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The list of candidates selected by the Council of the Royal Society for 

 election into the Society this year is as follows : T. H. Bryce (Professor of 

 Anatomy, University of Glasgow) ; C. G. Darwin (Mathematician, Lecturer 

 and Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge) ; C. G. Douglas (Physiologist, Fellow, 

 St. John's College, Oxford) ; S. R. Douglas (Director, Bacteriological Depart- 

 ment, Medical Research Council) ; A. J. Ewart (Professor of Botany, Mel- 

 bourne University) ; A. Hutchinson (Demonstrator in Mineralogy, University, 

 Cambridge) ; F. W. Lanchester (Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) ; J. 

 Mercer (Mathematician, Fellow and Lecturer, Christ's College, Cambridge) ; 

 S. R. Milner (Professor of Physics, University, Shefi&eld) ; M. S. Pembrey (Pro- 

 fessor of Physiology, Guy's Hospital, London) ; F. L. Pyman (Professor of 

 Technological Chemistry, University, Manchester) ; G. A. Schott (Professor 

 of Applied Mathematics, Aberystwyth) ; N. V. Sidgwick (Demonstrator in 

 Chemistry, University, Oxford) ; D. M. S. Watson (Lecturer in Vertebrate 

 Palaeontology, University College, London) ; Sir A. F. Yarrow (Marine 

 Engineer). 



Professor E. G. Coker has received the Telford medal of the Institution 

 of Civil Engineers for the session 1918-1919, and Professor F. C. Lea a 

 Crampton prize for the session 1919-1920. These awards have both been 

 delayed owing to the war. 



The council of the Geological Society has made the following awards for 

 the year 192 1 : WoUaston medal. Dr. A Harker ; Murchison medal. Dr. 

 J. W. Evans ; Lyell medal, Dr. C. Davison ; WoUaston fund. Dr. L. T. Wills ; 

 Murchison fund. Mr. H. Bolton ; Lyell fund, Mr. A. Macconochie and Mr. 

 D. Tait. 



Dr. Charles Singer, Lecturer in the History of Medicine in the University 

 of London, University College, will preside over the Third International 

 Congress of the History of Medicine to be held in London in July next. 



We have noted with regret the announcement of the death of the following 

 well-known scientific men during the past quarter : H. Bourget, Director of 

 the Marseilles Observatory ; Dr. G. S. Brady, F.R.S., Professor of Natural 

 History, Armstrong College ; Lord Bryce, O.M. ; Dr. T. A. Chapman, 

 entomologist ; Sir William Christie, F.R.S., Astronomer Royal 1881-1910 ; 

 Professor J. H. Cotterill, F.R.S., of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich ; 

 Professor W. Foord-Kelcey, Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Naval 

 Academy, Woolwich; Dr. Edward Hopkinson, M.P., electrical engineer; 

 Sir John Kirk, G.C.M., K.C.B., F.R.S., explorer and botanist ; H. R. A. 

 Oertling, the balance maker ; Professor P. Thompson, Professor of Anatomy 

 in the University of Birmingham ; Sir G. Sims Woodhead, Professor of Path- 

 ology in the University of Cambridge. 



Sir David Prain has retired from the directorship of the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Kew, under the age-limit regulation. His successor is Dr. A. W, 

 Hill, the Assistant Director. 



Several expeditions have been arranged for observing the total eclipse of 

 the sun which will occur on September 21st. The most important is that 

 commissioned by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee of the Royal Society 

 and the Royal Astronomical Society, which consists of our contributor Mr. 

 H. Spencer- Jones, Chief Assistant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and 

 Mr. P. J. Melotte, the discoverer of the eighth satellite of Jupiter. This 

 party has already left England for Christmas Island — an isolated island nine 

 miles broad and twelve long, which lies to the south of Java. The chief 

 work of the expedition will be, of course, to obtain further data bearing on the 

 Einstein deflection of light rays passing near the sun ; but, in addition, an 

 extensive photographic survey has been planned, and it is hoped to start this 

 work in May. A joint Dutch and German expedition, including Dr. Voute, 

 of Batavia, and Professor Freundlich, of Potsdam, is also to station itself on 

 Christmas Island, while Mr. J. Evershed, Director of the Kodaikanal Observa- 



