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Among those whose death has been announced during the last quarter we 

 have noted with deep regret the following : Sir W. Crookes ; Prof. C. L. 

 Doolittle, Emeritus Professor of Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania ; 

 M. Jacques Danne, editor of Le Radium ; Dr. F. Ducane Godman, F.R.S. ; 

 Horace Fletcher, the expert on dietetics ; Prof. A. M. Liapounoff, Professor of 

 Applied Mathematics in the Petrograd Academy; Lieut. -Col. A. M. Paterson, 

 Prof, of Anatomy in the University of Liverpool; Mr. D. Rintoul, Head of the 

 Physics Department, Clifton College; Prof. J. J. Schloesing, of the Conservatoire 

 des Arts et Metiers; Sir E. C. Stirling, C.M.G., F.R.S. , Professor of Physiology 

 at the University of Adelaide ; Lieut.-Col. W. Watson, C.M.G., F.R.S., Director 

 of the Central Laboratory, B.E.F., France, and Professor of Physics at the 

 Imperial College of Science, London ; Dr. H. Wilde, F.R.S. 



It is announced that Cambridge has received the promise of a sum of 200,000 

 guineas from a few firms engaged in the oil industry to enable her to build a 

 new School of Chemistry. The University has also received ,£20,000 from 

 M. Emile Mond for the establishment of a Francis Mond professorship of 

 aeronautical engineering, in memory of Lieut. Mond, who was killed in action 

 in 1918. 



The Government has expressed the intention of spending £2,000,000 during 

 the next five years on agricultural research and education. It is hoped to increase 

 very largely the number of workers researching on agricultural problems, to 

 encourage higher agricultural education in colleges, and to instruct the farmer as 

 to the benefits which result from the application of scientific knowledge and 

 methods to his work. 



At a special general meeting of the Geological Society, held on March 26, it 

 was decided by 55 votes against 12, to admit women as Fellows of the Society. 



The British Scientific Products Exhibition, organised by the British Science 

 Guild, will be held in the Central Hall, Westminster, from July 3 to Aug. 5. 



It is announced that Mr. J. L. Cope, who accompanied the Ross Sea party of 

 the Imperial Antarctic Expedition, 1914-17, as surgeon and naturalist, will lead 

 another expedition in the ship Terra Nova to the same regions in June 1920. 

 It is anticipated that the expedition will last from four to six years, and a com- 

 prehensive programme of work has been drawn up, including (1) an investigation 

 of the mineral deposits in Antarctica, (2) observations on the distribution and 

 migration of whales with a view to the assistance of the British whaling industry, 

 (3) the mapping of the unknown coastline between Wilkes Land and Coats Land 

 by aeroplane and sledge journeys, (4) meteorological and magnetic observations 

 during the winter on the middle of the Ross Barrier. The expedition will be 

 furnished with a wireless outfit to enable it to keep in touch with the rest of the 

 world, and should result in a valuable increase in our knowledge of a little-known 

 part of the Antarctic regions. 



A strong appeal is being made for a sum of ,£50,000 for the foundation of a 

 Geophysical Institute at Cambridge. There is at present no provision for 

 geodetic research anywhere within the Empire, and, in the past, it has been 

 necessary for the British Surveys, when confronted with geodetic problems, 

 to obtain aid from the Geodetic Institute at Potsdam. Included in the 

 estimate is the sum of ,£20,000 necessary for the endowment of a Chair of 

 Geodynamics to be held by the Director of the Institute. The appeal is made by 

 a committee, which includes Sir Horace Darwin, Sir F. W. Dyson, Sir Joseph 

 Larmor, Sir Charles Parsons, Sir Napier Shaw, and Sir J. J. Thomson, and is 

 being supported by the Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies. 



