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it was due to delay in telephone messages to the Water Board that the clear- 

 ances ordered by him for the mornings always occurred at night. He pro- 

 tested against the insinuations regarding air-raids. In fact the dull weather 

 had been expressly ordered early in 191 6 in order to prevent the raids, but, 

 owing to strikes and delays in the Ministry of Munitions, had not been 

 delivered until after the Armistice. The President of the Publicans' Asso- 

 ciation claimed that the English climate was the best in the world ; and Mr. 

 Churchill was understood to sum up by remarking that, of all the deputations 

 which had ever waited upon him, this one was ; and the meeting then broke up. 



Notes and News 



The final list of appointments to the Order of the British Empire issued 

 on March 30 contained the following names, which will be of interest here : 



G.B.E. — Dr. A. E. Shipley, F.R.S., Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge Uni- 

 versity. 



K.B.E.—Proi. I. Bayley Balfour, F.R.S. ; Prof. W. H. Bragg, F.R.S. ; 

 Dr. S. F. Harmer, F.R.S. ; and Dr. J. E. Petavel, F.R.S. 



C.B.E.—Vxoi. H. L. Callendar, F.R.S. ; Dr. C. C. Carpenter ; Mr. F. H. 

 Carr (Chief Chemist, Messrs. Boots & Co.) ; Prof. F. G. Donnan, F.R.S. ; 

 Mr. W. P. Elderton ; Mr. A. P. M. Fleming ; Prof. P. F. Franldand, F.R.S. ; 

 Dr. F. W. Edridge-Green ; Sir W. H. Hadow (Vice-Chancellor of the Uni- 

 versity of Sheffield) ; Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R.S. ; Mr. A. R. Hinks, F.R.S. ; 

 Prof. J. C. Irvine, F.R.S. ; Prof. T. M. Lowry, F.R.S. ; Mr. W. Macnab ; 

 Dr. R. A. O'Brien (Director, Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratory) ; 

 Mr. J. E. Sears, Mr. F. J. Selby, and Dr. T. E. Stanton, F.R.S. (of the National 

 Physical Laboratory) ; Mr. G. Stubbs (Government Laboratory). 



O.B.E.— Miss W. C. Cullis, D.Sc. ; C. V. Drysdale, D.Sc. (Chief Research 

 Assistant, Admiralty Experimental Station, Parkstown) ; J. J. Fox, D.Sc. 

 (First-class Analyst, Department of Government Chemist) ; R. W. Whytlaw- 

 Gray, Ph.D. (Chemical Warfare Dept., Ministry of Munitions) ; F. C. Lea, 

 D.Sc. (Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham) ; C. C. Mason 

 (Managing Director, Cambridge Scientific Instrument Co.) ; G. T. Morgan, 

 F.R.S. (Professor of Chemistry, Finsbury Technical College) ; J. E. Myers, D.Sc. 

 (Lecturer in Chemistry, Manchester University) ; R. B. Pilcher (Secretary, 

 Institute of Chemistry) ; H. Stephen (Lecturer in Chemistry, University of 

 Manchester) ; W. M. Thornton, D.Sc. (Professor of Electrical Engineering, 

 Armstrong College) ; S. H. Trimen (Chief Chemist, Egyptian Government 

 Laboratory). 



M.B.E.— C. W. Bailey (Chief Chemist, H.M. Factory, Langwith) ; D. 

 Burton (Chemist, High Explosives Dept., Ministry of Munitions) ; H. T. 

 Calvert, D.Sc. (Explosives Supply Dept., Ministry of Munitions) ; W. B. 

 Edwards (Principal Assistant Chemist, Chemical Inspection Dept., Ministry 

 of Munitions) ; A. T. Etheridge (Research Chemist, Woolwich) ; A. Forster 

 (Research Chemist, Woolwich) ; A. E. Garland (Principal Assistant Chemist, 

 Inspection Department, Ministry of Munitions) ; R. Genders (Research 

 Chemist, Woolwich) ; W. P. Paddison (Research Chemist, Woolwich) ; C. J. 

 Peddle (Chemist, Derby Crown Glass Co.) ; F. H. Rolt (National Physical 

 Laboratory) ; W. L. Turner (Research Chemist, Woolwich) ; H. E. Watts, 

 Ph.D. (Explosives Supply Dept., Ministry of Munitions). 



The French Academy of Science has elected Prof. A. A. Michelson, of 

 Chicago, foreign associate member in succession to the late Lord Rayleigh ; 

 Sir J. Dewar and Prof. A. Fowler corresponding members in succession to 

 Prof. P. Blaserna and Prof. E. Weiss ; and Sir J. Larmor corresponding 

 member in the section of geometry. 



