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[October 15, 1908 



Sewage Treatment, Prof. Dunbar, translated by Dr. H. T. 

 Calvert, illustrated ; Hydrographic Surveying ; for the Use 

 of Beginnei-s, Amateurs, and Port and Harbour Masters, 

 Commander S. Messum, R.N., illustrated; Theodolite 

 Surveying and Levelling, Prof. J. Park, illustrated. Long- 

 mans and Co. — Design in Nature : Illustrated by Spiral 

 and other Arrangements in the Inorganic and Organic 

 Kingdoms as exemplified in Matter, Force, Life, Growth, 

 Rhythms, Prof. J. B. Pettigrew, 3 vols., illustrated, vol. i. ; 

 Principles of Logic, Prof. G. H.Joyce. MacmiUan and Co., 

 Ltd. — Earthwork of England : Prehistoric, Roman, Sa.xon, 

 Danish, Norman, and MedifEval, A. H. AUcroft, illustrated ; 

 Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, Dr. E. 

 W'estermarck, 2 vols., vol. ii. Milner and Co., Ltd. — 

 Psychical Research, F. Podmore. John Murray. — Hydro- 

 graphical Surveying : a Description of the Means and 

 Methods Employed in Constructing Marine Charts, the late 

 Rear-Admiral Sir W. J. L. Wharton, K.C.B., F.R.S., 

 new edition, revised by Rear-Admiral Mostyn Field, 

 illustrated. Kcgan Paul and Co., Ltd. — Milk Analysis : 

 a Practical Treatise on the Examination of Milk 

 and its Derivatives — Cream, Butter, and Cheese, 

 J. A. Wanklyn, new edition, by \V. J. Cooper. Sir L 

 Pitman and Sons, Ltd. — Notes of Lessons on Hygiene and 

 Temperance, Mrs. E. H. Chadwick, introduction by Prof. 

 G. Sims Woodhead, vol. ii. ; The Teacher's Course of 

 Elementary Science, F. Belton, Part i.. Physics and 

 Chemistry; Part ii.. Plant Life. Swan Sonncnschein and 

 Co., Ltd. — Thought and Things : a Study of the Develop- 

 ment and Meaning of Thought or Genetic Logic, Prof. 

 J. M. Baldwin, 3 vols., vol. iii., Real Logic; Outlines of 

 Psychology, Dr. O. Kiilpe, translated under the super- 

 vision of Prof. E. B. Titchener, a new edition ; Physio- 

 logical Psychology, Prof. W. Wundt, a translation of the 

 fifth and wholly re-written German edition by Prof. E. B. 

 Titchener, in 3 vols., vol. ii., illustrated ; Bushman Folk- 

 lore, L. C. Lloyd, edited by Dr. G. M. Theal, illustrated. 

 The University Tutorial Press, Ltd. — Principles and 

 Methods of Physical Education and Hygiene, \V. P. Welp- 

 ton ; The Science of -Speech : an Elementary Manual of 

 Phonetics for Teachers, B. Dumville. T. Fisher Vmvin. — 

 Prehistoric Rhodesia : an Examination of the Ethnological 

 and .Archic-ological Evidences as to the Origin and .\ge 

 of the Rock Alines and .Stone Buildings, with a Gazetteer 

 of Medi.-cval South-East .Africa, R. N. Hall, illustrated. 

 Whittaker and Co. — Artificial and Natural Flight, Sir H. 

 Maxim, illustrated. 



VMVEKSITY AND EDUCATIOAAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge. — .\t Emmanuel College research studentships 

 hiive been awarded to members of the college as follows ; — 

 150/., T. H. Laby ; 140/., R. I). Kleeman ; ioo(., H. S. 

 i asker. 



Mr. A. R. Brown, who recently returned from the 

 Andaman Islands, where he spent two dry seasons in 

 studying the sociology, psychology, and religion of 

 the pigmy inhabitants, was elected on Monday to a fellow- 

 ship at Trinity College in recognition of his investigations. 



In connection with the visit of the members of the Con- 

 gress of Electrical Units to Cambridge on Saturday next, 

 it is proposed to confer degrees of Doctor of Science, 

 honoris causa, upon Prof. S. A. Arrhenius, Prof. G. Lipp- 

 mann. Dr. S. W. Stratton, and Dr. E. G. Warburg. 



Prof. Bateson will deliver an inaugural lecture in the 

 botanical lecture-room on Friday, October 23, at 5 p.m., 

 on " The Methods and Scope of Genetics." 



Mr. G. H. Hardy, of Trinity College, and Mr. J. M. 

