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Sir James Dewar has been awarded a Franklin Medal by the Franklin Insti- 

 tute of Philadelphia. 



Vilhjalmur Stefansson has been awarded the La Roquette Gold Medal of the 

 Geographical Society of Paris, in recognition of the discoveries made by the 

 Canadian Arctic Expedition under his command during the years 1913-18. 



The Baly Medal of the Royal College of Physicians has been awarded this 

 year to Dr. Leonard Hill. 



The Henry Draper Gold Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 

 has this year been given to Charles Fabry, Professor of Physics at the University 

 of Marseilles, and the Agassiz Medal to Prince Albert of Monaco. 



Prof. W. H. Davis has received the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical 

 Society for his contributions to the development of Physical Geography. 



Old students and colleagues of Dr. E. S. Goodrich, F.R.S., will note with 

 pleasure that he has been elected Corresponding Member of the " Societe de 

 Biologie " of Paris, and an Associate of the " Academie Royale des Sciences de 

 Belgique." Dr. Goodrich is probably the best known British morphologist, his 

 work dealing with a wide range of subjects. He is one of the few English zoologists 

 who have been elected members of these societies. 



The Lord President of the Council of the National Physical Laboratory has 

 appointed Prof. Joseph Ernest Petavel, D.Sc, F.R.S., M.I.Mech.E., etc., as 

 Director in succession to Sir Richard Glazebrook, C.B., F.R.S., who retires on 

 reaching the age limit on September 18 next. 



Prof. Petavel is Professor of Engineering and Director of the Whitworth 

 Laboratory in the University of Manchester. He is a member of the Advisory 

 Committee for Aeronautics of the Air Ministry. He was educated at University 

 College, London, and undertook scientific research at the Royal Institution and 

 at the Davy Faraday Laboratory until 1898. He was elected John Harling 

 Fellow of the Owens College, Manchester, in 1900, and was Scientific Manager of 

 the Low Temperature Exhibit of the British Royal Commission for the St. Louis 

 Exhibition, 1904. 



Among those whose decease has been announced during the last quarter, we 

 note the following : J. Barrell, Professor of Structural Geology at Yale University ; 

 Prof. Adrian J. Brown, the well-known specialist in Biological Chemistry ; Sir 

 John T. Brunner ; Walter G. Davis, Director of the Argentine Meteorological 

 Service ; Dr. W. G. Farlow, Professor of Cryptogamic Botany at Harvard ; Prof. 

 Emil Fischer, For. Mem. R.S., the eminent chemist ; A. P. N. Franchimont, 

 Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry in the University of Leyden ; Dr. Ernst 

 Haeckel, biologist and anglophobe ; Father Walter Sidgreaves, S.J., Director of 

 Stonyhurst College Observatory ; Lord Rayleigh (on June 30, 76 years of age) ; 

 Prof. C. B. Richards, of Yale University, the inventor of the Richards Steam- 

 Engine Indicator ; Prof. Gustav Retzius, the Swedish Anatomist. 



A Committee has been appointed by the Government to advise the Treasury 

 on grants for University Education in the United Kingdom. It consists of Sir 

 W. McCormick (Chairman), Prof. Bateson, Mr. Dugald Clerk, Sir J. J. Dobbie, 

 Sir F. G. Kenyon, Sir Stanley Leathes, Sir W. Osier, Sir J. J. Thomson, and Miss 

 S. M. Fry. It is stated that grants are to be increased, and that a method of 

 distribution is to be adopted "which would give the individuality of each 

 institution free play, and would safeguard the legitimate interests of University 

 autonomy." 



The Zoology Department of King's College, London, has received the splendid 

 gift of £1,000 from Mrs. Row, in memory of her son, Harold Row, who recently 



