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luate ; 



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on other morbi<l > 

 in food has ^>•^^^> ^ 

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but iitulrr > 1 , m • . . . .hmm . 



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au<li<iiir, nil ludmt; I he \'n (■ Chanccll' ' ' 



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We liiiii iKiiii till liclfast Evening Telegraph of 

 October 24 that a new Naturalists' Field Club, styled 

 the " Route," has been founded for northern Antrim, 



and lli.it ll is affiliated to the !',(lf;i-,t Ciuli. The 

 lati<! iiou iiinnhcrs 703 nuMuhcrN. ;iiid h;is been 

 dc \ iliM^c \\\\t> (Icruc iiiMi h mi-m,il profit 



friiii: a.-^ > .iiious meeLiiigs ;ind cm nr-^ions .-is a second 

 uiuNtTsity for Belfast, it his the .idvantage of 

 retaining as advisers members wlio li;i\( watched and 

 fostered its progress for more than lilt\ \ cars. 



It is announced in Science that Mr. John D. Rocke- 

 feller, Jr., has given 100,000/. toward the endowment 

 fund of 400,000/. required by the New York Zoological 

 Society, and will contribute a further roo,ooo/. as soon 

 as the society raises another 200,000/. Mr. Edward S. 

 Harkness has given 20,000/. and the estate of Mrs. 

 Frederic Ferris Thompson 10,000/. For some time 

 the Society has been carrying educational, philan- 

 thropic, and civic burdens far beyond its financial 

 resources. Mr. Rockefeller's gift is without restric- 

 tions and the income becomes immediately available. 



Notification is given by the Chemical Society that 

 apphcations for grants from the society's research 

 fund (made upon forms obtainable from the Assistant 

 Secretary, Burlington House, W.i) must be received 

 on or before Saturday, December i. The income 

 ari-sing from the donation of the Goldsmiths' Company 

 is to be more or less especially devoted to the en- 

 couragement of research in inorganic and metallurgical 

 chemistry ; the income from the Perkin memorial 

 fund is to be applied to investigations relating to 

 problems connected with the coal-tar and allied 

 industries. 



The following officers have been elected by the 

 London Mathematical Society for the session 1923- 

 1924 : — President : Prof. W. H. Young ; Vice- 

 Presidents : Prof. L. N. G. Filon, Prof. H. Hilton, 

 and Prof. A. E. Jolliffe ; Treasurer : Dr. A. E. 

 Western ; Secretaries : Prof. G. H. Hardy and Prof. 

 G. N. Watson ; Other Members of the Council : Mr. 

 J. E. Campbell. Prof. A. L. Dixon, Miss H. P. Hudson, 

 Prof. G. B. Jeffery, Prof. A. E. H. Love, Mr. E. A. 

 MUne, Mr. L. J. Mordell, Mr. F. B. Pidduck, and 

 Mr. F. P. W^hite. 



Viscount Long of Wraxall has accepted the 

 presidency of the forthcoming Empire Mining and 



NO. 2821, VOL. 112] 



Metailurgica) Congress to be J ' ' * - ' " 

 Empire Exhibition on June 3-' 

 Prince of Wa!< >rary presi liowmg 



have arrepte<! uns to b« ■ '.• vice- 



presi' iie Congress: The SetreUtrs ♦ .r 



the < the Secretary of State for 1 c 



Sccri ' the I'riim* Minister 



Austi iii-i .ii,.I \,'.^ f.Hindlaui; . l..;. ;;igh 



' "I" 1 British India ; 



and li.. i,wi.. ..i.nwi wi n^ii. . - -' -tsofthe 



seven convening bodies {v. !>er 22, 



: " 'is vice-presi'icnts au'l will preside 



ith whirh thev are rr)ncern<»d. 



I n I issues 

 Arts for October 

 Cantor Lectures b\ 



nicasurcniciits I ■ 

 various publx .it 



of 



I con lain the three 



•r^ on preci.se length 



•!ot access to the 



iional Physical 



Laboratory, these lectures provide up-to-date in- 

 formation on til'- inctlinrU III iiv,,. tlw-rr. for ti^"" » -»•"'"" 



the ultimate s' 



comparing the m.-i,i)iiu.ii \ si.uiii.uii- m use m Hunisir\" 

 with the ultimate standards. The instruments used 

 are almost all unique, and the accuracy attained with 

 them one-millionth of an inch. We are glad to note 

 that, as the result of work done by one of the staff 

 of the Laboratory, it is likely that gauges of th<- 

 accuracy of the Johansson gauges from Swetl 

 be made on a commercial scale in Great Bf*' 



■ ,wi |.r,,i .,- November 8 .iiim y, liie 

 Challenger Society and 



On Thiir-' 

 sixth joiir 



representaii\ es or \i.irnic iSiological Stations wais held 

 at Cambridge under the chairmanship of Prof. J. 

 Stanley Gardiner. The niectini,' was attended by more 

 than fifty representatives of \anoiis organisation.s. 

 Papers were read by Messrs. J. Barcroft, G. Bidder, 

 F. F. Blackman, H. G. Carter H M. Fox. J. Grav. 

 W. B. Hardy, H. G. Hopk liran. |. Piqur. 



F. A. Potts', J. T. Saundci-^. <,,n. J. M." Wordie. 

 Special attention was paid to the problems of cold 

 storage. These meetings, which were inaugurated 

 and are assisted by the Development Commission, are 

 held periodically ai the variou.s marine laboratories 

 and elsewhere. 



The opening meeting of the Tlhnninating Engineer- 

 ing Society on November 13 was. as usual, devoted to 

 reports of progress and exhibits' illustrating develop- 

 ments in lighting. Mr. Ga.ster, reviewing progress 

 during the vacation, alluded to the appointment of a 

 Committee on Illumination by the Department of 

 Scientific and Industrial Research, and mentioned 

 that the next technical session of the International 

 Illumination Commission is to be held in Geneva in 

 July next year. A conference dealing, among other 

 matters, with industrial lighting, is being arranged by 

 the International Labour Bureau of the League of 

 Nations in Geneva in the same month. Reference was 

 made to the newly -formed Association of Public 

 Lighting Engineers as an illustration of the growing 

 interest in illumination and the need of bringing the 

 aims of the Society before a wider circle of the public. 



