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NATURE 



[March i i, 1909 



spolia plurima victor roportavit. Quid conimemorem 

 camporum praecelsorum longitudines infinitas, quid nivis 

 acternae' solitudincs ininicnsas ab codem perlustralas? 

 Quid grandinis saxeae tempestates intolerabiles fortiter 

 toleratas? Quid niontium ignotorum labyrinthos inextrica- 

 blies Identldem percrratos? ■ Quid Tran's-himalayae lacus 

 procellosos, quid fluminum ingentium fontes audacter 

 exploratos? Ibl origiiitm 111am tricipitem primus con- 

 sppxit, e qua rex f^uviorum, Brahmae filius nuncupatus, 

 itineris long! cursum Indiam l?i oricntalem dirlgit. Idem 

 in eadem regione rupem illam humllem primus detexit, 

 tinde Indus ipse exortus Indiam in occidentalem, Alexandri 

 niagni victoriarum olim conscius, defluit. 

 •_ Atqui (ut poetae verbis utar) 



" Magnus Alexander totum cum viccrat orbem, 

 Non potuit sese vincere ; maius erat." 



Hie autem, et sui ipsius ct rerum naturae victor Alexandre 

 felicior, etiam trans Asiam interiorera scientiarum 

 imperium fortiter propagavlt. Idem, Alexandre humanior, 

 terram poriculis plurimis plenissimam sic obiit, ut in 

 regione tarn immensa nullum crudelitatis, nullum inliumani- 

 tatis, vestigium rcliquerit. 



Ergo laurea nostra libenter coronamus virum a Societate 

 Regia Geographica numismate aurco plus quam scmel 

 merito donatum, philosophiae doctorem illustrem, Svcn 

 Anders Hedin. 



The next combined examination for sixtv-seven entrance 

 scholarships and a number of exhibition's at Pembroke, 

 Gonville and Caius, King's, Jesus, Christ's, St. John's^ 

 and Emmanuel Colleges, will be held on Tuesday, 

 December 7, and following days. Mathematics, classics, 

 and natural sciences will be the' subjects of examination at 

 all the above-mentioned colleges. Some of the colleges 

 allow candidates who intend to study mechanical sciences 

 to compete for scholarships and exhibitions bv talcing the 

 papers set in mathematics or natural science. Forms of 

 application for admission to the examination at the re- 

 spective colleges may be obtained as follows :— Pembroke 

 College, W. S. Hadlev ; Gonville and Caius College The 

 Master; King's College, W. H. Macaulav ; Jesus Colle<ip 

 A. Gray; Christ's College, Rev. J. W. Cartmell ; St.' 

 John's College, The Master; Emmanuel College, The 

 Master, from any of whom further information respecting 

 the scholarships and other matters connected with the 

 several colleges may be obtained. The colleges desire it 

 to be known that any candidate for a scholarship may 

 signify in writing his wish not to receive the emolument 

 of the same if elected thereto, and that such candidate may 

 be elected to a scholarship which mav be honorary only 

 and without emolument, but sh.all carrv with it all' other 

 privileges attached to the position of a scholar. The 

 amount thus set free will serve to increase the number of 

 scholarships or exhibitions open to other candidates. 



The syndicate appointed to obtain plans and estimates 

 for the new museum of archa>ology and ethnology has 

 reported that it has now in hand more than 10,000/., more 

 than half of which has been contributed by members of 

 the Foster family in memory of Mr. W. K.' Foster. The 

 syndicate Is ot opinion that 'leave should be asked of the 

 Senate to commence at once the first portion of a build- 

 ing which will contain, when completed, a museum, 

 lecture-rooms, class-rooms, library, workrooms, and private 

 rooms for the curator and staff. ' Some of these rooms will 

 be available for the meetings of the Cambridge Antiquarian 

 Society. 



The sDccIal board for physics and chemistrv, and the 

 special board for history and archoeologv. have issued 

 schedules for the examination in architectural studies under 

 the following headings : — (i) practical mathematics ; (2) 

 elementary applied mechanics ; (3) strength of materials 

 and elementary theory of structures; (4) descriptive geo- 

 metry : projection of solids ; (5) the principles of survey- 

 ing; (6) outlines of the history of architecture of Europe 

 and the Near East ; (7) nutlines ot the general history of 

 art; (8) architecture and the allied arts of the Classical 

 pfriod ; (0) architecture and the allied arts of the Mediajval 

 period; (10) architecture and the allied arts of the Renais- 

 sance and Modern periods; (11) the theor^ of art in relation 

 to architecture. 



