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NATURE 



[December 29, 192 1 



Notes. 



A NEW volume of Nature will begin with next 

 week's issue, so that in future each of the two 

 volumes published annually will bear the date of a 

 single vear. This change has been decided upon for 

 convenience of reference, and we believe it will be 

 generally welcomed. Hitherto reference to a par- 

 ticular vear of publication could apply to three 

 different volumes, while the volumes which overlap 

 the end of one year and beginning of another bear 

 the dates of two years. Henceforward the volumes 

 will begin resj^ectively in January and July, and a 

 common source of confusion will thus be avoided. 

 The alteration means that the volume completed with 

 this week's issue extends over four months instead of 

 six, but the new arrangement has such decided ad- 

 vantages that no excuse is necessary in introducing it. 



The following have been appointed presidents and 

 recorders (to whom all communications should be 

 sent) of the different sections of the British Asso- 

 ciation for the meeting to be held at Hull on Sep- 

 tember 6-13 next under the presidency of Prof. C. S. 

 Sherrington: — Section A (Mathematics and Physics): 

 President, Prof. G. H. Hardy; Recorder, Prof. A. O. 

 Rankine, Imperial College of Science and Technology, 

 S.W.7. Section B (Chemistry) : President, Principal 

 J. C. Irvine; Recorder, Prof. C. H. Desch, Univer- 

 sity of Sheffield. Section C (Geology): President, 

 Prof. P. F. Kendall; Recorder, Dr. A. R. Dwerry- 

 house, University College, Reading. Section D 

 (Zoology): President, Dr. E. J. Allen; Recorder, Mr. 

 R. D. Laurie, University College, Aberystwyth. 

 Section E (Geography): President, Dr. Marion I. 

 Newbigin ; Recorder, Dr. R. N. Rudmose Brown, 

 University of Sheffield. Section F (Economics) : 

 President, Prof. F. Y. Edgeworth ; Recorder, 

 Prof. H. M. Hallsworth, Armstrong College, 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Section G (Engineering) : 

 President, Prof. T. Hudson Beare ; Recorder, 

 Prof. G. W. O. Howe, Elmswood, Maiden, 

 Surrey. Section H (Anthropology) ; President, Mr. 

 H. J. E. Peake; Recorder, Mr. E. N. Fallaize, 

 Vinchelez, Chase Court Gardens, Enfield, Middlesex. 

 Section I (Physiology) : President, Prof. E. P. Cath- 

 cart ; Recorder, Dr. C. Lovatt Evans, National Insti- 

 tute for Medical Research, Mount Vernon, N.W.3. 

 Section ] (Psychology): President, Dr. W. H. R. 

 Rivers ; Recorder, Dr. C. Burt, 30 Princess Road, 

 Regent's Park, N.W.i. Section K (Botany): Presi- 

 dent, Prof. H. H. Dixon; Recorder, Mr. F. T. 

 Brooks, 31 Tenison Avenue, Cambridge. Section L 

 (Education) : President, Sir Richard Gregory ; Re- 

 corder, Mr. D. Berridge, i College Grounds, Mal- 

 vern. Section M (Agriculture): President, The Right 

 Hon. Lord Bledisloe ; Recorder, Mr. C. G. T. 

 Morison, School of Rural Economy, Oxford. 



Mr. E. T. Newton, formerly palaeontologist to the 

 Geological Survey, has been elected president of the 

 Palaeontographical Society in succession to the late 

 Dr. Henry Woodward. 



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Major-General the Right Hon. J. E. B. Seelv has 

 consented to accept the office of president of the M 

 thirty-third Congress of the Royal Sanitary Institute, ■ 

 to be held at Bournemouth on July 24-29 of next 

 year. 



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

 feller has provided funds for the purchase of the birth- 

 place of Pasteur at Dole, in the Jura. It will be 

 transformed into a museum, in which will probably 

 be housed an extensive medical and surgical library, 

 with the authentic documents of Pasteur. 



A FOSSIL Scopeloid fish with the scales which bore 

 luminous organs especially well preserved has been 

 discovered in the well-known Miocene fish-bed near 

 Oran, Algeria. The fish belongs to the genus 

 Mvctophum, and as the arrangement of the luminous 

 organs is clearly seen, its affinities can be determined. 

 .According to the discoverer, M. Camille Arambourg 

 (Bull. Soc. Geol. France, ser. 4, vol. 20, p. 237), it 

 is not related to the Mediterranean species, but to 

 one having a wide distribution in the Atlantic, Indian, 

 and Pacific Oceans. 



The council of the Institution of Civil Engineers 

 has made the following awards for papers printed 

 without discussion in the Proceedings of the institu- 

 tion for the sessions 1918-19 and 1919-20, publication 

 of which has been delayed by conditions due to the 

 war -.—Session 19 18-19 : A Telford medal to Prof. 



E. G. Coker (London), a Crampton prize to Mr. 



F. F. P. Bisacre (Glasgow), a Manby premium to 

 Mr. E. H. Lloyd (Cairo), and a Telford premium to 

 Mr. Rollo Appieyard (London). Session 1919-20 : A 

 Crampton prize to Prof. F. C. Lea (Birmingham), 

 and Telford premiums to Messrs. A. P. Home (Aber- 

 deen), S. Blencowe (Buenos Aires), and \V. J. Walker 

 and R. Koivulehto (Dundee). 



At the annual general meeting of the Society of 

 Engineers, held on December 12, the following 

 premiums for papers read during 192 1 were 

 awarded: — President's gold medal to Mr. G. O. Case 

 for his paper on "The \^'inning of Tidal Lands in 

 British Guiana"; Bessemer premium to Mr. 

 R. W. A. Brewer for his paper "Some Modern En- 

 gineering Practice in America"; Nursey premium to 

 Mr. Alfred S. E. Ackermann for his third paper on 

 " The Physical Properties of Clay " ; Society's premium 

 to Mr. W. M. Beckett for his paper on " Northwich 

 Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Works " ; and Geen 

 premium to Mr. C. F. Moore, of the Crystal Palace 

 Engineering Society, for his paper on "The Loco- 

 motives of the London and North-Western Railway." 



The Physical Society and Optical Society's annual 

 exhibition, which is to be held on Wednesday and 

 Thursday, January 4 and 5, at the Imperial College 

 of Science, South Kensington, will be open in the 

 afternoon (from 3 to 6 p.m.) and in the evening 

 (from 7 to 10 p.m.). Mr. A. A. Campbell Swinton 



