28o SCIENCE PROGRESS 



C.B.E.: Prof. E. C. C. Baly, F.R.S. ; J. Barcroft, F.R.S. (Superintendent of 

 Physiological Investigations, Chemical Warfare Department, Ministry of Muni- 

 tions) ; Conrad Beck ; H. N. Dickson (Professor of Geography, University College, 

 Reading, and Head of the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence 

 Division); Prof. H. B. Dixon, F.R.S.; Major A. S. Eve, F.R.S. (Resident 

 Director of Research, Admiralty Experimental Station, Parkeston) ; C. H. 

 Wordingham (President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and Director 

 of Electrical Engineering at the Admiralty). 



O.B.E. : Prof. P. G. H. Boswell (Geological Adviser to Ministry of Munitions) ; 

 F. G. Edmed (Principal Assistant Chemist, Inspection Department, Ministry of 

 Munitions) ; A. P. M. Fleming (Engineer, British Westinghouse Company) ; 

 J. S. Flett, F.R.S. (Assistant to Director of Geological Survey of Great Britain); 

 Miss Hilda P. Hudson (Aero-dynamics Technical Research, Aircraft Production 

 Department) ; Prof. H. M. MacDonald (Labour Department, Ministry of Muni- 

 tions) ; Prof. J. C. Philip (Hon. Secretary Chemical Society) ; S. Smiles (Assistant 

 Professor of Chemistry, University College, London) : Miss May Thorne, M.D. ; 

 Miss Martha A. Whiteley (Chemical Warfare Department, Ministry of Munitions). 



M.B.E. : F. P. Burt (Lecturer in Chemistry, Manchester University) ; 

 F. Harrison Glew (Radium Expert, Ministry of Munitions); J. Irvine Orme 

 Masson (Research Chemist, Woolwich) ; Miss Frances Micklethwait (Experi- 

 mental Chemical Supply Officer, Trench Warfare Department) ; Lieut. J. R. 

 Partington (M.I.D.) ; Lieut. E. K. Rideal (M.I.D). ; J. D. McBeth Ross (Chemical 

 Warfare Department, Ministry of Munitions); J. Waite (in charge of Steel 

 Research, Ministry of Munitions) ; C. A. White (Principal, Aston Technical 

 School, Birmingham). 



Sir R. T. Glazebrook has been awarded the Albert Medal of the Royal Society 

 of Arts for 1918, "for his services in the application of science to the industries of 

 peace and war, by his work as director of the National Physical Laboratory since 

 1899, and as Chairman of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics." 



Sir Joseph Larmor has been awarded the Poncelet Mathematical Prize of the 

 Academie des Sciences. 



Oliver Heaviside has been elected Honorary Fellow of the American Institute 

 of Electrical Engineers. 



Sir J. J. Thomson, Prof W. H. Bragg, and Dr. W. Coolidge have been elected 

 honorary members of the Rontgen Society. 



Sir James Dewar has been awarded the Medal of the Society of Chemical 

 Industry in recognition of the services he has rendered to chemical industry by 

 his work in pure and applied science. 



The Pereira Medal of the Pharmaceutical Society has been awarded to Miss 

 H. C. M. Winch. 



We have noted with great regret the announcements of the decease of the 

 following during the past quarter: The Duke of Northumberland (President of 

 the Royal Institution); Mr. C. D. Ahrens (optical instrument maker); Prof. 

 Vladimir Amalitsky (Professor of Geology in the University of Warsaw, and 

 Director of the Polytechnic Institute in that city) ; Prof. C. Blarez (Professor of 

 Chemistry at the University of Bordeaux) ; Dr. F. Braun (Professor of Physics at 

 Strassburg and Nobel prize-winner in 1909 — the prize being divided with Signor 

 Marconi) ; Dr. R. O. Cunningham (Emeritus Professor of Natural History and 

 Geology at Queen's College, Belfast) ; Dr. W. J. M. Ettles (one time President of 



