October 26, 1905] 



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A university lectureship in mathematics is vacant by 

 the resignation of Mr. Jeans, who has accepted a professor- 

 ship at Princeton University, New Jersey. The general 

 board of studies will shortly proceed to appoint a lecturer 

 to hold office from Christmas, 1905, until Michaelmas, 

 19 10. The annual stipend is 50/. The lecturer will be 

 expected to lecture on applied mathematics. Candidates 

 are requested to send in their applications, with statements 

 of the branches of mathematics in which they are prepared 

 to lecture, and with testimonials if they think fit, to the 

 Vice-Chancellor on or before November 6. 



Science announces that New York University has received 

 5000/. by the will of the late William A. Wheelock. 



Some excellent views of the plant and equipment of the 

 workshops and laboratories at Birmingham University are 

 given in illustration of a series of articles by Mr. C. Alfred 

 Smith in Engineering. 



Dr. Alexander McKenzie, lecturer and senior demon- 

 strator in the University of Birmingham, has been 

 appointed head of the chemical department at the Birkbeck 

 College in succession to Dr. John E. Mackenzie, who has 

 accepted the appointment of principal of the Technical 

 Institute, Bombay. 



The Ontario Government has selected, says Science, the 

 following men to compose a commission to report on the 

 proposed reorganisation of the University of Toronto : — 

 Prof. Goldwin Smith, Sir William Meredith, Messrs. 

 A. H. N. Colquhoun, Byron E. Walker, J. W. Flavelle, the 

 Rev. Canon Cody, and the Rev. D. B. Macdonald. 



The classes in craft instruction in photography and 

 process work at the Regent Street Polytechnic were in- 

 augurated by a social re-union on October 17. We notice 

 the lime-table for the present session includes classes in 

 practical and technical photography, studio operating, re- 

 touching, finishing in colours, photo-engraving, and in 

 colour photography. 



The Bishop of Birmingham, delivering the presidential 

 address to the members of the Midland Institute at 

 Birmingham on October p ;, took for his subject " What 

 is an Educated Man?" He said the uneducated man is 

 without an ideal, consciously held and deliberately striven 

 after. He may be a specialist of trained faculty, but, if 

 he has no general ideal enabling him to give his special 

 subject its place in human progress as a whole, he re- 

 mains a trained specialist rather than an educated man. 

 The educated man knows something of modern scientific 

 method and achievement. Then the world becomes to him 

 the scene of great constant forces which admit of being 

 guided and directed and combined to promote the purpose 

 of human progress. A man to become educated need not 

 have time to read much, if he reads the right books. He 

 ought to know some one other language than his own, and 

 enlarge his study in some other literature. A man who 

 has read carefully any one of the works of Darwin will 

 know what real scientific caution is, coupled with the 

 widest power of hypothesis. 



A COPY of the annual report of the Glasgow and West 

 of Scotland Technical College has been received. The 

 total expenditure to date on the site, building, and equip- 

 ment of the first section of the new building, the memorial 

 stone of which was laid by the King two and a half years 

 ago, has been 163,060/. ; the building and equipment fund 

 now stands at 209,763/., of which 198,845/. has been 

 received. The small balance available after payment of 

 the liabilities already incurred is not sufficient to enable 

 the governors to proceed with the remaining sectipn of the 

 building, but it is hoped that they will soon be placed 

 in a position to complete the scheme originally proposed. 

 In addition to the subscriptions to the building and equip- 

 ment fund, the college will receive a legacy of 20,000/. 

 under the will of the late Mr. James Donald, and also the 

 residue of his estate. This welcome addition to the re- 

 sources of the college is to be used in the development of 

 the facilities already existing for the study of chemistry 

 and mechanics. The scheme for the coordination of certain 

 of the continuation classes conducted by the school boards 

 of Glasgow and Govan with the corresponding classes in 

 the college was in force during last session, but did not 

 work so satisfactorily as was anticipated. The necessity 



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for a closer linking together of the two systems was felt, 

 and an officer of the college has been appointed as super- 

 intendent of the continuation classes concerned, whose 

 principal duty is to keep in close touch with the teachers, 

 both of the college and the school boards, and .whose 

 active mediation will, it is hoped, secure the carrying out 

 of the scheme of work agreed upon. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 

 London. 



