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great services in the advancement of metallurgical science. 



The presentation will be made by the Duke of Devonshire, 



president of the institute, at the annual general meeting 



be held in London in May. The Andrew Carnegie gold 



ledal for 1910 will also be awarded at the same meeting, 



le recipient being M. Felix Robin, Paris. 



The death is announced of Prof. Kekule von Stradonitz, 

 le Berlin archaeologist. He was born at Darmstadt in 

 I839, and took his degree at Berlin in 1861. He then 

 ravelled for several years in the Mediterranean, studying 

 Jreek and Greco-Roman antiquities. In some mono- 

 graphs on the Theseion in Athens, and on one of the 

 Tgroups in the Villa Ludovisi, he first developed his methods 

 ,of research. Early in the 'seventies of last century he 

 /as appointed to a professorship at Bonn University, and 

 ;hile here he published two important works, one on 

 Tanagra figures and the other on ancient terra-cottas. In 

 1887 he was appointed director of the sculptures in the 

 Royal Museums, and later to the professorship of classical 

 archaeology, and he held both posts until his death. 



A PAPER was read before the Society of Antiquaries on 



[arch 23 by Messrs. H. E. Balch and D. R. Troup on 



the exploration of a late Celtic and Romano-British cave- 



'dwelling at Wookey Hole, Somerset. This is close to the 

 H3'3ena Den, explored by Prof. Boyd Dawkins fifty years 

 ago. Beneath a small accumulation of surface material 

 was the Roman deposit, containing coins ranging from 

 Vespasian to Valentinian II. Below this, relics of the 

 domestic life of the cave-dwellers were unearthed — a silver 

 earring with the left frontal bone of a girl, and a large 

 series of iron articles. Charred grain and pulse, together 

 with burnt acorns, throw light upon the limited agriculture 



»of the period. The human remains present a problem, and 

 it is practically certain that the persistent occurrence of 

 these along with waste food-bones indicates cannibalism. 

 The excavations are in progress, and will, it may be 

 hoped, throw further light upon these interesting dis- 

 coveries. 



Natcralists throughout the world have an opportunity 

 of showing their appreciation of the labours, and regard 

 Tor the personality, of the late Dr. Anton Dohrn, by con- 

 tributing to the international memorial fund referred to 

 elsewhere in this issue. It is proposed to place a portrait 

 of Dohrn in bas relief in the Zoological Station which he 

 founded at Naples, and to establish a fund which will 

 ensure the continued eflficiency of the station as an inter- 

 national laboratory of biological research. No memorial 

 to Dohrn could have more worthy or appropriate objects, 

 ind we hope that naturalists in the British Empire will 

 Ljive a ready and generous response to the subcommittee's 

 ippeal for contributions to it. Subscriptions may be sent 

 to Prof. S. J. Hickson, F.R.S., University of Manchester. 



j The report of the advisory committee for the Tropical 



Diseases Research Fund for 1910 has recently been issued, 

 and contains matter of considerable interest. The fund 

 , administered in 1910 amounted to 3245Z., and is derived 

 ' from contributions by the Imperial Government, the 

 Government of India, and various Dominion and Colonial 

 Governments, and is expended on grants to the London 

 and Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine, and the 

 Universities of London and Cambridge. Reports are in- 

 ' luded on the work being done and on the manner in 

 which the grants have been expended. Dr. Wenyon 

 records observations on a malady, " Oriental sore," in 

 Bagdad, and some evidence is adduced that the disease is 

 conveyed by a mosquito, a Stegomyia, sp. Dr. Castellani, 



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of Colombo, records cases of bronchitis in Ceylon caused 

 by an Oidium fungus. 



The seventh International Congress against Tuberculosis 

 is to be held in Rome on September 24-30 next. The 

 English section is being organised by the National Associa- 

 tion for the Prevention of Consumption and other Forms 

 of Tuberculosis, 20 Hanover Square, W. All the universi- 

 ties and principal towns in the United Kingdom have been 

 invited to send delegates. An executive committee has 

 been formed for the purpose of arousing interest in the 

 congress in this country, and for collecting suitable 

 material in connection with the subject. Dr. J. J. 

 Perkins will act as honorary secretary of this committee. 

 A representative national committee has also been formed, 

 and many distinguished persons have joined it. The con- 

 gress next September will be divided into three principal 

 sections to deal with the following subjects : — (a) etiology 

 and epidemiology of tuberculosis ; (6) pathology and thera- 

 peutics (medical and surgical) of tuberculosis ; (c) social 

 defence against tuberculosis. 



The sixty-fourth annual meeting of the Palaeonto- 

 graphical Society was held in the Geological Society's 

 rooms at Burlington House on March 24, Dr. Henry 

 Woodward, F.R.S., president, in the chair. The annual 

 report referred to the approaching completion of the 

 monographs of Carboniferous Palaeoniscid Fishes, English 

 Chalk Fishes, Cretaceous Lamellibranchs, and British 

 Graptolites. The volume for the year included not only 

 instalments of these works, but also a small, complete 

 monograph of British Carboniferous Arachnida, by Mr. 

 R. I. Pocock. Small monographs of special groups of 

 fossils appeared to be acceptable to the members. The 

 Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland had given 

 to the society the plates illustrating the Carboniferous 

 Palaeoniscidae described by Dr. Traquair. Mr. H. Dewey, 

 Mr. Upfield Green, Dr. A. W. Rowe, and Dr. A. Strahan 

 were elected new members of council. Dr. Henry Wood- 

 ward was re-elected president, and Dr. G. J. Hinde and 

 Dr. A. S. Woodward were re-elected treasurer and 

 secretary respectively. 



We have received a copy of the third edition of the 

 little book on the Brent Valley Bird Sanctuary, by Mr. 

 Wilfred Mark Webb, the chairman of the Sanctuary Com- 

 mittee and honorary secretary of the Selborne Society, It 

 contains a very fully illustrated account of what has been 

 done in an enclosure of nineteen acres which comes into 

 the London postal district, and those who wish to induce 

 the feathered visitors to their gardens to stay and nest 

 as the spring comes on may obtain from it a number of 

 hints. The price of the book is yd. post free (or in paper 

 boards 15. id.), and it can be obtained from the secretary 

 of the Selborne Society at 42 Bloomsbury Square. The 

 whole of the sixpence or shilling received goes towards the 

 upkeep of the sanctuary. 



Mr. T. Sheppard, curator of the Hull Museum, in his 

 last quarterly report announces the discovery of a series 

 of Neolithic workshops near Bridlington, the scene of the 

 fabrications of the notorious " Flint Jack," which were 

 suggested by the importance of earlier discoveries in this 

 neighbourhood. The material used by these prehistoric 

 craftsmen was chiefly the black flint found in boulders 

 occurring in the glacial clays and gravels ultimately 

 derived from the bed of the North Sea or from its eastern 

 coasts. Mr. Sheppard has now found a vast number of 

 cores, spoilt flakes or " wasters," and flint-knives under 

 the Bridlington cliffs. One worker seems to have made 



