June 2 1, 1906] 



NA TURE 



189 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Ca.mbuidge.— The HarUness scholarship in geology has 

 been gained bv B. Smith, of Sidney, and the Wiltshire 

 prize in paleontology by W. A. R. Wilks, of GonviUe and 

 Caius. 



The Cavendish professor announces a course of demon- 

 strations in physics at the laboratory during the long 

 vacation, beginning on July 4. 



The VictoVia medal of honour has been awarded by the 

 Royal Horticultural Society to Mr. R. I. Lynch, curator 

 ol the Botanic Garden. 



.•\ thousand willow-cuttings have been supplied from the 

 garden to the Midlands Re-afforesting .Association for the 

 planting of waste-heaps in the " Black Country." 



In the Natural Sciences Tripos, part i., thirty-eight 

 men and no women obtain a first class; in part ii., twelve 

 men and three women are in the first class, six being 

 distinguished in physics and four in physiology. 



Mr. H. O. Wills, of Kelston Knoll, near Bristol, has 

 promised a contribution of 10,000!. towards the foundation 

 of a university at Bristol. 



The annual garden-parly will be held at Guy's Hospital 

 on Wednesday, July 4, when Sir W. Cameron Gull, Bart., 

 will distribute the medals and prizes to the successful 

 students. 



A George Combe lectureship in general and experi- 

 mental psychology has been established in connection with 

 the philosophical department of the University of Edin- 

 burgh. The funds for the lecturer's salary will be pro- 

 vided mainly by the Combe trustees, who have also con- 

 tributed 300;. towards the equipment of a laboratory. 



The Senate of the University of Dublin has decided to 

 confer, at the summer commencements on July 31, the 

 honorary degree of Sc.D. on Colonel David Bruce, C.B. ; 

 Prof. J. H. Poincar^, professor of mathematics and astro- 

 nomy at the Sorbonne; Mr. E. T. Whittaker, F.R.S., 

 FpMow of Trinity College, Cambridge, .Astronomer Roval 

 of Ireland; and Dr. A. E. Wright, F.R.S. 



The Daily Chronicle (June 20) announces that Sir 

 William Macdonald has presented an agricultural college 

 and an endowment of two million dollars (400,000!.) to the 

 McOill University, Montreal. .Sir William founded this 

 agricultural college some time ago, in order to provide the 

 youth of Canada with facilities for a thorough scientific 

 education in agriculture. 



.At University College (University of London) on July 3 

 the dean of the faculty of arts will read a report on the 

 work of the session ; the result of the University, scholar- 

 ship and class examinations will be announced, and prizes 

 and medals will be distributed by Dr. G. Carey Foster, 

 F.R.S. (emeritus professor of physics, and formerly prin- 

 cipal of the college). Lord Reay, president of the college, 

 who will preside, will receive for the college from Prof. 

 F. T. Trouton, acting on behalf of the subscribers, the 

 portrait of Dr. G. Carey Foster, painted by Mr. Augustus 

 John, and will present a replica thereof to Mrs. Carey 

 Foster. 



A COURSE of demonstrations and practical work in field 

 and laboratory, on the applications of science to rural life 

 and outdoor industries, will be held at the South-Eastern 

 .Agricultural College, Wye, about the last week in July 

 or the first week in August. The course will be designed 

 to meet the needs of science masters in rural secondary 

 schools who have to teach various branches of science to 

 country children. The work will be mainly practical 

 investigation into the bearing of science on outdoor life, 

 and lectures will be given to indicate the lines on which 

 science teaching in rural secondary schools could be de- 

 veloped usefully. The cost of the fortnight's course will 

 he -il., including board and residence in the college. Full 

 particulars may be obtained from the principal, Mr. 

 M. J. R. Dunstan, at the college. 



Further generous gifts to education by American men 

 of wealth are announced by Science. Mr. David Rankin, 

 of St. Louis, has decided to give 400,000!. to found an 



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industrial and manual training school in St. Louis. Mr. 

 Clarence H. Mackay and his mother have together given 

 10,000!. for the immediate erection of a building for the 

 College of Mines in connection with the University of 

 Nevada. This building is to house the department of 

 mining and metallurgy and that of geology and mineralogy. 

 A recent State appropriation for the metallurgical labor- 

 atory has provided the University with a new ore-treating 

 equipment which will be suitable for inst.aUing in the new 

 quarters. The building will also contain a geological 

 museum. Furthermore, Mr. F. M. Smith has arranged to 

 provide an income of 200I. a year to be used for the sup- 

 port and encouragement of students in the mining school. 

 This will in general be divided into five annual schol.ir- 

 ships of 40!. each to be known as the F. M. Smith 

 scholarships open to deserving students irrespective of 

 citizenship or residence. 



It is satisfactory to know that the attempt made at the 

 meeting of the Liverpool City Council to reduce the grant 

 of 10,000!. to the LIniversity of Liverpool met with scant 

 support. The grant was renewed by an overwhelming 

 majority. We should like to agree with Sir Charles Pelrie. 

 who said at the meeting he could not think the mover and 

 seconder of the amendment were serious, but there is still 

 in this country a widespread want of appreciation of the 

 national value of university teaching and research, and no 

 effort must be spared to bring home to local authorities 

 the duty devolving upon them to assist every grade of 

 education to the fullest extent possible. .As Chancellor of 

 the University of Liverpool, Lord Derby has formally 

 accepted from' Miss Isabella Gregson, formerly of Liver- 

 pool, the gift of the Gregson Memorial Institute and 

 Museum. The gift is to be utilised for university extension 

 purposes, and represents in money value, with an endow- 

 ment of ^oool. added by the founder, about 300,000!. It 

 was erected some years ago by Miss Gregson at her 

 mother's request for purposes of scientific recreation in 

 memory of her father, mother, brother, and sister. 



In the foundation oration in connection with the Union 

 Society, delivered at University College, London, on 

 June 13, Sir Arthur Riicker, F.R.S., took for his subject 

 the forthcoming incorporation of the college in the Uni- 

 versity of London. He emphasised the fact that L'niversity 

 College is undenominational, and is to be united to an 

 undenominational university. University College was the 

 first great step towards bringing university teaching into 

 the centre of the great masses of population. It may be 

 said that the University of Cambridge owes indirectly its 

 great physiological school to the college, for it was one of 

 its students who developed there the idea. The college 

 with its large resources has offered itself to the new- uni- 

 versity, and has made possible an absolute fusion. A sum 

 of about a quarter of a million has been raised with this 

 object in view. It is an open secret, Sir -Arthur Riicker 

 continued, that the University is in full negotiation with 

 King's College with the view of that also becoming a 

 college of the University. The University does not intend 

 to injure or destroy University College in any way what- 

 ever ; the college has a name and a reputation with which 

 none but a madman would attempt to interfere. If the 

 principal educational institutions in London are drawn 

 together, it is hoped that the University will obtain the 

 recognition, appreciation, and loyalty which are required for 

 success. In conclusion, the principal of London University 

 expressed the hope that the members of University College 

 will support all movements for drawing the students of 

 the LTnlversity more closely together. .All wanted to create 

 a great university, and this would be of the very greatest 

 importance to the whole of London. 



The Duke of Devonshire, as president of the National 

 Association for the Promotion of Technical and Secondary 

 Education, took the chair at the annual meeting held on 

 June 15. During his opening speech the president said. In 

 consequence of the exertions of the association in past 

 years the position of technical and secondary education 

 has been completely changed, the Government and the 

 local authorities having taken up the question. The work 

 for which the association was established to carry on has 

 been to a great extent accomplished. The association is 



