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Officers' Training School) ; E. L. Pickles (Chief Examiner to the Air Inventions 

 Committee) ; Major F. E. Pollard (Sub-Section Director, Technical Dept. Aircraft 

 Production); A. Rule, D.Sc. (late Superintendent, H.M. Wood Distillation 

 Factory) ; J. Savage (Chemist to the Castner-Kellner Alkali Co.) ; A. E. Shorter 

 (Senior Assistant Inspector, Munitions Areas, Sheffield); A. Stevenson (Chief 

 Chemical and Technical Assistant in the Optical Munitions Dept.) ; W. H. 

 Weddingham (Chief Designer, Elswick Ordnance Works); A. G. Williams 

 (Principal Observer, Optics Division, N.P.L ). 



Knight: Prof. G. D. Thane, Principal Inspector under the Cruelty to Animals 

 Act, and Professor of Anatomy at University College, London ; Col. Sir Almroth 

 E. Wright, A. MS. 



Marshal Foch, Sir Douglas Haig, and Admiral Jellicoe have been elected to 

 the roll of distinguished honorary members of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 



Sir Napier Shaw has been elected a foreign member of the Reale Accademia 

 dei Lincei of Rome. 



The L. La Caze prize for Physics of the Paris Academy of Sciences for 1918 

 was awarded to Aime Cotton for his researches in magneto-optics ; the Clement- 

 Felix prize to Paul Langevin for his work on electrical resonance ; the Cuvier 

 prize to Dr. A. Smith Woodward for his work on fossil vertebrates. 



The Swiney prize of the Royal Society of Arts for 1919 has been awarded to 

 Dr. Charles Mercier for his work Crime and Crimina/s. 



The President's gold medal of the Society of Engineers has been awarded to 

 Mr. T. Roland Wollaston of Manchester for his paper entitled " A Survey of the 

 Power By-Product Problem." 



The council of the Geological Society has this year made the following awards : 

 Woollaston medal, Sir Aubrey Strahan (Director of H.M. Geological Survey) ; 

 Murchison medal, Miss Gertrude L. Elles (Newnham College, Cambridge) ; Lyell 

 medal, Dr. W. F. Hume (Director of the Geological Survey of Egypt) ; Bigsby 

 medal, Sir Douglas Mawson ; Woollaston fund, Dr. Alexander Logie Du Toit 

 (Geological Survey of South Africa); Murchison fund, Mrs. Eleanor M. Reid ; 

 and Lyell fund, Mr. John Pringle (Geological Survey of England and Wales) and 

 Dr. Stanley Smith (University College, Aberystwyth). 



Mr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson has been awarded the gold medal of the American 

 Geographical Society. 



Sir Everard im Thurn is the newly elected President of the Royal Anthropo- 

 logical Society. 



Dr. C. G. Knott has been elected President and Prof. Hudson Beare and Mr. 

 J. Mackay Bernard Vice-Presidents of the Scottish Meteorological Society. 



The British Association for the Advancement of Science will resume its annual 

 meetings this year at Bournemouth. 



During the last quarter influenza has taken a heavy toll from those engaged in 

 scientific work and especially from the younger generation. Among those who have 

 passed away are the following : W. Allingham (Principal Assistant in the Marine 

 Dept. at the Meteorological Office) ; Prof. Gustave Bouchardat (of the Paris School of 

 Pharmacy, well known for his work on synthetic rubber); A. C. P. de Candolle (the 

 Genevan botanist) ; Dr. G. S. Corstorphine (Principal of the South African School 

 of Mines, Johannesburg); Marcel Deprez (the electrician); J. H. Dibb (of the 

 Mathematical Dept. University College, London) ; Prof. G. Carey Foster (Emeritus 

 Professor of Physics, University College, London); Dr. Leonard G. Guthrie 

 (secretary and vice-president of the section on Medical History at the Royal 

 Society of Medicine) ; Lt.-Col. Longstaff, F.R.G.S. (whose generosity contributed 



