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pergrave videri plerisque potuit : sed de omnigenum 

 animalium figuris et mutationibus, sive in ipsa mundi 

 iuventa siv^e hodie exstantium, commcntarios fere in- 

 numerabiles ipse conscripsit. Nullum est animalium genus 

 de quo aliquid non scripserit, neque quicquam scripsit nisi 

 pra^clare. In hoc viro admiramur cum summi artificis 

 patientiam nuUam rem tenuiorem esse docentis quam ut 

 scientia dignum sit, tum doctrinam latissimam et 

 subtilissimam nova inventa cum prioribus colligantis et sue 

 quidque loco reponentis. Sed ulterius etiam progressus 

 est. Quid enim? Incrementum fit scientise non solum ex 

 indefessa diligentia et doctrina coacervata summorum veri 

 indagatorum : quin ipsa diligentia et doctrina parum 

 fertilis est nisi conclusiones ita verbis et tabulis express^ 

 sint ut in memoria nostra ha;reant et novissimum quodque 

 repertum suo loco residere patiantur. V'eluti hie noster, 

 qui iuvenis adhuc rationes a loanne MiiUero et Huxleio 

 excogitatas, quo melius omnia ad Historiam Naturalem 

 pertinentia subtilissime litteris mandarent, se optime 

 callcre ostenderat, postea novos modos invenit, nova nomina 

 commentatus est, veteres etiam rationes correxit et 

 excoluit : quaj omnia iam adeo omnibus comprobata sunt 

 ut nemo inquirat a quo fonte emanarint. Quod si ex hac 

 prasclara supellectili unam quasi margaritam potissimum 

 sumere fas sit, eos comnientarios singulari laude ornaverim, 

 quibus Limulum ilium aquatilem scorpiones et araneas 

 terrestres inter se similes esse ostendit. Nihil profecto in 

 hoc genere perfectius, nihil quod posterorum imitation's sit 

 dignius. 



Following the announcement in the University Gazette, 

 the age limits in the examination to be held on August 29 

 for the selection of probationers for the Indian Forestry 

 Service were stated in our note on June 8 (p. 139) to 

 be from eighteen to twenty vears on January i, 1905 ; Prof. 

 Schlich writes to point out that the correct age limits are 

 from eighteen to twenty-one years on that date. 



Dr. W. T. Brooks (Christ Church) has been appointed 

 Litchfield clinical lecturer in medicine for two years from 

 June. 



A statute has been passed in Convocation establishing 

 a diploma in anthropology, and providing a committee to 

 organise the course of study in that subject, and to make 

 regulations for the diploma examination. The committee 

 will consist of seventeen members, including the professors 

 of anthropology, comparative anatomy, moral and meta- 

 physical philosophy, comparative philology, the reader in 

 mental philosophy, the keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, 

 and the curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum. Candidates 

 who are not already members of the university will be 

 admitted under the same conditions as candidates for the 

 degrees of B.Litt. and B.Sc. 



Magdalen College has announced a fellowship in 

 chemistry, election to which will be made next October 

 term after an examination. Further details will be pub- 

 lished shortly. 



Cambridge. — The following are the speeches delivered by 

 the Public Orator, Dr. Sandys, on June 14, in presenting 

 the two recipients of the degree of Doctor in Science 

 Jioiwris causa : — 



Captain Robert Faixox Scott, R.N., C.V.O. 

 Poll australis e regione salvum sospitemque nobis 

 redditum laetamur virum intrepidum, cui disciplina et 

 gloria navalis ab avo velut hereditate obvenerat. .\bhinc 

 annos quinque navis magister designatus est, rerum naturae 

 miraculis prope polum australem explorandis destinatae. 

 Illic, primum terrae Victoriae montes asperos conspicatus, 

 deinde ex transverso oppositum glaciei velut murum 

 immensum diu praetervectus, tandem nivis aeternae 

 regionem quandam excelsam detexit, detectam Regis 

 Edwardi nomine nuncupavit. Quid commemorem navem 

 illam prope montem Erebum, prope ipsa Volcani spiracula, 

 glaciei solidae in mediis molibus per biennium compressam? 

 Quid geographiae, geologiae, meteorologiae, biologiae 

 dcnique in studiis, scientiarum fines, talium virorum 

 auxilio, feliciter propagatos? Quid itinera longa glaciei 

 perpetuae inter pericula tolerata? Tot virorum fortium de 

 duce intrepido illud primum dixerim : — omnium mortalium 

 nemo umquam ad ipsum polum australem propius pene- 

 travit. Deinde, " numquam " sociis suis " plus laboris 



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imposuit quam sibi sumpsit ; ipse cum fortis, tum etiam 

 felix." 



