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worthy work of reference for students of the group all 
over the world. The systematic part of the paper is 
preceded by a useful introduction to the anatomy and 
metamorphosis of the parasites, and is illustrated in 
thirty-two clear plates of diagnostic drawings. 
The zoological. results of the Abor Expedition (N.E. 
India) continue to appear in the Records of the Indian 
Museum. The lately issued part 6 of vol. viii. con- 
tains papers on land planarians by Prof. R. H. White- 
house, terrestrial Isopoda by W. E. Collinge, and 
Onychophora by Stanley Kemp. The last-named 
deserve more than passing notice, for the discovery of 
a Peripatid “at the foot of the eastern Himalaya” is 
one of the most important faunistic results of recent 
years; no member of the class had hitherto been found 
at all as far north as this. The specimens were found 
under stones in a comparatively small area at an 
elevation of 1320 ft. From a consideration of the 
structure of the species, Mr. Kemp considers it allied 
to the Malayan Eoperipatus, but on account of the 
total absence of eyes (although the optic ganglia are 
present), and other distinctive characters, establishes 
a new genus (Typhloperipatus) for its reception. The 
unpaired oviduct in the female and the ejaculatory 
duct (also unpaired) in the male are remarkably long. 
The eggs are richly yolked, and embryos at various 
stages were found in the uterus.. From the appear- 
ance of the embryos and young it is concluded that 
reproduction takes place only during the wet season. 
GaaliaG: 

UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
CAMBRIDGE.—Messrs. F. TT. Brooks, Emmanuel 
College, and K. H. Compton, Gonville and Caius 
College, have been appointed demonstrators of botany, 
and Mr. T. S. P. Strangeways, St. John’s College, 
has been reappointed demonstrator of physiology. 
The council recommends to the Senate that the Vice- 
Chancellor be authorised to countersign and _ seal 
certificates of attendance to Belgian students attend- 
ing the courses of instruction organised by Belgian 
professors now lecturing in Cambridge. 
The Financial Board has presented a report to the 
Senate in which the financial position and prospects of 
the University are reviewed. The income of the 
University chest for 1913 and 1914 was 53,4001. and 
46,800l. respectively, and is estimated at 26,6001. for 
1915; the corresponding figures representing the re- 
ceipts of the common University fund are 22,510l., 
23,800l., and 15,780l. Details are given in the report 
of the manner in which the board proposes to meet 
the large deficiency disclosed in the estimates by the 
temporary suspension of vacant teaching and research 
posts, of salaries to officials now in the national ser- 
vice, and of contributions to pension and building 
sinking fund accounts. One of the most substantial 
items of expenditure under the control of the Financial 
Board is that of grants to the departmental funds of 
the scientific departments of the University; these 
amounted to 55801. in ro14. The accounts of these 
departments, although controlled by the Board, are 
not incorporated in those of the University chest or 
the common University fund, but the board estimates 
that in 1915 the receipts from fees of the scientific 
departments of the University will fall some 16,oo0l. 
ta 18,000l. below those of 1914. It is evidently not 
desired that the University contribution towards the 
upkeep of the science laboratories in the University 
should be diminished; it is obvious, however, that 
even in normal times the chest and the common fund 
could do little to support natural science in Cambridge 

| suddenly diminished by 16,0001. to 18,0001. The 
Cambridge Review records the number of under- 
graduates in residence this term as 1097, as against 
3181 during the Easter term of 1914. 
Lonpon.—Lord Rosebery presided at the presenta- 
tion of graduates on May 5. The annual report of 
the principal (Sir Henry Miers), his seventh and last 
report in view of his appointment as Vice-Chancellor 
of Manchester University, referred to the special work 
resulting from the war, particularly the training of 
1300 officers and educational provision for two hundred 
refugee students. In his retrospect of his period of 
office, the principal referred to the report of the Royal 
Commission, the incorporation of King’s College and 
King’s College for Women in the University, the 
Universities’ Congress, the transfer of Bedford Col- 
lege to Regent’s Park, the new buildings at the Im- 
perial College and University College, the develop- 
ment of the professoriate, the increase of internal 
students from 3580 to 4950, and in the number of 
external candidates, and many benefactions for teach- 
ing and research. He looked forward to the time 
when the University~would have a dignified home 
bearing its own name, and would be adequately 
endowed; and expressed his complete faith in its 
power to fulfil all its duties, both local and imperial. 
Lord Rosebery, in an eloquent address, hoped that 
as one result of the war, a new spirit of co-operation 
would enable the University to worl out its own 
salvation. He had never believed that there was any- 
thing incompatible between the local and imperial 
aspects of the work of the University. 
The London County Council is prepared to award 
for the session 1915-16 a limited number of free places 
at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, 
South Kensington, S.W. The free places will be 
awarded on consideration of the past records of the 
candidates, the recommendations of their teachers, the 
course of study which they intend to follow, and 
generally upon their fitpess for advanced study in 
science as applied to industry. Candidates will not 
be required to undergo a written examination. 
possible that the free places may be extended to two 
or more years. Particulars may be obtained from the 
education officer, L.C.C. Education Offices, Victoria 
Embankment, W-C., and application forms must be 
returned not later than Saturday, May 22. 
SHEFFIELD.—Dr. J. Sholto C. Douglas, lecturer on 
pathology in the University of Manchester, has been 
appointed to the Joseph Hunter chair of pathology, 
in succession to Prof. Dean. 

Four lectures on the progress of public health in. 
Egypt will be delivered at Gresham College, E.C., on 
May 18-21, by Prof. F. M. Sandwith, Gresham pro- 
fessor of physic. The lectures are free to the public, 
and will begin each evening at six o’clock. 
WE learn from Science that grants for two new 
buildings to meet the needs of the University of Ohio 
and for additional tracts of farm land west of the 
Olentangy have been voted through the finance com- 
mittee of the lower branch of the State legislature. 
These extensions would involve an expenditure of 
68,0001. A domestic science building to cost 30,000l. 
and a shop building for manual training to cost 
24,0001. are provided. Ninety acres of land would be 
purchased west of the Olentangy River at a probable 
cost of 14,0001. 
A SumMER School of Mining and Engineering for 
the South Wales coalfield is to be held in August next 
at the Technical College, Swansea. 
if the annual revenue of the science laboratories were | surveyor’s course (to meet the requirements of the 
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The courses of 
instruction will be seven in- number, comprising a 