Entomological Society, October 5. — Mr. F. Meirifield, 

 president, in the chair. — -Mr. E. Harris showed living 

 larviu of Cordylomera saturalis, taken from a log of 

 mahogany imported from the Sekondi district of the 

 Gold Coast, together with the perfect beetle, which was 

 dead at the time the discovery was made. — Mr. A. T. 

 Rose exhibited a remarkable melanic specimen of Catocala 

 tiupta, taken by Mr. Lewis in his garden at Hornsey, N., 

 in September. The coloration of the lower wings was of 

 a dull brown, and all the markings of the upper wings 

 were strongly intensified. — Mr. N. H. Joy brought for ex- 

 hibition Coleoplera taken during a three days' trip to 

 Lundy Island in August, including Mclanophihalma 

 distinguenda, Con., a species new to Britain; Stenus 

 ossitini var. insularis, a variety apparently new to science ; 

 and Centhorrhynchus contractus var. pallipes, Crotch, 

 peculiar to the island. One hundred and sixty-three species 

 were taken on the island, about eighty of which are not 

 recorded in Wollaston's and F. Smith's lists of Lundy 

 Coleoptera. — Mr. A. Sich showed examples of Argyrcsthia 

 illuminatella, Z., two of the four specimens taken near 

 Hailsham, Sussex, on June 15 this year. They were 

 beaten off Pinus, and until examined with a lens were 

 supposed to be Ocnerostoma piniariella, of which species 

 two were also exhibited for comparison. — Mr. W. J. Lucas 

 exhibited the larva, cocoon, and the subsequent imago of 

 an " ant-lion," Myrmeleo formicarius, from two Spanish 

 larvte given him by Dr. T. A. Chapman last autumn. 

 The difference in size between the small larva and the 

 large perfect insect was remarkable. He also showed a 

 living 9 of the rather scarce grasshopper Stenobotbrus 

 rufipes, taken in the New Forest at the end of August, and 

 kept alive by feeding on grass. — Mr. G. C. Champion ex- 

 hibited several examples of Lymexylon navale, L., from 

 the New Forest, where it was not often found. — Mr. A. H. 

 Jones showed series of Lycaena argtis [aegon, Schiff.), 

 var. hypochiona, taken on the North Downs this year, 

 approaching the form of L. argyrognomon taken not un- 

 commonly in the Rhone Valley. Together with these he 

 had arranged for comparison typical British L. argus, L., 

 L. var. Corsica, from Tattone, Corsica, and a series of 

 L. argyrognomon, Brgstr. (argus, auctorum), from Chippis, 

 near Sierre. — Colonel J. W. Yerbury exhibited specimens 

 of Hammerschmidtia ferruginca, Fin., from Nethy Bridge, 

 the first authentic British specimens ; also Alicrodon 

 latifrons, Lw., a specimen of which, taken at Nethy Bridge 

 June i8, igoo, he had wrongly identified as M. dcviiis, 

 and under this name it was recorded in Verrall's " British 

 Flies"; and of Chamaesyrphus scaevoides, F'In., a single 

 specimen swept on June 15 in the Abernethy Forest near 

 Forest Lodge. — Mr. H. J. Turner exhibited series of four 

 species of the genus Coleophora, C. alcyonipennella, 

 C. lixclla. C. albilarseUa. and C. badiipennella, together 

 with the larval cases mounted in situ on the ruined leaves 

 of their respective food plants. He also exhibited living 

 larva; and their cases, of Goniodoma limoniella on Statice 

 limonium. Cclcophora oblusclla on Juncus maritimus, and 

 C. glaucicolella (?) on Juncus giaucus, found in the Isle 

 of Wight. — Commander J. J. Walker read a paper by Mr. 

 A. M. Lea entitled " The Blind Coleoptera of .Australia 

 and Tasmania," and exhibited specimens of IHaplianus 

 stepiiensi, Macl., from Watson's Bay, Sydney, N.S.W., 

 and Phycochus graniceps, Broun, and P. sulcipcnnis. Lea, 

 from Hobart, Tasmania. 



Manchester. 



Literarv and Philosophical Society, Odober 17. — Sir 

 William H. Bailey, president, in the chair. — The " shadow 

 bands " seen during the total eclipse observed at Burgos, 

 in Old Castile, on .August 30 : T. Thorp. — Inaugural 

 address : the President (sec p. 637). 



