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Prof. J. Perrin (Paris) and Prof. C. Fabry (Marseilles) have been elected 

 honorary members of the Royal Institution, and Prof. Arthur Keith has been 

 re-elected Fullerian Professor of Physiology for a further period of three years. 



The Wollaston IMedal of the Geological Society has been awarded (in 

 duplicate) to Dr. J. Home and Dr. B. N. Peach. 



The Weldon Medal for biometric research has been given by the University 

 of Oxford to Dr. J. A. Harris, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



It is stated that Dr. A. Einstein has accepted the " Chair of Science " in 

 the University of Leiden, and that he will hold it in addition to his post 

 in the University of BerUn. 



We have noted, with great regret, the announcement of the deaths of the 

 following well-known scientiiic men during the past quarter : Sir William 

 Abney ; Dr. H. A. Bumstead, Professor of Physics at the Sloane Physical 

 Laboratory, Yale University ; Dr. G. von Bunge. Professor of Physiology at 

 the University of Basel ; Mr. J. C. Cain, the chemist ; Mr. C. E. Fagan, 

 Secretary of the Natural History Department of the Natural Science Museum ; 

 Sir Lazarus Fletcher, until lately Director of the Natural History Museum ; 

 Prof. F. Houssay, Professor of Zoology at the Sorbonne ; Prince Kropotkin ; 

 Dr. S. J. Meltzer, head of the department of Physiology and Pharmacology 

 in the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research ; Dr. H. N. Morse, Professor 

 of Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University, and famous for his experi- 

 mental measurements of osmotic pressure ; Alexander Muirhead, F.R.S., the 

 electrical engineer and cable expert ; Spencer Pickering, F.R.S., physical 

 chemist and horticulturalist ; Mr. F. PulUnger, Chief Inspector of the Techno- 

 logical Branch of the Board of Education ; Dr. Charles A. Sadler, well known 

 as joint author (with Prof. Barkla) of papers on the absorption of characteristic 

 X-rays. 



Sir John Snell, member of the Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 

 and past President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, has been 

 appointed to be a member of the Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial 

 Research. Sir R. T. Glazebrook has been appointed Chief Gas Examiner 

 under the Gas Regulation Act (1920), and Mr. C. V. Boys, Dr. J. S. Haldane, 

 and Mr. W. J. A. Butterfield to be Gas Referees. 



In the last issue of this journal we were unable to mention a single gift 

 of any magnitude to the scientific institutions in this country ; this quarter 

 there are two. Mr. George WiUs and Mr. Henry Wills, of the Imperial 

 Tobacco Co., have given ^200,000 for the completion of extensions to the 

 University of Bristol (making a total of ;^540,ooo from the family since 1908), 

 and an anonymous donor has given ^20,000 for the endowment of a University 

 Chair of Physiology at Middlesex Hospital Medical School. There have 

 probably been contributions towards the appeals for ;^5oo,ooo each from the 

 Universities of Birmingham and Leeds, and the Armstrong College, Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne ; but in none of these cases has the satisfactory closure of the appeal 

 yet been announced. The appeal for a centennial endowment fund from 

 McGill University was met in a different spirit ; $5,000,000 was asked for, 

 $6,321,511 was subscribed in fourteen days — as much as the Universities in 

 Great Britain have received from private benefactions during the whole three 

 years 191 6-19 1 



Among the donations to universities abroad we must mention first the 

 sum of 1,500,000 marks given to Frankfort University by James Speyer, 

 the New York banker. The General Education Board of New York has 

 given $700,000 to the Medical School of the University of Colorado, and an 

 equal sum to the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati, on the 

 condition that $1,300,000 is raised elsewhere to complete the two million 

 dollar endowment fund of the college. Williams College, Clinton County, 

 U.S.A., receives the residuary estate of its late senior trustee, Mr. F. L. Stetson 

 (this, it is estimated, will amount to from one to one and a half million dollars). 



