May i8, 1911] 



NATURE 



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It is announced in the Revue scientifique that a com- 

 mittee has been formed for the purpose of erecting a 

 monument to the late M. Bernard Brunhes, who died last 

 May at the age of forty-two years. M. Brunhes was for 

 ten years director of the observatory at Puy-de-D6me. 



A MEETING of the Society of Tropical Medicine and 

 Hygiene will be held at ii Chandos Street, Cavendish 

 Square, to-morrow — Friday — evening, when a discussion 

 on the present position of the prophylaxis of malaria 

 by quinine will be opened by Dr. W. Carnegie Brown, 

 and a paper on the nature of Zambezi fever, by Dr. 

 W. I. Bruce, of Chinde, and a note on cultural character- 

 istics of a variety of the streptothrix of white mycetoma, 

 liy Dr. N. F. Surveyor, of Bombay, will be presented. 



The 129th Harveian Festival of the Royal College of 

 Physicians of Edinburgh is to be held to-morrow. May iq. 

 when Sir Alexander R. Simpson will deliver an oration 

 nn " Life and its Epiphanies." 



The Faraday Society has organised a general dispussion 

 on high temperatures, to be held on Tuesday, May 23, at 

 the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Victoria Embank- 

 ment, W.C. The following programme has been 

 arranged : — Dr. Arthur L. Day will read a paper on 

 recent advances in gas thermometry; Dr. J. A. Harker, 

 F.R.S., will describe the high-temperature equipment at 

 the National Physical Laboratory ; Mr. H. C. Greenwood 

 will read a note on boiling points of metals ; and Mr. A. 

 Blackie will speak on the behaviour of silica at high 

 temperatures. Contribution to the discussion have been 

 promised by Prof. Bodenstein on the maintenance of 

 1 onstant high temperatures, M. F^ry on stellar pyrometry, 

 and others. Dr. R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., director of 

 I he National Physical Laboratory, will preside. During 

 the afternoon the society, by the invitation of the 

 director, will visit the National Physical Labora- 

 tory to inspect the high-temperature equipment of the 

 laboratory. 



Dr. Henry Head, F.R.S., will deliver the Croonian 

 lectures (upon " Sensory Changes from Lesions of the 

 Brain ") before the Royal College of Physicians of London 

 on June 13, 15, 20, and 27. 



At the convention of the Incorporated Municipal Elec- 

 trical Association, which is to take place at Brighton and 

 at Portsmouth on June 27 to 30, the following papers are 

 to be read and discussed : — electricity supply viewed from 

 the municipal committee's standpoint, by Councillor H. 

 Leese ; modern wiring practice, by Mr. J. W. Beauchamp ; 

 internal-combustion engines in power stations, by Messrs. 

 H. L. Howard and R. M. Carr. There will also be dis- 

 cussions on purchase of fuel and street and shop-front 

 lighting, opened, respectively, by Mr. C. E. C. Shawfield 

 and Mr. A. H. Seabrook. 



The annual general meeting of the Society of Chemical 



Industry is to be held in Sheffield on July 12. Dr. R. 



i Messel has been nominated as president, and Sir William 



iCrookes, F.R.S., Dr. G. G. Henderson, and Messrs. H. 



Hemingway and W. F. Reid have been nominated as vice- 



\ presidents. 



The ninety-fourth annual meeting of the Soci^t^ 

 Hciv6tique des .Sciences Naturelles will be held this year 

 at Soleure from July 30 to August 2. The first general 

 meeting will take place on July 31, when the president 

 for the year. Dr. A. Pfaehler, will give his opening 

 .nddress, and the following lectures will be delivered : — 

 M. Georges Claude, on " La Liqu<5faction de I'air, son 



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^tat actuel et ses applications " ; Prof. Ursprung, of Frei- 

 burg, on " Der heutige Stand des Saftsteigungsproblems "; 

 Dr. H. Stauffacher, of Frauenfeld, on " Die RoIIe des 

 Nucleins bei der Fortpflanzung "; and Prof. Otto Schlagin- 

 haufen, of Zurich, on " Reisen und Forschungen in 

 Melanesien." The second general meeting will be on 

 .August 2, for which the following lectures have been 

 arranged : — Prof. Abderhalden, of Berlin, on " Neuere 

 Anschauungen uber den Zellstoflwechsel " ; Prof. P. 

 Gruner, of Berne, on " Die neueren Vorstellungen iibei 

 das Wesen der Elektrizitat " ; and Dr. Albert Brun, of 

 Geneva, on " Les recherches modernes sur I'exhalaison 

 volcanique." The annual meetings of the Swiss societie* 

 of botany, chemistrj', geology, mathematics, physics 

 and zoology will be held also at Soleure on August i. 



A Colliery and General Mining Exhibition, lasting a 

 fortnight, was opened in Manchester on Friday last by 

 Prof. Sir Thomas Holland, K.C.I.E., F.R.S., who in the 

 course of his remarks said the e.xhibition contained methods 

 for securing safety underground and rescue apparatus for 

 saving life after accidents had occurred. The improved 

 methods of machines on view had an important bearing 

 on the economy of mining, and thus the exhibition would 

 be of service in showing how our natural resources could 

 be turned to full account. He reminded his hearers that 

 large quantities of coal were destroyed in the process of 

 mining it, and that every ounce of coal ore or mineral 

 that was destroyed was destroyed once for all without 

 possibility of replacement. He suggested that, if the 

 colliery owners of Lancashire would get together in groups 

 and employ young geologists to correlate the information 

 that was available, a geological map of the district might 

 be constructed the practical usefulness of which would 

 repay its cost many times over. 



The first International Chemical Engineering and Indus- 

 tries Exhibition was opened on Saturday last at the Royal 

 Agricultural Hall, Islington, by Lord Denbigh. 



Dr. E. J. Russell, of the Lawes Agricultural Trust, 

 having directed attention to the need and value of photo- 

 graphs illustrating the scenery associated with various geo- 

 logical formations, the Tunbridge Wells Natural History 

 Society is offering for this purpose a series of prizes, of 

 2I. each, for the best set in the following subjects : — first, 

 scenery of the chalk districts — hills, sections, valleys and 

 combes ; second, scenery of the Wealden sandstone forma- 

 tion — sections, &c. ; third, scenery of the Tertiary beds ; 

 fourth, scenpry connected with shingle, gravel or sand 

 beds ; fifth, river and marsh scenery. Messrs. W. 

 Whitaker, F.R.S., and R. Child-Bayley, editor of Photo- 

 raphy and Focus, have kindly promised to act as judges. 

 Full details of the competition can be had on application 

 (stamp should be enclosed) to Mr. Geo. Abbott, 2 Rust- 

 hall Park, Tunbridge Wells, and the prints should be sent 

 to him on or before March i, 1912. 



According to The Athenaeum, an expedition to south- 

 east Arabia has been planned by the Danish Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society, the object being the mapping of parts 

 of Oman and the studying of the ancient memorials and 

 commercial prospects of the country. 



The Research Comrhittee of the National Geographic 

 Society of Washington has made an appropriation of 5000 

 dollars for continuing the glacier studies of the two 

 previous years in Alaska. The work, beginning in June, 

 will be done by Prof. R. S. Tarr, of Cornell University, 

 and Prof. Lawrence Martin, of the University of 

 Wisconsin, who have directed the National Geographic 



