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SCIENCE 



359 



David Heron, M.A., has been appointed Galton 

 research fellow in national eugenics, in suc- 

 cession to Mr. Edgar Schuster, M. A., resigned ; 

 Miss E. M. Elderton has been appointed Gal- 

 ton research scholar, and Miss Amy Barring- 

 ton (mathematical tripos, Cambridge) com- 

 puter. The work in this subject will be 

 carried on under the supervision of Professor 

 Karl Pearson, F.II.S., in consultation with 

 Mr. Francis Galton. It is the intention of 

 the founder that the laboratory shall act (1) 

 as a storehouse for statistical material bear- 

 ing on the mental and physical conditions in 

 man and the relation of these conditions to 

 inheritance and environment, (2) as a center 

 for the publication or other form of distribu- 

 tion of information concerning national 

 eugenics. Provision is made in association 

 with the biometric laboratory at University 

 College for training in statistical method and 

 for assisting research workers in special 

 eugenic problems. Short courses of instruc- 

 tion will be provided for those engaged in 

 social, anthropometric or medical work and 

 desirous of applying modem methods of 

 analysis to the reduction of their observations. 

 The laboratory, which is in connection with 

 University College, is temporarily established 

 at 88, Gower-street, W.C. 



We learn from the London Times that the 

 highways committee of the London County 

 Council has presented a report to the council 

 with reference to the Greenwich Electricity 

 Generating Station and the Royal Observa- 

 tory. Last year the admiralty appointed a 

 special committee to inquire into the working 

 of the station. The special committee, which 

 consisted of Lord Eosse, representing the 

 Royal Observatory, Professor J. A. Ewing, 

 representing the admiralty, and Sir Benjamin 

 Baker, representing the council, have now 

 issued their report, and the conclusions arrived 

 at are contained in the following recommenda- 

 tions, in which are suggested certain modi- 

 fications in the arrangements at the generating 

 station, and as to the manner and times at 

 which the first portion of this station shall be 

 worked, so as to avoid any possible inter- 

 ference with the work of the observatory: 



(a) The question, both as regards effects of 

 vibration and obstruction through chimneys or 

 discharge from chimneys, to be further re- 

 viewed after, say, two years, by which time 

 experience should be obtained with the second 

 portion of the station at work, (h) The 

 generating plant for the second portion to be 

 turbines, which, as well as the dynamos, must 

 be of a perfectly balanced type, such as has 

 been proved by trial not to cause vibration. 



(c) An undertaking to be obtained that when 

 the plant in the second portion is available for 

 use, the reciprocating engines of the first por- 

 tion shall not in ordinary circumstances be 

 used after 10 p.m., and their use shall be 

 restricted as far as possible after 8 :30 p.m. 



(d) The two chimneys of the second portion, 

 at present incomplete, to be not higher than 

 204 feet above Ordnance datum, (e) The dis- 

 charge of gases both from these and from the 

 existing chimneys not to be materially hotter 

 than the discharge is now from the existing 

 chimneys — namely, about 250 degrees F. (f) 

 No further extension of the station to be made 

 beyond the 20,000 kilowatts now contemplated 

 in the equipment of the second portion. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



By the will of the late John A. Creighton, 

 the sum of $900,000 is bequeathed to edu- 

 cational and charitable institutions, including 

 $500,000 to Creighton University. The resi- 

 due of the estate which is said to amount to 

 more than $5,000,000 is to be distributed pro 

 rata to the same institutions, whence it ap- 

 pears that Creighton University will receive 

 in all the sum of about $2,500,000. 



Teachers College, Columbia University, 

 has received from a source not stated, a gift 

 of $400,000 for a building for its school of 

 domestic economy. 



The Johns Hopkins University has received 

 $150,000 from the estate of the late Charles 

 L. Marburg, $100,000, of which goes to the 

 hospital and $50,000 to the university. 



An unnamed donor has presented a new 

 gymnasium to Syracuse University. 



Ten research fellowships of the annual 

 value of $500 each have been established in 



