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NATURE 
[June 6, 1912 
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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
CaMBRIDGE.—The Board of Agricultural 
announces that an examination will be held for one 
‘Surveyors’ Institution Scholarship’? on July 9 to 12. 
The scholarships are of the value of Sol. per annum, 
and are open only to students of the Surveyors’ 
Institution, who have not commenced residence in 
the University. Names of intending candidates must 
be sent before June 30 to Mr. A. Goddard, the 
Surveyors’ Institution, 12 Great George Street, West- 
minster, S.W., or to Prof. T. B. Wood, School of 
Agriculture, Cambridge, from whom forms for entry 
may be obtained. 
It is proposed to confer the degree of Doctor of 
Law, honoris causd, upon his Excellency Count Paul 
Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht, G.C.V.O., German 
Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, and the 
Degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causdé, upon 
Prof. Howard Marsh, Master of Downing College, 
and professor of human anatomy in the University. 
Dr. Donaldson, Master of Magdalene College, has 
been elected to the office of Vice-Chancellor for the 
academical year 1912-13. 
The Special Board for Biology and Geology has 
reappointed Dr. Shipley, Master of Christ’s College, 
to be a manager of the Balfour Fund for five years 
until June 30, 1917. 
Lonpon.—A special meeting of the Senate was 
held on May 30 to consider the question of accom- 
modation for the headquarters of the University. A 
resolution was adopted welcoming the efforts of Lord 
Haldane and other friends of university education in 
London to raise funds towards the present and future 
needs of the University; and it was decided to appoint 
a special committee of thirteen members, in addition 
to the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Chairman of 
Convocation, “‘to consider and report on an adequate 
site for the headquarters of the University and gener- 
ally on the question of accommodation from the point 
of view of the University as a whole, with power to 
communicate with persons and bodies at their discre- 
tion.” It should be noted that no approval or dis- 
approval has been officially expressed of any par- 
ticular site. 
The University Gazette, dated May 20, reprints the 
new regulations relating to subsidiary subjects at the 
B.Sc. hionours examinations, the syllabuses in military 
science which have been adopted for the intermediate 
and final pass examinations in arts and science for 
internal students, and the regulations for the 
Paul Philip Reitlinger prize, which is of the value 
of gzol., and is to be awarded annually, alternatively 
for an essay and for medical research work. The 
annual reports of the Physiological Laboratory and 
the Brown Institution are also given, together with 
the agenda paper for the Congress of the Universities 
of the Empire. 
The D.Sc. (economics) degree has been granted to 
J. F. Unstead, an internal student, for a thesis on 
wheat cultivation. 
The principal, Sir Henry Miers, has been nomin- 
ated as a member of the Teachers Registration 
Council. 
New regulations have been approved defining the 
conditions under which the Oxford senior local ex- 
amination will be accepted as exempting from the 
matriculation examination. Honours in the first or 
second class will be required in and after 1913. 
Oxrorp.—An acceptable gift has just been offered 
to the University by Mr. Walter Morrison, of Balliol 
College; in the shape of the sum of 10,000l., to serve 
is the nucleus of a pension fund for professors. The 
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, have been at work in shaping the landscape. 
need for such a fund has long been recognised, and 
it is hoped that, so good a start having been made, it — 
. | will not be long before an adequate provision exist 
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for members of the professorial staff who have earned | 
their retirement by long service. s 
On June 3 the honorary degree of D.Sc. was con- 
ferred on Dr. Franz Boas, professor of anthropology 
in Columbia University, New York, and Mr. A. P. 
Maudslay, president of the Royal Anthropological 
Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Dr. Boas is 
well known as a scientific explorer in various parts of 
the Arctic regions and of the North Pacific, and as 
director of the International School of American 
Archeology and Ethnology in the city of Mexico. 
His work on ‘‘The Mind of Primitive Man” is of 
first-rate interest to anthropologists. Mr. Maudslay 
has earned the gratitude of all students of prehistoric 
civilisation by his researches, conducted at great 
personal risk, among the wonderful monuments of 
primitive culture in Central America, and to him is 
largely due the success of the arrangements for the 
entertainment of the Congress of Americanists in 
this country. 
Tue Central News New York correspondent’ re- 
ports that by the will of the late Prof. Goldwin 
Smith a sum of 160,000l. is bequeathed to Cornell 
University. 
Dr. Janet Lane-Crayron, lecturer in hygiene and 
physiology at Battersea Polytechnic, has been 
appointed lecturer in hygiene and physiology at 
King’s College for Women (Home Science Depart- 
ment). 
A course of three lectures on ‘‘ The Comparative 
Gas Bladder of 
Fishes”’ will be given at University College, Gower 
Street, W.C., by Dr. W. N. F. Woodland; on Tues- 
days, June 11, 18, and 25. The lectures are 
addressed to advanced students of the University, 
especially those of zoology, anatomy, and of physio- 
logy, and to others interested in the subject dealt 
with. Admission is free, without ticket. 
Tue Secretary of State for India has appointed a 
committee to inquire and report as to the facilities 
available for Indian students for industrial and 
technological training in this country, with. special 
reference to the system of State technical scholar- 
ships established by the Government of India in 
1904. The committee is constituted as follows :—Sir 
Theodore Morison, K.C.I.E. (chairman), and Sir 
Krishna Gupta, K.C.S.I., members of the Council of 
India; Mr. J. H. Reynolds, lately principal of the 
Municipal School of Technology at Manchester; and 
Prof. W. E. Dalby, professor of civil and mechanical 
| engineering at the Imperial College of Science and 
| Technology at South Kensington. 
C The secretary to 
the committee is Mr. P. H. Dumbell, of the India 
Office. 
In La Géographie for April M. P. Glangeaud out- 
lines a scheme of no little interest for the geo- 
graphical education of the public through the medium 
of “tables d’orientation’’ erected on favourite view- 
points. The Touring-Club de France, an organisa- 
tion the name of which most travellers through 
France have daily cause to bless, has placed on such 
points indicators directing the visitor to the names of 
salient natural features visible from where he stands; 
thereto bare facts, such as the heights of mountains, 
are added. These M. Glangeaud proposes to amplify 
with inscriptions of some twenty lines indicating in 
a manner readily intelligible the natural forces which 
Such 
