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The Moxon Medal of the Royal College of Physicians has been awarded to 

 Dr. F. W. Mott. 



The David Livingstone Centenary Medal of the American Geographical Society 

 has been awarded to Col. Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon in recognition of the 

 merit of his explorations in South America. 



We have noted with great regret the announcement during the past quarter of 

 the death of the following distinguished men of science : Dr. H. Dyer, first Prin- 

 cipal of the Imperial College of Engineering, Tokyo, Japan ; Sir Edward Fry, 

 G.C.B., F.R.S. ; Prof. O. Henrici, F.R.S., Emeritus Professor of Mechanics and 

 Mathematics at the City and Guilds Technical College ; Dr. J. Harper Long, 

 Professor of Chemistry at the North- Western University Medical School, Chicago, 

 and one-time President of the American Chemical Society ; Bishop Mitchinson, 

 Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, a keen geologist ; Rev. A. M. Norman, 

 F.R.S. ; Dr. R. Saundby, Emeritus Professor of Physic at Birmingham Univer- 

 sity ; Sir Ratan Sata ; Sir W. H. Thompson, K.B.E., scientific adviser to the 

 Ministry of Food (drowned by the torpedoing of the Leinster); Prof. H. Shaler 

 Williams, of Cornell University, geologist and palaeontologist ; Mon. C. J. E. Wolf, 

 the distinguished French astronomer. 



Prof. A. A. Michelson, Head of the Department of Physics in Chicago Univer- 

 sity, has received a commission as Lieut. -Commander in the U.S. Navy. 



Prof. Maxwell-Lefroy has accepted a year's engagement with the Government 

 of the Commonwealth of Australia for ,£3,000 plus £2,000 for experiments. He is 

 to investigate the blowfly, the grain weevil, the woolly aphis, prickly pear, and St. 

 John's wort. 



At a meeting held at Huddersfield on August 21 the shareholders of British 

 Dyes, Ltd., approved the scheme for amalgamation with Messrs. Levinstein, of 

 Manchester. 



According to Science (August 30) Yale University will receive, as residuary 

 legatee of the late John W. Sturling, about $15,000,000, a sum which will nearly 

 double the endowments of the university. 



Nature states that the German Chemical Society has celebrated its jubilee by 

 collecting a fund of 2,500,000 marks for the more extensive publication of chemical 

 works of reference, such as Beilstein. 



At the time of writing the constitution of the proposed Institute of Physics had 

 not been finally settled by the Societies concerned in its formation {i.e. the Physical, 

 Faraday, and Rontgen Societies). A guarantee fund of ,£1,000 is required before 

 it can be definitely launched. 



The Japanese Government is erecting, near Tokyo, a permanent laboratory for 

 experimental work on nitrogen fixation. There are already two companies in that 

 country engaged in the manufacture of calcium cyanamide, and it is reported 

 that Dr. Takamine has secured for Japan the rights of the American modification 

 of the Haber process. 



By a unanimous vote at a general meeting of the Institute of Hygiene it was 

 resolved to erase the names of all German and Austrian members from the register 

 of the Institute. To commemorate the successful termination of the war, it is 

 proposed to build a " Temple of Hygiene" in the centre of London, which would 

 afford better facilities to the Institution in the prosecution of its work. 



In Science (September 6, 1918) Prof. C. C. Nutting reports, in outline, the 

 results of the Iowa University Expedition to Barbados and Antigua. The object 

 in view was to secure collections in marine zoology, entomology, and geology from 

 this, scientifically, little-known region, and also to study the living forms in and 



