May iS, 1888.] 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



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such provision. The Bill also provides for the renderi ng of 

 aid by School Boards or local authorities to voluntary schools 

 in which technical instruction may be given ; and two sections 

 define the conditions under which Parliamentary grants shall 

 be; made for the encouragement of such instruction both in 

 voluntary schools and in Board schools. It is proposed that 

 any School Board or local authority, should they think fit, 

 may institute an entrance examination in reading, writing, and 

 arithmetic for persons desirous of attending technical schools 

 or classes under their management, or to which they con- 

 tribute. 



Maidenhead. — A large meeting of teachers and others 

 assembled on Saturday at the Boyne Hill Schools, when Mr. 

 Buckmaster delivered an address on the educational work of 

 the Science and Art Department. A discussion followed, 

 when the following resolution was unanimously adopted : — 

 " That all attempts to teach trades or handicrafts in elemen- 

 tary schools, or night classes in connection with elementary 

 schools, will lead to failure and end in disappointment. 

 A wider extension in elementary science and drawing should 

 be more encouraged as the only true basis of technical edu- 

 cation." 



ANNOUNCEMENTS. 



Owens College, Manchester. — Prof Arthur Schuster 

 F.R.S., has been appointed to the Langworthy Professorship 

 of Physics and Directorship of the Physical Laboratory at 

 the Owens College. 



German Association of Naturalists. — The sixty-first 

 meeting of this Association will be held at Cologne, from the 

 1 8th to the 23rd of September next. The secretaries are 

 Professor Bardenheuer and Herr Th. Kyll. 



London Geological Field Class. — A class for the study 

 of geology in the field, under the guidance of Prof Seeley, of 

 King's College, is being formed. Further particulars can be 

 obtained from Mr. Nicol Brown, 7, Princess-road, Browns- 

 wood Park, South Hornsey, N. 



Proposed Teaching University for London. — The 

 Earl of Selborne, Mr. John Thomas Ball, Sir James Hannen, 

 the Hon. George Charles Brodrick, Sir William Thomson, 

 Professor George Gabriel Stokes, and Mr. James Edward 

 Cowell Welldon have been appointed Commissioners to 

 inquire whether any and what kind of new university or 

 powers is or are required for the advancement of higher 

 education in London. Mr. John Leybourn Goddard is 

 appointed secretary to the Commission. 



Yorkshire Philosophical Society. — At a meeting on 

 May 3rd, convened under the auspices of this Society, re- 

 presentatives from the museums of Liverpool, Manchester, 

 York, Sheffield, Nottingham, Bolton, Bradford, Sunderland, 

 and Warrington decided that a Museum Association should 

 be formed, consisting of curators or those engaged in the 

 active work of Museums, and of representatives of the Com- 

 mittees or Councils of Management of Museums. The 

 Association will consider (i) whether it may not be possible 

 to secure a compendious index of the contents of all pro- 

 vincial museums and collections ; (2) the most effectual 

 methods of facilitating the interchange of specimens and 

 books between various museums ; (3) the best plans for 

 arranging museums and classifying their contents ; (4) the 

 organisation of some concerted action for the obtaining of 

 such Government publications as are interesting or im- 

 portant from a scientific point of view. 



City and Guilds of London Institute Central 

 College. — Arrangements have been made tor the following 

 courses of instruction for technical teachers and others 

 during July : — Elementary Principles of Machine-Designing, 

 by Prof. W. C. Unwin, F.R.S. ; Practical Lessons in Organic 

 Chemistry, intended mainly for teachers of technological 

 subjects, by Prof. Armstrong, F.R.S. ; the Construction and 

 Use of Electrical Measuring Instruments, by Prof. Ayrton, 

 F.R.S.; Experimental Mechanics, by Prof Henrici, F.R.S.; 

 the Principles of Bread-making, by William lago ; Photo- 

 graphy, by Capt. Abney, F.R.S. ; Mathematical and Survey- 

 ing Instruments, by Arthur Thomas Walmisley ; Gas Manu- 



facture, by Lewis T. Wright ; the Application of Modern 

 Geometry to the Cutting of Solids for Masonry and other 

 Technical Arts, by Lawrence Harvey ; and the Craft of the 

 Carpenter, by John Slater. 



The Medical Colleges and Schools. — Scholarships and 

 Prizes, Winter Session, 1887-88. — London Hospital College; 

 ll^linical Medicine Scholarship, Mr. H. E. Skyrme ; Hon. 

