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Economical Council in Paris has already requested the League to suggest such 

 measures as are possible to deal with anticipated epidemics that threaten Europe 

 from the East, such as typhus, plague and cholera. We can foresee that the 

 League may be able to do great work in the future. 



The Royal Horticultural Society 



This Society is appealing to the general public for support, as its administration 

 expenses have greatly increased owing to the war. During these years of war it 

 has been conspicuous for the help it rendered to the country. From the first day 

 of the commencement of hostilities in 1914, long before the Government recog- 

 nised the need of increased production of home-grown food, it took steps to 

 organise, direct and encourage this movement. All communications should be 

 sent to the Secretary, the Rev. W. Wilks, M.A., V.M.H., Vincent Square, 

 Westminster, S.W.i. 



To Research Workers in Physics 



The Royal Academy of Science and Literature of Denmark announces that a 

 Classen prize of 800 crowns will be awarded for the best account of an experi- 

 mental investigation of the mode of action and properties of microphonic contacts 

 received by October 31, 1920. It is stated that hitherto nearly all the work on 

 this problem has been carried out with carbon-carbon "electrodes" in air at 

 atmospheric pressure, and it is suggested that by using other gases, other 

 pressures and "electrodes" of metal and carbon, or even metal and metal, a true 

 explanation of the phenomenon may be obtained. 



Notes and News (D. 0. W.) 



As is usually the case, the names of scientific men were not very conspicuous 

 in the "New Year's" Honours list, published last April. Knighthoods were 

 conferred on Prof. R. A. Gregory ; Mr. J. T. Hall, organiser of the section 

 dealing with the production of fertilisers in the Ministry of Munitions ; Prof. W. 

 Ridgeway, Professor of Archaeology, University of Cambridge ; Dr. C. S. Tomes, 

 F.R.S. ; and Dr. J. T. Verrall, Chairman of the Central Medical War Committee. 



Sir Joseph J. Thomson, O.M., President of the Royal Society and Master of 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, has been appointed by an Order of Council, dated 

 May 8, 1919, to be a member of the Advisory Council to the Committee of the 

 Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. 



Sir Ronald Ross has been elected a member of the Royal Society of Science, 

 Upsala, Sweden, in succession to Sir William Gowers. 



Prof. J. W. Nicholson has been awarded the Adams Prize of the University of 

 Cambridge. 



The Iron and Steel Institute has awarded the Bessemer Medal this year to 

 Prof. Cav. Federico Gioletti, of Turin. 



Sir Arthur Newsholme has been offered the Chair of Public Health at the 

 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 

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