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NA TURE 



[December i, 1923 



Official Publications Received. 



I>«|i«rtinmit of Comoiercfi : Bunwu of HUnd«r<lii. Ucleiiltflr t'apon of 

 Ui» liiiriMiii of HUndnnlt, Na 475: VUlhtlltr of lUdUuit Kiionty. Bf 

 K. 8 tin*on •ii.l B. I'. T. Tyn«ltt i li>l, lAcmiU. Tochitoloflc 



{'•|Mtni of ihn Hiirraii of 8Uo(Ui OotNtor for Wiit«r Vapor In 



CloiMxl I'lp"^. tly K K. Wmv. ,.,||g, !> a87-M4. £ c«nU. 



1>«I i(r«llon. BulleUti, IMS. No. 



J6: «• the N«tlvM of AlMk», By 



WlllUm Jiaiiniu.ii. I'ji. 4. (Wa«Iiii.-i,,ii : (iovarntnctit PrintluK Offlc*.) 

 & (NtnU. 



U.S. IVpnrtTTiniit nf AK'HriiIturti. Karmen' Itiilletln No. 13M; The 

 Yellow I ■ ! ,. Howard. I'p. 14. (WaahlnKton : 



Uoveri 



r»''l''^ ; SUU-). O.ol(i^;i,al Siirvry. Mineral 



I: :.-.•, ,,f ||„. Unit" I staioH m Vyn(yr>- , tro- 



' Ity (i. K. IjiiiK>ilin; HLatintii-M «iih' nk. 



' I'.'U. (WjiHliliiKton : Ci.M'iiiinriii I 



'.■• Inlertor: 1 liu;ictln 



\>ea«, OeoKri] ,,• United 



' i.'il MUteM ; « ■ t Changes 



111 tlirir IVrntuiy. Uy Bflwanl .M. Uuutjia*. I'j; m + J.i4 + 7 platea. 00 

 cenU. Hiill«tln 700 : Trlaiinulation and rriinary Travenw), lOlS-1018. 

 Pp. vif 914 + 2 plat«ii. 76 eeulii. Unlletin 7:tl' : Mineral Rew)urce« of 

 Alaska : Hnport on FrogreiiH of InveHtitfatlonn in In:!!. Uy A. II. Brookfl 

 and oth.'r«. Pp. vl f im» + xiv + .S plates. l>rofe*itional Pap«r 18'.'-A : 

 Ht>ck Formatlona in the Colorado Plateau of SoiitheaKtern UUh and 

 N iMi.-in ArUon-t. Hy C. K. LonKwcll. H. I). Mi«er, R. C. Moore, Kirk 

 li:\ r .and .Sidn-y Paifte. Pp. 23+ 10 plates. (Washington: Government 

 I'nntiMKOmi-e.) 



l>ove Marine laboratory, Cullercoats, Northumberland. Report for 

 the Year ending .Iiino 30th, lti-.'3. Edit«<l by Prof. Alexander Meek. 

 Pp. 151+21 platen. (Cullercoats.) .U 



The Koyal Technical College, (Glasgow. Annual Ke|>ort on the One 

 Hundr«<l and Twenty seventh Session, adopted at the Annual Meeting of 

 Governors held on the Ifith October 1P23. Pp. 70. (Glasgow.) 



Annalen van de Sterrewacht te I^eidcn. Dcel 13, Mtuk 3 : Positions of 

 84 Stars near the North Pole determined with the Meridian Circle of the 

 Observatory in the Years 1877-188.5, under the Dirpctorate of Prof. Dr. 

 H. 0. van de Bande Bakhuyzen. Pp. OS. Deel 14, .Stuk 2 : Dessins de 

 la vole lact^ faites 4 Athines par J. !•>. Julius Schinidt dans les ann^es 

 1804-1876. Pn. 8 + 4 plates. (Haarlem : Joh. Enscheile en Zonen.) 



Marconi's wireless Telegraph Company, LUl. Report of the Directors 

 and Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 3lRt December, l'.»22, to be 

 pre8ent«<l at the Annual General .Meeting of the Coniiwmy, to be held at 

 the Connaught Rooms, Great Queen Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2, 

 on Monday, the 3rd December, l!t23, at 12 o'clock noon. Pp. 12. (London : 

 Mansonl House, Strand.) 



Diary of Societies. 



SATURDAY, Decbmber 1. 

