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al.le simplification of procedure. Universities and tlioir 

 (xilleges were excluded from the operation of the Bill, and 

 tlic segregation of the great schools of the 1868 Act was 

 to be continued by their reservation from the more sweep- 

 ing clauses; indeed, Kton and Winchester would only be 

 affected so far as their governing bodies consented. Safe- 

 guards relating to the religious character of certain found- 

 ations were introduced, although Clause 16 states, and 

 very rightly, that " in making a scheme regard shall be 

 h.-id primarily to the educational advantages to be derived 

 from the scheme." -May we not hope that the matter will 

 be discussed and legislated upon in this spirit? 



G. F. Daniell. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge. — The next combined examination for sixty- 

 six entrance scholarships and various exhibitions at Pem- 

 broke, Gonville and Caius, King's, Jesus, Christ's, St. 

 John's, and Emmanuel Colleges will be held on Tuesday, 

 December 3, and following days. Mathematics, classics, 

 and natural sciences will be the subjects of examination 

 at all the above-mentioned colleges. A candidate for a 

 scholarship or exhibition at any of the seven colleges must 

 not be more than nineteen years of age on October i, 1907. 

 Forms of application must be sent in on or before Tuesday, 

 November 26. 



Mr. A. H. Lees, of King's College, has been appointed 

 to the studentship in medical entomology for the period 

 of one year. The studentship was recently established on 

 the basis of a grant from the " Tropical Diseases Research 

 Fund," administered by the Colonial OfBce. Mr. Lees 

 will pursue research under the direction of the Quick 

 professor of biology. 



Of the four fellowships awarded last week at Trinity 

 College, two were for classics ; one of the remaining two 

 was awarded to Mr. A. S. Eddington, senior wrangler in 

 1904, and first class, first division, part ii. of the mathe- 

 matical tripos, 1905 ; and the other to Mr. V. H. Mottram, 

 first class, part i. of the natural .sciences tripos, 1903, 

 and first class (physiology) in the same tripos, part ii., 

 1905. 



Mr. A. Wood, who took his degree in chemistry and 

 physics in 1904 as an advanced student, has been elected 

 to a fellowship at Emmanuel College. 



Mr. A. Berry, of King's College, has been appointed 

 chairman of examiners for the mathematical tripos, part i. 

 (old regulations), igoS. 



.'\t a Congregation to be held to-day, the honorary degree 

 of Doctor of Science will be conferred on Prof. Emil 

 Fischer, of Berlin. 



Liverpool. — Prof. J. Reynolds Green, F.R.S., lately 

 professor of botany to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great 

 Britain, has been elected to the Hartley lectureship in 

 plant physiology, recently instituted in the botanical 

 department through the generosity of Mr. W". P. Hartley, 

 of Aintree. 



Dr. J. H. Grindley has been appointed principal of the 

 Government .School of Engineering at Ghizeh, Cairo. 

 The school is under the Egyptian Ministry of Education 

 for the training of engineers for the various departments 

 of the Egyptian public works. 



Mr. W. MacGregor Wallace has been elected lecturer 

 on applied mechanics in place of Dr. Grindley (resigned). 



Manchester. — The honorary degree of Ph.D. has been 

 conferred upon Prof. Ernest Rutherford by the University 

 of Giessen. 



The following appointments have been made : — Dr. 

 C. H. W'eizmann, lecturer in chemistry; Mr. J. N. Pring, 

 demonstrator in electrochemistry; Mr. F. H. Gravely, 

 assistant lecturer and demonstrator in zoology. Mr. Frank 

 Howson has resigned the position of demonstrator in 

 physiology on his appointment to a similar post at the 

 Armstrong College. 



Dr. R. S. Hutton, on leaving Manchester, is resign- 

 ing his position as lecturer in electrochemistrv and 

 assistant director of the physical laboratories, but has been 

 appointed a special lecturer in electrochemistry. 



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The Herter lectures before the medical department of 

 the Johns Hopkins University are to be given this session 

 by Prof. E. A. Schiifer, F.R.S., professor of physiology in 

 the University of Edinburgh, at the end of April, igo8. 



We have received the current issue of the year-book 

 of the Michigan College of Mines. It covers 136 pages, 

 and contains full details of the courses arranged for the 

 session 1907-8. The courses are admirably planned, and 

 the situation of the college in the copper- and iron-ore 

 district of Michigan, where its students live in a mining 

 atmosphere, has brought to the institution a large measure 

 of success. 



Under the will of the late Dr. Nathaniel Rogers, the 

 Senate of the University of London offers a prize of lool., 

 open for competition to all members of the medical pro- 

 fession in the United Kingdom, for the best essay or 

 dissertation setting forth the results of original investi- 

 gations made by the candidate on any medical patho- 

 logical subject during the preceding two years. Candidates 

 will be permitted to present papers published during the 

 preceding year as the dissertation. The essay or disserta- 

 tion, by preference typewritten or printed, must be sent 

 in not later than May i, 1908, addressed to the clerk of 

 committees at the University. 



The prospectus for the session 1907-8 of the Belfast 

 Municipal Technical Institute should prove of real assist- 

 ance to intending students seeking guidance in planning 

 their courses of work. It is quite clear from the volume, 

 which runs to nearly 250 pages, that the chief object of 

 the institute is to provide instruction in the principles of 

 those arts and sciences which bear directly or indirectly 

 upon the trades and industries of Belfast, and to show 

 by experiment how these principles may be applied to 

 secure industrial advancement. The classes are designed 

 to assist persons engaged during the day in handicrafts 

 or business, and desire to supplement the knowledge gained 

 in the workshop or warehouse. The time-table of classes 

 is published as a separate pamphlet, and with it a sensible 

 letter of advice to students from the principal of the 

 institute, Mr. Eras. C. Forth, indicating several directions 

 in which students can assist the staff to secure success 

 in the work of the various departments. Arrangements 

 have been made for full courses of study in the various 

 branches of science, art, technology, and commercial 

 subjects. 



Among the advanced lectures on scientific subjects 

 announced in connection with the University of London 

 to be held during the present session may be mentioned 

 a course of eight lectures, by Mr. A. D. Hall, on the 

 function of the mineral constituents of the soil in the 

 nutrition of plants, to be given at the Chelsea Physic 

 Garden on dates to be announced later. Mr. J. B. 

 Leathes commenced a course of eight lectures on 

 October 15 at the University physiological laboratory 

 on problems in animal metabolism. At the same place 

 four lectures on the construction of diets in health. will 

 be commenced by Dr. E. I. Spriggs on November 8. 

 Three lectures on tlie principles of classification will be 

 given at University College by Mr. G. A. Boulenger, 

 F'.R.S., beginning on October 28, and three lectures by 

 Mr. J. T. Cunningham on sexual dimorphism, beginning 

 on November 18. The University reader in meteorology- 

 will deliver at the University a course of twelve lectures 

 on meteorological organisation and methods of deal- 

 ing with meteorological observation, commencing on 

 October 21. 



The Electrician for October 11 contains an interesting 

 description of the clectrotechnic institute of the Technical 

 University in Karlsruhe (Baden), by Mr. Stanley P. Smith. 

 The writer describes the general lay-out and equipment of 

 the institute buildings, which were specially designed for 

 the various branches of engineering carried on within 

 them, but the description mainly deals with the clectro- 

 technic Institute itself. The cost and equipment of this 

 building was between 2700/. and 2800!., and from the plans 

 and description given there is no doubt lh.it It is very 

 pcrfertlv arranged and fitted up. The general idea of the 



