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NA TURE 



[October i8, 1906 



The year-book of the Michigan College of Mines, a 

 pamphlet of 132 pages, accompanied by an atlas of views 

 showing the methods pursued and the facilities for prac- 

 tical instruction afforded by the immediate surroundings, 

 has been received. Established in 1885, and situated in 

 the centre of the Lake Superior mining district, the college 

 furnishes an excellent practical and theoretical training in 

 mining and kindred subjects. 



A COURSE of eight lectures on " The Carbohydrates and 

 their Relations to Living Organisms " will be given in the 

 physiology department of University College, University 

 of London, by Dr. S. B. Schryver, on Wednesdays at 

 5 p.m., beginning on Wednesday, October 24. These 

 lectures are open to all students of the University of 

 London, also to qualified medical men on presentation of 

 their cards, and to such other persons as are specially 

 admitted. 



A COURSE of four lectures on the " Phylogeny of the 

 Higher Crustacea " will be given in the zoological lecture 

 room of University College, London, by Dr. W. T. Caiman, 

 at 5 p.m., on Wednesdays during October and November, 

 beginning on October 24. The lectures are for advanced 

 students of the University and others interested in zoology. 

 There is no fee for the course ; cards of admission may be 

 obtained on application to Mr. P. J. Hartog, academic 

 registrar of the University. 



At the opening of the winter session at St. Andrews 

 University on October 12, Principal Donaldson announced 

 that the Lord Rector, Mr. Carnegie, has offered 10,000/. 

 to build such an addition to the University library as will 

 provide ample space for all the books of the University, 

 and a room where students can read with perfect quiet 

 and with easy access to whatever they may require. Mr. 

 Carnegie has also promised a donation of 11,500!. for a 

 physical laboratory at University College, Dundee. 



According to Science, improvements have been made 

 during the summer at Cornell University which will greatly 

 strengthen the scientific work. New and enlarged quarters 

 have been provided for the engineering department and 

 the departments of geology, physics, and biology. Quanti- 

 tative and organic laboratories have been provided for the 

 chemical department. A large amount of apparatus has 

 been secured for the different subjects. By the death of the 

 sister of the late Mr. W. W. Guiteau, the University will 

 receive the legacy left by him, said to amount to between 

 20,ooof. and 40,000!. 



The Board of Education, South Kensington, has issued 

 the following list of candidates successful in the competi- 

 tion for the Whitworth scholarships and exhibitions, 

 1906 : — (i) Scholarships (tenable for three years), 125!. a 

 year each : — Frederick G. Turner, London ; William E. 

 Hogg, London ; Sidney G. Winn, London ; Samuel Lees, 

 Manchester. — (2) Exhibitions (tenable for one year), value 

 50!. : — William F. Cobbett, Gosport ; William H. Mead, 

 Southsea ; Arthur Williams, Brymbo, Wrexham ; James 

 Bradley, Hollinwood, Lanes ; George E. Morgan, Ports- 

 mouth ; Albert C. H. Connor, Gillingham, Kent; Edgar J. 

 Mitchell, Devonport ; George O. Dawe, Devonport ; Ernest 

 Bate. London : Henry W. Turner, Portsmouth ; William 

 H. C. Coombe, Devonport; Edwin M. Vigers, London; 

 Ronald E. Widdecombe, Saltash ; Frederick R. Rogers, 

 Devonport; Frank H. Cothay, Sunderland; Sidney Vernon, 

 Abbey Wood, Kent ; Frank R. Bloor, Gillingham, Kent ; 

 George W. Hurley, Meersbrook, Sheffield ; Robert James, 

 Pembroke Dock ; Sidney C. Gladwyn, London ; Frederick 

 C. Worton, London ; John Airey, Bradford, Yorks ; 

 Charles A. Wright, Preston ; William G. Weaver, 

 Brighton ; William E. Stokes, London ; Thomas B. Bardo, 

 Sheerness ; Alfred Bailey. Oldham ; John S. Buchanan, 

 Cambuslang, Glasgow ; .Albert E. Palmer, Sunderland ; 

 Henry W. Maskell, London. 



The following list of successful candidates for Royal 

 exhibitions, national scholarships, and free studentships 

 (science) has just been issued by the Board of Education, 

 South Kensington: — Royal Exhibitions: Walter H. Stock, 



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Swindon; John M. Robertson, Pembroke Dock; John C. 

