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NATURE 



[May 29. 191: 



election to the studentship in the year 1913. Candi- 

 dates are required to send in their "applications to the 

 professor of physiology before the end of June with 

 a statement of the course of research which they pro- 

 pose to undertake. 



The Board of Agricultural Studies, in consultation 

 with the president of the Royal Agricultural Society, 

 has nominated C. R. Fay to be the Gilbev lecturer 

 on the history and economics of agriculture 



The General Board of Studies is authorised to 

 appoint a University lecturer in agricultural physiology 

 for a further period of five years from midsummer 

 1913. The lecturer will receive an annual stipend of 

 200L, payable out of the agricultural education fund. 

 Leeds.— Mr. W. A. Millard, formerly assistant lec- 

 turer in botany, has been appointed lecturer in agri- 

 cultural botany. B 



A series of week-end lectures on modern Germany 

 will commence on May 31, and will be continued on 

 June 6, 7, and 14. Among the lecturers will be Dr 

 Hiby, managing director of the Otto Coke Oven Co 

 on industrial and social conditions; Prof. Smithells' 

 on the story of German science; and Mr. J. L. Paton,' 

 on modern German education. 



Manchester.— The council has made a number of 

 appointments and rearrangements in the department 

 %\i u en ^l Stry consei 3 uent on the resignation of Prof. 

 W. H. Perkin on his acceptance of the chair of chem- 

 istry at Oxford. Dr. A. Lapworth, F.R.S., has been 

 appointed professor of organic chemistry and Dr. 

 Charles Weizmann has been appointed reader in bio- 

 chemistry and lecturer in colouring matters. Dr 

 E. C. Edgar and Dr. F. B. Burt have been made 

 senior lecturers in chemistry. Prof. H. B. Dixon 

 has been reappointed director of the chemical labora- 

 tories, to supervise the department as a whole. 



Mr. Edward Sandeman has been appointed asso- 

 ciate professor of engineering in the University. He 

 will lecture on water supply and irrigation, and will 

 be responsible for the studies of all students specialis- 

 ing in this branch of engineering. 



Oxford.— The fourth Halley lecture was delivered 

 in the schools on May 22 by Dr. Louis A. Bauer, 

 director of the department of research in terrestrial 

 magnetism in the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 L.S.A. The subject of the lecture was "The Earth's 

 Magnetism." Dr. Bauer paid a tribute to Halley as 

 one of the greatest among early investigators of' the 

 variations of the compass. He described the two 

 years' cruise undertaken by Hallev in the years 169S- 

 1700, at the cost of William III.,' for the 'purpose of 

 making magnetic observations. The expedition 

 which left New York four years ago in the Carnegie 

 had followed the same track, but found a great 

 alteration in the magnetic conditions. The magnetic 

 poles were gradually shifting. Though Halley 's 

 theory of terrestrial magnetism w-as not strictly cor- 

 rect, it seems to have been the first definite recogni- 

 tion of the complexity of the problem. This would 

 not be completely solved until the physicists were able 

 to answer the question, What is magnetism? 



A valuable lecture on wireless telegraphy has been 

 given before the Ashmolean Society by Air. W.- G. 

 Gill, of the Officers Training Corps and fellow of 

 Merton College. 



Entries for. the Final Honour School in Natural 



Science number eighty-nine, distributed as follows : 



Physics, ten ; chemistry, thirty-two ; zoology, two ; 

 physiology, eighteen; botany,' five; geolog'v, ten ; 

 engineering science, twelve. 



On May 27 Congregation passed the preambles of 

 two statutes relating to the holders of professorships 

 at present tenable for life, an*d to which no canonry 

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is annexed. The statutes provide that every such pro- 

 fessor shall vacate office within one year of attainin"- 

 the age of seventy years, and that a scheme of pen^ 

 sions shall be established to apply to professors vacat- 

 ing office under the above conditions. If these 

 statutes are finally adopted in their present form, they 

 will not apply to any of the present holders of pro- 

 fessorships, nor, in all probability, to any of their 

 successors for some years to come. It has, however, 

 been widely felt that some steps should now be taken 

 to provide for the eventual establishment of a satis- 

 factory system of retirement and pension, nothing of 

 the kind being at present in existence. 



The University of Glasgow has received, under the 

 will of Miss Jeanie Pollock, of Glasgow, the sum of 

 10,000/. for providing a materia medica research lec- 

 tureship. 



Dr. GroRGE Barger has been appointed by the 

 Senate of the University of London to the University 

 chair of chemistry tenable at the Royal Hollowav 

 College, with the status of appointed teacher. 



Dr. S. B. Schryver, biochemist at the Research 

 Institute of the Cancer Hospital, Brompton Road, 

 S.W., has been appointed assistant professor of bio- 

 chemistry at the Imperial College of Science and 

 Technology. 



The board of regents of the University of Nebraska 

 recently voted a general increase in the salaries of 

 deans and professors in the University. Science states 

 that the necessary 7000/. was obtained from the addi- 

 tional maintenance grant voted by the last legislature. 

 _ Dr. L. F. Guttmann, formerly of London Univer- 

 sity and the College of the City of New York, and for 

 the last four years assistant professor of physical and 

 industrial chemistry at Queen's University, Kingston, 

 Canada, has been appointed associate professor of 

 chemical engineering in this University. 



It is now announced that the executors of the late 

 Sir J. Wernher, Bart., have completed the allocation of 

 the 100,000?. bequeathed to them to be devoted to 

 charitable and educational purposes. 35,000/. has 

 been allotted to charitable and educational purposes in 

 South Africa, and the balance of 65,000/. has been dis- 

 tributed over nearly 150 different institutions in this 

 country. Among the grants for scientific and educa- 

 tional purposes may be mentioned : to the Institute 

 of Mining and Metallurgy, 5000/. ; the Imperial Ser- 

 vice College, Windsor (to found a scholarship for Bed- 

 fordshire), 2500/. ; the London School of Tropical 

 Medicine, 1500/. ; and lesser amounts to the London 

 School of Economics, the Bedford College for Women, 

 and the Working Men's College. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



London. 

 Geological Society, May 7.— Dr. Aubrey Strahan, 

 president, and afterwards Mr. W. Whitaker, in the 

 chair.— M. Odling : The Bathonian rocks of the Oxford 

 district. The lithology, palaeontology, and strati- 

 graphy of the Bathonian rocks north of Oxford are 

 described, from the evidence afforded by numerous 

 quarries and well-borings and bv the Ardley Cutting. 

 The general sequence is given. After a general 

 account of the series, the points of interest "in the 

 sections and their relations are described; and it is 

 pointed out that, although no definite zones can be 

 formulated, the different horizons are recognisable by 

 their assemblage of fossils. The chemical and micro- 



