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NATURE 



[November 17, 1923 





Official Publications Received. 



(rrlor: Uiirwu of K<Jttr»tloii. lIullBtlii, IWS, 



I. In Ui« UntUxl HlaUm. D> Prof. John J. 



•) 11'. iv-f«i. (WMhloKton: Oovorimmnt PrinUiiK omc«.) 



Bfw»V f.f fho Roynl Hoclpiy of Troplcul M-dU-ln* BtKl Hjrfdana. 



Hriwloi))' 

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Mlnisfry of f.;Mtr W.m 



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..loRloil InntltuU! of Orwit BriUIn 

 I line. V\>. 26'J. (Ixindon: W Gnat 



Hpjwirt or, 1 lie Work of the Phynlcal 

 Uy Ur. H. K. Hiirnl. 

 I P.T. 6. 

 >.nica, Piiblloitlon No. 



s.rM<- Im till' Vt'ttr lUil'. In which U 



.•4lh Annuiil Keport of th« Olza Zoological (ianlciiii. J»y 



Flower. Pj>. 26. Zoological H»rvic<\ Piihlicallon No. 87 : 



l.iM ni liiiiN of Prey IS!m-U>28, with Note* on thmr IxinRevlly. Hy 



Major K. 8. Klowrr. Pp. 46. (Cairo: (Jovi-niment J'ubllcationa Office.) 



P.T. 5 path. 



Dfip.ii Iriiient van Lnndbouw, NiJverheH pn Handel. " "S Land* 

 Plantentu in " (•' .Jardin BoUni<iue d«' Bviiteiizorg "). Treubia : Upceuil de 

 Travaiix /o<>loKi<|iieH, Hy<lrobioli)gii|U'!8 vX <.)ct'-anoKraphi(iUPS. Vol. 4, 

 l.ivmlHon 1-4 : Meteorological iiiid llydro-rnpliical Olmervatlonn made in 

 the Western Part of the NtthiTliiinU KrhI Indian Ar(lili)elaKo. Hy K. .M. 

 van Weel. Pp. .'.Sit +p plates -fJ8 chart*. (Batavia: Urukkeiijon HuyKrok 

 &Ca) 



Abatract-Bulletin of Nela Research I>aboratory, National Ijimp Worku 

 of General Electric Company, Cleveland, Ohio. Vol. 1, No. 3, October 

 IW.'. Pp. ix+803-5Jl. (Cleveland, Ohio.) 



I'roceedings i)f the Liverpool Oeological Society. Session the Sixty- 

 fourth, wni-vxl'i. Part 4, Vol. 13. Edited by C. B. Travis. Pp. xvili + 

 281-341. (Mverijool.) 



The Kratiklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion 

 of the Mechanic Arta. Year Book, 192:i. Pp. 1<.>5. (Philadelphia.) 



Edinburnh University and the East of Scotland College of Agriculture : 

 Animal Hreediny Research Deiwirtment. Report of the Director for the 

 Year ending 30th Juno 1923. Pp. 10. (Edinburgh.) 



Diary of Societies. 



SATURDAY, N0VK.VBKI1 17. 



British Mvcoixmsical Society (in Botany Department, University 

 College), at 11.— Mhw R. Bracher: Observations on Rhytisma.— J. J. 

 Clarke : Notes on some Mycological Chromidia.— W. J. Uowson : A 

 Mould attacking Sweet Peas.— l)r. A. S. Home and G. H. Jones : 

 Further Contributions 10 the Study of Eidamia.— R. Paulson : Observa- 

 tions on Tr<e Mycorrhira.— A. A. Pearson : A Foray in Paris. 



British Psvt iiouooical Socikty (General Meeting conjointly with the 

 -*:sthetic Section) (at Kings College), at 3.15.— R. Fry : What Artista 

 want from Psycho-Aualysis. 



MONDA Y, NovEMBBR 19. 

 ImmroTioK of Elkctrical Enoinekrs, at 6. — A. B. Eason and others : 



Diacusaion on Power in Telephone Exchanges. 

 British Psvcholooioal Society (Education Section) (at London Day 



Training College), at 6.-Prof. T. P. Nunn: The Philosophy of Slgnor 



Gentile. 

