640 SCIENCE PROGRESS 



The Society of British Science Students 



We have received a leaflet from this Society setting forth its objects and aims, 

 which are principally to strengthen the relations between the younger students 

 of science in this country by means of meetings, lectures, and publications, and to 

 help those students who are in any way unfortunately placed in life, and those 

 members in the Forces whose studies have been retarded by the war. It is an 

 essential part of the scheme that all sciences should be represented in the Society. 

 Those interested in the furthering of this idea should apply for details to the Hon. 

 Gen. Secretary, Mr. P. E. Owens, 25, Jesse Terrace, Castle Hill, Reading. 



Notes and News (D. 0. W.) 



The following candidates have been selected by the Council of the Royal 

 Society to be recommended for election into the Society : Dr. F. A. Bainbridge 

 (Professor of Physiology, University of Durham College of Medicine) ; Dr. G. 

 Barger (Research Chemist under the Medical Research Committee); Dr. S. 

 Chapman (Chief Assistant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich) ; Sir C. F. Close 

 (Director-General of the Ordnance Survey); Dr. J. W. Evans (Lecturer in 

 Petrology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology) ; Sir Maurice 

 Fitzmaurice (Civil Engineer) ; Dr. G. S. Graham-Smith (University Lecturer in 

 Hygiene, Cambridge) ; Mr. E. Heron-Allen (Protozoologist) ; Dr. W. D. Matthew 

 (Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology, American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York) ; Dr. C. G. Seligman (Professor of Ethnology in the University of 

 London); Dr. B. D. Steele (Professor of Chemistry, University of Queensland); 

 Major G. I. Taylor (Staff Officer in charge of Meteorological Research, R.A.F.); 

 Dr. G. N. Watson (Professor of Mathematics, University of Birmingham) ; Dr. 

 J. C. Willis (late Director of Botanical Gardens, Rio); Prof. T. B. Wood (Pro- 

 fessor of Agriculture in the University of Cambridge). 



The Honours List published on New Year's day contained the following names 

 of interest here : 



K.C.V.O.: Sir G. A. Critchett, Surgeon Oculist to the King; Dr. H. H. 

 Hayden. Director of the Geological Survey of India. 



C.B. : Mr. C. E. Ashford, Headmaster, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. 



The appointments to the Order of the British Empire included the following ; 



K.B.E. : Prof. W. J. Pope, F.R.S. (Member of the Chemical Warfare 

 Dept. M. of M. ; Professor of Chemistry, Cambridge University); Aubrey 

 Strahan, F.R.S. (Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain). 



C.B.E. : Prof. J. W. Cobb (Livesey Professor of Coal, Gas, and Fuel Industries, 

 Leeds University); H. H. Dale, M.D., F.R.S.; J. C. M. Garnett (Principal, 

 Municipal College of Technology, Manchester) ; Capt. P. Chalmers Mitchell, 

 F.R.S. ; T. A. Ferris (Mathematical Instrument Office, Calcutta). 



O.B.E.: A. W. Borthwick, D.Sc. (Forestry Advisory Officer, Board of Agri- 

 culture for Scotland) ; G. T. Chivers (Headmaster, Dockyard School, Portsmouth); 

 R. Corless (Superintendent of Instruments, Meteorological Office) ; F. Holt 

 (Chemist to the Castner-Kellner Alkali Co); W. Foord-Kelcey (Professor of 

 Mathematics and Mechanics, Royal Military Academy) ; A. O. Rankine, D.Sc. 

 (Chief Research Assistant, Harwich) ; J. E. K. Studd (President, Regent Street 

 Polytechnic) ; W. E. S. Turner, D Sc. (Head of Dept. of Glass Technology, 

 Sheffield); Capt. E. Maclagan-Wedderburn, D.Sc. (Experimental Dept., M. of M.); 

 Mrs. M. L Davys (Laboratory Assistant, Kasauli, Punjab). 



M.B.E. : Lt. B. V. Gander (Demonstrator, Sheffield University Discharged 



