45§ SCIENCE PROGRESS 



British Scientific Instrument Research Association, 



one of the earliest associations formed under the scheme of the Department of 

 Scientific and Industrial Research, has secured premises at 26, Russell Square, 

 W.C.I, where offices and research laboratories will be equipped. The first 

 chairman of the Association was Mr. A. S. Esslemont, whose recent lamented 

 death has been a severe loss to the Association. The Council have elected 

 Mr. H. A. Colefax, K.C., as Chairman to fill the vacancy. The Vice-Chairman is 

 Mr. Conrad Beck, C.B.E., to whose energy and personal influence is largely due 

 the successful formation of the Association. Almost all the leading Optical and 

 Scientific Instrument manufacturers are members. The Department of Scientific 

 and Industrial Research is represented by Major C. J. Stewart, Captain 

 F. O. Creagh-Osborne, R.N., C.B., Mr. S. W. Morrison, O.B.E., Colonel 

 R. E. Home, D.S.O., R.A., and Mr. Percy Ashley. The Council have recently 

 co-opted as members of their body the Hon. Sir Charles A. Parsons, F.R.S., 

 and Prof. J. W. Nicholson, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S. Sir Herbert Jackson, K.B.E., 

 F.R.S., F.I.C., has been appointed Director of Research, and Mr. J. W. 

 Williamson, B.Sc, Secretary of the Association. 



British Science and Invention Exhibition 



In view of the wide public interest taken in the British Scientific Products 

 Exhibition, held at King's College, London, during the past summer, the British 

 Science Guild has decided to organise another Exhibition next year. The main 

 object of the Exhibition will be to stimulate national enterprise by a display of the 

 year's progress in British science, invention, and industry. Further particulars of 

 the Exhibition will be available in due course. A large part of the recent 

 Exhibition has been transferred to Manchester, where it will be on view at the 

 Municipal College of Technology. 



Notes and News (D. 0. W.) 



The Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 191 7 has been awarded to Prof. 

 C. G. Barkla, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. 

 Prizes in Physics for 191 8 and in Chemistry for 191 7 and 1918 have been reserved. 



The list of Royal Society Medallists for the year 19 18 is as follows : The 

 Copley Medal to Prof. H. A. Lorentz, For. Mem. R.S., for his distinguished 

 researches in mathematical physics. The Rumford Medal to Prof. Charles Fabry 

 and Dr. Alfred Perot (jointly) for their contributions to optics. A Royal Medal to 

 Prof. Alfred Fowler, F.R.S. , for his researches in physical astronomy and spectro- 

 scopy. A Royal Medal to Prof. F. G. Hopkins, F.R.S., for his researches in chemical 

 physiology. A Davy Medal to Prof. F. S. Kipping, F.R.S., for his studies in the 

 camphor group and among organic derivatives of nitrogen and silicon. The 

 Darwin Medal to Dr. H. F. Osborn for his researches on vertebrate morphology 

 and palaeontology. The Hughes Medal to Mr. Irving Langmuir for his researches 

 in molecular physics. 



Marshal Foch has been elected an honorary member of the French Academy 

 of Sciences. 



Dr. J. Home has been elected President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 



