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own desire, he undertook the particular investiga- 

 tion which he was completing at the time of his 

 death. Though a man of gentle disposition, and 

 \ery modest in his demeanour, Haward undoubt- 

 • Ily was conscious in the right way of his 

 vperimental powers, which excited the daily 

 admiration of those whose privilege it was 

 t.) watch their rapid development. He had 

 in a marked degree the instinct of the true 

 artist, which was never satisfied with any- 

 thing less than the best. He was twenty-six 

 Ncars of age, and was married only fifteen months 

 -:o- 



Anothkk Kew veteran has pas.sed away in the 

 person of JoH.v Reader Jackson, who died on 

 October 28 at his house at I.ympstone, near Kx- 

 mouth, Devon, aged eighty-three. Mr. Jackson 

 was born in 1S37 at Knightshridge, but his family 

 r. moved a^K)ut 1843 to Canterbury, where he re- 

 ' 'ived his early education, returning in 1851 to 



hool in London. Through the influence of I'rof. 



nomas Bell, then president of the Linnean 

 >'M!iety of London, he was given charge of the 

 museums at Kew. then in process of development 

 iipuler Sir William Hooker, and for nearly twenty 

 ' '-ars he discharged his duties single-handed, until 

 1879 he received the help of an assistant. His 

 work left him but little time for literary diversion, 

 but we owe t(» him not a few contributions in 

 applied botany in various journals, as in those 

 of the Linnean and Pharmaceutical -SiM-ieties, 

 the Techiiolof^ist, (lanlcners' Chrouich'. and 

 the like. Mr. Jackson brought out a new edition 

 of Barton and Castle's "British Flora Medica " in 

 1877, and in i8go appeared his excellent "Com- 

 mercial Botany of the Nineteenth Century." He 

 uas elected an associate of the Linnean .Society 

 ill 1868, and was the senior on the list at the time 

 of his death. 



I We regret to record the death of Dr. Charles 

 IxFRorr, late head of the radiological service at 

 the Sali>^tri6rc Hospital, Paris. The death of 

 Dr. Infroit adds one more to the list of victims 

 to X-ray dermatitis. A pioneer in the subject of 

 X-rays in medicine, he was injured through 

 over-exposure to the rays at a time when these 



' dangers were not fully appreciated. Despite the 

 disabilities by which he was handicapped, he made 

 numerous contributions to the literature of the 

 subject of radiology, especially from the 



' diagnostic side. So recently as last year a paper 

 appeared by him on the subject of concretions in 

 the lung simulating the presence of a foreign 



j body. A joint communication with I'ascalis upon 

 the surgery of the bones of the head appeared in 



, the Journal Jc Chirurf;ie, 1912. Dr. Infroit de- 

 signed and put into u.se a localiser of foreign 

 bodies, which was used very considerably during 



'. the war; details of this instrument and the results 



' obtained by its use may be found in the lUdlrtin 

 .Ic I' \caiUniie Jc Medecine. mm;- 



News has just been received of the death of 

 HoKRAT Ai.Exirs Meinong, on November 27, after 

 a short illness, at the age of sixty-seven. Pro- 

 fessor of philosophy at the L^niversity of Graz, to 

 which he was appointed in 1889, Meinong was 

 well known to philosophical students throughout 

 the world by his important contributions to a 

 special branch of study which he named "Gegen- 

 standsthcorie." His earliest published work was 

 "Hume Studien," 2 vols., 1877. His principal 

 work, and that by which he is best known, is cn- 

 I titled " Ueber .\bnahmen," published in 1902, and 

 a .second edition of which appeared in 1910. 



We regret to announce the death, on 1)»- 

 cember 13, at .seventy-two years of age, of Dr. 



.\l.EXA\OER MllKIIKVI), 1 .U.S. 



Notes. 



I iiK iMj.-vilion uf .siitiiiilit nun tniolo\Li.' in the 

 ' ■vornm«'nt service has long exercised the minds of 

 i-ntific worker*. The responsibility for the National 

 iNsical I-'ilxJratory and for the rn-oIo><ical Survey 

 ■. bcrn hnndrd over to the Department of Scientifir 

 I Industrial Res»arch. Kow is still under the 

 riistry of .Xgriculturo and Fisheries. The Oovcin- 

 nt (-"hemiral kaljoratory and tho British .Museum, 

 ih its Natural Itislory Branch at South Kensington, 

 main distinct institutions for which the Treasury is 

 IMjnsiblp. All these institutions are largely con- 

 ned with the preservation and routine examination 

 specimens, testing, and the standardisation of 

 ' thods, and do not serve solely for research. The 

 linistry of .\j;riculturc has farnvxl out its re- 

 in h work to institutions such as Kuthamsted, the 

 i|H-rial College of Science and Technologj-, Cani- 

 idf<e and Oxford, etc. j it still retains, however, on 

 fisheries side a Research Division. Dissatisfai limi 

 lis long Ixvn felt at the posi' <.f pav. 



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, prosji..!- ..i i,ii.in.Mi»n in ail these oflices. Siientilic 



i men claim that the positions offered to them should 



' be at least equal in rank, in prospects, and in pay to 



those offered in the regular Civil Service. The matter 



came up for discussion at the meetings of several 



Sections of the British .\ssociation at Cardiff. It was 



referrtnl to the council of the .Association, which has 



now unanimously p.issetl (he following resolution and 



forwarded it to the First Lord of tho Trca.sury : — 



"That the council considers that no scheme of pay. 



j mcnt of professional scientific men ir. the service of 



I the State is satisfactory which places them on a lower 



j level than that of the hij<her (jradc of the Civil 



1 Service." It is clear that the Treasury must agree 



; with this resolution if the services of scientific men of 



. the first (jrade ar-' i^i I"' i>l>l.iiniil for 1 1 '1 



purposes. 



In addition to revolutionising the niethcxls of wire- 



tiss telegraphy .ind 1 • ii't< rini; possil,!,- tli.- practical 



velopment of w'w licrmlonic 



