Cass's found.i- 

 lion. Dr. Glazebrook, in reviewing the work of the insti- 

 tute, dwelt upon the importance of the average amount of 

 work done by each student rather than the number of 

 students in attendance as a criterion of the value of the 

 instruction given, and also pointed out the desirability of 

 encouraging students in every possible way to follow 

 grouped courses of study of a continuous character if re.il 

 advantage is to follow from their labours. Further, it is 

 necessary always to remember that learning and the 

 assimilation of knowledge, admirable though they are in 

 themselves, are not all there is to strive for, but that 

 research or discovery of new laws or of more complete 

 order rests on a higher plane. Dr. Glazebrook then con- 

 trnst'd the lot of the students of the institute with that 

 nf nit n in slinilar positions a hundred years ago, pointing 



