n8 SCIENCE PROGRESS 



(Professor of Metallurgy at the Royal School of Mines, South Kensington) ; T. A. 

 Chapman (Consulting and Analytical Chemist) ; G. P. L. Conyngham (Super- 

 intendent of the Trigonometrical Survey of India since 1912) ; C. C. Dobell 

 (Lecturer on Zoology at the Imperial College of Science) ; E. Gold (Superintendent 

 of Statistics, Meteorological Office, London) ; H. B. Guppy (well known for his 

 work on the geology of the Pacific Islands and on the dispersal of seeds) ; A. G. 

 Hadcock (Managing Director of Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ordnance Engi- 

 neer) ; A. V. Hill (Lecturer on Physical Chemistry, Cambridge University) ; J. C. 

 Irvine (Professor of Chemistry at St. Andrews University) ; T. Lewis (Physician 

 in Charge of the Cardiographic Department, University College Hospital); S. 

 Ramanujan (Research Student in Mathematics, Cambridge University); A. W. 

 Rogers (Director of the Geological Survey, Union of South Africa) ; S. Smiles 

 (Honorary Secretary of the Chemical Society and Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 

 University College, London) ; F. E. Smith (Principal Assistant in the Physics 

 Department at the National Physical Laboratory). 



Sir Alfred Keogh, G.C.B., has been appointed to the Order of the Companions 

 of Honour on his retirement from the Director-Generalship of the Army Medical 

 Service. 



The Longstaff Medal of the Chemical Society for 1918 has been awarded to 

 Lieut. -Col. A. W. Crossley, C.M.G., for his work on hydroaromatic compounds. 



Sir Napier Shaw, who was recently elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, has been appointed scientific 

 adviser to the Government in meteorology for the period of the war. He will 

 be relieved of his administrative duties in view of the important and varied 

 weather problems which now require constant consideration in the direction of the 

 war. The acting director of the Meteorological Office will be Lieut.-Colonel 

 H. G. Lyons, at present keeper of the Science Museum, South Kensington. 



The Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh has awarded the Keith Prize 

 to Mr. R. C. Mossman for his work on the meteorology of the Antarctic regions : 

 and the Neill Prize to Prof. W. H. Lang for his paper on Rhynia Gwynnt- 

 Vaughani (in collaboration with Dr. Kidston), and for his work on Pteridophytes 

 and Cycads. 



The annual gold medal of the Institution of Naval Architects has been 

 awarded to Prof. G. W. Hovgaard, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 for his paper on the " Buoyancy and Stability of Submarines." 



Prof. Rollin D. Salisbury has been awarded the Helen Culver Gold Medal of 

 the Geographic Society of Chicago. 



Dr. W. F. G. Swann, who left Sheffield University to take up a post in the 

 Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 has been appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Minnesota. 



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

 note with great regret the following : Prof. P. Blaserna, Vice-President of the 

 Senate and Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Rome ; Lord 

 Brassey ; Dr. J. Deniker, the French anthropologist ; Prof. E. A. Engler, Presi- 

 dent of the Academy of Science, St. Louis; Dr. G. H. Hinde, F.R.S., the 

 palaeontologist ; Prof. C. I. Istrati, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Uni- 

 versity of Bucharest ; Prof. G. A. Lebour, Professor of Geology, Armstrong 

 College, Newcastle ; Prof. E. A. Letts, Professor of Chemistry, Queen's Univer- 

 sity, Belfast ; Lieut.-Col. (Dr.) John McCrae, of the Canadian Army Medical 

 Service and McGill University, well known for his work in clinical medicine and 

 as a Canadian poet ; Prof. G. Meslin, Director of the Physical Institute of the 



