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Taylor, Mr. R. A. Watson Watt, and Mr. C. T. R. Wilson. Sub-Committee C, 

 on Directional Wireless, consists of Mr, F. E. Smith (Chairman), Mr. N. P. 

 Hinton, and representatives of the R.E. and R.A.F. The fourth Sub- 

 Committee, on Thermionic Valves, is a very large one, the scientific members 

 being Prof. Richardson (Chairman) ; Mr. E. V. Appleton, Mr. B. Hodgson, 

 Prof. Horton, Mr. H. Morris Airey, and Prof. R. Whiddington. The Radio 

 Research Board itself is at present made up as follows : — Sir Henry B. 

 Jackson (Chairman) ; Commander Salmond (Admiralty) ; Lt.-Col. A. G. T. 

 Cusins (War Office) ; Wing-Com. A. D. Warrington Morris (Air Ministry) ; 

 Mr. E. H. Shaughnessey (Post Office) ; Sir J. E, Petavel (N.P.L.); Prof. 

 Rutherford and Prof. Townsend. 



We note with great regret the announcement of the death of the following 

 scientific men during the past quarter : — M. Adolphe Carnot, the French 

 chemist ; Prof. Leonard Doncaster, F.R.S., Derby Professor of Zoology 

 in the University of Liverpool; Maj.-Gen. W. C. Gorgas, K.C.M.G., 

 Surgeon-General of the United States Army and President of the American 

 Medical Association ; Dr. Wheelton Hind, geologist and surgeon ; Mr. A. H. 

 Hiorns, at one time Head of the metallurgical department of Birmingham 

 Municipal Technical College: Sir Norman Lockyer ; Dr. G. E. Morrison, " of 

 Peking " ; Dr. R. Munro, the well-known Scotch archaeologist ; Prof. John 

 Perry, F.R.S., emeritus professor of mechanics at the Royal College of 

 Science, and general treasurer of the British Association ; Prof. A. Righi, 

 For. Mem. R.S., of the University of Bologna; Prof. J. R. Rydberg, For. 

 Mem. R.S., professor of physics at the University of Lund, Sweden ; Prof. 

 S. Ramanujan, F.R.S., the first Indian Fellow of the Royal Society ; 

 Dr. F. A. Tarleton, of Trinity College, Dublin ; Prof. C. A. Timiriazefi, 

 For. Mem. R.S., emeritus professor of botany in the University of Moscow. 



The memorial to the late Lord Rayleigh in Westminster Abbey is to take 

 the form of a mural tablet which will be executed by Mr. Derwent Wood 

 and erected near the memorials to Sir Humphry Davy and Dr. Thomas 

 Young. The balance remaining after the expenses of this memorial have been 

 met will be used to establish a library fund at the Cavendish Laboratory, 

 Cambridge. 



Among the many donations to the cause of science last quarter, we must 

 note first the magnificent gift of 6,000,000 dollars from the Rockefeller 

 Institute to the Medical School at University College, London, and to Univer- 

 sity College Hospital. From the same source the Medical Research Foundation 

 of Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians, Brussels, receives 1,000,000 francs for 

 the general purposes of medical research. Medical education in the United 

 States has, however, received even larger gifts, for Mr. George Eastman and 

 the General Education Board of the U.S.A. (which is financed by Mr. Rocke- 

 feller) have together given 9,000,000 dollars to the University of Rochester 

 for a school of medicine, surgery, and dentistry; and the medical departments 

 of Columbia, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins Universities receive between them 

 about 5,500,000 dollars from the estate of the late Capt. J. R. de Lamar. 

 The trustees of the late Sir William Dunn have ofiered ;^i65,ooo to the 

 University of Cambridge to found a school of Biochemistry, and Mr. Edward 

 Whitley has offered ;^io,ooo to the University of Oxford as a contribution 

 towards the endowment of a professorship in the same subj ect . Oxford has also 

 received ;^5,ooo from the British Dye Stufis Corporation towards the cost of 

 extending the organic chemistry laboratory. The shareholders of Messrs. 

 Brunner Mond & Co. have consented to the directors' proposal that ;^ioo,ooo 

 shall be distributed among the various Universities for the benefit of their 

 chemical departments . Sir Jesse Boot has given ;^5o, 000 to University College, 

 Nottingham, in aid of a scheme to form a University in that town : ;^3o,ooo 

 to go to the building fund, and ;^20,ooo for the chair of chemistry. Messrs. 

 Alfred Holt & Co. have contributed ;^i5,ooo to the Liverpool University 



