October 22, 1896] 



NATURE 



615 



the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Worcester, and an 

 account of Vii'i astronomical work by his successor, Prof. H. H. 

 Turner. With a portrait. 



Mr. Heinemann s announcements include :—" Genius and 

 Degeneration : a Study in I'sycholog)-," by Dr. William Hirsch, 

 translated from the second edition of the German work, " The 

 New Africa : a Journey up the Cholxj and down the Okovango 

 Rivers," by Dr. Aurel Schulz and -Vugustus Hammar; " Tim- 

 l)Uctoo the Mysterious," by Felix Dvibois, illustrated. 



Mr. W. V. Clay, Edinburgh, announces: — "Select Methods 

 in (Quantitative Analysis," by the late Prof. W. B. Cheever, 

 third and enlarged edition, by F. C. Smith ; " Researches on 

 Molecular Dissymmetry of Natural Organic Products," by Louis 

 I'asteur, i860; " F^arly Papers on Chlorine," by Scheele, Ber- 

 thoUet, Gay-Lu.s.sac, Thenard, \:c. (Alembic Club Reprints); 

 " Handbook of the Diseases of the Eye," by Douglas Watson. 



Messrs. Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd., give notice of: — "The 

 Kafirs of the Hindu-Kush," by Sir George Robertson, K.C.S.L, 

 illustrated ; " Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk-Tales," collected 

 b)' Dr. Ignacz Kunos, translated from the Hungarian version by 

 R. Nisbet Bain, illustrated; "The Encyclopedia of Sport," 

 edited by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, Hedley Peek, and 

 F. G. .\tlalo, illustrated, in twenty parts. 



The following works will be issued by Messrs. Smith, Elder, 

 and Co. : — " Prehistoric Man and Beast," by Rev. H. N. 

 Hutchinson, illu.strated ; "A Course of Practical Histology," 

 by Prof. E. A. Schafer, F'.R.S., new edition, illustrated ; "A 

 Practical Treatise on Traumatic Separation of the Epiphyses," 

 l.y J. Poland. 



.Messrs. Gurney and Jackson have in the press : "Parasitic 

 Diseases of Poultry," by Mr. Y. \ . Theobald, which, besides 

 giving descriptions and illustrations of the various external and 

 internal parasites aftecling fowls, &c., will contain suggestions as 

 to the best means for their destruction and for the cure of the 

 <lisea.ses caused by them. 



Messrs. Grevel and Co. announce: — "The Elements of 

 lilectro Chemistr)' treated experimentally," by Dr. R. Liipke, 

 translated by M. M. Pattison Muir, illustrated ; " The Religion 

 of the .Vncient Egyptians," by Ur. A. Wiedemann, illustrated ; 

 '"The Care of Children in Sickness and Health," by Father 

 Kneipp. 



Mr. Charles Carrington, Paris, announces " Untrodden Fields 

 of Anthropology," observations on the esoteric manners and 

 customs of semi-civilised peoples, being a record by a French 

 army surgeon of thirty years' experience in Asia, Africa, and 

 -America, in two vols. 



In the list of Messrs. Ivegan Paul and Co., Ltd., we notice : — 

 " The Polar Aurora," by Alfred Angot, translated (International 

 Scientific Series) ; " In the Land of the Bora ; or. Camp Life 

 and Sport in Dalmatia and the Herzegovina," by " Snaffle," 

 illustrated. 



•Messrs. W. Blackwood and Sons announce ; — " From Batum 

 to Baghdad, via Tiflis, Tabriz, and Persian Kurdistan," by 

 Walter B. Harris, with illustrations and two maps ; " The Story 

 ^■f Mr. \\ , the Herbalist," by Hugh Miller. 



Messrs. Hodder antl Stoughton promise : — " Beginnings of 

 Life in the Dawn of Geological Time," by Sir J. W. Dawson, 

 F.R.S. ; "The Land of the Monuments: Notes of Egyptian 

 Travel," by J. Pollard. 



In the list of Messrs. Cassell and Co., Ltd., we find: — 

 "Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection," by 

 Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S. ; " Social England," edited by Dr. 

 H. I). Traill (sixth and concluding volume). 



.Messrs. F. Warne and Co. will issue : — "The Royal Natural 

 History," edited by R. Lydekker, F.R.S., vol. vi., illustrated ; 

 " Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse," edited by 

 E. Step, vol. i. , illustrated. 



Messrs. Ward, Lock, and Co., Limited, will publish : — " Coil 

 and Current, and the Triumphs of Electricity," by Henry Frith 

 and Stepney Rawson. 



Messrs. Gay and Bird's books include: — " Building Construc- 

 tiim and Superintendence," by Dr. A. E. Kidder, part i. , 

 Mason.s' Work, illustrated. 



