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be able to establish absolute motion, a con- 

 tradiction of the first assumption of the prin- 

 ciple of relativity. 



Hence in all physical problems where there 

 is a possibility of two solutions, the one which 

 leads to the establishment of an absolute veloc- 

 ity must be rejected, and the alternative solu- 

 tion accepted as valid. 



The principle of relativity, besides clearing' 

 our minds of the cobwebs of absolute time and 

 space, gives us, throiigh its explanation of 

 physical experiments, a deeper consciousness 

 of the manifoldness of space, in which time is, 

 not the flow of duration suggested by the im- 

 mortal ISFewton, but any one of the spacial 

 manifolds so beautifully developed by Hein- 

 rich Minkowski in his " Eaum und Zeit," and 

 by Wilson and Lewis in the Proceedings of the 

 American Academy for 1912. 



Eelnhaed a. Wetzel 



The College of the City op New Tore: 



GBANTS BY THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION 



At the Birmingham meeting of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 grants in aid of scientific research amounting 

 to about $6,000 were made as foUows: 



Mathematical and Physical Science: Pro- 

 fesor H. H. Turner, seismologieal observations, 

 £60; Dr. "W. N. Shaw, upper atmosphere, £25; 

 Sir W. Eamsay, constants and numerical data, 

 £40; Professor M. J. M. Hill, calculation of 

 mathematical tables, £20 ; Lieut.-Col. A. Cunning- 

 ham, copies of the ' ' Binary Canon ' ' for presen- 

 tation, £5. 



Chemistry: Dr. W. H. Perkin, study of hydro- 

 aromatic substances, £15; Professor H. E. Arm- 

 strong, dynamic isomerism, £25; Professor F. S. 

 Kipping, transformation of aromatic nitroamines, 

 £15; A. D. Hall, plant enzymes, £25; Professor 

 W. J. Pope, correlation of crystalline form with 

 molecular structure, £25 ; Professor H. E. Arm- 

 strong, solubility phenomena, £15. 



Geology: K. H. Tiddeman, erratic blocks, £5; 

 Professor P. P. Kendall, list of characteristic 

 fossils, £5; Dr. A. Strahan, Kamsay Island, Pem- 

 broke, £10; Professor Grenville Cole, old red 

 sandstone of Kiltorean, £10; G. Barrow, trias of 

 western midlands, £10; Professor W. W. Watts, 

 sections in Lower Paleozoic rocks, £15. 



Zoology: Dr. A. E. Shipley, BelmuUet Whaling 

 Station, £20; Dr. Chalmers Mitchell, nomenclator 

 animalium, £50; S. P. Harmer, Antarctic whaling 

 industry, £90. 



Geography: Professor J. L. Myres, maps for 

 school and university use, £40; Professor H. N. 

 Dickson, tidal currents in Moray and adjacent 

 firths, £40. 



Engineering: Sir W. H. Preeee, gaseous explo- 

 sions, £50; Professor J. Perry, stress distribu- 

 tions, £50. 



Anthropology: Dr. E. Munro, Glastonbury Lake 

 Village, £20; Sir C. H. Bead, age of stone circles, 

 £20; Dr. E. Munro, artificial islands in Highland 

 lochs, £5; Professor G. Elliot Smith, physical 

 character of ancient Egyptians, £34; Professor J. 

 L. Myres, anthropometric investigations in Cyprus, 

 £50; Professor W. Eidgeway, Eoman sites in 

 Britain, £20; Dr. E. E. Marett, Paleolithic site in 

 Jersey, £50. 



Physiology: Professor E. A. Schafer, the duct- 

 less glands, £35; Professor A. D. Waller, anes- 

 thetics, £20; Professor J. S. Macdonald, calori- 

 metric observations, £40 ; Professor C. S. Sher- 

 rington, mammalian heart, £30. 



Botany: Professor P. J. Oliver, structure of fos- 

 sil plants, £15; Professor A. C. Seward, Jurassic 

 flora of Yorkshire, £5 ; Professor F. Keeble, flora of 

 peat of Kennet Valley, £15; A. G. Tansley, vegeta- 

 tion of Ditchan Park, £20; Professor P. F. Black- 

 man, physiology of heredity, £30; Professor F. 0. 

 Bower, renting of Cinchona Botanic Station in 

 Jamaica, £25 ; Professor W. Bateson, breeding ex- 

 periments with QSnotheras, £20. 



Education: Professor J. J. Findlay, mental and 

 physical factors, £30; Dr. G. A. Auden, influence 

 of school books on eye-sight, £15; Sir H. Miers, 

 number, etc., of scholarships, held by university 

 students, £5 ; Dr. C. S. Myers, binocular combina- 

 tion of kinematograph pictures, £10; Professor 

 J. A. Green, character and maintenance of mu- 

 seums, £10. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The British Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science has accepted an invitation to 

 hold the meeting of 1915 at Manchester. It 

 will be remembered that next year's meeting 

 will be held in Australia under the presidency 

 of Dr. William Bateson. 



There have been called to the Eesearch 

 Institute for Biology, established under the 



