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uses either this word or the similar word tshurtsh, so that I have not been 

 able to test the question by direct observation. The fact regarding this 

 script is that, like the spelling adopted by the Spelling Reform Society, it 

 has not been deeply enough considered with reference to the actual needs 

 of general readers as distinct from phoneticians. It would be easy to employ 

 a notation which would render languages just as phonetically as the notation 

 of the I. P. A. does, but without the horrible devices used in the latter. 

 But all this does not detract from the credit due to the author for his pains. 



The Quarterly Report of the Research Defence Society 



The Quarterly Report of the Research Defence Society for January last 

 publishes a photograph of Gloucester Cemetery, where, it is stated, " 279 

 poor unvaccinated children under ten years of age lie buried, who fell victims 

 to the epidemic of smallpox in Gloucester in 1895-6, together with only one 

 child out of more than eight thousand who were vaccinated before or during 

 the epidemic." It is hoped that the new Ministry of Health will have at 

 least one great function, and that will be to exercise some control over our 

 more ignorant municipalities in their frequent neglect of life-saving scientific 

 discoveries and inventions. 



Notes and News 



The New Year Honours List included the names of Prof. P. R. Scott Lang, 

 Regius Professor of Mathematics in the University of Aberdeen, and Prof. 

 James Walker, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh, both 

 of whom received knighthoods. 



The 1920 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Prof. A. O. Aschan, 

 of Helsingfors, in recognition of his researches in connection with the pro- 

 duction of synthetic rubber. Nobel prizes were also awarded to Dr. Jules 

 Bordet, Professor of Bacteriology in the University of Brussels, and to 

 Dr. A. Krogh, Professor of Animal Physiology at Copenhagen. 



The following candidates for election to the Fellowship of the Royal 

 Society have been selected by the Council : W. E. Agar (Professor of Zoology 

 in the University of Melbourne) ; Dr. F. W. Aston (Physicist and Research 

 Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge) ; W. L. Bragg (Langworthy Professor 

 of Physics in the University of Manchester) ; Dr. W. T. Caiman (of the 

 Natural History Museum) ; Dr. A. H. Church (Lecturer in Botany, Oxford 

 University) ; G. Dreyer (Professor of Pathology, University of Oxford) ; 

 W. H. Eccles (Professor of Applied Physics at the Finsbury Technical College) ; 

 Dr. J. C.G.Ledingham (Chief Bacteriologist, Lister Institute) ; C. G. Middlemiss 

 (lately Superintendent, Geological Survey of India) ; K. J. P. Orton (Professor 

 of Chemistry in the University College of North Wales, Bangor) ; Dr. J. H. 

 Parsons (Ophthalmic Surgeon to University College Hospital) ; J. C. Phihp 

 (Professor of Physical Chemistry in the Imperial College of Science and 

 Technology and Secretary of the Chemical Society) ; Dr. A. A. Robb (Mathe- 

 matician and Physicist) ; Sir E. Tennyson d'Eyncourt (Director of Naval Con- 

 struction) ; G. Udny Yule (Lecturer in Statistics, University of Cambridge). 



The Poncelet Prize for Mathematics has, this year, been awarded by the 

 Paris Academy of Sciences to Elie Car tan ; the Janssen Medal for Astronomy 

 goes to Dr. W. W. Coblentz, of the Bureau of Standards, Washington, in 

 recognition of his work on infra-red radiation ; the L. La Caze prize for 

 physics to G. Sagnac ; and 4,000 francs from the Bonaparte Fund to fimile 

 Mathias for his researches (in collaboration with Kamerlingh Omnes) on the 

 curve of densities of gases whose critical point is near the absolute zero. 



Sir Thomas Kirke-Rose has received the gold medal of the British In- 

 stitution of Mining and Metallurgy for his services in the advancement of 

 metallurgical work, more especially with reference to the metallurgy of gold. 



