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some other scheme, and in the latter alterna- 
tive to make specific recommendations for 
consideration by Parliament.” The members 
of the Commission are: Lord Emmott, Lord 
Southwark, Lord Faber, Lord Ashton of Hyde, 
Lord Leverhulme, Sir Richard Vassar Vassar- 
Smith, Bt., Sir Joseph Larmor, Kt., Sir 
George Croydon Marks, Kt., Sir Alfred Wil- 
liam Watson, Kt., Mr. John Westerman Caw- 
ston, C.B., Deputy Master and Controller of 
the Royal Mint; Mr. Sydney Armitage Smith, 
Mr. Charles Godfrey, headmaster, Royal 
Naval College, Osborne; Mr. James Bell, Mr. 
Joseph Burn, Mr. Harold Cox, Mr. George 
Hayhurst, Mr. Theodore McKenna, Mr. Geof- 
frey Marks, Mr. James Francis Mason, Mr. 
Abert Smith, Mr. George Murray Smith and 
Mr. Gilbert Christopher Vyle. Lord South- 
wark moved the second reading of his Coiage 
(Decimal System) Bill in the House of Lords 
on June 4. He said it had the support of 
Chambers of Commerce, the Institute of 
Bankers, the Decimal Association, and many 
scientific societies. Lord Hylton, for the gov- 
ernment, offered a joint committee of both 
Houses, and the debate was adjourned. Early 
in July Lord Hylton, in reply to a question 
by Lord Southwark, announced the forthcom- 
ing appointment of this Royal Commission. 
The Treasury announces that, pending the ap- 
pointment of a secretary to the Commission, 
communications may be addressed to “The 
Royal Commission on Decimal Coinage, Treas- 
ury Chambers, London, S.W. 1.” 
A SPECIAL diploma course for the training of 
merchants in the woolen and worsted industry 
has been introduced at Leeds University, ac- 
cording to a report received from Consul 
Percival Gassett. The course includes work 
in textiles, economics and languages. It is 
proposed to use the fine equipment of the 
clothworkers’ department of the university in 
giving the student knowledge of the materials, 
whether wools, tops, yarns, or fabrics, with 
which he is to deal, in order that he may learn 
intelligently the best means of producing 
goods to meet the requirements of each par- 
ticular market. As for economics, it is in- 
tended to include not only economic geography, 
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but also industrial history and accountancy 
with, if possible, lectures by leaders of the in- 
dustry dealing with the special features of the 
larger commercial life. The language train- 
ing will be so designed that while the litera- 
ture of the various countries will not be over- 
looked, opportunity will be given for acquiring 
technical knowledge of the languages essential 
to particular industries. The following is the 
plan as approved by the university council: 
First year: Textiles, economic geography, a 
modern foreign language, and accountancy 
(prescribed subjects); and one of the follow- 
ing subjects: A second modern language, 
mathematics, European history, and industrial 
history. Second year: Textiles, economics, 
two modern foreign languages, and account- 
aney. Third year: To be spent at some colo- 
nial or foreign university or institution of uni- 
versity rank. 
THE objects sought by Brazil in establishing 
state zootechnic stations in Amazonas, Para, 
Maranhao, Ceara, Piauhy, Rio Grande do 
Norte, Alagoas, Sergipi, Espirite Santo, Par- 
ana, Goyaz and Matto Grosso are thus given 
in the order of the Minister of Agriculture 
quoted in the New York Hvening Post au- 
thorizing such stations: (1) Acclimation and 
immunization of imported animals. (2) The 
breeding of pure-bred bovines, swine, goats 
and sheep. (8) The breeding of crossbred 
horses of native stock with Arabic, English or 
English-Arabic types when possible. (4) The 
selection of domestic types of animals, in re- 
spective states. (5) The raising of breeding 
animals, to be loaned upon a reasonable fee to 
farmers and breeders in the state. The zoo- 
technic stations are obliged to possess: (a) An 
area of not less than 200 hectares (489 acres), 
of which 150 (3871 acres) must be artificial 
pastures and 50 (123 acres) cultivated with 
forage; (b) proper installation, such as stables, - 
cattle dips and similar apparatus; (c) a stock 
of not less than 8 horses, 8 bovines and 12 
sheep and goats of such breeds as the Bureau 
of Animal Industry may direct. The zootech- 
nic stations will be supervised by the director 
of the Bureau of Animal Industry. To obtain 
