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Lonpon: THe LisTER INSTITUTE. 
Martin, Dr. C. J., director, Major A.A.M.S. 
Petrie, Dr. G. F., assistant bacteriologist, 
R.A.M.C, 
Rowland, S., assistant bacteriologist, Major R.A.M.C. 
Robison, Dr. R., assistant in biochemistry, Lieut. 
R.A.M.C. 
Lieut. 
OxrorD: UNIVERSITY. 
Bourdillon, R. B., chemistry tutor, University College, 
Lieut. R.F.C. (S.R.). : 
Edmunds, P. J., demonstrator in physics, 2nd Lieut. 
Royal Engineers. 
Hartley, H. B., chemistry tutor, Balliol College, Capt. 
7th (S.) Batt. Leicestershire Regiment. 
Schuster, E. H. J., biology fellow, New College, 
Lieut. Wessex Royal Garrison Artillery. 
(Gill, W. B., demonstrator in physics, is Lieut. in the 
R.E. and not R.G.A., as stated last week.) 
SipMouTH: THE Hitt OBSERVATORY. 
Lockyer, Dr. W. J. S., chief assistant, 
R.N.V.R. (Air Service). 
Lieut. 

UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
CamBripGE.—The following awards for research have 
been made at Emmanuel College :—Studentship of 
r20l., J. Conway Davies, for research on the baronial 
opposition to Edward II.; studentship of 1ool., O. H. 
Hoexter, for an investigation of certain problems of 
currency; grants from the Research Studentship Fund, 
G. Matthai, Mackinnon student of the Royal Society, 
sol. towards expenses while investigating the 
morphology of coral; J. Morrison, 6ol. towards the 
expenses of investigation of the relative age of the 
intrusive rocks in the Shap district. 
Lonpon.—Dr. F. A. Bainbridge has been appointed 
to the University chair of physiology, tenable at St. 
Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School. He has 
been professor of physiology at Durham since 1g1t. 
The D.Sc. degree in organic chemistry has been 
granted to Mr. O. L. Brady, Royal College of 
Science, and the D.Sc. degree in engineering to Mr. 
Oscar Faber, an external student. 
A new Board of Studies in Horticulture has been 
constituted, and regulations have been approved for 
diplomas in town-planning and civic architecture, and 
in town-planning and civic engineering. 
Honorary bachelor degrees are to be conferred, in 
faculties other than medicine, on internal students 
who, on account of war service, have been prevented 
from completing the courses of study and examina- 
tions for their degrees. 
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Of these 210 
MancHESTER.—Since the outbreak of the war 
cadets have been granted commissions. 
were not members of the University, but were enrolled - 
in the University Officers Training Corps, under the 
command of Major Sir Thomas Holland, the professor 
of geology. The officers of the contingent have 
specialised in such subjects as map reading, elemen- 
tary field engineering, infantry tactics, military law, 
signalling, and army organisation. Cadet Sergt. 
Edgar has also given lectures on military history. 
Students in the department of economics have been 
working under the direction of Prof. Chapman, in 
collecting statistics for the Board of Trade. In the 
chemical, metallurgical, and engineering departments, 
both in the faculty of science and that of technology, 
important work is being done for the War Office and 
for the Admiralty, and a considerable number oi the 
members of the staff and students are engaged in 
scientific investigations and tests for the Government. | atropine. 
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-of working recalls Mt. Pelée. 
The women members of the staff have organised 
among the women students two Red Cross detach- 
ments and other groups offering special social service. 

Science announces that Mr. J. J. Hill has given 
25,0001. to Harvard: University to endow a professor- 
ship of transportation in the graduate school of busi- 
ness administration. We learn from the same source 
that a trust fund of 20,000l., the proceeds of which 
are to be divided between the William Pepper Clinical 
Laboratory, of Medicine and the Latin and Greek 
department, is bequeathed to the University of Penn- 
sylvania under the will of Samuel Dickson, of Phil- 
adelphia. 
Tue trustees of the Beit Fellowships for Scientific 
Research, which were founded and endowed two years 
ago by Mr. Otto Beit, in order to promote the ad- 
vancement of science by means of research, have 
recently elected to fellowships the following :—Mr. 
W. B. Haines, of Leytonstone, Mr. C. K. Ingold, of 
Chiswick; and Mr. H. N. Walsh, of Cork. Mr. 
Haines studied at. University College, London, from 
1907 to 1913, at the University of Gottingen, 1913-14, 
and has since been at the Imperial College. Mr. 
Ingold was an exhibitioner of the University of Lon- 
don in rgi2, and a royal scholar in 1913; from 1911 
to 1913 he was at the Hartley University College, 
Southampton. Mr..Walsh received his education in 
Ireland. He was a scholar, medallist, and prizeman 
at University College, Cork, and is now assistant to 
Prof. Alexander. The three fellows will carry on their 
respective researches in the Imperial College of Science 
and Technology. 

AND ACADEMIES. 
Paris. 
Academy of Sciences, July 12M. Ed. Perrier in the 
chair.—]. Boussinesq: Reflections on the principles of 
the dynamics of Aristotle and their agreement with 
experiment in the case of uniform phenomena. 
B. Boulyguine : The representation of an integral num- 
ber by a sum of squares.—J. Deprat: The mode of 
formation of two Japanese volcanic centres, Aso-San 
and Asama-Yama, compared with the volcanic centres 
of ancient geological periods. The structure of the 
voleano of Aso-San is exactly comparable with the 
great volcanic centre of Anglona, in Sardinia. Asama- 
Yama has another type of structure, and in its mode 
It compares exactly 
Ferru, in Sardinia.— 
SOCIETIES 

with the trachyte dome of Monte 
D. Eginitis: The geological phenomena observed 
during the two last earthquakes at Leucade and 
Ithaca. The dislocations due to seismic phenomena 
can be traced historically from the first century right 
up to the present time, and represent a continuation 
of the great geological phenomena which — have 
separated the island of Leucade from the mainland 
of Greece. There is no conclusive evidence of volcanic 
manifestations, the appearance of clouds on the Leu- 
cade mountains, observed during the last earthquake, 
being most probably due to dust arising from the fall 
of rocks.—F. Bordas‘and S. Bruére: Contribution to 
the study of the phenomena of putrefaction. It is the 
custom in France, in the country, to bury small 
animals which have died on the farm in the manure 
heap. It is shown that complete resolution of the 
organic elements of the body takes place very rapidly 
under these conditions, the organisms present 1n the 
manure assisting the rapidity of the decomposition.— 
Mare Tifieneau : Comparison of the various adrenalines 
and their homologues, measured by their action upon 
the arterial pressure in a dog under the influence of 
The dogs used in these experiments were 