 Gilbert White Fellowship (at 6 Queen Square, W.C.I), at 8.— F. R. a 

 Balfour : Trees and Flowers of the North-West Pacilic Coast. 



MONDAY, December S. 

 Royal IxsTiruTioN, at 5.— General Meeting. 

 Society or Knoimeers, Inc. (at Geological Society), at 5.30.— J. W 



Gordon : Railway Sun-eying by Photography. 

 Royal .Socikty ok Medicine, at 6.80.-I)r. Strandberg : Treatment of 



Tuberculosis of the Nose and Throat by Finsen Light Baths : Results. 

 INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL Endineers, at 6.— C. M. R. Balbi and others: 



Discussion on Electrical Apparatus for the Deaf. 

 Aristotelian SociKTV(at University of London Club), at 8.— Dr. Dorothy 



Wrinch-Nicholson : Some AspecU of Scientific Method. 

 ROVAL Society or Arts, at 8.— Prof. A. F. Barker : Recent Progress 



in the Wool Industries (Cantor Lecture) (1). 

 Institction or the Rubber Industry (London Section) (at Engineers' 



Club, Coventry Street), at 8.-M^jor V. Lefebure : Accelerators. 

 SocirrY or Chemical Industry (London Section) (at CHiemical SocietyX 



1 t"^ '*^"®" Howe: The Use and Preservation of Building Stone.— 



J. J. Fox and T. W. Harrison : The Chemical Aspects of Building-Stone 



^°J^^ Oko«Raphical Society (at .fioUan Hall), at 8.30.— Sir Charles 

 Bell : A ^ ear in Lhasa. 



^r*B ^'^*^ **" M'^'*''^''"' (Tropical Diseases and Parasitology Section), 

 S. .. VTT*''' Leonard Rogers and others : Discussion on Sprue and 

 Coeliac Disease. 



TUESDAY, December 4. 

 Institution or Civil Engineers, at t5. 

 Institote or Marine Enoineers, Inc., at 6.30. — J. H. Anderson: 



SponUneous Ignition of Coal. 

 Royal Photographic Society or Great Britain, at 7.-H. Dennis 



Ijylor : The Future of the Cinema ; and Photography as an Extension 



of Vision. (Annual Traill-Taylor Memorial Lecture.) 

 ROYAL Anthropological Institute, at 8.15.-H. Balfour: Observations 



on the Technology of the Nagas of Eastern Assam. 

 R6NTOEK Society (at British Institute of Radiology. 32 Wei beck Street), 



at 8.15.— Dr. L. G. Heilbron : Modem Radiographlcal Technique. 



WEDNESDAY, December 5. 

 Geological Society or London, at 6.30.— D. J. Farquhareon : The 

 Ueolc«y of Southern Guernsey.— C. W. Osman : The Geology of the 

 Northern Border of Dartmoor, between Whiddon Down and Butterdon 

 l>own. 



Royal Mociktt or Mboicwk (BanMrriiaetioaXatfi.M.— PaUioloKtcal und 



Clinical MmUds- 

 ImmrvTioK or Blbctmcal Buoiimaa (WlraUta Saetioo), at fl.-l. ii. 



Turner : The Itelatlon between DampiBS and 8pMd in Wlrrir.* 



Kereptton. 

 IxsriTt-Tioii or tl> VicimLATutoBiwnmM. Inc. (at r 



Club), at 7. -A : VaeiuuB Umm BMrttaf. 



Royal Microkoi y (Btotoglwi Strtlw), rtT.W. 



Society or Pun: i ard oraSB AJiAi.rTi< » 



Chemical Socl< < TOma: OrrsUUliM Bri 



Oil. M M >*n<,> ilea for StaadanllaaUoa.' : 



Not' iiiKiioii or I hrriinium.— R. L. Andrew 



■«' •oA In Cream of Tartar. 



RovAi > Abts, atS.— Dr. A. W. Hill: The W' 



Botanic tinni'iis, Kew. 

 BrroHOLOoicAL Society or Lobdov, at S. 



THDHSDA Y, DrxeMBia «. 



Royal Sooiktt, at 4.80.— E. G. T. Lldf!"!! anri Hfr Charlea Sh«*TTtnptr!n ■ 

 Recruitment Ty|»e of Ri>flexe«. - 

 Movements of the Latero-Frontal ' 

 rni.t rn f(rV .,i,,'v: V. H. WIrk'! 



