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(Managing Director of Messrs. Crosneld & Sons, Warrington) ; Sir Jagadis 

 Chunder Bose ; Dr. Robert Broom (Zoologist and Medical Practitioner, 

 South Africa) ; Prof. E. P. Cathcart (Professor of Physiology, University 

 of London, London Hospital Medical College) ; A. C. Chapman (Consulting 

 and Analytical Chemist) ; Dr. A. P. Chattock (formerly Professor of Physics, 

 University of Bristol) ; ■ A. W. Hill (Assistant Director of the Royal Gardens, 

 Kew) ; Dr. C. G. Knott (Lecturer in Applied Mathematics in the University 

 of Edinburgh) ; Prof. F. A. Lindemann (Professor of Experimental Philo- 

 sophy in the University of Oxford) ; Dr. F. H. A. Marshall (Lecturer in 

 Physiology in the University of Cambridge) ; Dr. T. R. Merton (Lecturer in 

 Spectroscopy in the University of London, King's College) ; Dr. R. C. L. 

 Perkins (Consulting Entomologist to the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Associa- 

 tion) ; Prof. H. C. Plummer (Royal Astronomer of Ireland) ; Prof. R. Robin- 

 son (Professor of Organic Chemistry in the University of Liverpool) ; Dr. 

 J. W. W. Stephens (Professor of Tropical Medicine in the University of 

 Liverpool). 



Dr. Theodore W. Richards, Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, 

 has been elected a foreign member of the Royal Society. 



Dr. A. E. Shipley, of Christ's College, Cambridge, has been elected an 

 honorary member of the Societe Royale Zoologique et Malacologique de 

 Belgique ; and Sir Ronald Ross, a Member of the Belgian Societe de Biologic 



The Pontecoulant prize of the Paris Academy of Sciences for 19 19 has 

 been awarded to Prof. Eddington, and the Lalande prize to V. M. Slipher, 

 of the Lowell Observatory. 



The Henry Draper Gold Medal has been awarded by the American 

 National Academy to Prof. Fowler, of the Imperial College of Science, for 

 his work in celestial and laboratory spectroscopy. 



The first award of the Charles Graham Gold Medal for medical research 

 has been made to Dr. C. Bolton, in recognition of his work in experimental 

 pathology carried out at University College Hospital Medical School. 



The La Roquette Gold Medal of the Geographical Society of Paris has 

 been awarded to Stefansson, in recognition of the discoveries made by the 

 Canadian Arctic Expedition during the years 191 3-18. 



Mr. R. H. Hooker has been elected President of the Royal Meteorological 

 Society for the current year. The Symons Memorial Gold Medal of this 

 society has been awarded to Prof. H. H. Hildebrandsson, of the University 

 of Upsala, for his distinguished work in meteorological science. 



Dr. Eric K. Rideal has been appointed visiting professor of chemistry 

 at the University of Illinois for the session 1919-20. 



Among those who have passed away during the past quarter we note 

 with regret the following : Joseph Barrell, Professor of Geology in Yale 

 University ; Prof. E. H. Bruns, of the University of Leipzig ; Sir William 

 R. Fraser, F.R.S. ; Mr. F. W. Headley, naturalist and bird enthusiast, of 

 Haileybury School ; Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins, Head of the Department of 

 Agronomy in the University of Illinois ; Dr. C. R. C. Lyster, Head of the 

 X-ray and electro-therapeutic departments at Middlesex Hospital ; Prof. 

 G. Macloskie, professor of biology, Princeton University ; Dr. Francis 

 P. Moreno, the Argentine geographer and naturalist ; Sir William Osier ; 

 Admiral Peary ; Prof. A. Ricco, Director of the Observatory of Catania and 

 Etna ; W. von Siemens, head of the Siemens-Halske companies at Zurich ; 

 Father J. N. Strassmaier, the distinguished Assyriologist ; Dr. John Wilson, 

 lecturer in agriculture and rural economy in the University of St. Andrews. 



The International Research Council has finally been established, after 

 a number of meetings in London and foreign capitals. Geophysics, mathe- 

 matics, astronomy and (provisionally) biology and chemistry sections have 

 been founded ; each section will be organised on an international basis, so 

 as to attain full co-operation in the different departments of science. 