 Dodds, of Peterhouse, have been nominated moderators 

 for the year beginning May i, iqoq. .Mr. A. Berry, of 

 King's College, and Mr. G. Birtwistle, of Pembroke 

 College, have been appointed examiners for the mathe- 

 matical tripos, part i. (old regulations), for the same 

 period. 



.\ Grace, gratefully acknowledging the munificent gift 

 to the University by Prof. Liveing of almost the whole 

 of the apparatus and material belonging to him in the 

 chemical laboratory, will be brought before the Senate 

 to-dav. 



NO. 2033, Vt)L. 78] 



Dr. Charles E. Fawsitt, Graham Young lecturer in 

 metallurgical chemistry in the University of Glasgow, has 

 been appointed professor of chemistry in the University of 

 -Sydney, N.S.W. 



Ix addition to the usual course of Hunterian and other 

 lectures to be delivered during the present winter session,, 

 the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 

 has arranged a series of demonstrations in the theatre 

 of the college at which specimens from the museu.n will 

 be shown and their bearing on general and surgical 

 pathology discussed. The first demonstration of the series 

 is to be given on Friday, October 16, at 5 p.m., by Dr. 

 -Arthur Keith. The demonstrations are open to all medical 

 men and senior students on presentation of their cards. 



On October 7 Mr. Herbert L. Storey handed over to 

 Lancaster the extensive buildings of the Storey Institute, 

 which he has erected and equipped at a cost of 10,500/. 

 The institute itself was the gift of the late Sir Thomas 

 -Storev, to conmiemorate the jubilee of the late Queen's 

 reign. In the original building are housed the public 

 library, art gallery, lecture theatre, and laboratories for 

 science work. Some time ago the need for an extension 

 was felt, and Mr. Storey offered to erect new buildings. 

 These are now completed. The new buildings provide a 

 workshop for manual training and a class-room for 

 domestic science. Prof. Sadler, in an address at the 

 ceremony, spoke of the signal value of the service which 

 private benefactors like Mr. Herbert Storey render to 

 public education by encouraging manual training for boys 

 and the preparation of girls for their future duties as 

 wives and mothers. He expressed the hope that by means 

 of Mr. Storey's gift Lancaster may find it possible tc 

 establish a day continuation school for boys and girls of 

 from thirteen to fifteen years of age, with a course of 

 instruction designed to give preparation for skilled industry 

 and for home duties. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



London. 



Roval Society, May 21. — "On some Features in ihe 

 Hereditary Transmission of the Albino Character and the 

 Black Piebald Coat in Rats." Paper ii. By Geo. P. 

 Mudge. Communicated by Prof. .\. D. Waller. 



These experiments show that albinoes breed true to 

 albinism, whether their ancestry is pigmented or not. 

 They further show that, though externally albinoes may 

 appear to bo identical with regard to their coat characters, 

 in reality they may be different, and that some exhibit the 

 " ghost " of the self pattern and others that of the piebald 

 pattern. It has been previously known for both animals 

 ami plants that some albinoes carry certain colour and 

 pattern factors, w^hile others carry different ones, but 

 this difference has hitherto been elucidated by means of 

 breeding tests alone. These experiments add an ocular 

 demonstration of the actual presence of the coat-pattern 

 in albinoes. The interpretation placed upon the coat ap- 

 pear.mces in these albinoes is corroborated by the breeding 

 results. 



It is further shown that when a piebald black rat (Cr 5) 

 is mated with one of a similar type, two classes of offspring 

 may be obtained. One of these contains all black piebalds 

 and the other a mixture of black piebalds and albinoes 

 in nearly ecjual numbers. 



When a piebald black rat is mated with an albi 1 

 ( = Cr 5xCr 4), it may be said that, so far as these ex- 

 periments have gone, five different results will be obtained. 

 They may be stated as follows : (i) The offspring may be 

 all black piebalds. (2) They may be a mixture of black pie- 

 balds and albinoes. (3) They may be all " Irish " forms 

 { = a black self-coloured form). (4) They may be a mixture 

 of albinoes, black piebalds, and " Irish." (5) They may 

 contain albinoes, " Irish," and a grey form ( = Cr 2). It 

 can be shown that the divergency of the results obtained 

 when two individuals apparently similar are mated is due 

 to the gametic nature of the albino employed. 



June 24. — " Preliminary Account of the Habits and 

 Structure of the Anaspidiidae, with Remarks on some 

 other Fresh-water Crustacea from Tasmania." By 

 Geoffrey Smith. 



