December 12, u)\ 



NATURE 



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William Hobson, fellow of Christ's College, and Sad- 

 lerian professor of pure mathematics in the University 

 of Cambridge. 



Bv special invitation of the University of Calcutta, 

 Dr. A. R. Forsyth, F.R.S., will give a course of 

 advanced lectures in pure mathematics early next year. 

 His subject is "The Theory of Functions of Two or 

 More Complex Variables." The course will consist 

 of sixteen lectures, to be delivered late in January and 

 in February, and the lectures will be published later. 



The course of lectures on Indian sociology by Mr. 

 T. C. Hodson will be resumed at East London Col- 

 lege (University of London), Mile End Road, E., on 

 Monday, January 13, at 5.30 p.m., when the subject- 

 matter of the lectures will be tree marriage in India, 

 its significance in non-Aryan races, and other forms of 

 substituted marriage. These lectures are free to the 

 public. 



The Selborne Society is making a representative 

 exhibit at the Children's Welfare Exhibition (which 

 is to be opened at Olympia on December 31), to 

 show what is best in nature-study and its uses to 

 boys and girls. .All who are interested in the subject 

 are invited to communicate with Mr. Wilfred Mark 

 Webb, 42 Bloomsbury Square, W.C., so that he may 

 send them the outline scheme which it is intended 

 more particularly to follow and learn wliat matters 

 of value they could offer to illustrate it. 



In view of the success of the first Summer School 

 of Town Planning, held at the Hampstead Garden 

 Suburb in August last, under the auspices of the 

 University of London, it has been decided to hold a 

 second summer school next year at the same centre. 

 It will last for a fortnight, commencing August 2, and 

 continuing until August 16, and during that time 

 lectures and demonstrations on town planning and 

 subjects practicallv connected therewith will be given 

 by some of the leading authorities. Particulars can 

 be obtained upon application to the hon. secretary 

 of the Summer School, Mr. J. S. Rathbone, The In- 

 stitute, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, N.W. 



A COURSE of lectures and practical instruction on 

 physical anthropology will be given in the anatomy 

 departments of University College and King's Col- 

 lege, London, by Prof. D. W'aterston and Dr. D. E. 

 Derry. The course will begin on Tuesday, January 

 14, at University College, and will comprise the fol- 

 lowing branches of the subject : — Cranioscopy ; cranio- 

 metry ; osteometry ; anthropometry (on the living sub- 

 ject) ; estimate of stature, age, and sex from bones ; 

 comparison with higher mammals, especially anthro- 

 poidea ; and race distribution and characteristics. 

 Further particulars may be had on application to the 

 secretary of King's College, or to tlie secretary of 

 L^niversity College. 



The Eugenics Education Society has arranged for 

 three courses of lectures upon the groundwork of 

 eugenics, to be given at the Imperial College of 

 Science, South Kensington, from January to Decem- 

 ber, 1913. In the spring term (January to March) 

 there will be a course of twelve lectures on elementary 

 biology, with special reference to the reproductive 

 system, by Mr. Clifford Dobell ; in the summer term 

 (April to July), a course of twelve lectures on heredity, 

 including evolution, genetics, and hereditv in man, by 

 Prof. R. C. Punnett, F.R.S. ; and in the autumn term 

 (October to December), a course of twelve lectures on 

 statistical methods applied- to some problems in 

 eugenics, by Mr. G. Udny Yule. 



In connection with the Francis Galton Laboratory 

 for National Eugenics, a course of six lectures will 



NO. 2250, VOL. 90] 



be delivered at L'niversity College, London, by Prof. 

 Karl Pearson, F.R.S. (Galton professor of eugenics), 

 Miss Ethel M. Elderton, Dr. David Heron, and Mr. 

 W. Palin Elderton. These lectures will be given on 

 Tuesday evenings at 8 p.m., beginning February 11, 

 1913, and will deal with the following subjects : — 

 Heredity, environment and parental habits in their 

 relation to infant welfare ; heredity of piebaldism and 

 of albinism in man ; the relation of fertility in man 

 to social value in the parent ; some points with regard 

 to our present knowledge of heredity in cases of feeble- 

 mindedness; the mortality of the phthisical under 

 sanatorium and tuberculin treatments ; and recent 

 studies of heredity in dogs, and their bearing on here- 

 dity in man. The course will be open to the public 

 without fee, but applications for tickets should be 

 addressed to the secretary of University College. 



The scheme for the rebuilding of College Hall — a 

 hall of residence for women students of London Llni- 

 versit}' — has already been referred to in these columns. 

 At a combined meeting of the trust fund committee 

 and the executive committee of the site and rebuilding 

 funds held last w-eek, the chairman of the executive 

 committee, Dr. Gregory Foster, announced that the 

 committee, on reporting the scheme to the Queen, 

 had obtained the gratifying response "that the object 

 was one which met with her Majesty's entire ap- 

 proval," and that "so soon as the necessary funds 

 have been raised to complete the scheme the Queen 

 will be -prepared to give her favourable consideration 

 to the question of College Hall being named after her 

 Majesty." With regard to these funds, it was stated 

 that of the total sum of 30,000/. required, more than 

 9500L has been obtained within the first year. It 

 was decided to make a strong appeal, both publicly 

 and privately, for the 20,500/. necessary to complete 

 the scheme. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



London. 

 Geological Society, November 20. — Dr. Aubrey 

 Strahan, F.R.S., president, in the chair. — H. W. 

 Moncktoa : The Hafslo Lake and the Solvorn Valley 

 (Norway). The district lies north of the main Sogne 

 Fjord and west of the Lyster Fjord. A series of 

 valleys running from the area of the Jostedal snow- 

 field and cutting the belt of Silurian rocks wliich crosses 

 the district in a north-easterly and south-westerly 

 direction, and a second series of valleys which run 

 parallel to the snowfield and to tlie Silurian belt, are 

 described. The valley of the Vejtestrands Lake, which 

 belongs to the first of the above series, is traced until 

 it reaches the Hafslo Lake, which lies at a point 

 where the valleys of the two series intersect. The 

 present line of drainage follows a valley of the second 

 series from the lake to the fjord, but a disused outlet 

 from the lake to the fjord is described belonging to 

 the first series. While the disused outlet is probably 

 the older of the two, reasons are given for believing 

 that both outlets were in use during the latter part 

 of the glacial period. Some giants' kettles, which 

 for various reasons are believed to date from a time 

 when the glacier extended to the places where they 

 are now found, are described, and it is suggested that 

 they were the work of a river flowing under the ice 

 or between the ice and the rock. — S. Smith : The genus 

 .Aulophyllum. Aulophyllum is a genus belonging to 

 the Clisiophyllid group. It is found in the upper beds 

 of the Carboniferous Limestone Series in Britain and 

 on the Continent. It appears in the lower part of 

 the Dibunophvllum zone (D,), becomes common in 

 the middle subdivision of the zone (D,), and is plenti- 

 ful in the highest limestones investigated (D.). The 



