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Notes. 



The New Year Honours Lists which were issued 

 at the end of last week include five barons, five Privy 

 Councillors, twenty-one baronets, sixty-nine knights, 

 and two Companions of Honour. Among the honours 

 we note in particular the following conferred upon 

 men whose names are known in scientific fields : — 

 Vrivy Councillor: The Rev. Dr. Thomas Hamilton, 

 for service to the cause of education in Ireland, first 

 as President of Queen's College, Belfast, and after- 

 wards as President and Vice-Chancellor of the Queen's 

 University of Belfast. Knights : Prof. P. R. Scott 

 Lang, for more than forty years Regius professor of 

 mathematics in the L'niversity of St. .Andrews; Mr. 

 P. J. Michelli, secretary to the London School of 

 Tropical Medicine; Dr. S. S. Sprigge, editor of the 

 Lancet ; Prof. James Walker, professor of chemistry, 

 University of Edinburgh; and Dr. Dawson Williams, 

 editor of the British Medical Journal. C.M.G.: Mr. 

 L B. Pole Evans, chief of the division of botany and 

 plant pathology. Department of .Agriculture, Union of 

 South Africa. CLE.: Lt.-Col. W. F. Harvey, 

 director of the Central Research Institute, Kasauli, 

 Punjab, and Dr. E. J. Butler, formerly Imperial 

 Mycologist, Pusa. K.C.V.O.: Dr. F. S. Hewett. 



The appeal for help to the scientific and literary 

 community of Russia which we publish elsewhere 

 should meet with a sympathetic response. Since the 

 calamitous political disturbances began in their 

 country many Russian scientific men have taken 

 every opportunity of begging their colleagues and 

 friends in the rest of Europe to help them to emigrate 

 to more congenial surroundings abroad. In very few 

 cases has it been possible to grant their petition. 

 Now that the Bolshevik Government seems to have 

 begun to realise that intellectual life has some value 

 for the nation, it may be best that we should en- 

 courage our fellow-workers in Russia to remain at 

 home and give them all possible assistance in promoting 

 learning in the sad circumstances in which thev find 

 themselves. We understand that the great libraries, 

 the university laboratories, and the old national col- 

 lections, at least in Petersburg, are still intact, and 

 that some provision has been made for the small 

 remnant of Russians who are capable of using them. 

 They merely need the stimulus of contact with the 

 centres of intellectual work in other countries and 

 an up-to-date knowledge of the results of research 

 elsewhere. We trust that Britain will take the lead 

 in furnishing this stimulus and supplying the neces- 

 sary publications to enable Russia again to take a 

 conspicuous place in the world of science, literature, 

 and art. 



The Rockefeller Foundation has presented to the 

 State of Louisiana a tract of country comprising some 

 35,000 acres known as the Grand Chenier Wild Life 

 Refuge (Science, December 3). The land was pur- 

 chased by the Foundation from individual holders in 

 1914 in order to preserve the wild life of the country, 

 and it is a condition of the gift, which includes labora- 

 tories, publications, and equipment connected with the 

 preservation enterprise, that the tract shall remain as 

 a perpetual wild-life preserve. 

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It is announced that Mr. Llewellyn Treacher has 

 been selected for the Foulerton award of the Geo- 

 logists' Association. 



The Aldred lecture will be delivered at the Royal 

 Society of .Arts on Wednesday, January 12, at 8 p.m., 

 by Dr. C. S. Myers, director of the psychological 

 laboratory, and lecturer in experimental psychology, 

 University of Cambridge. The subject will be "In- 

 dustrial Fatigue." Mr. W. L. Hichens will be in the 

 chair. 



Science of December 10 announces that the Elisha 

 Kent Kane gold medal of the .American Geographical 

 Society has been conferred on Dr. .\. Hamilton Rice 

 in recognition of his pioneer exploratory work in 

 South America; also that the Franklin Institute has 

 awarded the Elliott Cresson gold medal to Dr. 

 W. L. R. Emmet in recognition of his notable con- 

 tributions to the art of ship propulsion. 



Dr. E. O. Teale has been appointed Government 

 Geologist of Tanganyika Colony, formerly German 

 East Africa. Dr. Teale has already had much experi- 

 ence of African geology, having spent several years 

 in Portuguese East .Africa, and having been occupied 

 mqre recently with geological work in Nigeria and 

 Gold Coast Colony. With his former colleague Mr. 

 Wilson he contributed an important paper on Portu- 

 guese East .Africa to the Geographical Journal. 



.At the exhibition of paintings by the Birmingham 

 .Art Circle in the galleries of the Birmingham Royal 

 Society of Artists there will be on view until 

 January 20 two portraits (by Mr. Bernard Munns) 

 which will be of interest to many readers of Nature. 

 One is that of the late Prof. John Henry Poynting, 

 an admirable likeness in which the character of the 

 subject is beautifully expressed. This portrait has 

 been painted for the Trustees of the Poynting 

 Memorial Fund, and will be hung in the guest hall of 

 the University at Edgbaston. The other is a fine 

 portrait of the late Prof. Adrian J. Brown, F.R.S. 

 The University already has portraits by the same 

 artist of the late Prof. Charles Lapworth and Prof. 

 P. F. Frankland. 



The results of the balloting in the reorganisation of 

 the International Commission on Zoological Nomen- 

 clature have been announced as follows -.—Class of 

 1922 {elected in 1913): Dr. J. A. Allen, New York, 

 N.Y. ; Dr. F. A. Bather, London; M. Ph. Dautzen- 

 berg, Paris; Dr. W. E. Hoyle, Cardiff; Dr. K. 

 Jordan, Tring; and Prof. H. Kolbe, Berlin. Class or 

 1925 {newly elected, vice Class of 1916); Dr. D. S. 

 Jordan, Palo Alto, Cal. ; Prof. A. Handlirsch, Vienna ; 

 Prof. R. Monticelli, Naples; Dr. E. Simon, Paris; 

 Dr. H. Skinner, Phil., Pa.; and Dr. L. Stejneger, 

 Washington, D.C. Class of 1928 {netvly elected, vice 

 Class of 1919).- Prof. C. Apstein, Beriin ; Dr. E. J. O. 

 Hartert, Tring; Dr. Geza Horvath, Budapest; Prof. 

 Louis Roule, Paris ; and Dr. C. W. Stiles, Washing- 

 ton, D.C. No majority was obtained for the vacancies 

 caused by the death of Prof. Blanchard and by the 

 resignation of Prof. Roule ; accordingly a new vote is 



