July 23, 1900] 



SCIENCE 



109 



EDUCATIONAL KEVTJOX OF THE BRITISH 

 AtiliOCIATIOS 



The section will assemble on Thursday, 

 August 26, in the Senate House of the Uni- 

 versity of Manitoba, Winnipeg, under the 

 presidency of the Rev. H. B. Gray, D.D., 

 Warden of Bradfield. After the president's 

 address a discussion on moral instruction in 

 schools will be opened by Professor L. P. 

 Jacks, editor of the Rihhert Journal. He will 

 be followed by Mr. Hugh Richardson, of the 

 Friends' School, Bootham, York, and it is 

 hoped that American and Canadian education- 

 ists will also take part. 



On Friday, the twenty-seventh, there will be 

 a discussion on practical work in schools, 

 which will be opened on behalf of the sub- 

 committee of the association which is now 

 considering the question, by Mr. W. M. Heller, 

 chief inspector of science work under the com- 

 missioners for elementary education in Ireland. 

 Dr. C. W. Kimmins, vice-president of the sec- 

 tion and chief inspector of schools under the 

 London County Council, will contribute some 

 account of the London Trades Schools. Miss 

 Lilian J. Clarke, of the James Allen School, 

 Dulwich, examiner in the University of Lon- 

 don, will speak on practical work in girls' sec- 

 ondary schools, and Mr. W. Hewitt, director 

 of technical education in Liverpool, on prac- 

 tical work in evening and continuation schools. 



On Monday, the thirtieth, there will be a 

 joint meeting with the Geographical Section 

 of the association for the discussion of geog- 

 raphy teaching. Professor R. E. Dodge, of 

 Columbia, and Professor G. G. Chisholm, of 

 Edinburgh, are expected to open the discus- 

 sion. There will also be a discussion on the 

 relations of universities and secondary schools, 

 with special reference to the accrediting and 

 examining systems. 



On Tuesday the president of the section will 

 open a discussion on education as a prepara- 

 tion for agricultural life, with special refer- 

 ence to Canadian conditions. If time permits 

 it is also intended to discuss the subject of 

 consolidation schools. 



The committee of the section are in corre- 

 spondence with educationists in Canada and 



America, and they hope to arrange that each 

 subject shall be opened by representatives of 

 American, Canadian and British education. 

 American educationists who may be attending 

 the meeting of the association will be wel- 

 comed at the sectional meeting. 



The local secretary for the meeting is Mr. 

 D. M. Duncan, of the University of Manitoba, 

 Winnipeg, and the recorder is Mr. J. L. Hol- 

 land, secretary for education in Northampton- 

 shire, of Northampton, England. Offers of 

 contributions on any of the subjects set for 

 discussion may be made to either of these 

 gentlemen, and will be considered by the com- 

 mittee of the section. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



A PORTRAIT of Dr. J. W. Mallet, professor 

 of chemistry in the University of Virginia, 

 has been presented to the university by his 

 former students. It is the work of Mr. Dun- 

 can Smith, a son of Dr. Mallet's colleague and 

 life-long friend. Professor Francis H. Smith. 



Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker celebrated his 

 ninety-second birthday on June 30. His scien- 

 tific career began seventy years ago, when he 

 went out as surgeon and naturalist with Sir 

 James Ross's Antarctic expedition. 



Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, lecturer in economic 

 zoology in the University of Manchester, has 

 been appointed entomologist to the Dominion 

 of Canada in succession to the late Dr. James 

 Fletcher. 



Dr. E. F. Nichols, professor of physics at 

 Columbia University, assumed the presidency 

 of Dartmouth College on July 15. The formal 

 installation will take place in October. 



Professor Karl Runge, of the department 

 of mathematics in the University of Got- 

 tingen, has been appointed Kaiser Wilhelm 

 professor at Columbia University for next 

 year. 



The Fritz Schaudinn medal for work in 

 microbiology has been awarded to Dr. Stanis- 

 laus von Lanow, Schaudinn's successor in the 

 Hamburg Institute for Marine and Tropical 

 Diseases. 



