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1795°. It is stated that accurate measurements of the 
melting point can be made with the micropyrometer on 
samples as minute as o-oor milligram, The micro- 
pyrometer has also been employed to measure the 
monochromatic emissivity of microscopic samples. 
This constant has been determined for some twenty 
elements. It is expected to determine the melting 
points and emissivities of all the available refractory 
elements and of numerous oxides. 
One of the most important recommendations of the 
director is to establish a radio-laboratory at the bureau. 
The importance of wireless telegraphy to the United 
States Government is pointed out, and a grant of 
10,0001. for the construction of such a laboratory is 
asked for. For maintenance an additional 2000l. is 
required. 

UNIVERSITY .AND EDUCATIONAL 
‘INTELLIGENCE. 
ABERYSTWYTH.—Prof. Alexander Findlay has been 
appointed Thomson lecturer in chemistry for the 
session 1915-16 in the United Free Church College, 
Aberdeen. 
CaMBRIDGE.—The Linacre lecture will be delivered 
by Prof. E. H. Starling, in the anatomy lecture-room, 
at 8 p.m., Thursday, May 6, on the’ governor 
mechanism of the heart. The Rede lecture will be 
delivered. by Dr.. Norman Moore, at 5 p.m. of the 
same day, in the Senate House, on St. Bartholomew’s 
Hospital in peace and war. 
In view of the difficulties of the present financial 
situation, the Special Board for Biology and Geology 
has decided to allocate only such sums of money from 
the Gordon Wigan Fund as are necessary to prevent 
the extinction of research work already in progress. 
The grants made are: tol. to Prof. Hughes, for re- 
search among the Pliocene deposits of the Cambridge 
district; gol. to Prof. Punnett, to ensure that the 
Botanic Garden Syndicate will continue to offer. special 
facilities for plant-breeding experiments; and 211, to 
Mr. H. Scott, curator in entomology, for the care and 
development of the collections of insects. 
SHEFFIELD.—Sir Joseph Jonas has given the Univer- 
sity 50001. to found, endow, and equip a laboratory, 
in connection with the applied science department, for 
testing metals, minerals, and similar substances, 
especially those involved in the production and manu- 
facture of steel. 

Lapy Hucains, who died on March 24, leaving un- 
settled estate valued at 12,586]. gross, with net per- 
sonality 12,rogl., made the following bequests, among 
others :—A sum_not exceeding roool. to the Bedford 
College for Women (University of London); s5ool., 
and, if her estate is sufficient, a further sum of. 500l. 
for the erection of a memorial in St. Paul’s Cathedral 
to the memory of her husband; toool., and, if her 
estate is sufficient, a further sum of 1oool. to the City 
of London School, Victoria Embankment, for the 
endowment of a’scholarship for the study of astro- 
nomy, tenable at Cambridge, to be called the ‘Sir 
William Huggins” Scholarship; and a sum of not 
more than 30o0l. for. finishing, editing, and illustrating 
the book on which she was engaged, being the life of 
her husband. The residue of the estate, if any, is also 
left to the City of London School. 
WE learn from Science that Princeton University 
has received from Mrs. W. C. Osborn 25,o00l. to 
establish the Dodge professorship of medieval history, 
and ‘20,0001. from an anonymous donor to endow a 
professorship of. economics. Our contemporary also 
states that the Schools of Mines, Engineering, and 
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Chemistry of Columbia University have received an 
anonymous gift of 6000l., to be applied to the recon- 
struction and new equipment of the laboratories of 
quantitative, organic, and engineering chemistry in 
Havemeyer Hall; that a gift of 4oool. is announced 
from Mrs. S. W. Bridgham, daughter of a trustee 
of Columbia University from 1860 to 1903; and that 
Mr. G. W. Brackenridge has given to the Univer- 
sity of Texas his yacht Navidad, valued at 20,000l., to 
be assigned to the biological department of the insti- 
tution. A preliminary survey of the Texas coast is 
to be made in the Navidad, starting from Port Lavaca. 
THE ninth annual report, that for 1914, of the 
Apprenticeship and Skilled Employment Association, 
shows that in common with other bodies dependent 
for their support on voluntary contributions from the 
public, the association has suffered already financially 
as a result of the war, and would welcome an addition 
to its income. The worl of the association has con- 
tinued on its now familiar lines. Interesting tables 
are provided in the report classifying according to 
trades the numbers of boys and girls placed in employ- 
ment by the various London committees. During the 
year 1914 the total number of boys placed was 532, 
and of these 60 went into office and clerical work, 
47 took up mechanical engineering, 41 scientific instru- 
ment making, 4o. electrical engineering (including 
wiring), and 34 motor work. Of the 333 girls who 
were found employment, 93 took up dressmaking, 
34 office. and clerical work, and 29 machining. The 
remaining girls were distributed among thirty-four 
different trades. Full particulars of the worl: of the 
association can be obtained from the offices, 53 Deni- 
son House, Vauxhall Bridge Road, S.W. 
Tue Benares Hindu University Bill was introduced 
in the Viceroy’s Legislative Council at Delhi on March 
22 by Sir Harcourt Butler, the vice-president, and the 
introduction of the Bill was carried nem. con. During 
the-course of his speech, which, is reported in. the 
Pioneer Mail of March 26, Sir Harcourt Butler said :— 
“The main features of this University will be, first,’ 
that it will be a teaching and residential university ; 
secondly, that while it will be open to all castes and 
creeds it will insist upon religious instruction for 
Hindus; and, thirdly, that it will be conducted and 
managed by the Hindu community and almost entirely 
by non-officials.””. The University is to be an All-India 
University.. It is incorporated for the teaching of all 
knowledge, but will commence with five faculties of 
arts, science, law, Oriental: studies, and theology. 
Many of the promoters desired to add a faculty of 
technology, and this desire has the full sympathy of 
Sir Harcourt Butler. The Governor-General will be 
Lord Rector, and the Lieutenant-Governor of the 
United Provinces of Agra and Oudh will be Visitor, of 
the University. The governing body will be a 
numerous and very representative Court, with an 
executive body in a council of not more than thirty 
members, of whom five will be members of the Senate. 
The academic body will be the Senate, consisting of 
not fewer than fifty members, with an executive body 
in the Syndicate.. The Senate will have entire charge 
of the organisation of instruction in the University, 
and the:constituent colleges’ curriculum and examina- 
tion and discipline of students and the conferment of 
ordinary and honorary degrees. The following large 
subscriptions have already been received :—Maharana 
of Udaipur, 13 lakhs; the Maharaja Holkar, 5 lakhs; 
the Maharaja of Jodhpur, 2 lakhs, with a grant in 
perpetuity of 2000 rupees per month; the Maharaja 
of Bikanir, one lakh, with a grant in perpetuity of 
rooo rupees per month; the Maharaja of Kashmir, a 
grant in perpetuity of tooo rupees a month; the Maha- 

