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NATURE 



[February 24, 192 1 



Notes. 



Lord Moulton has been elected an honorary 

 member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 



At the meeting of the Royal Society on May 12 

 a discussion on " The Quantum Theory of Line- 

 Spectra " will be opened by Sir Ernest Rutherford, 

 followed by Dr. N. Bohr. 



The thirtieth annual meeting of the Royal Society 

 for the Protection of Birds will be held at the Middle- 

 sex Guildhall, Westminster, S.W., on Tuesday, 

 March 8, at 3 p.m. The Right Hon. Field-Marshal 

 Lord Methuen, vice-president of the society, will 

 occupy the chair. 



Prof. C. S. Sherrington, president of the Royal 

 Society, has been elected a member of the Athenaeum 

 under the provisions of the rule of the club which 

 empowers the annual election bv the committee of a 

 certain number of persons "of distinguished eminence 

 in science, literature, the arts, or for public service." 



The council of the Royal Statistical Society will in 

 November next award the Frances Wood memorial 

 prize, value 30Z., for the best investigation of any 

 problem dealing with the economic or social condi- 

 tions of the wage-earning classes. Particulars may 

 be obtained from the honorary secretaries of the 

 Royal Statistical Society, 9 Adelphi Terrace, W.C.2. 



The twenty-fifth anniversary of the discovery of the 

 "Zeeman effect" will take place on October 31 next. 

 A committee has been formed by scientific men in 

 Holland to mark the occasion by showing their appre- 

 ciation of the importance of the discovery and of the 

 distinguished services which Prof. Zeeman has ren- 

 dered to science. It is intended to raise a fund to 

 be placed at his disposal for researches to be con- 

 ducted in the physical laboratory of the University of 

 Amsterdam. Any contributions to this fund may be 

 sent to Sir Arthur Schuster, Yeldall, Twyford, Berk- 

 shire, who will forward them to the Dutch com- 

 mittee. 



The annual general meeting of the Institute of 

 Metals will be held in the room of the Institution of 

 Mechanical Engineers on Wednesday and Thursday, 

 March 9 and 10. A paper on the recrystallisation of 

 aluminium sheet by Prof. H. C. H. Carpenter and 

 Constance F. Elam, and another on calcium by Mr. 

 P. H. Brace, will be presented at the morning ses- 

 sion on March 9. The afternoon session of the same 

 day and the morning session of March 10 will be 

 devoted to four papers on copper and copper allovs 

 by Prof. C. A. Edwards and Mr. A. M. Herbert, 

 Mr. H. Moore and Mr. S. Beckinsale, Mr. H. Moore, 

 Mr. S. Beckinsale and Mr C. E. Mallinson, and Dr. 

 J. L. Haughton. The afternoon session of March 10 

 will take the form of a visit to the National Physics 

 Laboratory. The annual dinner of the societv will 

 be held on the evening of March 9 



Sir Francis Younghusband, president of the Royal 

 (ieographical Society, announced to the society on 

 Monday that since the previous meeting of the Mount 

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Everest Committee further progress had been made 

 with the organisation of the expedition. Subject to 

 the approval of the Government of India, Major 

 Morshead and Capt. Wheeler will accompany the 

 expedition as survey officers. Dr. Kellas, who has 

 for many years devoted himself to Himalayan ex- 

 ploration, has accepted an invitation to join the 

 expedition, and also Mr. G. L. Mallory and Capt. 

 George Finch. Sir Francis Younghusband added : — 

 '■ Our party for the reconnaissance is thus complete, 

 and we are now engaged in equipping it in the best 

 possible manner for the important work it will have 

 to do this summer in examining the mountain from 

 every angle and testing the possible ways by which 

 its summit may be reached." 



At the annual general meeting of the Association 

 of Economic Biologists, held in the Imperial College 

 of Science on Friday last, the following were elected 

 officers and councillors for the year 192 1 : — President: 

 Sir David Prain. Hon. Treasurer : Dr. .\. D. Imms, 

 Hon. Secretary (Gen. and Bot.) Wm. B. Brierlev. 

 Hon. Secretary: (Zool.) : Dr. S. .-X. Neave. Hon. 

 Editor (Bot.): Wm. B. Brierley. Hon. Editor (Zool.): 



D. Ward Cutler. Council: Dr. W. Lawrence Balls, 

 Prof. V. H. Blackman, F. T. Brooks, A. B. Bruce, 

 Dr. E. J. Butler, F. J. Chittenden, A. D. Cotton, 

 J. C. F. Fryer, Prof. J. B. Farmer, E. E. Green, 

 Dr. G. A. K. Marshall, and Dr. E. J. Russell. In 

 view of the very great increase in the publishing 

 costs of the Annals of Applied Biology, it was decided 

 to establish a "Publication Fund," to which all 

 interested in the progress of biology and in its applica- 

 tion to the welfare of man are invited to subscribe. 

 Sir David Prain then delivered his presidential ad- 

 dress on "Some Relationships of Economic Biology." 



.At the annual general meeting of the Physical 

 Society held on February 11, the following officers 

 were elected: — President: Sir W. H. Bragg. Vice- 

 Presidents who have filled the office of President : Dr. 

 C. Chree, Prof. H. L. Callendar, ProL R. B. Clifton, 

 Sir Richard Glazebrook, Sir Oliver J. Lodge, Prof. 

 C. H. Lees, Prof. A. W. Reinold, Sir .'Vrthur Schuster, 

 Sir J. J. Thomson, and Prof.. C. V. Bovs. Vice- 

 Presidents: Prof. W. Eccles, Prof. A. S. Eddington, 

 the Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, and Prof. Sir Ernest 

 Rutherford. Secretaries : Mr. F. E. Smith, National 

 Physical Laboratory, Teddington, and Dr. D. Owen, 

 62 Wellington Road, Bush Hill Park, N. Foreign 

 Secretary : Sir Arthur Schuster. Treasurer : Mr. 

 W. R. Cooper, 82 Victoria Street, S.W.i. Librarian: 

 Prof. A. O. Rankine. Other Members of Council: 

 Dr. G. B. Bryan, Mr. C. R. Darling, Prof. C. L. 

 Fortescue, Dr. E. Griffiths, Dr. F. L. Hopwood, Dr. 



E. H. Rayner, Dr. A. Russell, Mr. T. Smith, Dr. 

 J. H. Vincent, and Prof. W. B. Morton. 



Reports have appeared in the daily Press respecting 

 a serum treatment for tuberculosis introduced by M. 

 Henri Spahlinger, of Geneva, shortly before the out- 

 break of war. Preliminary trials of the serum have 

 been made upon a small number of selected cases by 



