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NATURE 



[November i6, 1911 



work. 'IM^t<^- Ifd hiin tci sftidv thf qiirsfion of rnrid- 



lli.ikiii;; .iii'l I ( i.iil-l (^1 in:; , .(lul lie li'vi^.d ,iii iiii^i iiinus 

 ill-.ll lllllilll , r.iilid llir \ l.i;;i .ipll, 'aIi'kIi i;i\i~- :i '■ ■'■ 

 (i| the ciiiiiiiiir III ilif I ( M(l-siii |;ii I .iii'l ,1 iiuni' 

 \;iliir lor IK " hiiiiipini ~,^." 



Ml'. Uiiiuii will 1h- iiiiicli niissnl in llill.i-i. \' 

 hr did .1 t;iiMl (I'mI in l<iiullr ;ind locp .di\i ^li. ., 

 iiiliTi-,1^ ill ilir (■(iMiiminilx , and wIhm lii~, p. i^i .n.ilil \ 

 and al)ilii\ won him imicli inlliHiicr and |m .pid.n ii \-. 



W. W. M. 



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THE SOLAR PHYSICS Ol ;.s /•. R\ .\H)U\ . 



7111: ('(iiiihihl:;,' I iii /fr^i I y Wrf'^'il,) -\\,^ ;ni 

 acrdiinl dI llir aclidii lakin Ij\ llic ('i>uiiril ot 

 till- .Scnali- on llii'- vulijirl. .Xum- ul iln' -ri'iililic 

 L)iii-'-rnms \\c r. 'iiiid 1(1 in ili,' ailirli- in i.i-l wiik'^ 

 Nmik'!-: .11. ■ lc>iulii-d u|)i)n, iiududiiiLi tin- all-impiiilaii 

 cjiic^lion III ilii- sill', and ihr disini-.sal nl llu- stall 

 which llir ihr last thirls \cars has dcini' wmk which 

 li.is irciixi'd w <irld-w idc a|ipi'ii\al, on a prii;L;raninii' 

 wliich h.is liiTii lollowrd in ihc iiiwir insiiiuiioiis. 



<)nr ol ihr poiiiis insisted upon i^ how tin' Inisi-r- 

 sil\ i-- III lind lilt- (100/. a \car, nprfscntiiii; a capilal 

 sum ol 15,000/. or 50,000/,, accordiiii,; ,1-, wr nt'kon 

 thr inliicsi al 4 or j jirr cent., which lln- rrcasur\ 

 di-mands in n-tiirn lor lln- capii.il sum ot 5500/. lo In- 

 iiisirlcd in lln- rstimates for ihr urw installalion. 



\W conlisv wr loolc willi disma\ upon ihr |)i'oposal. 

 W'r tru.st the Senate will wi.ll consider it in ,ili iis 

 bearinj*s. It is not the fault of the Senate that ("am- 

 brid^e can never be a fit site for an observaiorx { 

 occupird in thr work dniiandrtl h\- modrrn |)h\sica] I 

 iiKjuirir-, liul it will hr its fault if il acts as a cat's- | 

 paw of the Trrjisurv in aiding the dei.icliment of 

 n.itional scirnlific work from the direct control of a 

 ("rovrnimrnt speiidint;" dri)artmriit with a xnicr in tji- 

 ("ai)inel; in aL^rrrini;' to admini-trr tin- nrrtU oi .t 

 rapidly j^rowim^- hrancli of scimce for a llxid sum 

 based onh- on the [)rrsrn! nn-ds ; ;ind in endorsini^ the 

 \'iew that its tulurr alumni wlim a|)|iointed dirrctors 

 of n.ation.d olisrrvatorirs arr --uri'iciiiith- remuiirrated 

 by a stipend of 200/. a year. 



NOTES. 



T\ mply to r.n inquiry as to the award of thr Nobel 

 pi i/i s, l^rof. Svante Arrhenius has kindiv smt us the 

 folluwirif; information : — (i) Pi/rc for wrdiciur : awarded 

 on October 21, the birthil,i\ nl Dr. Alfr. Nobel, bv the 

 Carolinian Institute (faculty of medicine) in Stockholm to 

 Dr. Allvar ("lullstrand (born 1862), professor of ophthalmo- 

 logy in the University of Upsala, Sweden, for his invr^i;- 

 gations in physiological optics. (2) Prize for physics . 

