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In the meantime anyone who can afford to leave the country, and to go 

 and live among the base and brutal English, is doing so. 



Those who cannot go are taking an interest in commissions on growing 

 turnips; these are to be planted on the burnt-out sites because ashes are 

 good for plants. 



The journey from Whitehall to Dublin only takes eleven hoiurs. 



Notes and News. 



In the New Year Honour List it was announced that Mr. B. H. Spilsbury, 

 Hon. Pathologist to the Home Office, would receive a Knighthood. Prof. 

 Orme Masson, of the University of Melbourne, was promoted from C.B.E. 

 to K.B.E., and Mr. F. E. Smith, Director of Scientific Research, Admiralty, 

 from O.B.E. to C.B.E. Dr. J. W. Evans, the representative of the Colonies 

 on the Governing Body of the Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau, was 

 appointed C.B.E., and Dr. N. Annandale, Director of the Zoological Survey, 

 India, CLE. 



The names of the candidates recommended by the Council of the Royal 

 Society for election as Fellows are as follows : Dr. E. D. Adrian ; Dr. W. 

 Lawrence Balls (Chief of the Experimental Department of the Fine Cotton 

 Spinners' Association) ; Prof. A. Barr (Chairman, Barr and Stroud, Ltd.) ; 

 Prof. C. H, Desch (Professor of Metallurgy, University of Sheffield) ; Prof. 

 E. Fawcett (Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol) ; Prof. F. Horton 

 (Professor of Physics, Royal Holloway College) ; Dr. R. T. Leiper (Professor 

 of Helminthology, London School of Tropical Medicine) ; Prof. J. W. McBain 

 (Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Bristol) ; Prof. J. J. Rickard 

 MacLeod ; Dr. G. A. K. Marshall ; Sir Douglas Mawson (Professor of 

 Geologj' in the University of Adelaide) ; Dr. W. H. Mills ; Dr. J. S. Plaskett ; 

 Prof. H. R. Procter (Emeritus Professor of Applied Chemistrj', University 

 of Leeds) ; Prof. W. Wilson (Professor of Physics, Bedford College, London). 



The Buys Ballot medal, which is awarded every ten years for distinguished 

 work in meteorology, has this year been given to Sir Napier Shaw. 



Prof. E. H. Starling has been appointed first Foulerton Professor of 

 Physiology of the Royal Society. 



Among the men of science who passed away during the last quarter were 

 the following : Sir I. Bayley Balfour, late Regius Keeper of the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh ; E. Bouty, Professor of Experimental Physics 

 at the Sorbonne ; Prof. A. Horstmann, of the University of Heidelberg, 

 physical chemist ; G. Lemoine, Professor of Chemistry at the Polytechnic 

 School, Paris ; Sir Norman Moore, late President of the Royal College of 

 Physicians ; Prof. J. Orth, pathologist ; Prof. W. Rontgen — the discoverer of 

 X-rays ; Lord Sudeley. 



Sir Arthur Keith has been elected Secretary of the Royal Institution in 

 succession to the late Col. Grove-Hills. 



^Ir. C. G. Darwin, F.R.S., Lecturer in Mathematics at Christ's College, 

 Cambridge, has been appointed to the new Tait chair of Natural Philosophy 

 in the University of Edinburgh. 



Prof. G. T. Morgan has been awarded the Research medal of the Com- 

 pany of Dyers for his paper on the Co-ordination theory of valency in relation 

 to adjective dyeing. 



Prof. Graham Kerr, in a long letter in Nature, refers to Dr. Smith 

 Woodward's address to the Linnean Society entitled " Observations on 

 Crossopterygian and Arthrodiran Fishes." Prof. Kerr does not believe that 

 the pentadactyle leg has evolved from the paired fin, but he believes that 

 each has evolved out of an ancestral, more or less styliform, type of limb. 



Dr. Smith Woodward has mentioned that up to the present there has 

 been a failure to discover fossil links between the paired fin of the Cross- 



