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that one such laboratory should be established 

 for every groiip of crown colonies, the di- 

 rector to be in organic relation with the Lon- 

 don school, but with a free hand to take up 

 any special line of investigation in tropical 

 diseases. The directors of these laboratories 

 should be educated in their special work at the 

 London School of Tropical Medicine; East 

 Africa, Uganda and British Central Africa 

 might form one group, the West Coast of 

 Africa another, the West Indies and British 

 Guiana a third, Fiji and the Pacific islands a 

 fourth. Thus there would be seven labora- 

 tories affiliated with the London School of 

 Tropical Medicine. Sir Patrick Manson also 

 emphasized the importance of educating the 

 natives in tropical hygiene. He suggested 

 that tuition in the rudiments of the subject 

 should be included in the curriculum of 

 colonial government schools, so that when the 

 child grows up he may be willing to submit 

 to sanitary measures. Without the coopera- 

 tion of the natives it is hopeless to try to get 

 any scheme, however good, carried, out. A 

 necessary preliminary is the preparation of 

 primers for the instruction of school teachers 

 who in turn would teach children. 



The British postmaster-general has issued 

 a notice that reads as follows : The attention 

 of the postmaster-general has been drawn to 

 the fact that pathological specimens are fre- 

 quently sent by post by members of the med- 

 ical profession and other persons in packets 

 which have not been registered as required by 

 the post office regulations. The postmaster- 

 general desires to give notice that the trans- 

 mission of such specimens is sanctioned only 

 on the condition that they are handed in at a 

 post office for transmission by registered letter 

 post, and that they are packed in accordance 

 with the regulations published in the Post 

 Office Guide. These regulations, which are 

 necessary for the protection of the post office 

 servants and of the public, provide that any 

 deleterious liquid or substance sent , by post' 

 raust be enclosed in a receptacle hermetically 

 sealed, which receptacle must itself be placed 

 in a strong wooden, leathern, or metal ease, 

 in such a way that it can not shift about, and 



with a sufficient quantity of some absorbent 

 material (such as sawdust or cottonwool) so 

 packed about the receptacle as absolutely to 

 prevent any possible leakage from the packet; 

 in the event of damage to the receptacle. The 

 packet must also be marked ' Fragile with 

 care.' Any person who sends by post a 

 deleterious liquid or substance for medical ex- 

 amination or analysis otherwise than as pro- 

 vided by these regulations is liable to prosecu- 

 tion, even if he be a patient sending some- 

 thing to his medical adviser for his opinion or 

 a medical practitioner sending soimething to 

 a laboratory or elsewhere. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The British government will allocate £20,- 

 000 a year to the new College of Technology 

 at South Kensington out of the treasury 

 subsidy for the maintenance of the Royal 

 College of Science and the School of Mines. 



The University Review gives the following 

 figures in regard to the Carnegie Trust for 

 1904: The trustees during the year had for 

 distribution as grants to the universities and 

 for the endowment of research £59,201. In 

 addition, the income of the trust included 

 £50,000 to be utilized in the payment of the 

 class fees of students who applied to the trust 

 and satisfied the necessary conditions. For 

 this purpose £46,000 was distributed. The 

 figures show that out of every hundred stu- 

 dents 72 at Aberdeen received fees from the 

 trust, YO at St. Andrews, 50 at Glasgow and 

 39 at Edinburgh. To the general funds of 

 the Scottish universities over £38,000 was 

 granted, and £5,000 was distributed for the 

 encouragement of research at the universities. 



Dr. H. W. Stuart, of Lake Forest LTniver- 

 sity, has been promoted to the chair of philos- 

 ophy, vacant through the resignation of Pro- 

 fessor Walter Smith on account of ill health. 



Dr. W. G. Adams, F.R.S., professor of nat- 

 ural philosophy and astronomy at King's Col- 

 lege, London, is about to retire after a service 

 of forty-two years. 



Professor Stephen M. Dixon, of Dalhousie 

 College, Nova Scotia, has been appointed 

 professor of civil engineering at Birmingham. . 