 Nixon, Southsea ; Thomas W. Page, Ipplepen, Newton 

 Abbot ; Charles A. Brearley, Halifax ; William F. Cobbett, 

 Gosport ; Herbert Schofield, Halifax. National Scholar- 

 ships for Mechanics .-—Henry S. Rowell, West Benwell, 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne ; Joseph j. Brooks, Devonport; Albert 

 C. H. Connor, Gillingham, Kent; Frederick Hickey, South- 

 sea; William H. Mead, Southsea. Free Studentships for 

 Mechanics : — Arthur C. Lovi'e, Harrogate ; Frank R. Bloor, 

 Gillingham, Kent ; John Airey, Bradford, Yorks. National 

 Scholarships for Physics :— Douglas \'. Plumbridge, Isle- 

 worth ; -Andrew McCance, Glasgow ; Thomas Royds, Old- 

 ham ; Henry J. Lomax, Darwen ; John N. Brown, London. 

 Free Studentship for Physics : — Edward F. Pattenden, 

 Whitstable. National Scholarships for Chemistry ; — 

 .Arthur Bramley, Elland, Yorks ; Harold W. Atkinson, New 

 Mills, Stockport ; Fred Bridge, Burnley ; William A. Naish, 

 Handsworth, Birmingham ; Norman M. Comber, Brighton ; 

 Percy G. Ward, Brighton. Free Studentship for Chem- 

 istry : — Henry V. A. Briscoe, London. National Scholar- 

 ships for Biology : — Rowland M. Richards, Manningham, 

 Bradford; James H. Orton, Bradford, Yorks; Katie 

 Barratt, Swanley, Kent. Free Studentship for Biology : — 

 James L. Thompson, London. National Scholarships for 

 Geology : — Abraham Haworth, Burnley ; Arthur T. Cundy, 

 Redruth ; Ernest Lee, Burnley. 



At the distribution of prizes at the Royal Technical 

 Institute, Salford, on October 11, Mr. H. B. Knowles, the 

 principal, read an encouraging report. Speaking of the 

 value of the training given in day technical schools, he 

 said : — " It may be that a youth who has left school at 

 the earliest moment allowed by the law will at the age 

 of seventeen or eighteen have secured a position better 

 paid than the one a student obtains immediately on leaving 

 technical day classes, although in many cases the training 

 received has given immediate access to a career which 

 would otherwise have been inaccessible. The proper time 

 for such a comparison would, however, be some half-dozen 

 years after ; and I have weighty reasons for my confidence 

 that then it would be found that the two or three years 

 spent in technical departments had been in every respect 

 a most profitable investment." The principal also directed 

 attention to two important developments in connection with 

 the Salford arrangements for the current session. First, 

 the correlation between the work at the institute and the 

 work in evening schools has been made more real by the 

 stipulation that all applicants for admission to the institute 

 under sixteen years of age shall, before admission, pass 

 an examination in English and mathematics. Secondly, 

 courses of instruction suitable for students occupied in the 

 various trades, and extending over four or five years, have 

 been arranged on the basis of attendance at classes on 

 three evenings per week. An added inducement to take 

 these courses has been offered by making the fee for 

 a course small as compared with the fees for the in- 

 dividual classes constituting the course. A great improve- 

 ment in the quality of much of the work is expected as a 

 result of this arrangement. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 

 London. 



Royal Society, February 15. — " Oteervations on the 

 Labyrinth of Certain Animals." By Dr. Albert A. Gray. 



The labyrinths of si.x animals were examined, and the 

 conditions found may be summarised as follows ; — The 

 labyrinth of the lion presents the usual features of the 

 Carnivora. The cochlea is of the sharp-pointed type, and 

 there is hardly any evidence of a perilymph space in the 

 semicircular canals. The Indian gazelle has a cochlea of 

 a flat type, and there is a trace of a perilymph space in 

 the canals. In the three-toed sloth the cochlea is of a 

 flat type. The canals are almost square, and the peri- 

 lymph space is well marked. The labyrinth of the wallaby 

 is like that of the ungulates, but two large otoliths are 

 present in the vestibule. 



