November 3, 1923] 



NATURE 



667 



life members of the l^eds Naturalists' Club and 

 Scientific Association, in recognition of their work 

 in Yorkshire. 



Dr. J. H. Jeans will deliver the Van der Waals 

 memorial lecture at the meeting of the Chemical 

 Society to be held at the Institution of Mechanical 

 Engineers. Storey's Gate, Westminster, S.W.i, on 

 Thursday, November 8, at 8 p.m. 



Sir OlivivR J. Lodge will deliver his presidential 

 address to the Rontgen Society on " X-rays and the 

 Atom," at the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 

 Savoy Place, Victoria Embankment, \V.C.2, on 

 Tuesday, November 6, at 8.15 p.m. Tickets of 

 admission can be obtained from the Hon. Treasurer 

 of the Rontgen Society, 33 Newton Street, W.C.2. 



Sir Archibald Garrod, Regius professor of 

 medicine at Oxford, is to deliver the Harveian 

 oration of the Royal College of Physicians of London 

 in 1924. Dr. C. Singer will deliver the FitzPatrick 

 lectures on November 6 and 8, at 5 p.m., on " The 

 History of Anatomy," and Mr. Edmund Gosse the 

 Lloyd Roberts lecture on " Personal Relations 

 between Medicine and Literature," on Tuesday, 

 November 20, at 5 p.m. 



Dr. Andrew Balfour has been appointed by 

 [the transitional executive committee, under the 

 chairmanship of the Minister of Health, to be 

 Director of the School of Hygiene which is to be 

 established in London. The foundation of the 

 School, which was referred to in Nature of July 28, 

 p. 149, was made possible by a gift of two million 

 dollars by the trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation. 



Sir J. Fortescue Flannery has accepted the 

 invitation of the Council of the Junior Institution 

 of Engineers to become president of the Institution 

 in succession to Capt. H. Riall Sankey. His induction 

 will take place at a meeting to be held at the Royal 

 Society of Arts on Friday, December 7, when he 

 will deliver his presidential address, " Marine Pro- 

 pulsion during fifty years." Tickets for the meeting 

 may be obtained from the Secretary of the Institution, 

 39 Victoria Street. 



A DISCUSSION on " The Reproduction of Sound by 

 Loud Speakers," arranged by the Physical Society and 

 the Institution of Electrical Engineers, will be held on 

 November 29 in the hall of the Institution of Electrical 

 Engineers. There will be two sessions, 5.30-7 p.m. 

 and 8-9.30 p.m., and during the afternoon visits will 

 be made to the studio of the British Broadcasting 

 Company at Savoy Hill. 



From the income of the R. 38 Memorial 1 'n/.c iund, 

 a sum of twenty-five guineas will be offered as a prize 

 for the best paper received by the Royal Aeronautical 

 Society, on some subject of a technical nature in the 

 science of aeronautics. Other things being equal, 

 preference will be given to papers which relate to 

 airships. The prize is open to international com- 

 petition. Intending competitors should send their 

 names to the Secretary of the Royal Aeronautical 

 Society, 7 Albemarle Street. London, W.i, on or 



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before December 31, with such information in regard 

 to the projected scope of their papers as will enable 

 arrangements to be made for their examination. The 

 closing date for the receipt of papers will be March 31. 



A Plant Pathologist is required in the Botanical 

 Division of the Department of Agriculture of the 

 Union of South Africa. The duties of the post will 

 primarily be connected with carrying out pathological 

 investigations regarding the outbreak of disease in 

 tobacco. Candidates must possess a university 

 degree and have taken botany and the allied sciences 

 in the final examination. Forms of application may 

 be obtained from the Secretary, Ofl&ce of the High 

 Commissioner for the Union of South Africa, Trafalgar 

 Square, W.C.2. The latest date for the receipt of 

 applications for the position is November 20. 



At the statutory meeting of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh held on Monday, October 22. the following 

 officers were elected : — President : Prof. F. O. Bower ; 

 Vice-Presidents : Major-General W. B. Bannerman, 

 Dr. W. A. Tait, Principal J. C. Irvine, The Rt. Hon. 

 Lord Salvesen, Prof. J. H. Ashworth, and Prof. T. H. 

 Beare ; General Secretary : Prof. R. A. Sampson ; 

 Secretaries to Ordinary Meetings : Dr. A. Lauder and 

 Prof. W. Wright Smith ; Treasurer : Dr. J. Currie ; 

 Curator of Library and Museum : Dr. A. Crichton 

 Mitchell ; Councillors : Prof. H. Stanley Allen, Sir 

 Robert Blyth Greig, Dr. J. Ritchie, Prof. E. Maclagan 

 Wedderburn, Prof. T. H. Bryce, Prof. J. Y. Simpson, 

 Prof. D'Arcy W. Thompson, Sir James Walker, Prof. 

 E. T. Whittaker. Prof. H. Briggs, Mr. W. L. Calder- 

 wood, and Prof. T. J. Jehu. 



The annual meeting of the British Association of 

 Chemists was held in the Chemical Department of the 

 University of Birmingham on Saturday, October 27, 

 under the presidency of Dr. Herbert Levinstein, who 

 was re-elected for another year of office. During 

 this meeting the laboratories and workshops of the 

 University were thrown open for inspection and an 

 exhibition of research apparatus and specimens was 

 arranged by the teaching and research staffs of the 

 University. The British Association of Chemists, 

 which was founded in 191 7, exists to safeguard the 

 economic and general interests of chemists and to* 

 secure wider recognition of the national importance 

 of the profession. The qualifications for admission 

 to full membership are either (i) a university degree 

 or equivalent diploma with one year's practice in 

 applied or teaching chemistry, or (2) a sufficient 

 general education and scientific training with seven 

 years of professional practice. At the present time 

 there are about 920 full members. This Association 

 issues a quarterly Bulletin in which are published 

 the annual report of the Council, the Proceedings 

 of the Association, and other matters appertaining 

 to the material and professional welfare of its 

 members. These activities include an unemploy- 

 ment benefit fund, an appointments bureau, and a 

 legal aid fund. 



The Streatfeild memorial lecture was delivered at 

 the Finsbury Technical College on October 25 by 

 Mr. K. M. Hawkins, who took analytical chemistry 