 Certificates, Mr. W. S. Fenwick and Mr. L. Beckett (equal) ; 

 Clinical Surgery, Scholarship, Mr. W. S. Fenwick ; Hon. 

 Certificates, Mr. H. E. Skyrme, Mr. M. A. Rudd. St. 

 Thomas's Hospital School : The William Tite Scholarship of 

 ^30, Mr. J. H. Fisher ; the Peacock Scholarship of 40 

 guineas, Mr. C. P. Lovell ; Second Tenure of the Musgrove 

 Scholarship of 400 guineas, Mr. A. F. Stabb ; the Mead 

 Medal for Practical Medicine, Pathology, and Hygiene, Mr. 

 H. G. Turney (Messrs. Copeland, Cowen, and Thomas 

 obtained marks qualifying for it) ; the Cheselden Medal for 

 Surgery and Surgical Anatomy, Mr. F. C. Abbott (Messrs. 

 Boycott and Hulbert obtained marks qualifying for it) ; 

 College Prizes — first year, ^20, Mr. A. Banks ; ^5, Mr. C. 

 S. Wallace ; ^5, Mr. C. S. Jaife— second year, £10, Mr. W. 

 F. Umney ; £\o, Mr. H. Burden — third year, /20, Mr. A. F. 

 Stabb; /15, Mr. S. G. Toller; ^10, Mr. W. G. G. Stokes. 

 St. Mary s Hospital School : the first-year prize of ^3 3s. in 

 Anatomy and Histology, Mr. Evans ; and that of ^3 3s. in 

 Chemistry to Mr. Mander Smythe. The second-year prize of 

 ^3 3s. in Anatomy, Mr. L. Rogers ; and that of ^3 3s. in 

 General Physiology, Mr. Winter ; the third-year prizes of 

 ^3 3s. in Medicine, ^3 3s. in Surgery, ^3 3s. in Pathology, 

 and ^3 3s. in Operative Surgery, Mr. R. H. Cole. King's 

 College : The Warneford Scholarship of ^25 per annum for 

 two years, Mr. Harry Lambert Lack. The Surgical Clinical 

 prizes of ^3 each, Mr. Harry Lambert Lack and Mr. Arthur 

 Henry Cheatle. 



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DIARY FOR NEXT WEEK. 



Monday, May 21. — Whit Monday. 



Tuesday, May 22. — Birmingham Architectural Association, at 7. '5 



p.m. — Class of Construction, Bricklayer, 



Tiler, and Slater. 

 Royal Agricultural Society, at 12 noon. — 



Half-yearly Meeting. 

 Royal Institution, at 3 p.m. — Conventions 



and Conventionality in Art; by Mr. S. 



Colvin, 

 Wednesday, May 23.— Civil and Mechanical Engineers' Society. — 



Annual Dinner. 

 Cardiff Amateur Photographic Society. — 

 Theory of Tonini; ; by Mr. J. Williama. 

 Bradford Naturalists' Society, at 7.30 p.m. — 



Reports of Rambles and Exhibits. 

 'Ihursday, May 24, — Royal Institution, at 3 p.m. — The Growth 



and Sculpture of the Alps ; by Prof. T. G. 



Bonney. 

 Society of Telegraph Engineers and 



Electricians, at 8 p.m. — " On his new 



Standard and Inspectional Electric 



Measuring Instruments ; " by Sir William 



Thomson. 

 Camera Club, at 8 p m. — Inforrnal Meeting 



for Discussion of PhotOi;raphic Topics. 

 Friday, May 25. — Royal United Service Institution, at 3 i,.m. — 



The Equipment and Transport of Modern 



Armies ; by Colonel H. M. Hozier. 

 Royal Institution, at 8 p.m. — Personal 



Identification and Description ; by Mr. F. 



Galton. 

 Saturday, May 26. — Royal Institution, at 3 p.m. — The Later 



Works of Richard Wagner ; by Mr. C. 



Armbruster. 

 Camera Club. — Excursion to Dorking aud 



Neighbourhood. 

 Physical Society, at 3 p.m. — On the Govern- 

 ing of Electrometers ; by Prof. W. E. 



Ayrton. The Formula: of Bernouilli and 



Hacker for the Lifting Power of Magnets ; 



by Prof. S. P. Thompson. Experiments 



on Electrolysis. Part If. Ir reciprocal con- 



duction ; by Messrs. W. W. Haldane Gee 



and H. Holden. 