 awarded en November 7 by the Royal Academy of Sri.m r^. i 

 Stockholm, to Dr. Willy Wien (born 1864), profi ^-01 uf I 

 physics at the University of Wiirzlniri^, H,-i\'ari.i, fur his , 

 discoveries regarding the laws of radiation. (51 /'n:r for I 

 chemistry: awarded on Novrmhrr 7 In ihr Ro\,il Arailrnn ' 

 of Sciences, Stockholm, to .Mnir. M.uir (uri. (.horn 18(171, i 

 professor of physics in the Univnsitv nl Paris (Sorbonne), 

 for her discoveries of the chiniical rlmi' iits radium and 

 polonium, and her investigations rrLiardinr tli,-ir chemical 

 properties. Mme. Curie received, tor, ih, r \vith her 

 husband, the half of the Nobel prize for physii-v hi i,i(i;, 

 for their investigations regarding the Hrcqurrrl ra\s. 

 (4) Prize for literature : awarded on November by the 

 Royal Swedish Academy of Literature, Stockholm, to 

 Maurice Maeterlinck (born 1862). The prize for work in 

 the cause of peace will probably not be awarded before 

 December 10, the day of Dr. A. Nohel's d- aih, by the 

 Storthing (Parliament) in Christiania, Norway. J 



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in ihal viilij,.||. Six Mar- l.ilrr hr br( ami 

 l.iiiidiiii Srii.iv l.ir th. |-.\n iwion of Uni\. 

 and ,i||i rw.iiiU ~.-i i.i;ir\ fur l.i tuns of tlv 



liiin- and l.'iUii.- S\ndii;Ur, Cambridv ' , ,,. 



hi- work ,il th' I rii\.r-iiv of Londoi^ .lii- of h:- 



w idr r\]),.rirnir \v. r.- a;i[liered in la^ ,.,„,,v " lughtr.-a 

 ^ ' .u- of lni\.i--iiy l{.\ti n-ion, " .and In- al-o wroti- " .\n 

 I nil odiulioil tu .Modriii tieolugv." .X- -irrrt,ir\ to th- 

 ( oM-r.-s of the Universities of th' !an]):i., whiih i- tot" 

 hrld in London next year, his work of organisation h;o 

 been of great vjlue. 



Tm; Royal Scottish Geographical Sociriy has .award' r 

 ill' .i;okl medal of the society to Mr. J. Y. Buchanan. 

 b.R.S., for his distinguished services to geography, especi- 

 ally in connection with oceanographical research. 



Mk. R. L r.onrii: has been elected ]) 

 Royal C'ollrr,. of .burgeons of England, i: 

 Sir llriiry Butlin, Bart., who has resigned that office on 

 account of ill-health. 



Till r.iri-, correspondent of The Times reports that th' 

 Freiiil. I .o\ rrnment has conferred upon Halil Bey, diivctia 

 of til'- linp'-rial .Mu-iuin at Constantinople, the ranlc oi 

 Commander in the Legion of Honour, and the rank o: 

 Officer upon Prof. Lowell, president of Harvard Univer.:t\ 



Mk. .\ktiiir Coof'ER, of Middlesbrough, I , . l 



to sui a r, d the Duke of Devonshire in th.' p: ; ;; 



Iron and Steel Institute next May. Mr. t oop. i wa- 

 awarded the Bessemer gold medal of tin institui.' in iSi,. 

 for his services to the metallurgy of iron and steel. 



Tin: Hrrlin correspondent of The limes announces thr 

 d.ath. at srvmty-four y. .irs of age, of Dr. Bernhard 

 1-rankrl, who enjoyed a Luropean reputation in his own 

 subject of laryngology, both as a practitioner in Berlin and 

 as the author of many scientific works, ,ind the inventor 

 of improved methods and instruments. 



-A Recter message from New Yorii -iitrs that Mr. 

 .\ndrew Carnegie h.as ri^.n ih,. Carn.-i;]. ( ..rpor.ituin, 

 which was organised on Nov niber 10, 5,000,000/. in gold 

 bonds of the Steel Corporation. The corporation has been 

 founded for the purpose of th- advancement and diffusion 

 of knowledge and understaniling in the United States, for 

 till' formation of a hero fund, and other purposes. 



Till-; Jean Reynaud prize of ten thousand francs, which 

 is awarded by the Paris .Academy of Sciences every fiv- 

 years for the work of an eminent savant, has been awarded 

 this year to Prof. Emile Picard, professor at the Sorbonnr 

 and at the Ecole Centrale. Previous awards of the prize 

 have been to MM. Lippmann, Henri Poincar6, and Pierre 

 Curie. 



