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F.R.S. ; Dr. H. C. Greenwood, lately of the Munitions Invention Department ; 

 Dr. P. E. B. Jourdain ; Prof. A. Macalister, F.R.S. , Professor of Anatomy at the 

 University of Cambridge ; Dr. Charles A. Mercier ; Prof. Trail, Regius Professor 

 of Botany in the University of Aberdeen. 



On September 18 last the Aero Club of America observed officially a flight by 

 Mr. Roland Rohlfs to an altitude of 34,610 ft., the previous record being 30,500 ft. 

 The flight was made on a 400 H.P. Curtiss triplane. 



The Geological Survey of Great Britain and Museum of Practical Geology, 

 Jermyn Street, was transferred for administrative purposes from the Board of 

 Education to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research on November I 

 last. Correspondence with reference to the work of the Survey should, however, 

 be addressed as heretofore to the Director of the Survey and Museum, Jermyn 

 Street, S.W. 



The Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies has issued a useful pamphlet con- 

 taining a Calendar of Scientific Meetings for the session 1919-20 (i.e., to June 30). 

 Copies may be obtained from the Secretary at Burlington House, price bd. The 

 booklet also gives a list of the constituent societies, with their addresses. 



Mr. Austen Chamberlain estimates our future normal yearly expenditure as 

 ,£808,000,000, of which ,£135,000,000 will be spent on the fighting forces, and 

 ,£400,000 on scientific investigation and research. 



During the past quarter unusually large donations and bequests have been 

 given to scientific and educational institutions outside Great Britain — chiefly, of 

 course, in the United States. Mr. John D. Rockefeller heads the list with another 

 .$20,000,000, which the General Education Board is to devote to the improve- 

 ment of medical education in the States. The entire sum, principal and 

 interest, is to be distributed in fifty years. The John Sterling estate, bequeathed 

 to Yale, as already reported, has realised $18,000,000 and not $15,000,000 as first 

 estimated. Mr. E. F. Searles has given $1,500,000 to the University of Cali- 

 fornia ; Barnard and Columbia each receive £284,000 from the estate of the late 

 General Horace W. Carpentier ; Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges $500,000 

 under the terms of the will of Mr. Charles N. Clark ; and Cornell $250,000 from 

 Mr. B. Lcewy. From Australia comes the news that the University of Sydney 

 receives £460,000 and Brisbane ,£230,000 from the estate of the late Sir Samuel 

 McCaughey. We should not have to mention the English Universities at all 

 were it not for a munificent gift of ,£30,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Molteno to 

 Cambridge for building and endowing an Institute of Parasitological Research, 

 and a bequest from the late Mrs. M. L. Medley, of Beaworthy, Devon, of £20,000 

 to the University of Oxford, to establish a scholarship for the promotion of the 

 study of political economy in memory of her husband, George Webb Medley. 



During the last few months the Ramsay Memorial Fund has continued to 

 make progress, and the total contributions now amount to a little over £50,000, 

 apart from the funds to be provided by Foreign Governments for the foundation 

 of Fellowships. 



The first Foreign Government to conclude arrangements for the foundation of 

 a Ramsay Fellowship is the Royal Hellenic Government. The first Fellow, 

 Dr. V. Papaconstantinou, formerly Assistant Professor to Professor Zenghelis, of 

 the University of Athens, has been duly nominated by the Royal Hellenic 

 Government, and appointed by the Trustees, and has taken up work in this 

 country. He is working under Prof. F. G. Donnan, at University College, 

 London. It is anticipated that further appointments of Foreign Fellows will be 

 made at an early date. 



