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generations that are yet unborn to emulate his splendid deeds, and thereby 

 to guard a priceless possession of our race." 



Those wishing to contribute should send to the Manager, The National 

 Provincial Union Bank of England, Union Bank Branch, Oxford, England. 

 Cheques should be made payable to R. Campbell Thompson, Esq.. and 

 crossed " Burton Memorial Fund," 



The American Journal of Tropical Medicine 



The growth of tropical medicine during the last twenty years has been 

 one of the most remarkable developments in the history of science. Possibly 

 this is one of the very few medical advances in which British medical men 

 have led the way, though even here the names of Laveran and Blanchard 

 challenge comparison with those of British leaders. Innumerable societies 

 of tropical medicine have been established throughout the world, and that 

 means many publications. The admirable Tropical Diseases Bulletin 

 published by the British Colonial Office, summarises the outflow in an excellent 

 manner. There are many British, French, Italian, and German periodicals ; 

 and now we must welcome the American Journal of Tropical Medicine, of 

 which the first number appeared last January. It is published bi-monthly 

 by Messrs. WiUiams & Wilkins & Co., Baltimore, U.S.A., and is the official 

 organ of the American Society of Tropical Medicine. We wish it all success. 



Notes and News 



The Honours List published on the occasion of the King's birthday did 

 not contain any names which need be mentioned here. 



At the meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, held on July 4, the 

 following honorary Fellows were elected : 



British— William Henry Perkin, F.R.S., Waynflete Professor of Chemistry 

 in the University of Oxford ; Sir Ronald Ross ; Sir Ernest Rutherford, Kt., 

 F.R.S., Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of 

 Cambridge ; Sir Jethro J. H. Teall, Kt., F.R.S., lately Director of the Geological 

 Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Practical Geology. 



Foreign— Reginald Aldworth Daly, Professor of Geology, Harvard 

 University, Cambridge, Mass. ; Johan Hjort, Director of Norwegian 

 Fisheries, Bergen ; Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Nobel Laureate, Medicine 

 1907, Paris ; Heike Kamerhngh Onnes, Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1913, 

 Leiden, Holland ; Salvatore Pincherle, Professor of Mathematics in the 

 University of Bologna. 



Dr. Alexander Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute, has been elected a 

 national associate of the Paris Academy of Medicine. 



The Franklin Institute has conferred its medal and certificate of honorary 

 membership on Prof. Charles Fabry for his studies on Hght radiation. 



It is announced in the daily press that Prof. E. Branlyis the selected candi- 

 date for the Nobel prize for physics 1921. 



Dr. W. M. Hicks has been awarded the Adams prize of the University 

 of Cambridge. 



It is proposed to appoint Prof. H. Lamb to an honorary university 

 lectureship at Cambridge. It will be known as the Rayleigh lectureship in 

 mathematics. 



Dr. E. K. Mees, now research chemist to the Eastman laboratory, has 

 been awarded the D.Sc. degree by the University of Rochester, U.S.A. 



Prof. J. W. Nicholson has been elected President of the Rontgen Society 

 for next session, and Dr. A. Smith Woodward President of the Linnean 

 Society. 



The following is a list of some of the well-known scientific men whose 

 decease has been announced during the last quarter : J. Elster, physicist ; 



