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the president of the Eoyal Society, who is 

 chairman of the general board. Those present 

 included Lord Crewe, Lord Eayleigh, Sir J. 

 Wolfe Barry, Sir Joseph Brunner, Sir William 

 White, Sir Philip Watts, Sir Joseph Larmor, 

 Sir John Thornyeroft and Sir Gerard Muntz. 

 The report states that last year the income 

 amounted to £24,270, as against £21,871 in the 

 previous year. Of this nearly £2,000 was due 

 to the treasury grant for aeronautical work 

 from June to December, and the fees for tests, 

 etc., carried out rose from £13,088 to £14,240. 

 The executive committee expresses the opinion 

 that the time has now come when the inter- 

 ests of meteorology, terrestrial magnetism, etc., 

 will be best served by separating them from 

 the research and test work of the laboratory, 

 the application of science to engineering, 

 electrotechnics, naval architecture, etc.; and a 

 report to this eilect, embodying a scheme by 

 which the change may be effected, has been 

 transmitted to the treasury, by which it has 

 been favorably received. The committee has 

 also prepared a scheme, involving an estimated 

 expenditure of £30,000, for providing the addi- 

 tional buildings required for carrying out this 

 change satisfactorily, and also for increasing 

 the inadequate accommodation for certain de- 

 partments, particularly metallurgy and the 

 general administration of the laboratory. 



We learn from Nature that a grant of 

 £100 from the Worts Fund, of Cambridge 

 University, will be made to Mr. E. A. Wilson, 

 of Gonville and Caius College, who has been 

 entrusted with the organization of the sci- 

 entific department of the British Antarctic 

 l^xpedition, 1910, towards defraying the ex- 

 pense of the equipment. The scientific staff 

 of the expedition includes Messrs. D. G. 

 LiUie, of St. John's College; E. W. Nelson, of 

 Christ's College; T. G. Taylor, of Emmanuel 

 College; E. A. Wilson, of Gonville and Caius 

 College, and C. S. Wright, of Gonville and 

 Caius College. Grants of £50 to Mr. C. E. 

 Moss, curator of the University Herbarium, 

 towards defraying the expense of botanical 

 investigations which he proposes to make on 

 the continent of Europe, and of £25 to Mr. 

 Li. H. Eastall, towards defraying the expense 



of a visit which he proposes to make to South 

 Africa for the purpose of carrying on geo- 

 logical investigations, will also be made. 



The April number of the Journal of Home 

 Economics is largely devoted to a discussion 

 of various phases of the school lunch question 

 by nearly a score of writers. There is an art- 

 icle on school feeding in Europe by Miss 

 Louise Stevens Bryant, who is in charge of 

 the School Feeding Lnquiry of the Eussell 

 Sage Foundation; Dr. Ira S. Wile writes on 

 the general problem, while other articles fur- 

 nish accounts of experiments that have been 

 made in Philadelphia, New York and Boston. 

 An interesting symposium is published on 

 economy of materials in school lunches, con- 

 taining in detail the practical working out of 

 the problem in different parts of the country. 

 Ignorance in the homes of the poor as a con- 

 tributing cause of malnutrition of the chil- 

 dren is a subject treated by Miss Gibbs of 

 New York and Miss White of Baltimore, to- 

 gether with the remedy which has already 

 proved effective in New York, that is, the 

 work of the visiting dietitian. The American 

 Home Economics Association which pub- 

 lishes the Journal of Home Economics aims 

 " to improve the conditions of living in the 

 home, the institutional household and the 

 community," and unites all actively inter- 

 ested in home problems. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



At the commencement exercises of Bryn 

 Mawr College it was announced that the col- 

 lege had obtained money sufficient to pay its 

 debts, and in addition $250,000, which en- 

 titled it to the appropriation of $250,000 of 

 the General Education Board. The sum 

 raised by the Alumnse Association was 

 $304,900 which is to be used for the endow- 

 ment of chairs in mathematics, English and 

 economics. 



The legislature of Maryland has made an 

 appropriation of $25,000 a year for 1911 and 

 1912 for the Johns Hopkins University. 



The Jefferson Medical College has pur- 

 chased the building formerly occupied by the 

 Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery at 