NO. 2054, 'VOL. 80] 



London. — With reference to the statement in Nature 

 of March 4, that " the Senate has taken exception to the 

 terms of reference to the Royal Commission on the Uni- 

 versity," .Sir William Ramsay, as a member of the Senate 

 of the University, present during the whole of the meeting 

 on March 3, requests us to make public the fact that that 

 statement is without foundation. The note did not refer 

 to the meeting on March 3, that being the day on which 

 Nature went to press; and our correspondent informs us 

 it was based upon, the official announcement made in the 

 Times and other papers on February 26, though it failed 

 to express exactly the substance of that announcement. 



The issue for 1909 of the " Schoolmaster's Year-book 

 and Directory " is now available. The general character 

 of the volume remains unaltered ; the directory has been 

 made much more complete, and the very large amount of 

 information provided has been brought up to date. This 

 annual work of reference continues the most convenient 

 available source of particulars concerning every grade of 

 secondary education for boys, and no schoolmaster should 

 be without a copy. 



It is announced by Science that the 40,000/. required 

 to secure the gift of 120,000/. from Mr. John D. Rocke- 

 feller for the Harper memorial library at the University 

 of Chicago has now been obtained. Part of the money 

 has been reserved for an endowment. The president of 

 Western Reserve University announces the completion of 

 a 100,000/. fund for the additional endowment of Adelbert 

 College and the college for women. Of this amount 

 25,000/. was offered by the General Education Board, on 

 the condition that 75,000/. be raised by the University. 

 Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn., has been offered 

 15,000/. by the General Education Board of New York on 

 the condition that it will raise three times the amount, 

 making a total of 60,000/., a large portion of which is to 

 be added to the permanent endowment of the University. 

 The department of engineering of the University of 

 Michigan has received a gift of the library of the late 

 Mr. George Y. Wisner and a rotary engine of the value 

 of 1400/. from Mr. J. D. R. Lampson. The University of 

 Virginia has completed an endowment fund of 200,000/. » 

 of which half has been given by Mr. .Andrew Carnegie. 



The Board of Education has now published the second 

 part of " Statistics of Public Education in England and 

 Wales, 1906-7-8." This Blue-book (Cd. 4506) is concerned 

 wholly with financial statistics. It is interesting to find 

 that the net total expenditure during the school year 

 1907-8 of the Board of Education out of the Parliamentary 

 vote was 13,272,017/., and that 11,129,658/. was expended 

 on elementary education. Under the headings " secondary 

 schools, pupil teachers, &c.," the amount disbursed was 

 679',6i2/. To quote the summary of payments, the grants 

 made for " technical institutions, schools of art, day 

 technical classes, art classes, and other schools and classes' 

 for further education " reached 456,573/. The share of the 

 Parliamentary vote which went to higher scientific educa- 

 tion appears very small, as the following items show : — ' 

 Roval College of Science, London, 24,843/. ; Imperial 

 College of Science and Technology, 5,783/. ; Geological 

 Museum .-ind Geological Survey, 21,255/. '• ^""l Committee 

 on Solar Physics, 1S99/. These amounts prob.ably do not 

 quite account for the total amount which should be credited 

 to higher scientific instruction, because fractions of the 

 expenditure under " works and furniture " and " museums 

 and circulation of objects for exhibition " were probably 

 devoted to the purposes of education in science. 



There are many indications that eventually we shall 

 have a science of education, and it is satisfactory to find 

 that the number of persons engaged in educational work 

 who are learning the value of the results of carefully and 

 scientifically planned experiments steadily increases. The 

 training college authorities in dilTerent parts of the country 

 are beginning to take an active share in this important 

 work, and the spread of scientific methods in their 

 institutions is reflected in the second issue of the Trainini; 

 College Record which has reached us. Among other 

 important articles contained in this excellent magazine we 

 notice that by Prof. Green on experiment in education, 



