December 22, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



873 



The mayor of Brighton, in a circular, 

 quoted in the London Times, accompanying 

 his invitation to attend a meeting to con- 

 sider a proposal to establish a university at 

 Brighton, says that by adopting the scheme 

 suggested by Mr. Clayton, a member of the 

 Education Committee, at the mayoral banquet 

 last month, a university education would be 

 brought veithin the reach of residents in Sus- 

 sex who may prefer that their sons should 

 receive university education within reach of 

 their own homes. The Brighton Technical 

 College and the new Training College provide 

 a nucleus around which the scheme could be 

 developed. It is suggested that there might 

 be affiliation with the colleges at Portsmouth 

 and Southampton to constitute a new univer- 

 sity for the south coast, or that the present 

 radius of the University of London should be 

 extended to include the proposed new Univer- 

 sity College. 



The Eev. T. A. Bendrat, of Turners Falls, 

 Mass., has been appointed instructor in the 

 department of geology at the University of 

 North Carolina, his appointment taking effect 

 on January 4, 1912. 



Associate Professor William Lloyd Evans 

 has been made professor of general chemistry 

 in the Ohio State University. The chemical 

 department of the Ohio State University now 

 consists of Professor William McPherson, 

 head of the department, in charge of organic 

 chemistry, and also dean of the Graduate 

 School of Ohio State University; Professor 

 William E. Henderson, professor of inorganic 

 and physical chemistry; Professor Charles W. 

 Foulk, professor of analytical chemistry; Pro- 

 fessor William L. Evans, professor of general 

 chemistry; Dr. James E. Withrow, associate 

 professor of chemistry in charge of industrial 

 and applied electro-chemistry; David E. Kel- 

 logg, instructor in general and physical chem- 

 istry, and Dr. John A. WiUtinson, instructor 

 in analytical chemistry; together with six 

 assistants and nine instructing fellows. There 

 are in addition on the campus in separate 

 buildings the department of agricultural 

 chemistry and the laboratories of metallurg- 



ical chemistry, ceramic chemistry and pharm- 

 aceutical chemistry, including seven pro- 

 fessors, one associate professor, four assistant 

 professors and several instructors. 



The following have resigned their positions 

 in Macdonald College, Province of Quebec: 

 Mr. E. C. Elford, poultry instructor and man- 

 ager, to take charge of the Educational Bureau 

 of the Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, E". T.; 

 Mr. J. M. Swaine, lecturer in biology, ap- 

 pointed assistant entomologist of the Domin- 

 ion Experimental Farms in charge of work 

 on forest insects; Mr. W. H. Brittain, assist- 

 ant in biology, appointed assistant botanist of 

 the seed division. Dominion Department of 

 Agriculture; Mr. W. B. Cooley, assistant in 

 animal husbandry, to go into private business 

 in British Columbia. The following appoint- 

 ments have been made to the staff of the col- 

 lege: Mr. W. P. Fraser, M.A., Pictou, N. S., 

 lecturer in biology; Mr. W. J. Eeid, B.S.A., 

 assistant in animal husbandry. 



Dr. J. H. BoNNEMA, curator of the museum 

 at Delft, has been called to the chair of geol- 

 ogy at Groningen, to succeed Professor Van 

 Kolker, who retires from active service. 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESFONDENCE 



ASTRONOMICAL REFERENCES IN TEXT-BOOKS 

 ON PHYSICS 



A SHORT time ago, having occasion to look 

 into the treatment, given in some text-books 

 on physics, of Eoemer's method of determin- 

 ing the velocity of light, I was surprised to 

 find a strange lack of information upon some 

 simple definitions and well-known facts of 

 astronomy. Thinking it well to call attention 

 to this matter, I give below quotations from 

 several books. 



Glazebrook, "Light" (18M), pages 21 and 22: 

 "Eoemer discovered in 1656 that it travels with 

 definite velocity." "... the period between two 

 successive eclipses is known and is found to be 

 48 hours 28 minutes 35 seconds." 



Jones, "Lessons in Heat and Light" (1892), 

 page 197 : " It happens that one of Jupiter 's satel- 

 lites (or moons) passes into the shadow of the 

 planet at regular intervals (48 J hours), and is 

 thus eclipsed." 



