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Notes and News. 



Among the names of notable men whose deaths have been announced 

 during the past quarter we have noted the following : Sir Wm. P. Beale, 

 lately Treasurer and President of the Mineralogical Society; Dr. J. F. 

 Bottomley, of fused silica fame ; Prof. W. B. Bottomley, Emeritus Professor 

 of Botany, King's College, London ; G. L. Ciamician, Professor of Chemistry 

 at Bologna ; Dr. H. N. Dickson, geographer and meteorologist ; Sir Alfred 

 Pearce Gould ; Prof. P. A. Guye, the famous Swiss chemist ; Camille Jordan, 

 Professor of Mathematics at the Ecole Polytechnic ; Sir A, B. Kempe, 

 Treasurer of the Royal Society 1898-1919 ; Prof. T. Liebisch, of the Uni- 

 versity of Berlin ; Sir Patrick Manson ; Dr. J. T. Merz, electrician and 

 philosopher ; Prof. B. Moore, Whitley Professor of Chemistry in the Uni- 

 versity of Oxford, and discoverer of the origin of T.N.T. poisoning ; Prof. 

 V. I. Palladin, botanist. University of Petrograd ; Dr. Charles T. Waidner, 

 Head of the Division of Heat and Thermometry of the Bureau of Standards, 

 U.S.A. ; Dr. A. D. Waller, Director of the Physiological Laboratory in the 

 building of the University of London, South Kensington ; Dr. G. V. Wendell, 

 Professor of Physics at Columbia University. 



Sir Ernest Rutherford has been nominated President of the British 

 Association for the meeting to be held at Liverpool next year. 



Prof. A. S. Eddington has been elected President of the Royal Astro- 

 nomical Society ; Sir Frank Dyson President of the Optical Society ; and 

 Dr. C. Chree President of the Royal Meteorological Society. 



The Founder's medal of the Royal Geographical Society has been 

 awarded, this year, to Col. C. K. Howard-Bury for his work in command 

 of the Mount Everest Expedition last year ; the Patron's medal goes to 

 Mr. E. de K. Lef&ngwell for his investigations on the coast of Northern 

 Alaska. 



Mme Curie has been elected Associate Member of the French Academy, 



Mr. W. W. Smith succeeds Sir J. Bayley Balfour as Regius Keeper of 

 the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. 



Prof. W. Nernst is to combine his duties as Rector of the University of 

 Berlin with the directorship of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt. 



Sir Charles Parsons has given ;^io,ooo to the Trustees of the British 

 Association. 



Prof. R. A. Millikan is now Director of the new Norman Bridge Labora- 

 tory of Physics of the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena. The 

 Laboratory is magnificently equipped for modern physical research, and 

 includes a high-tension laboratory containing a million-volt transformer 

 provided by the Southern California Edison Company. It is near the Gates 

 Chemical Laboratory and Mount Wilson Observatory, and has ample 

 supplies of hydroelectric power close to hand. It is evident that the Cali- 

 fornia Institute will become one of the foremost centres of physical research 

 in the world. 



It was announced last February that the Rockefeller Foundation would 

 provide 2,000,000 dollars towards the cost of building a State School of 

 Hygiene in London. The offer was made on the understanding that the 

 Government would provide for the staff and maintenance of the school when 

 it is established, and we believe that ^^25,000 is to be granted annually 

 for this purpose. The necessary buildings will probably be erected in close 

 proximity to the new site for the Central Offices of the University of London. 

 The Rockefeller Foundation has also allocated 6,000,000 dollars to the 

 Johns Hopkins University for a similar purpose. 



We have just received from Messrs. Macmillan & Co. a copy of the first 

 volume of the Dictionary of Applied Physics edited by Sir R. T. Glazebrook 

 (Vol. I, Mechanics-Engineering-Heat ; price l^i 3s. net). It will be reviewed 

 in due course, but a brief inspection is sufficient to show that the book will 