Mes.srs. Archibald Constable and Co. give notice of "The 

 Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India," by Wm. 

 Crooke, 2 vols. , illustrated. 



Messrs. \V. H. Allen and Co., Ltd., will add to their 

 "Naturalists' Library": — "Game Birds," vol. ii. ; "Butter- 

 flies," vol. iii. ; " British Birds," vol. iv. 



-Mr. L. Upcolt Gill announces a work on " Fruit Culture," a 



NO. 1408, VOL. 54] 



section of which will deal with the life-histories of the insect and 

 other pests which affect fruit-growers. 



The list of Mr. David Douglas, Edinburgh, includes : — 

 " Among British Birds in their Nesting Haunts," by Oswin A. 

 J. Lee, illustrated, part i. 



Messrs. Methuen announce : — Vol. ii. of Prof. Petrie's 

 " History of Egypt, from the Earliest Times to the Present 

 Day." 



Messrs. Blackie and Son, Ltd., will publish: — "Fuel and 

 Refractory Materials," by Prof. A. Humboldt Sexton. 



Messrs. G. Philip and Son promise : — " Geographical Manual 

 of Africa," and "Certificate Atlas of Africa." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



INTELLIGENCE. 



Oxford. — Mr. Ernest Henry Stapleton, of the Grammar 



School, Bradford, has been elected to the Bristol Scholarship 



(thrown open pro hac vice) in chemistry and physics at St. 



John's College. 



Cambridge. — Dr. W. H. Gaskell, F.R.S., has been appointed 

 a member of the General Board of Studies. Mr. J. E. Gray, 

 Scholar of King's, has been nominated to occupy the University's 

 table at the Naples Zoological Station. Mr. James Henry 

 Widdicombe, First Class Parts I. and II. Natural Sciences 

 Tripos, 1891-92, has been elected to a Fellowship at Downing 

 College. 



Memorials signed by 2237 members of the Senate deprecating 

 the admission of women to the membership or degrees of the 

 University have been presented to the Vice-Chancellor. Of these 

 1369 would, however, approve the granting of some non-gremial 

 title to women who pass a Tripos examination. 



At the congregation on October 15, Mr. A. C. Dixon, of 

 Trinity College, was admitted to the degree of Doctor in 

 Science. 



At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, four associate 

 professors have been promoted to full profe?sorships : Mr. 

 Dvvight Porter, in hydraulic engineering ; Mr. Alfred E. Burton, 

 in topographical engineering ; Mr. C F. Allen, in railroad 

 engineering ; and Mr. Peter Schivamb, in mechanism. New 

 assistant professors are : Mr. George H. Barton, in geology 

 Mr. George G. Robbins, in civil engineering : and Mr. Joseph 

 J. Skinner, in mathematics. 



At the recent opening of the collegiate year at Columbia 

 University, 2100 students were enrolled, being the largest in 

 the history of the College. Several gifts were announced, the 

 most important being that of Mr. Charles C. Worthington, 

 who, as a memorial to his father, the late Henry R. Worthing- 

 ton, will equip, with all necessary apparatus, a laboratory for 

 the experimental study of the sciences of hydraulics and 

 engineering as applied to hydraulics. 



The following appointments have recently been announced : 

 Dr. E. Wernicke to be professor of hygiene at Berlin ; Dr. H. 

 Stuhr has been appointed assistant in the Anatomical Institute 

 at Breslau, in succession to Dr. Endres ; Dr. Andreas Obrzut, 

 of Prague, to the chair of Anatomy at Lemberg ; Dr. Chermak 

 to be professor of comparative anatomy and embryology at 

 Dorpat ; Dr. Winkler, Professor of Chemistry, to be director of 

 the School of Mines at Freiberg i. S ; Dr. Godschmidt to be 

 assistant professor of chemistry in the University of Heidelberg. 



Applications are invited for the Fellowship founded in 

 1894 by the Worshipful Company of Salters for the purpose of 

 encouraging chemical research in the elucidation of pharmaco- 

 logical problems. The Fellowship is of the annual value of 

 ^100, and m.ay be held for three consecutive years in the Phar- 

 maceutical Society's laboratories. The regulations relating to 

 the award may be obtained from the Clerk to the Company at 

 Salters' Hall, but applications for the Fellowship must be sent 

 to the Registrar of the Pharmaceutical Society before Saturday 

 next, October 24. 



Amo.n'g the many evidences of the activity of the various Com- 

 mittees entrusted with the technical education of the country, 

 one of the most pronounced is that afforded by the periodical 

 reports which are issued by the different county authorities. In 

 Essex the form assumed is that of The Journal of the Essex 

 Technical Laboratories. In the twenty-second number, which 