R.-la ^ ■ i 



V. I 



Cli.r 



Chai i,:.;. - oil II mill I ■■: J. A. 



Campbell: Ojncernii.,- 'loniupoo 



the Pulse Rate and ' 'ray : The 



Mechnnism of Ciliary MovitiaunU IV. '1. ivlty 



to Oxygen Consumption. 



Royal So<;irrY or Medicine, at 5. 3<i .S : ^tloo 



and Circulation in Plants. 



Newoomen Sociirrv (Annual Gene 'ton 



Hall), at 5.30.— I. B. Hart : The \>. 



Child-Study Society (at Royal Saniury liii.iiluie>, at <;.— L. llr<x>k» : 

 The Beginnings of Geographical Teaching. 



Chemical Society, at 8.— C. K. Ingold : The Additive Formation of 

 Four-inembere<l rings. Part III. A .System of Nomenclature for 

 Heterocyclic Four-membered Rings and the Fonoatioo and PropertiM 

 of some Derivatives of 3-Methylenedl-Imineoxide.— H. J. H. S.-iii.! »r. 1 

 E. J. Weeks: The Dependence of Polarisation-Overvoltage ' ■ 

 and Hydrogen Ion Concentration. Part I. Polarisation-i 

 of an Antimony Catho<le in Aqueous Alkaline Solution. ... 

 Stereoisomerism and Local Anesthetic Action in the ^-Bocame oi. ; 

 Resolution of fi- and lso-0-Eucaine. — A. Ore«n : 0-Alixann. \-. 

 Isomeric Form of Alizarin.— O. L. Brady and F. P. Dunn • '>'■• 

 merism of the Oximes. Part XV. Tlie Supposed Fourth Be: 

 — W. E. Garner and F. C. Randall: The Alternation in tl 

 Crystallisation of the Normal Monobasic Fatty Acids. 



FRIDAY, December 7. 



Royal Society or Arts (Indian Section), at 4.30.— W. Foster : The 



Archives of the Honourable East India Company (Sir George Birdwood 



Memorial Lecture). 

 Royal Astronomical Society, at 5.— Geophysical Disctusion : Gni 



Deflections in Great Britain and the Oeoid. Chairman, CoL K ^l 



Jack. Opener, Sir C. F. Close. Other speakers, H. L. P. Jolly. A i; 



Hinks, Col. H. L. Crosthwait, Dr. J. W. Bvans, and Capt. G. T. M<-( > 

 Royal (Jolleoe or Surgeons or England, at 5. — Sir Arthur K'.'..: 



The Life and Times of William Clifl, First Ojnservator (Thomas 



Vlcary Lecture). 

 Philological Society (at University College), at 8.— C. R. Bnock : 



Euphratean Origin of Man, I^anguage, and pTace-Xames. 

 Royal Society or Medicine (Surgery, Ophthalmology, Otology, 



Laryngology, Odontology, and Anspsthetics 8ectioDS),>t 8.30.- Dr. P. 



Watson-Williams and others : Discussion on The Ck>mpaTative Value of 



Cocaine Substitutes. 



PUBLIC LECTURES. 



SATURDAY, December 1. 



HoKNiifAN Museum (Forest Hill), at 3.80. — H. N. MiUigan : The 



Natural History of Dragons. 

 Birkbeck College, at 6.— Dr. F. H. Hay ward : Celebration of The 



Geologist. 



MONDA Y, December 8. 



London Hospital Medical College, at 4.16.— Dr. Gordon Holmes: 

 Some Symptoms of Cerebral Irritation (Schorstein Memorial Lecture). 



TUESDA Y, December 4. 



King's Collkoe, at 5.30.- Miss Hilda D. Oakeley : The RooU of Early 

 Greek Philosophy: (2) Scientitic. 



WEDNESDAY, December 5. 



University College, at 5.80.— W. C. B. Sayers: Libraiy Claaaiflcation 

 in Modem Life. 



THURSDAY, Deckmbbb «. 



King's College, at 5.80.- Dr. A. R Pastor: Spain and Bnrope (League 

 of Nations Union Lecture). 



FRIDAY, December 7. 

 Ukiversity Oollsok, at 5.15.— Prof. Karl Pearson : Eugenics. 



SA TURD A Y, December 8. 



Horn I man Museum (Forest HiUX at 8.80.— Dr. B. U. Delf : Sunlight ' 

 and Life. 



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