Sir Franxis Youngiiusband, K.C.I.E. 



Hodie corona nostra suprema viro destinata est, qui 

 matris suae fratrem, exploratorem indefessum, olim 

 aeraulatus, omnium mortalium solus, oceani Pacifici a 

 litore trans Asiae mediae recessus intimos septem milia 

 passuum milies emensus, montium formidolosorum per 

 ambages prope inextricablies, Indiae demum ad castra 

 prima pejrvenit. Idem nuper, Britanniae legatus, cum 

 copiis nostris fortissimis, Indiae per Alpes silvasque, post 

 moras infinitas fortiter et prudenter devictas, per apertam 

 portam, Tibetorum ad loca praecelsa ultra lacum ilium 

 caeruleum progressus, tandem, inter nemora late virentia, 

 arcis summae tecta aurea conspicatus, religionis anti- 

 quissimae sedem sacram, tot laborum, tot itinerum metam 

 ultimam, intravit. In legatione vero ilia obeunda, viri 

 huiusce potissimum auspicio, terrae spatia immensa 

 accuratissime explorata sunt ; fluminum ingentium cursus 

 patefacti ; saeculorum denique priorum monumenta plurima 

 aut intacta relicta aut diligenter conservata. luvat autem 

 recordari regionem illam remotissimam cum exercitu nostro 

 legatum nostrum ita peragrasse, ut nullum crudelitatis, 

 nullum inhumanitatis vestigium reliquerit, sed benevolentiae 

 mutuae, etiam foedere ipso potioris, fundamentum iecerit. 



Mr. E. T. Whittaker, of Trinity College, has been 

 appointed a university lecturer in mathematics. 



The Home Secretary has approved the university for the 

 purposes of the Coal Mines Regulation Act (1887) Amend- 

 ment .'\ct, 1903, in respect of its diploma in mining 

 engineering. 



The Harkness scholarship in geology and palaeontology 

 has been awarded to Mr. F. A. Potts, of Trinity Hall, and 

 the Wiltshire prize for geology and mineralogy to Mr. A. 

 McDonald, of Emmanuel College. 



The treasurer to the Sedgwick memorial fund, which 

 was inaugurated in the Senate House on March 25, 1873, 

 has issued a final balance sheet. The original subscription 

 list amounted to 11,157;. 15. 6d., and this sum increased 

 by investment to 27,453/. 2S. ^d. A thousand guineas were 

 spent on the bronze statue of Sedgwick, and 26,125!. on 

 the Sedgwick Museum ; the balance was mainly expended 

 on printing, but a small sum left over has been paid to 

 the financial board. 



Dr. James Gow will distribute the certificates and prizes 

 at King's College, London, on Wednesday, July 5. The 

 museums and laboratories of the college will be open to 

 visitors upon this occasion. 



Dr. a. B. W. Kennedy, F.R.S., will deliver the found- 

 ation oration of the Union Society of University College, 

 London, on June 29; his subject will be "The Academic 

 Side of Technical Training." 



.|\mong the honorary degrees accepted by the Senate of 

 the University of Dublin on June 17 was the degree of 

 Sc.D. to be conferred on Prof. E. A. Schafer, F.R.S., and 

 on Prof. Sydney Young, F.R.S. 



Mr. G. F. Carson, formerly on the staff of the Uni- 

 versity College, Sheffield, has been appointed head of the 

 department of mathematics in Battersea Polytechnic, and 

 Miss Lilian J. Clarke has been appointed lecturer in 

 botany. 



At the entrance examination for the day courses in 

 engineering to be held next September, the governing body 

 of the Northampton Institute, Clerkenwell, has decided to 

 offer three scholarships for open competition. These 

 scholarships will give exemption from fees, amounting to 

 52/,, during the whole of the four years' course in 

 mechanical or electrical engineering. 



During December next, in the department of physics of 

 the Columbia University, New York City, a course of 

 fifteen lectures will be delivered by Prof. V. F. Bjerknes, 

 professor of mechanics and mathematical physics in the 

 University of Stockholm. The subject will be' " Fields of 

 Force," including the discussion of hydrodynamic analogies 

 of the electrostatic and electromagnetic fields. A similar 



