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sanction of the City Council. The estimated cost, apart from 

 the final equipment, amounts to ;^8o,ooo. 



TiiK syllabus of lectures at the British Institute of Preventive 

 Mudicine, for the Session 1896-97, has just been issued, and 

 contains particulars as to the work in the following depart- 

 nunts :— Bacteriology : (i) Bacteriology in relation to Medicine 

 and I'atholog)' ; (2) Bacteriology in relation to Hygiene; (3) 

 Biological Chemistry; (4) Original Research Work: Hygiene, 

 Clinical Investigation, Bacteriology of Fermentation, Water 

 Laboratory, and Photomicrography. 



TiiK following appointments have recently been made at the 

 Swansea Technical School : — Lecturer in Metallurgy, Allan 

 Gibb, Honours Associate in Metallurgy of the Royal College of 

 Science. Lecturer in Physics, W. Williams, B.Sc. (London), 

 Senior Demonstrator, Physical Department, Royal College of 

 Science. Lecturer in Engineering, T. Gilbert Jones, B.Sc. 

 (\'ict.), Wh.Sc, iVc, Lecturer in .A.]iplied Mechanics and 

 Steam, Huddersfield Technical School. 



.■\mono recent appointments abroad we notice the follow- 

 ing : — I'rof. Thomas .\. Williams, of South Dakota, to be 

 -Xs^istant in the Division of .Agrostology of the Department of 

 -\griculture ; Mr. F. S. Earle, to be Professor of Biology at the 

 .■Mabama Polytechnic Institute ; Dr. Karl Rumker, to be full 

 Professor of .Vgriculture in the University of Breslau ; Dr. F. W. 

 Kuster, to be Professor of Physical Chemistry in the University 

 of Gfittingen ; Dr. Wm. Sandmeyer, to be Professor of 

 Physiology in the University of Marburg ; Dr. Max Fischer, 

 to be Professor at the -Agricultural Institute at Leipzig ; Dr. 

 Richard Lorenz, to be Professor of Electro-chemistry at the 

 Polytechnic Institute at Zurich ; Herr Troske. to be Professor 

 of Engineering at the Technical High .School, Hanover ; Dr. 

 J. Bichringer, to be Docent in General and Technical Chemistry 

 at the Technical High School, Braunschweig ; Dr. Benecke, to 

 be Docent in Botany in the University of Strasburg. 



The Calendar of the People's Palace, East London, Tech- 

 nical College for the .Session 1S96-7, contains information con- 

 cerning all the classes which are to be held next winter, and 

 their name seems to be legion. Not only can the student of 

 pure science receive instruction in any branch from thoroughly 

 competent teachers, but also the person desirous of help in 

 learning how to make artificial flowers for bonnets, or how to 

 cut out a coat. We fancy it would be difficult to name a subject 

 which does not come within the syllabus of this technical school. 

 We refer the students of East London to the Calendar itself for 

 information concerning scholarships, exhibitions, fees, &c. 



The City of London College, Moorfields, has issued its list 

 of classes to be held during the forthcoming session, and a very 

 full syllabus of lectures proposed to be given in the Engineering 

 Laboratory of the same establishment has reached us. 



Particulars of the technical instruction lectures' and classes 

 organised by the British Horological Institute, Northampton 

 Square, London, E.C. , have been published for the session, 

 w hich commences on September 8. They include drawing and 

 theory classes held at the Institute on Tuesday and Thursday 

 evenings, or instruction in theory by correspondence. Ordinary 

 and honours theory examinations, held at the end of April in 

 each year, are opened to all engaged in the horological trades. 

 Certificates are issued to watch and clock repairers who satisfy 

 the examiners of their proficiency. The certificates will be of 

 two classes, both for watches and clocks : an ordinary and an 

 honours certificate. Practical examinations in new work will be 

 held annually in April, and the silver medal of the Institute will 

 be awarded to recipients of the honours theory certificate and 

 the jiractical certificate for new work, who obtain the largest 

 aggregate number of marks in both examinations. 



Till-: .Vberdeen County Council, says Education, is making 

 careful incpiiry at various fishing centres as to the extent to 

 which the County Councils in England have provided technical 

 instruction for fishermen. The Cornwall County Council spends 

 between ;^500 and £()ao per annum on this branch of their 

 work, and they have appointed a lecturer to give instruction on 

 the curing of herring and pilchards ; the natural history of crabs 

 and lobsters, mackerel, oysters, and salmon ; the making of 

 crab-pots, splicing and net repairing, and so on ; and to super- 

 vise demonstrations on oyster and lobster culture at Falmouth. 