 Institution or Mechanical Engineers (Graduates' Section, London), 



at 7.— Special Exhibition of Industrial Kinematograph Films. 

 Royal Instititb ok British Architects (at 1 mmpole Street), at 



8.— G. T. Forrest : Tlie Rebuilding of Vpres. 

 Royal Society or Arts, at 8.— S. H. Davies : The Cultivation of Cocoa 



In British Tropical Colonies. 

 Royal Geo<iraphica.. Society (at ^:olian Hall), at 8.30.— Count Byron 



de Prorok : ResulUj of Recent Research at Carthage. 



TUESDAY, November 20. 



Royal Collkob or Physicians or London, at 6.— E. Gosse : Personal 

 Relations between Medicine and Literature (David Lloyd Roberts 

 l^ecture). 



ZooLooicAL Society or London, at 5.80.— The Secretary : (1) Report on 

 the Additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of October 

 1!'2.S ; (2) Exhibition of a Collection of Autographs recently presented 

 the Society by Mr. Hugh S. Gladstone.— W. E. Le Gros Clark : Notes 

 on the Living Tarsier. — Dr. Francis, Baron Nopsca: Reversible and 

 Irreversible Evolution ; a Study based on Reptiles.- Dr. J. R. Garrood : 

 Two Skeletons of the Cetacean fsrudorm cratsidrm from Thoniey Fen, 

 Cambridgeshire.— Dr. C. Crossland : PolychieU of Tropical East Africa, 

 the Red Sea, and Cape Venle Islands ; and of the Maldive Archipelago. 

 —Miss Joan B. Procter : (1) New and Rare Reptiles from South America ; 

 (2) New and Raw Reptiles and Batrachians from the Au.stiiilian Region. 



iNSTiTt Tiox OK Civil Enoineers, at t>.— R. K. Grantham : The Effect of 



■ Groyning on Some Parts of the English Coast.— E. W. Hollingworth : 

 The Tides from an Engineer's Standpoint. 



Institite or Marine Enoineers, Inc., at 6.80.— H. Campbell: The 

 Gas Turbine. 



Royal Photiio^aphic Society ok Great BRrrAiN, at 7.— Meeting 

 organised by the Scientific and Technical Group. 



Royal Asthropolooical Institute, at 8.15.— L. H. Dudley Buxton: 

 I'he Inhabitants of Inner Mongolia. 



CiR<-LK of Siiestific, Technical, and Trade Jocrnalists, at 8.15.— 

 Sir Richard Gregory : Progress in Science and Invention. 



HgDSKSDAT. KorcMBn tl. 



-rMopwsfd.— Col. ii 

 ^n lUiMBOM.— F. J. W 



..falL-STir Sm: Tb- 



tto> a: ^•■. i> r ', ■ 

 Ko\At Mill "I 



1<M, . I- .\ 

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'1 M .Sj'iktv or Lo.tLxjii, at l.M. l>:. L. J. Wills: Th* t"-- 



' I he 8«*vem Valley to the NelKhbourliooal of lraabri<lK 



i ...th. 



I.>Bniiiio!< or Civil Ekoixeeiui ng), at 0.-11. li 



Mardon : Addrniu. 



iNSTITI'llliS ..» Kll'llll. Al Ks... -.t.ol:) at r l<t 



X. V. A) 



R. C.Ci 



Inhtititi'. 



A. W. S»..;. . . 



Royal Mil It... Hrambell: BeB'Rarerm. 



and Int'TH- yuribm ErUl»n" •• 



the Transition ut i'> n Aapbibta 



M. Johnston : The I'l roseopleKxa 



tion.— F. I. O H.i .1^. _ I., I, 



Wowlcock : y 

 Simulating Mm 



RoYALSocIETV Hi ......^ _. . ,v. t ., . i . . 



GlasN. 



Entomological Socimr or Lokdom, at 8. 



THURSDA r, NoveiiBBR 22. 



Meoioo-Pstcbolooical AasociATioN or Great Brit a . 

 (at 11 Chandos Street, W.l), at 2.45. — Prof. D. C. W 

 Psychiatrical and Neurolo^ric-al Tr«<-liing at the Dutch i 

 especially at the University of Utrecht. 



