June 20, 1907] 



NA TURE 



UNIVERSITY. AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge. — The following are the speeches delivered on 

 June 12 by the Public Orator, Dr. Sandys, in presenting 

 the three recipients ol the degree of Doctor of Science 

 houoris causa : — 



(i) Sir Clements Makkham, K.C.B., F.R.S. 



Sequilur deinceps Regiae Societatis Geographicae per 

 annos quinquaginta quidem minister indefessus, per 

 duodecini praeses praeclarus, cuius sub duclu Societas ilia 

 diu floruit, et non modo Britannorum in doctrinae sedibus 

 honoris locum est adeptus, sed etiam terras rcmotissimas, 

 et praesertim regionem polo Australi propinquam, ex- 

 plorauit. Idem quot iuuenes rei naualis peritos trans 

 maria longinqua scientiarum finibus proferendis cxcitauit ! 

 Quam feliciter ipse ex intimis Peruuiae penetralibus 

 arborem contra febrium impetus ui salutari praedilam, 

 etiam in Indiam, populi totius cum magno commodo, 

 transtulit I Quot regiones peragrauit, peragratas litter- 

 arum lumine illustrauit ! Ergo, et sibi ipsi, et collegis 

 suis orbem terrarum totum explorantibus, nemo melius 

 poetarum Latinorum uerba ilia potest arrogare : — 



" Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris ! " 

 " Viximus insignes inter utrumque " — polum.' 



(2) Colonel Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdicii, 

 K.C.M.G., K.C.I.E., C.B. 



Societatis Geographicae praesidi emerilo nemo potest 

 opportunius succedere quam praesidls ipsius uicarius, miles 

 fortissimus, Indiae totius exploralor audax, qui praesertim 

 in tellure Russorum imperio contermina, montium 

 arduorum inter ambages, gentium barbararum inter arma, 

 animo intrepido regionis difficillimae, regionis prope in- 

 extricabilis, fines designauit. Idem in America Australi 

 inter respublicas duas confines controuersiam magnam de 

 limite communi exortam, populi utriusque non sine magno 

 commodo, terminauit. Is autem qui scientiarum doctor 

 hodie nominabitur, itiniTum suorum libris stilo facili et 

 facundo conscriptis, non immerito etiam laudem litterarum 

 est adeptus. 



(3) Prof. Sir Thomas Richard Eraser, F.R.S. 

 In Uniuersitate Edinensi iam per annos triginta 

 materiam medicam est professus uir in remediorum ui et 

 usu inuestigando iamdudum exercitatus. Abhinc annos 

 plus quam quadraginta de magica ilia faba, physostigmate 

 uenenoso, disputauit, et propterea Franco-gallorum ab 

 Instituto laurea insigni est coronatus. Quid dicam de 

 pestilentia ilia per Indiam quondam grassanle, ab hoc uiro 

 per triennium audacter inuestigata? Quid de serpentium 

 ueneno ab eodem fortiler explorato? Quid de alropia et 

 strophantho? In medicina etiam uenena nonnumquam 

 prodesse ne antiquis quidem prorsus ignotum. Talium 

 autem uirorum auxilio disciplina ilia, " quondam paucarum 

 scientia herbaruni," "in banc peruenit tajii multiplicem 

 uarietatem." - 



The election of a professor of zoology and comparative 

 anatomy will take place on Tuesday, July 23, at the Uni- 

 versity Offices, St. Andrew's Street. Candidates for the 

 said professorship are requested to communicate with the 

 Vicc-Chancellor on or before Tuesday, July ih. 



Prof. Newton has bequeathed to the University his 

 natural history collections and library, together with (he 

 cabinets, cases, and apparatus thereto belonging, including 

 all his copyrights, books, pictures, prints, drawings, letters, 

 and papers relating to natural history, to be attached, so 

 far as is convenient, to the department of zoology. He has 

 also left the sum of 1000/. to apply the annual income to 

 the keeping up and adding to the library. 



The Harkness scholarship in geology and pal.i'ontology 

 has been awarded to L. J. Wills, scholar of King's College. 

 The Wiltshire prize in geology and mineralogy is not 

 awarded this year. 



The general board recommends that, in place of the 

 present lectureship in physiological and experimental 



^ Virgil, Aeneid, i. 460 ; Propfrtiu!!, iv. 5 (11), 40. 

 "- Seneca. Ep. 95, § 15. 



