NOTES 455 



Council of the Society have also made the following awards : Copley medal 

 to Sir Ernest Rutherford ; the Rumford medal to Prof. P. Zeeman, for his 

 work in optics ; the Davy medal to Prof. J. F. Thorpe, for his researches in 

 organic chemistry ; the Darwin medal to Prof. R. C. Punnett, for his work 

 on genetics ; the Buchanan medal to Sir David Bruce, for his discoveries in 

 tropical medicine ; the Sylvester medal to Prof. T. Levi-Civita, for his 

 researches in geometry and mechanics ; the Hughes medal to Dr. F. W. 

 Aston, for his work on isotopes. 



The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, announces the 

 award of the following Nobel prizes : Physics, 1921, Prof. Albert Einstein ; 

 1922, Prof. N. Bohr, chemistry ; 1921, Prof. F. Soddy, for his work on 

 radio-activity and isotopes ; 1922, Dr. F. W. Aston. 



Sir Charles Sherrington has been awarded the Anders Retzius gold medal 

 of the Swedish Medical Society. This medal is awarded every five years 

 to distinguished workers in anatomy or physiology. 



Prof. E. T. Whittaker has been elected a foreign member of the Reale 

 Accademia dei Lincei. 



Prof. F. O. Bower has been elected President of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh for the year 1922-3. 



The death of the following well-known men of science has been announced 

 during the past quarter : Dr. A. Crum Brown, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, 

 Edinburgh University ; Prof. T. Godlewski, Rector of the Technical High 

 School, Lemberg, Poland, well known for his work on radio-activity ; Col. 

 E. G. Grove-Hills, secretary of the Royal Institution and formerly head of 

 the Topographical Department of the War Office ; Gisbert Kapp, Professor 

 of Electrical Engineering, University of Birmingham ; Dr. W. Kellner, late 

 Chemist to the War Department (Woolwich) ; Dr. C. G. Knott, Reader in 

 Applied Mathematics, University of Edinburgh ; Prof. J. P. Kuenen, of the 

 University of Leyden ; Dr. David Sharp, entomologist ; Dr. Alexander Smith, 

 formerly Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago and at Columbia 

 University ; Charles Michie Smith, astronomer ; Dr. T. Takamine, biochemist ; 

 Prof. F. T. Trouton, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University College, 

 London ; W. H. Wesley, assistant secretary of the Royal Astronomical 

 Society. 



Prof. F. T. Trouton, F.R.S., who was one of FitzGerald's pupils at 

 Trinity College, Dublin, died at Downe at the age of 59. He had a brilliant 

 career at Trinity College, subsequently becoming FitzGerald's assistant. In 

 1902 he became Quain Professor of Physics, University College, London. 

 He seems to have been never very strong, and in 191 2 was attacked by a 

 severe illness which prevented him from attending the British Association 

 in Australia, 1914. He lost two sons in the war, and was himself a complete 

 invalid in later years of his life. Like so many Trinity College men, he had 

 great charm and sincerity and a fund of Irish wit. Had he been spared from 

 illness so early in his life, there seems little doubt that his career would 

 have been even more distinguished. 



Among the notable bequests and donations to scientific institutions 

 during the quarter were about ;^9o,ooo from the late Mr. A. M. Shield to the 

 Cambridge Medical School ; 1,000,000 francs each to the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences and the Academy of Medicine from the late Prince of Monaco, the 

 income to be given every two years as a prize under conditions decided from 

 time to time by the Academy concerned ; and over 840,000 francs from Prof. 

 M. Jules Tissot, of the Paris Museum of Natural History, to endow the chair 

 of physiology. 



Lord Askwith has accepted the invitation of the Council of the British 

 Science Guild to succeed Lord Montagu of Beaulieu as President. 



Mr. F. E. Smith succeeds Prof. H. H. Turner as one of the general secre- 

 taries of the British Association. The Association has accepted an invitation 