 Instruction is also provided in the subject of navigation, with a 



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view to the examinations of the Board of Trade. The Essex 

 County Council have started a marine biological station at 

 Brightlingsea, to give practical instruction in the natural history 

 of food fishes and other creatures. Experiments are also con- 

 ducted in oyster culture, and lectures and demonstrations are 

 given at the station. In Lancashire and Northumberland 

 instruction has been given on the natural history of fish and 

 navigation. At the conference, which was held last December, 

 the proposal was put forward that a few practical fishermen 

 should be selected from different centres in Aberdeenshire, and 

 enabled to visit the more important fishing centres with a view 

 to acquiring, and afterwards extending, a knowledge of the 

 different methods of fishing, the treatment offish after capture, 

 preservation, and so on. 



The Department of Science and Art has issued the fallowing 

 lists of Scholarships and Exhibitions just awarded : — Whitworth 

 Scholarships (tenable for three years), ;{^I25 a year each: 

 Frederick C. Lea (24), engineer ; William A. Taylor (23), 

 engineer ; Henry T. Davidge (24), engineer ; John W. Hinchley 

 (25), student (formerly engineer). Whitworth Exhibitions 

 (tenable for one year), ^50 each : William Du Bois Duddell 

 (23), engineering student ; John A. Sloan (23), engineer ; Alfred 

 J. White (20), engine-filter apprentice; Hugh Wallace (21), 

 engineering student ; Edward A. Gere (22), student ; Frank W. 

 .Arnold (23), engineering teacher ; Hugh B. Phillimore (22), 

 electrical engineer : ILanson Tophani (19), mechanic ; Harry E. 

 Wimperis (19), engineer; Charles E. H.andy (19), engine-fitter 

 apprentice ; Bertram J. Rouse (22), engine fitter ; Frank H. 

 Corson (19), fitter apprentice ; Thomas G. Procter (20), 

 engineering student; Harry Geldart (21), mechanic; Hector 

 H. Garratt (20), engineer apprentice; George Wall (22),. 

 engineering student ; George W. Howe (20), electrical engineer 

 apprentice; William W. Firth (21), engineering student ; Harry 

 Grute (22), fitter ; Hugh J. Williams (23), turner ; Frank 

 Mould (24), engine fitter ; Frank H. JelTree (22), engineer ; 

 Denys Walton (19), engineer apprentice; Allan J. Grant (20), . 

 engineer; William G. Hibbins (24), engineer; Joseph P. Ward 

 (21), engineer; George L. Overton {21), student; Asa Binns 

 (22), fitter ; .Albert Pidgen (23), fitter ; William P. Ferguson 

 (21), fitter. 



The list of successful candidates for Royal Exhibitions, 

 National Scholarships, and Free Studentships (Science) is as 

 follows : — National Scholarships for Mechanics : Ernest Larmuth 

 (17), student; Raymond B. Smith (17), engineering student; 

 John B. Shaw (22), engineer ; Frederick J. Tyler (22), engineer 

 apprentice. National Scholarships for Chemistry and Physics : 

 Henry L. Heathcote (ig), student ; James M. McEwen (17), 

 solicitor's clerk ; Arthur Hopwood (21), hatter; Percy Hughes 

 (18), laboratory assistant ; Sydney W. Smith (18), student. 

 National Scholarships for Biological Subjects : Herbert Wright 

 (21), weaver; Wilfred Thomas (20), laboratory assistant. 

 National Scholarships : Alfred J. White (20), engine-fitter 

 apprentice ; James Walker (23), engineer ; John Cresswell (19), 

 student ; Ernest W. J. Edwards (17), assistant demonstrator of 

 physics; .Archie McDougall (17), laboratory assistant; Frank 

 E. Smith (19), laboratory assistant; George J. Fenwick (17), 

 .scholar; Hugh . .McDougall (19), laboratory assistant; Frank 

 W. Arnold (23), engineering science teacher ; Hanson Topham 

 (19), mechanic ; Harry E. Wimperis (19), engineer. Royal 

 Exhibitions : William Alexander (20), engineer apprentice ; 

 William Scholes (16), .student; Thomas G. Madgwick (18), 

 engineering student ; William Robertson (19), laboratory assist- 

 ant ; Charles E. Handy (19), engine-fitter apprentice ; William 

 Pickering (22), stonemason ; George A. Robertson (22), engi- 

 neering student. Free Studentships: Frank Jowett (18), 

 student; Percy Kenyon (17), student; George W. Howe (20), 

 electrical engineer apprentice ; Frank Mould (24), engine-fitter ; 

 Philip G. Gundry (iS), student ; Allan Macdiarmid (22), student. 



SCIENTIFIC SERIAL. 



American Journal of Mathematics, vol. xviii. No. 3. 

 (Baltimore, July.) — On the multiplication and involution of 

 semi-convergent series, by Prof. Cajori. In vol. xv. 

 Prof. Cajori has generalised Voss's results (Math. Ann., 

 vol. xxiv. p. 42), and some further contributions of his 

 to this difficult subject are given in the Bulletin of the 

 Am. Math. Soc. (vol. i. pp. 180-1S3). The search, he 



