June 27, 1912] 
NATURE 
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the third donation of 10,0001. given to the University 
by the same benefactor during the present month; 
the other two being for a protessorial pension fund 
and the study of Egyptology respectively. 
Dr. Louis A. Bauer, director of the Department of 
Research in Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie 
Institution of Washington, has been appointed Halley 
lecturer for the year 1913. 
The annual report of the delegates of the Univer- 
sity Museum has just been published. It records the 
conversion of the southern portion of the old Radcliffe 
Library into two rooms by the insertion of a fireproof 
floor. The room has great historic interest as being 
the scene of the famous encounter between the late 
Prof. Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce, of Gxford, dur- 
ing the meeting of the British Association in 1860. 
The lower portion is now occupied by the Hope pro- 
fessor of zoology, and the upper division is used as a 
pharmacological laboratory. The report of the Linacre 
professo- makes special mention of valuable specimens 
from Madagascar, including many remains of fossil 
Lemuroids, collected by the "on. P. A. Methuen. The 
Hope professor announces several important donations 
from equatorial Africa. A long list of accessions to 
the Pitt-Rivers Museum is contributed by the curator, 
and many donations to their respective departments 
are enumerated by the professors of geology and 
mineralogy. In all the departments a good account 
is given of lectures and other instruction carried on 
during the past year, and a statement of the original 
work done in connection with the various laboratories 
and collections, together with the publications by 
members of the staff and others, is also included. The 
whole forms a record of much valuable work, and gives 
evidence of great activity in the scientific departments 
of the University. 
The Electors to the Waynflete professorship of chem- 
istry give notice that they intend to proceed to an 
election in October next. 
Liverroot.—Dr. E. E. Glynn has been appointed 
to the George Holt professorship of pathology in suc- 
cession to the late Sir Rubert Boyce. 
Mr. J. Davipson has been appointed by the 
governors of the Imperial College of Science and 
Technology to the studentship in entomology founded 
by Sir John Wolfe-Barry, K.C.B., F.R.S., to foster 
research work in entomology from the economic point 
of view. 
In commemoration of the visit of the King and 
Queen to the King Edward VII. Hospital, Cardiff, 
on Friday next, an anonymous donor has forwarded 
a gift of 10,000 guineas for the building of the new 
pathological wing of the institution which is to be 
erected for the Welsh Medical School, the joint estab- 
lishment of the Hospital and University College of 
South Wales and Monmouthshire. r 
Ow1nc to the resignation of Mr. G. Udny Yule on 
his appointment as university lecturer in statistics at 
Cambridge, we understand that there is a vacancy for 
an assistant in the department of technology of the 
City and Guilds of London Institute, at a com- 
mencing salary of 3ool. per annum. Candidates 
should possess. a university degree, preferably in 
engineering. Particulars of the appointment can be 
obtained on application to the Superintendent of the 
Department of Technology, Exhibition Road, S.W. 
NEARLY 200,0001. was, says Science, distributed in 
grants by the General Education Board in the United 
States at-its meeting on May 24. 50,0001. was given to 
the George Peabody College for Teachers at Nashville, 
Tenn., forthe establishment of a school of -country 
life.. The -other colleges awarded conditional grants 
are :—Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., and Coe College, 
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Cedar Rapids, La., each 20,000l.; McAlester College, 
St. Paul, Minn., t0,o0ol.; University of Rochester, 
Rochester, N.Y., 40,o00l. The sum of 42,0001. was 
set aside for demonstration work in agriculture in 
the southern States, for professors of secondary educa- 
tion in State universities of the south, and to aid the 
work of negro education in the south, 
Tue Congress of the Universities of the Empire 
will be opened at the University of London on Tues- 
day next, July 2, by Lord Rosebery. The congress 
will continue until Friday, inclusive; the following 
subjects will be discussed :—Question of division of 
work and specialisation among universities; inter- 
university arrangements for post-graduate and re- 
search students, including the questions of reciprocal 
recognition of courses for post-graduate degrees, co- 
operation in post-graduate courses and specialisation 
in post-graduate courses along special lines among 
universities; the relation of universities to technical 
and professional education and to education for the 
Public Services; interchange of university teachers; 
the problem of universities in the East in regard to 
their influence on character and moral ideals; resi- 
dential facilities, including colleges and hostels in 
connection with universities; conditions of entrance 
to universities and the possibility of equivalence and 
mutual recognition of entrance tests to degree 
courses; action of universities in relation to the after- 
careers of their students; provision of courses of study 
and examinations for other than degree students, 
including university extension and tutorial class work 
and specialised courses both of a general and tech- 
nical character for students engaged in professional, 
commercial, and industrial pursuits; the establish- 
ment of a central bureau; the position of women in 
universities; representation of teachers and graduates 
on the governing body of a university. 
Jupcine from the reports which reach us from time 
to time, there is an increasing desire in the various 
parts of the Empire to improve and develop the 
systems of education in vogue. In addition to attend- 
ance at imperial and other conferences, delegates from 
the various Colonies have been sent to travel in 
different countries to study and report upon the work 
of representative schools, colleges, and universities. 
A report of the kind, subsequently distributed for the 
use of Colonial educational workers, is that by Mr. 
Cecil Andrews, the inspector-general of schools in 
Western Australia, recently issued by the authority 
of the Education Department at Perth. In this case_ 
Mr. Andrews gives his chief attention to high schools 
and discusses their organisation and their relations to 
lower schools on one hand and to colleges on the 
other. The opportunities the writer has had of study- 
ing typical educational arrangements have enabled him 
to make a series of recommendations to the Minister 
of Education in Western Australia, which should 
prove of real assistance. He suggests that the course 
of study in the State schools should be uniform for 
all children until the sixth standard is reached at 
thirteen or fourteen years of age. The boy or girl 
may then proceed, he thinks, to a high school, remain 
in higher classes of the primary school, or proceed 
to a “farm” school or to a day industrial school. 
Similarly, full particulars are given of the higher 
education which it is urged should be developed as 
opportunity arises. 
To the issues of Science for May 24 and 31 last, 
Prof. J.. McKeen Cattell, of Columbia University, 
contributes articles entitled ‘‘ University. Control.” 
A great variety of questions. concerning general uni- 
versity administration are dealt with in an original 
and helpful way. Prof. Cattell has very definite 
