June 26, 19 13] 



NATURE 



439 



Lord Kelvin is represented standing erect. In the 

 extended left hand there is a design of one of his 

 discoveries — the adaptation of a gyroscope — and in the 

 right hand is a pencil pointing to the drawing. By 

 the side of the figure stands a representation of the 

 Kelvin compass. 

 The inscriptions are as follows : — 

 The front of the pedestal bears the single word 

 'Kelvin." On the right side is the following in- 

 scription : — 



Sir William Thomson, Knt., 

 Baron Kelvin of Largs, 

 P.C., O.M., G.C.V.O., 

 Born in Belfast, 1824, 



of Ulster Lineage. 

 Died at Largs, 1907. 

 Lies interred in Westminster Abbey. 

 The inscription on the left-hand side of the pedestal 

 ■eads as follows : — 



President of the Royal Society, 



Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, 



Following 53 years of service in the 



Chair of Natural Philosophy. 



Pre-eminent in elucidating 



The Laws of Nature and in applying them 



to the service of Man. 



Memorial Tablets. 



It may be mentioned that the committee in charge 



of the memorial has made provision for the placing, 



in the Hall of Queen's University; of a brass tablet 



in memory of Lord Kelvin's brother, Prof. Sir James 



Thomson, who filled the chair of engineering in 



Queen's College, Belfast, from 1857 to 1873. 



A brass tablet is also to be placed in the Common 

 Hall of the Belfast Royal Academical Institution as 

 a memorial to Lord Kelvin's father, Prof. James 

 Thomson, who was professor of mathematics in the 

 Belfast College from 1S14 to 1832. In addition, a 

 memorial plate to Lord Kelvin is to be placed in the 

 ( ity Hall, as well as a tablet upon the house in 

 College Square East, Belfast, where Lord Kelvin was 

 born. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Leeds. — Dr. H. S. Raper, lecturer in pathological 

 chemistry in the University of Toronto, has been 

 appointed lecturer in chemical physiology. 



The chair of applied chemistry (chemistry of leather 

 manufacture), which becomes vacant on October 1 

 by the resignation of Prof. H. R. Procter, will be 

 occupied after that date by Dr. E. Stiasny. Dr. 

 Stiasny has been assistant-professor in the department 

 for the last four years, and was previously professor 

 in the Imperial Institute for Leather Industries at 

 Vienna. 



The University has recently received a valuable 

 addition to its scientific collections in the presentation 

 by Mrs. A. H. Clarke, of Earl's Court, of the collec- 

 tion of Continental and exotic Macrolepidoptera made 

 by her late husband. The collection enriches the 

 entomological resources of the University bv more 

 than 12,000 specimens, all carefully set, arranged, and 

 labelled, and to this Mrs. Clarke has generously 

 added her husband's working library of entomological 

 literature, itself a present of great value and utility. 

 The University authorities wish it to be known, in 

 1 onformity with Mrs. Clarke's desires, that, after 

 the immediate work of arranging and cataloguing has 

 been concluded, the collections will be available for 

 reference by entomologists generally upon application 

 to the professor of zoology at the L T niversity. 

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London. — The Senate on June 18 re-elected Dr. 

 \V. P. Herringham as Vice-Chancellor for a second 

 year. Four im-w appointments were made to Univer- 

 sity professorships, including Mr. E. H. Lamb to the 

 (luir of civil and mechanical engineering, tenable at 

 East London College, and Dr. C. G. Seligmann to a 

 part-time chair of ethnology at the London School of 

 Economics. The title of emeritus professor was con- 

 ferred upon Sir William Ramsay. Lord Haldane was 

 appointed Creighton lecturer for next session. 



The D.Sc. degree has been granted to E. R. Wat- 

 son, an external student. 



An anonymous donor has offered 300/. towards the 

 institution of a lectureship in paleobotany at Univer- 

 sity College. 



The prize distribution and conversazione of King's 

 College, King's College for Women, and King's Col- 

 lege Theological Department will be held at King's 

 College, Strand, on Wednesday, July 2. 



The Hon. Mrs. Ronald Greville, daughter of the 

 late Mr. William McEwan, a munificent benefactor of 

 the University of Edinburgh, has presented to the 

 University Mr. McEwan's Edinburgh residence. 



The title of emeritus professor of engineering has 

 been conferred by the governing body of the East 

 London College (University of London) upon Prof. 

 D. A. Low, professor of civil and mechanical engineer- 

 ing, who has served in that institution for twenty-six 

 years. 



The prize fellowship of 120?. offered by the Federa- 

 tion of University Women has been awarded to Miss 

 M. A. Whitele\\ D.Sc. Dr. Whiteley is assistant- 

 lecturer in chemistry at the Imperial College of 

 Science and Technology, and is the author of several 

 communications dealing with compounds of the bar- 

 bituric acid series, and published in the Proceedings 

 and Transactions of the Chemical Society. 



The West Riding of Yorkshire Education Com- 

 mittee has decided to include in the vacation course 

 to be held during August at the Bingley Training 

 College, a laboratory course of experimental science, 

 with lectures and discussions, under the direction of 

 Prof. A. Smithells. This course is intended for science 

 teachers in secondary schools, and especially for those 

 who teach the subject to girls and desire to acquaint 

 themselves with methods of correlating it with domes- 

 tic subjects. It will relate chiefly to the subject of 

 combustion and will discuss general questions con- 

 nected with the teaching of elementary physical 

 science, with special reference to experimental work; 

 provide examples of the teaching of science in rela- 

 tionship to the phenomena and appliances of daily 

 life and especially of domestic life; and give a con- 

 nected account of the modern science of combustion 

 and the chemistry of flame. The course is open to 

 all teachers of science on the payment of_ the fees. 

 Full particulars can be obtained on application to the 

 Education Department, County Hall, Wakefield. 



The Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 

 1851 have made the following appointments under 

 their scheme of science research scholarships, upon 

 the nomination of the universities and colleges men- 

 tioned. The scholarships are of the value of 150/. pet- 

 annum, and are ordinarily tenable for two years :— 

 University of Edinburgh,' H. Levy; University of 

 Glasgow, A. Gray; University of St. Andrews, R. F. 

 Thomson; LTniversity of Birmingham, W. E. Garner; 

 U'niversity of Bristol, F. G. Wilson ; University of 

 Leeds, H. Ogden ; University of Liverpool, J. H. T. 

 Roberts; University of London, W. B. Haines; Univer- 

 sity (if Manchester, J. Chadwick; Armstrong College, 