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psychology, a university lectureship in the physiology of 

 the senses be established from Michaelmas, 1907, in con- 

 nection with the special board for biology and geology, 

 and that a university lectureship in experimental psychology 

 be established in connection with the special board for 

 moral science from the same date. 



It is proposed to confer the degree of Doctor of Science 

 honoris causa upon Prof. W. C. Brogger, University of 

 Christiania ; Prof. H. Credner, University of Leipzig; Prof. 

 L. Dollo, Brussels ; Prof. .A. de Lapparent, Paris ; Prof. 

 A. G. Nathorst, Stockholm ; and Prof. H. Rosenbusch, 

 Heidelberg, in connection w-ith the centenary of the Geo- 

 logical Society, London, in September next. 



Oxford.— The following is the text of the speech de- 

 livered by Prof. Love in presenting Prof. Paul Ehrlich for 

 the degree of D.Sc. honoris causa on June 18 : — 



.Antiquis ea erat medendi ratio ut angores levarent vel 

 varia molestiarum genera minuerent medicamentis usi qufe 

 afTectus contrarios excitarent : recentes id propositum 

 habent ut abdita morborum semina iam inolescentia et in 

 vivis medullis concreta deprehendani et cxstinguant. Ita 

 non solum morbo quo quisque laboret mederi sed ipsum 

 corpus quasi prssidiis occupare et inexpugnabile facere 

 conantur. In maximo hoc hello quod hodie geritur contra 

 febres varias, vclut Si(pffeplai- quam vocant, contra cancros, 

 vel noxiis seminibus vel ipsius carnis corruptione ortos| 

 nemo melius vel viam munivit vel in acie prailiatus est 

 quam Paulus Ehrlich. Victoria quidem nondum reportata 

 est : quamvis multi hostes fusi sint, restant alii mox 

 superandi : huic certe viro summa diligentia et prudentia 

 pradito, salubritatis patrono et pr.-csidi, si quid bene 

 gestum est acceptum referre debemus : huius opera et 

 eorum qui sub eius signis militant novos triumphos 

 reportari posse speramus. 



Dr. R. K. McClung, who has been senior demonstrator 

 in physics in McGill University, Montreal, for the past 

 three years, has been appointed to the chair of physics in 

 Mount .Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, 

 Canada. 



The following recent appointments are announced : 



Dr. Kriemler, to be professor of applied mechanics at the 

 Technical College, Stuttgart; Mr. H. Maschke, to be pro- 

 fessor, and Mr. L. E. Dickson, to be associate nrofessor, of 

 mathematics at Chicago University ; Mr. W. L. Reid,' to 

 be professor of mathematics at Haverford College; Dr. 

 Philipp Furtwangler, to be professor of mathematics at 

 the Technical College, Aachen ; Dr. Wilhelm Bjerknes, to 

 be professor of mechanics and mathematical physics' at 

 Christiania ; Dr. Karl Wieghardt. to be professor of 

 mathematics and mechanics at the Technical College, 

 Hanover. 



The Berlin correspondent of the Times reports that the 

 German Colonial Secretary, Herr Dernburg, recently 

 visited Hamburg to inspect the Institute for Tropical 

 Diseases, the Botanical Museum, and the Museum for 

 Ethnology and .Anthropology with a view to ascertain 

 whether the city possessed facilities enough for the study 

 of colonial and tropical questions to justify the foundation 

 of a colonial training college. Herr Dernburg decided to 

 recommend the establishment of such an institution, and 

 the courses at the new college are to be open to those 

 who desire to engage in private commercial or industrial 

 enterprise in the German colonies, as well as to Govern- 

 ment officials. The new institute will be modelled on the 

 plan of existing German technical colleges. The promoters 

 of the scheme hold that the intercourse between intending 

 officials and young business men will contribute to the 

 benefit of the German colonies. The State of Hamburg 

 will for the present be responsible for the scheme, and, if 

 the results prove satisfactory, the institution will receive 

 ollicial recognition in the form of an Imperial subsidy. 



The King and Queen will visit Bangor on July 9, when 

 the King will lay the foundation stone of the new build- 

 ings of the LIniversily College of North Wales. The site 

 of the new college, at Penrallt, is at present occupied bv 

 the residence of Principal Reichel, and this interesting 

 feature of old Bangor will have to be demolished in order 

 to make way for the buildings. The permanent build- 



