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ing as these do on immense and fundamental scientific 
problems. Any fishery agreement is. useless unless 
all neighbouring countries are signatories, and the 
matter is one of the food of a vast number of the 
human race. Furthermore, in the extension of such 
international institutions lies the best hope of per- 
manent peace. 

UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
CamBripGE.—Prof. Albert C. Seward, professor of 
botany in the University, has been elected master of 
Downing College, in succession to the late Prof. 
Howard Marsh. 
Tue Medical College of the University of Cincin- 
nati received several large donations during July. We 
learn from Science that Mrs. Mary M. Emery pro- 
mised the University the sum of 50,0001. for a new 
medical college building, on the condition that an addi- 
tional 50,000l. be raised by July 1 for its equipment 
and maintenance. At the appointed time, Dean C. R. 
Holmes, of the College of Medicine, announced that 
the 50,0001. had been secured. The sum of 6o0ol. has 
just been raised by citizens of Cincinnati for the 
purpose of maintaining for three years a chair of 
medicine in the Medical College. The chair will be 
known as the Frederick Forchheimer chair of medi- 
cine, in honour of the late Dr. Frederick Forchheimer, 
who was for years professor of medicine at the 
Medical College. 
THE new metallurgical buildings at the University 
College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff, 
were formally opened on Monday, July 26, by Sir 
Clifford J. Cory, Bart., M.P. © The building which 
has been erected forms an important addition to the 
present department of metallurgy, and provides accom- 
modation for assaying, analysis of fuels, metallo- 
graphy, and photomicrographic work, lecture theatre, 
professors’ private room, balance- and reading-rooms, 
etc. The laboratories are of considerable size, lofty, 
well lighted and ventilated, and contain the most 
modern and up-to-date equipment for teaching these 
branches of metallurgy. The erection of this new 
building is due to the generosity ef the South Wales 
and Monmouthshire Coalowners’ Association, in 
acknowledging which, Prof. Read directed attention to 
the fact that to enable the college to help, as it 
should, the industrial progress of the works in the 
district, provision would have to be made in the near 
future for putting down experimental furnaces for 
smelting and other operations, so as to be able to 
provide a thorough practical training for metallurgical 
Students. 
Tue Department of Technology of the City and 
Guilds of London Institute has issued through Mr. 
John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, W., at the 
price of ninepence net, its programme for the session 
1915-16. The programme contains the regulations 
for the registration, conduct, and inspection of classes, 
the examination of candidates in technological sub- 
jects, and the award of teachers’ certificates in manual 
training and domestic subjects. ‘Ve notice that the 
syllabuses in both coal-tar distillation and intermediate 
products and in electro-metallurgy have been revised, 
that in boot and shoe manufacture has been redrafted, 
and the revised syllabus in mechanical engineering 
issued separately last session is now included in the 
programme. The conditions governing the award of 
full technological certificates in painters’ and decora- 
tors’ work, cabinet-making, bookbinding, and em- 
broidery have been modified, and the lists of works 
of reference have been revised. The department now 
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examines in more than eighty separate branches of 
technology, and the constitution of the examinations 
board, the representative character of the panel of con- 
sultative examiners, and the large number of practical 
men among the acting examiners, all provide con- 
vincing evidence of the pains taken by the executive 
committee to ensure that thoroughly practical teach- 
ing, based consistently upon sound scientific know- 
ledge, shall be given in the technical institutions 
throughout the country. 
Tue Board of Education has issued its Regulations 
for Technical Schools, etc., in England and Wales for 
the session 1915-16. They are not, except for minor 
matters, materially different from those of last year. 
The arrangement as to the payment of a fixed, or in- 
clusive (as it is now termed), annual grant in respect 
of any efficient school occupying a definite educational 
place in the area and providing approved courses of 
instruction covering five or more years, is now ex- 
tended to apply to senior or advanced courses, and the 
Board will also under certain conditions pay an inclu- 
sive grant to a local authority in respect of all courses 
carried on under its direction for the year 1915-16, 
and grants may be paid for the year 1914-15 calculated 
upon the same basis. Examinations upon the courses 
of study must be held by the teachers in each year, 
and in the final year an external assessor must be 
associated with the teachers, but other arrangements 
| may be approved for students taking senior part-time 
courses. Certain new conditions are attached to the 
endorsement of certificates. The onerous condition 
still remains in the regulations for junior technical 
schools whereby the pupil must enter upon the employ- 
ment for which the school provides, thus debarring a 
clever pupil from entering upon the advanced courses 
of a higher technical school, and recognition will be 
refused to a school unless the pupils so enter. - Classes in 
university tutorial courses may be duplicated so as 
to enable artisan students to attend the one or the 
| other, and arrangements will be approved for special 
advanced courses of instruction, where adequate pro- 
vision exists for tutorial classes of the ordinary 
standard, for students who have passed through the 
three years’ course satisfactorily. The exigencies of 
the war have caused the Board to sanction short 
courses suitable for recruits, and for housewives in 
economical cookery. 
In October next the Athenaeum proposes to start a 
subject index to periodicals as a regular monthly issue. 
The index is to embrace bibliography, ‘theology, 
philosophy, sociology, geography, history, the fine 
arts, belles-lettres, and the science of everyday life. 
Pure science, law, and medicine will not be included. 
A preliminary notice of the scheme appeared in the 
issue of our contemporary for July 3, and specimens of 
the proposed lists have been given in succeeding issues 
in the form of an index to publications relating to 
science and technology, with special reference to the 
war. A very large number of cross-references make 
it easy to find one’s way about the index already pub- 
lished. The Athenaeum proposes to index more than 
two hundred periodicals—English, American, and Con- 
tinental—with occasional selections from a much wider 
field. We imagine it will be found extremely difficult 
to decide which periodicals are to be favoured by 
inclusion among the two hundred. The short speci- 
men index published already contains references to 
more than sixty periodicals. The International Cata- 
logue of Scientific Literature, which has been indexing 
the literature of science for the past ten or twelve 
| years, indexes not fewer than 8000 periodicals. So 
| long as authors continue to publish important papers 
| in little-known periodicals, it will be impossible to 
| produce a complete index without taking the less 