Royal Society, at 4.— S{jecial General Meeting to considtrr the Aj.i.::Ai 

 RejMirt of Council.— At 4.30.— F. Simeon : Tlie Oarboo Arc Spcctmm la 

 the Extreme LMtra-Violet, II. — H. J. Gough and Dr. D. HariW/n T>ie 

 Behaviour of Metals subjected U> Re|>eated Stresaea.— \^ 

 and L. P.. Bates: A Null Method of Measuring the G% 

 Ratio.— J. H. Shaxby: Studies in Brownian Hovemei'. 

 Determination of Avogailro's Number from Obsen-ationa on li!i.;-r.» 

 (Cocci). — 7(, Im rrad in title utily:—l>r. H. Hartlidge and F. J. W. 

 Roughton : The Kinetics of Hwnioglobin, II.— A. F. A. Yoong : The 

 Thermionic and Photo-Electric Properties of the Electio-Pooitive 

 Metals.— O. F. T. Roberts : ,The Theoretical Scattering of Smoke in a 

 TurbiilfMt Atmosphere. 



Child-Study Society (at Royal Sanitary Institllte^ at «.— Dr. J. J. 

 Findlay : Rhythm, Labour, and Child Development. 



Institution of Electrical Enoineek.s. at 1.— A. BacJiellery : The 

 Electrification of the Midi Railway (.' _• with the British 



Section of the .Societe des Ingt-nieiirs ( ■•). 



Society of Dykbs and 0)Loi.Rii«T8 (Lo: c„ n) (»t Dyers' Hall. 



Dowgate Hill, E.C.S), at 7.— A. D. Lang ; ilacbeUi ArUflcial Daylight, 

 and the Fade-ometer. 



FRIDAY, November 2: 



Royal Photoorapbic Socibtt or Great Bi ^lartin 



Duncan : Lantern I.#cture. 

 Institution or Mechanical Bnoineers (Informal MeetiOK), at 7. — Britiah 



Locomotive Practice and Performance. 

 Junior Institution ok Engineers, at 7.30.— W. A. Ttxikejr: Technical 



Arbitrations. 



PUBLIC LKCTURKS. 



SATURDAY, November 17. 

 Gilbert White Fellowship (at 6 Queen Square, W.C.IX at8. — G. 



Morris : The I'rehistoric Survey of SelVwme. 

 Horniman Museum (Forest Hill), at 3.80.— S. H. Warren : The fare- 



Paintings of Stone A^ Man in Europe. 



MONDAY, November Iv. 



Kino's College, London, at 5.80.— Prof. W. T. Gordon : Gem Mineral* 



and their Uses in Art and Industry (Swiney Lectures). (Sacceedinc 



Lectures on November 21, 28, 26, 28, 80, Deceuiber 3, 5, T, 10, 12. and It!) 



TUESDAY, November 20. 

 University College, at 5.30.— Engr.-CapU E. C. Smith : Epochs in 1 

 History of Marine Engineering. 



WEDNESDAY, November 31. 

 RoTAL Institcte or Public Health, at 4.— Dr. 0. W. Saleeby : Snnli^it 



and Disease. 

 University Collboe, at 5.80.— A. Jenkin.son : Handwriting and Eaiif 



Printing. 



THURSDAY, November 22. 

 Imperial (College or Science and Technology, at 5.15. — Dr. J. W. 



Heslop Harrison : Problems of Variation. (Succeeding Lecture 



November 23.) 

 London School or Economics, at 5.80.— F. S. Marvin: Great Britata 



and Europe (League of Nations Union LectureX 



FRIDAY, November 23. 

 King's Collboe, London, at 5.30.— C. E. M. Joad : The PhOosophieil 



Background of Music and Poetry : (I) The Function of Art. 

 Royal tkiciBTT or arts, at 8. — Major H. Bamea : Hygiene and Archi- 

 tecture : Remedial Hygiene — Htalth and the Hospital (Chadwidc 

 Lecture). 



SATURDAY, November 24. 



Horniman IIcseum (Forest HillX at 3.30. — Miss E. Gcodyear: TbC 

 Romance of the Highways. 



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