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Sir John Bretland Farmer, F.R.S., of the Imperial College of Science 

 and Technology, has been appointed to be a member of the Advisory Council 

 for Scientific and Industrial Research. 



Sir F. W. Dyson has been elected honorary member of the American 

 Astronomical Society. 



Dr. G. E. Hale, director of Mount Wilson Observatory, succeeds the late 

 Lord Rayleigh as a foreign member of the Societk Italiana delle Scienze, Rome. 



The Canadian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research has awarded 

 $5,000 to Prof. J. C. McLennan of the University of Toronto for his researches 

 on helium. 



Prof. R. Roux, director of the Pasteur Institute of Paris, has been awarded 

 the Distinguished Service Medal by the Government of the U.S.A. in recog- 

 nition of the importance of his work to the American Expeditionary Force. 



The following well-known scientific men have passed away since the notes 

 were last written : — Dr. H. Alsberg, the anthropologist of Cassel ; Eric Doo- 

 little. Professor of Astronomy in the University of Pennsylvania ; Arman 

 Gautier, Professor of Medical Chemistry at the University of Paris ; Sir W. 

 Mather, the well-known manufacturer and educationist ; K. H. Struve, 

 Professor of Astronomy at Berhn University ; Prof. Wilhelm Wundt, the 

 psychologist. 



The list of donations for scientific purposes is much shorter than usual 

 this quarter ; but is, as usual, headed by a gift from the Rockefeller Founda- 

 tion. Harvard University School of Medicine has received $650,000 from 

 this source ; $350,000 for the development of psychiatry and $300,000 for 

 obstetric teaching. In addition Radcliffe College for Women, which is 

 essentially a part of Harvard, received $175,000 from the estate of the late 

 Miss Annette P. Rogers. The late William K. Vanderbilt left $500,000 to 

 Vanderbilt University and the University of BufEalo has received a gift of 

 $400,000 for the erection of a chemistry building from O. E. Foster. American 

 munificence to places abroad is represented by the sum of 100,000 francs, 

 given by Mr. M. D. Flattery to the Institute of Bacteriology at Lyons to 

 found an annual scholarship for a student who wiU specialise in laboratory 

 work on the bacteriology of infectious diseases. Any gifts made by English- 

 men to our own scientific institutions have unfortunately escaped our notice, 

 indeed the only record is decidedly negative, for the;^ioo,ooo which the share- 

 holders of Messrs. Brunner, Mond & Co. decided to distribute among the 

 university colleges for the use of their chemical departments has been held 

 up by the legal action of one shareholder, who disputes the right of the 

 company to distribute any of its surplus assets in this manner. 



The University of Chicago has drawn up plans for securing $10,000,000 

 during the next five years ; $4,000,000 is required to endow salary increments 

 already given or authorised, while the remainder is to be used to form insti- 

 tutes for conducting " such research and training in pure science as has an 

 immediate bearing on the application of science to industry." 



The settlement of the west coast of Greenland by Danish emigrants 

 began with the voyage of one Hans Egede in 1721. To commemorate this 

 event an expedition, under the leadership of Lauge Koch, left Copenhagen 

 on July 15 last for further exploration of the northern part of the country. 

 It was intended to devote the summer months to laying a depot in Warming's 

 Land by means of motor tractors working from Robertson's Bay, the wintering 

 station for the expedition. The main work will be carried out in 192 1 with 

 dog sledges. It includes journeys to Peary's Land, and to the north of 

 Adam Biering's Land. 



An expedition, fitted out by the Swedish Society of Anthropology and 

 Geography, has started from Yokohama on a two years' trip to Kamchatka, 

 It is hoped to carry out a complete survey of the whole peninsula, including 

 its geography and geology, zoology, botany and ethnography. The district 



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