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Commanders {C.B.E.) : Mr. F. J. Cheshire (Optical Munitions Branch, Ministry 

 of Munitions) ; Mr. F. W. Garnett (President, Royal College of Veterinary Sur- 

 geons) ; Dr. G. H. Fowler (Hydrographic Department, Admiralty) ; Prof. W. R. 

 Hodgkinson, F.R.S. (Ordnance College, Woolwich) ; Mr. R. G. K. Lempfert 

 (Superintendent, Forecasting Division, Meteorological Office) ; Prof. W. J. Pope, 

 F.R.S. (Board of Invention and Research, Admiralty); Mr. E. Russell Clarke, 

 M.B.E. (Expert Adviser to Naval Staff on Wireless Telegraphy) ; Prof. T. B. 

 Wood (Chief Executive Officer, Army Cattle Purchase Scheme). 



Officers (O.B.E.): Mr. G. S. Baker (National Physical Laboratory); Mr. G. T. 

 Bennett, F.R.S. (Scientific Assistant, Compass Department, Admiralty) ; Dr. H. E. 

 Cuff (Principal Medical Officer, Metropolitan Asylums Board); Mr. C. Cuthbert- 

 son, F.R.S. (Contraband Department, Foreign Office) ; Mr. M. J. R. Dunstan 

 (Principal, South-Eastern Agricultural College and Food Production Commissioner 

 for Kent and Surrey) ; Dr. R. C. Farmer (Research Department, Woolwich) ; 

 Mr. C. L. Fortescue (Professor of Physics, R.N. College, Greenwich) ; Dr. J. A. 

 Harker (National Physical Laboratory) ; Mr. A. Hutchinson (Demonstrator in 

 Mineralogy, Cambridge University); Lieut. -Commander T. C. Irwin, R.N V.R. ; 

 Prof. T. M. Lowry, F R.S. (Technical Adviser on Amatol, Ministry of Munitions); 

 Mr. A. F. Macallan (Director of Ophthalmic Hospitals, Egypt) ; Dr. O. E. Mott 

 (Head Chemist, H.M. Factory, Oldbury) ; Mr. C. C. Paterson (National Physical 

 Laboratory) ; Dr. E. J. Russell, F.R.S. (Director of Rothamsted Experimental 

 Station and Technical Adviser to Food Production Department); Mr. F. E. Smith 

 (National Physical Laboratory) ; Mr. G. Stubbs (Superintending Analyst, Govern- 

 ment Laboratory); Lieut. -Commander H. E. Wimperis, R.N.V.R. ; Mr. J. Young 

 (Senior Instructor in Science, Royal Military Academy) ; Mr. G. Undy Yule 

 (Director of Requirements, Ministry of Food). 



Prof. H. R. Kenwood and Prof. E. H. Starling, F.R.S. (both holding the rank 

 of temporary Lieut.-Colonel), have been awarded the C.M.G. 



Sir J. J. Thomson has been appointed Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. 

 The Boyle Medal of the Royal Dublin Society has been awarded to Prof. J. A. 

 McClelland, F.R.S., for his distinguished work in science, especially on ionisation, 

 and on the radiation associated with radioactivity. 



The gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society has been awarded to 

 Mr. John Evershed for his investigations of radial motion in sunspots and other 

 contributions to astrophysics. 



The Council of the Meteorological Society has awarded Dr. H. R. Mill the 

 Symons Gold Medal for 191 8 for distinguished work in connection with meteoro- 

 logical science. 



Sir Archibald Geikie, O.M., has been elected Associate Member of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Arthur Keith has been appointed Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the 

 Royal Institution. 



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

 note with great regret the following : Dr. Garrett Anderson ; Sir John Wolfe 

 Barry, the eminent engineer ; Prof. C. Christiansen, Professor of Physics at the 

 University of Copenhagen from 1886-1912 ; Dr. A. M. W. Downing, F.R.S., 

 lately Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac Office ; Prof. Emile Durkheim, 

 editor of the Annde Sociologique ; 2nd Lieut. Entwistle, Second Assistant at the 

 Observatory, Cambridge ; Dr. G. P. Girdwood, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, 

 McGill University ; Lieut. Cyril Green, of the Botanical Staff, University College, 

 London ; the Rev. Dr. Greenwell, archaeologist and angler ; Mr. Charles Hawksley, 



