NATURE 



[October 17, 1912 



to Loch Assynt, under the leadership of Dr. Peach 

 and Dr. Home, and another to the country between 

 Aberdeen and .Arbroath, under the leadership of Mr. 

 Barrow, Dr. Campbell, and Dr. Hickling. These 

 were very enjoyable and instructive, and proved great 

 attractions to the foreign g'eologists and a large 

 number of their British confreres. 



W. Lower Carter. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge. — The John Winbolt prize has been 



awarded to R. V. Southwell, of Trinity College, for 



an essay on "The Failure of Thin Tubes by Instability 



or Secondary Flexure." 



Birmingham. — During the winter and spring terms 

 two courses of lectures on "Civic Design and Town 

 Planning" are to be given, by Mr. Raymond Unwin, 

 in the department of civil engineering. 



The following appointments have been made : — Mr. 

 C. Walker as lecturer in physiology ; Mr. Laurence 

 Ball as assistant lecturer in pathology and bacterio- 

 logy; Mr. P. M. Chadwick, assistant lecturer and 

 demonstrator in civil engineering ; Mr. A. Clubb, 

 demonstrator in mining (as successor to Mr. C. D. 

 Mottram) ; Mr. H. L Coe, assistant lecturer and de- 

 monstrator in metallurgy. Mr. Percy May has re- 

 signed his post as assistant lecturer and demonstrator 

 in chemistry, and Mr. Frederick Challenger has been 

 nominated to the vacancy. 



A COURSE of free lectures to teachers on "The Past 

 Around Us," a series of brief studies introductory to 

 the folk-culture of Britain, is being given by Mr. 

 Walter W. Skeat, at the Horniman Museum, Forest 

 Hill, S.E., on Saturday mornings, from October 12 

 to December 14. .Admission is by ticket only, to be 

 obtained from the Clerk of the London County 

 Council. 



Lectures on volcanic action, earth movements, the 

 geological action of water, and the evolution of scenery 

 and life on the globe are to be delivered by Dr. 

 Werner Marchand on October 17, 24, and 31, in the 

 meeting rooms of the British Esperanto Association, 

 n3 High Holborn (Museum Station Buildings), W.C. 

 Thev will commence at 7.30 p.m., and will be delivered 

 in Esperanto. 



The winter meetings of the Child Study Society 

 begin this evening at the Royal Sanitary Institute', 

 when Dr. T. P. Nunn will lecture on the psychological 

 development of the school subjects. The list of lec- 

 tures and discussions to be held this year provides 

 many subjects of interest to students "and teachers 

 concerned with the education of children. Particulars 

 as to membership may be obtained from the honorary 

 secretary of the society, Mr. W. j. Durrie Mulford, 

 QO Buckingham Palace Road, London, S.W. 



The University College (London) Committee will 

 shortly proceed to fill the vacancy in the Quain 

 studentship in biology which has been created b^ the 

 resignation of Mr. E. J. Salisbury, on his appointment 

 as lecturer in botany at the East London College. 

 Any student of the college is eligible for the student- 

 ship who has for at least three terms attended one 

 or more classes in the special study in respect of 

 which the studentship is awarded. AoJDlications should 

 be received on or before Saturday, October 26. 



For some time articles have been appearing at 

 regular intervals in the Journal of the Department of 

 Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland 

 describing recently established Irish technical schools. 

 Those articles have been published afterwards as 

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separate pamphlets for distribution by the department. 

 The twelfth and thirteenth contributions to the series 

 have been received in booklet form. The former is 

 called "Technical Instruction in Limerick," and has 

 been written by Mr. J. Comerton, the principal of 

 the Limerick Technical Institute ; the other deals 

 similarly with Cork, and is by Dr. John H. Grindley, 

 principal of the Crawford Municipal Technical Insti- 

 tute, Cork. The accounts of the work done in tech- 

 nical education in these important Irish industrial 

 centres provide e.\cellent evidence of the success which 

 is attending the department's efforts to meet the 

 educational needs in different parts of Ireland. 



The distinguishing characteristic of the calendar 

 for the present session of the City of Bradford Tech- 

 nical College is the excellent series of thirty plates, 

 which chiefly illustrate the very complete arrange- 

 ments made for the practical study of the branches of 

 technology on which the industries of the district 

 depend. This college awards certificates, diplomas, 

 and an associateship. The diploma of the college is 

 awarded to each day student who has been in attend- 

 ance for three complete sessions, subsequent to pass- 

 ing an entrance examination, and has passed the 

 college examinations in all subjects of the diploma 

 course taken. The diploma is awarded to evening 

 students under the same regulations as to day 

 students, except that an evening student who has been 

 at least three years in attendance, and has obtained 

 the ordinary certificate, is exempt from the first-year 

 diploma course. To become an associate a candidate 

 must be twenty-one years of age and have had at least 

 one year's practical experience with a firm engaged 

 in his trade or profession, subsequent to obtaining 

 the diploma. Some of the subjects in which diplomas 

 may be obtained are : preparing, com.bing and spin- 

 ning, weaving and cloth structure, chemistry and 

 dyeing, and power production and transmission. 



On Wednesday, October g, at Bradfield College, 

 Berks, a new block of science rooms was opened by 

 Sir William Osier, F.R.S. A large proportion of the 

 boys at the college have studied science during the last 

 twenty years, and some fifty to seventy pupils work in 

 the mechanical shops added in 189S. The new science 

 schools have this year been added to deal more effec- 

 tively with the growing demand, and mainly through 

 the efforts of the present headmaster, the Rev. H. 

 Co.stley White. ."Xmong the assembly present at the 

 ceremony were the warden (Mr. Edward Arm- 

 strong)," the Right Hon. G. W. Palmer, Mr. 

 R. Dvke .Acland.'K.C, Sir Arthur Riicker, F.R.S. , 

 and Mr. J. H. Benj'on. Sir William Osier, in a 

 speech after the ceremony, dwelt on what he con- 

 sidered to be an ideal education for those suited to and 

 seeking scientific pursuits in after life. He would 

 have a thorough knowledge of Latin and Greek ; he 

 believed in the optimistic Greek outlook on life for. 

 boys; during his last two years the boy should 

 specialise in science, which should occupy most of his 

 school hours. The speaker objected very strongly to 

 the use of the term "stinks" as applied to science, 

 study. He said that that one word had done more harm 

 in implying discredit to, and in keeping back pupils 

 from the study of, the subject than any other factor. 

 The new science block is detached from the rest of 

 the school buildings, and has an attractive exterior. 

 The entrance lobbv leads into two chemical labora- 

 tories on the right and two physics rooms on the 

 left, each easily accommodating twenty boys. In the 

 chemical laboratories each room is adequately fitted 

 with fume cupbo.-irds, balance slabs, and store cup- 

 boards, and has n raised demonstration bench at one 

 end of the room. The two physics rooms are each sup- 



