JUNE. 24, 1915] 
NATURE 
471 

in geology; Dr. Shore, in physiology; and Mr.-J. H. 
Grace, in mathematics. Mr. C. Warburton has been 
reappointed demonstrator in medical entomology for 
a period of three years. 
Giascow.—On June 21 the honorary degree of 
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) was conferred upon Prof. 
G. B. Mathews, F.R.S., formerly fellow of St. John’s 
College, Cambridge, and Dr. G. S. Middleton, presi- 
dent of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain 
and Ireland. Other doctorates conferred on the same 
day were:—Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.), H. A. 
Reyburn; and Doctors of Science in Public Health 
(D.Sc. Pub. Health), A. A. Jubb and P. L. Suther- 
land. 
Lonpon.—Sir Alfred Pearce Gould has been elected 
Vice-Chancellor in succession to Sir Wilmot Herring- 
ham. For several months past Sir Alfred has been 
acting Vice-Chancellor in view of Sir Wilmot’s absence 
on active service. 
The Senate, at its meeting on June 16, appointed 
Dr. W. H. Bragg, F.R.S., to the Quain chair of 
physics, tenable at University College, in succession 
to Prof. F..T. Trouton. Dr. Bragg is at present 
Cavendish professor of physics in the University of 
Leeds. 
The D.Sc. degree in chemistry has been granted to 
Mr. H. V. A. Briscoe, Imperial College (Royal College 
of Science), and the D.Sc. degree in physics to Mr. 
Thomas Barratt, Imperial College (Royal College of 
Science) and East London College, and to Mr. A. E. 
Oxley, an external student. 
Oxrorp.—The School of Geography has announced 
courses of lectures and practical instruction to be given 
next term on the following subjects :—Central Europe, 
physical and economic; geographical distribution of 
man and of rural occupations; form and movements of 
the earth (Prof. Herbertson); geography of Britain 
(Mr. Beckit and Miss MacMunn); land forms (Mr. 
Beckit); meteorology (Mr. Kendrew); surveying (Mr. 
MacKenzie). Lectures will be given on _ general 
geology and the geology of India by Prof. Sollas, and 
on the historical geography of Great Britain by Mr. 
C. Grant Robertson. 
The committee for anthropology announces lectures 
and informal instruction on physical anthropology, 
psychology, geographical distribution, prehistoric 
archeology and technology, social anthropology and 
philology. The lecturing staff includes Prof. A. Thom- 
son, Mr. H. W. Blunt, Mr. H. Balfour, the Rector 
of Exeter College, Prof. J. L. Myres, Prof. Sollas, 
Mr. E. T. Leeds, Mr. E. F. Carritt, Mr. Griffith, Dr: 
Marett, Prof. Vinogradoff, Mr. C. Bailey, Prof. Mac- 
donell, Mr. V. A. Smith, Mr. S. Langdon, Mr. P. 
Manning, Prof. Wright the Principal of Jesus College, 
Prof. J. A. Smith, and Mr. A. C. Madan. Special 
Jectures for Sudan probationers will be given by Mr, 
H. Balfour and Dr. R. R. Marett. : 

Mr. S. C. Laws, principal of the Loughborough 
Technical Institute, has been appointed principal of 
the Wigan Mining and Technical College. 
IN its issue for June 4 Science announces the 
following gifts to American universities. Dr. L. D. 
Waterman, of Indianapolis, professor emeritus in the 
Indiana University School of Medicine, has made a 
gift to Indiana University amounting to 20,000l., sub- 
ject to an annuity during his lifetime, on the condi- 
tion that the University devotes an amount equal to 
the income from this gift, the entire proceeds to be 
used for scientific research. The conditions and gift 
have been accepted by the University. Mr. A. Bonn- 
heim, of Sacramento, has given to the University of 
California an endowment of 6o0ol., with provision for 
NO. 2382, VOL. 95] 
| its subsequent increase to 32,000l., the income to be 

| The 
devoted to the maintenance of scholarships. Another 
gift of 17,0001. has been made for the erection of dormi- 
tories at Cornell University. This gift comes from 
the same anonymous contributor of 50,0001. some time 
ago. 
In his last report to the Union Government of South 
Africa, the Secretary for Agriculture points out that 
the difficulty of procuring good men to fill the scien- 
tific and administrative posts in the Department, which 
has been commented on before, continues. Men of 
| moderate attainments are plentiful and easy to obtain, 
| but good men are more in request than ever. 
It also 
appears as if men who are really worth having, and 
therefore usually ina position to choose, prefer to work 
in universities and other learned institutions which 
are independent or semi-independent of Government 
control, or engage in business on their own account, 
rather than in Government Departments, as in the 
former they have more scope and freedom of action 
and have not to waste time by furnishing multitudes 
of returns and continually explaining and demon- 
strating the necessity for their existence. Seeing that 
the value of the Department to the country depends 
in the first instance entirely upon the quality of its 
| professional and administrative officers, this is a very 
serious matter. Efforts are being made to overcome 
the difficulty of obtaining professional and technical 
officers by giving scholarships to likely young men 
to study at institutions abroad, at which they can get 
the best training obtainable in their particular sub- 
jects. The course of study is usually a four years’ 
one, and a number of scholars have already returned 
and been drafted into the Department. It is con- 
sidered that this is one of the best methods of obtain- 
ing officers for the Department, but it may not entirely 
suffice, and from time to time officers will have to be 
appointed from wherever they are obtainable, as at 
present. 
SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 
LONDON. 
Linnean Society, June 3.—Prof. E. B. Poulton, presi- 
dent, in the chair—The Misses Katherine Foot and 
E. C. Strobell: The results of crossing two Hemi- 
pterous species, with reference to the inheritance of two 
exclusively male characters. This may be considered 
as a continuation of the paper published in the 
Society’s Journal (zoology), xxxii. (1914), pp- 337-373) 
on crossing Euschistus variolarius with E. servus, 
and the inheritance of a spot on the genital segment, 
which was an exclusively male character in the former 
species. The newly-discovered male character now 
investigated is the length of the intromittent organ, 
and is tabulated in the paper. The results of the 
crossing were not in accordance with Mendelian ratios 
as regards F, individuals. The authors further show 
that male characters can be transmitted without the 
Y chromosome. H. W. Monckton: Note on the plant- 
association at the foot of the Boium Glacier, Norway. 
Boium is one of the larger glaciers which 
descends from the great Jostedals snow-field. It flows 
down into a head-valley of the Fjaerlandsfjord, and 
the foot of the ice is 492 feet above the sea. The 
latitude is between 61° and 62°, that is a little north 
of the Shetlands. At the foot of the ice there is the 
usual desolate space with fresh moraine, and plants 
are gradually finding their way on to this ground. In 
places where the ice has advanced a little, plants may 
be found growing and flowering close to the glacier 
itself. Among the plants thus creeping on to the 
moraine were noticed a combination of mountain and 
