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Dr. Emile Cartailhac. 

 We regret to record the death of Dr. Emile 

 irtailhac on November 25 at Geneva, where he 

 .1 just completed a course of lectures delivered at 

 tne invitation of the University. Emile Cartailhac 

 was born at Camares in 1844, and for more than 

 fifty years had been one of the dominant figures in 

 the study of prehistoric archaeology in France. His 

 work in archaeology began when the discoveries of 

 Boucher de Perthes were still the subject of con- 

 troversy, and he threw himself with characteristic 

 ardour into the discussion. He settled early at 

 Toulouse, and founded there in 1866 a museum of 

 human palasontology. His success as a lecturer was 

 immediate, and eventually led to his appointment 

 as professor of prehistoric archaeology, the only 

 appointment of the kind in France. From 1869 

 onward he edited the well-known publication, 

 " Materiaux pour servir a I'Histoire primi'iive et 

 naturelle de I'Homme," with conspicuous ability; 

 but his greatest contribution to prehistoric archae- 

 ology was his synthetic study of the prehistory of 

 France which appeared in 1889 under the title, 

 " La France prehistorique d'apres les sepultures 

 et les monuments." This book, the first of its kind, 

 has gone through numerous editions. Of his other 

 writings, which were numerous, the most important 

 were " Ages prehistoriques de I'Espagne et du Por- 

 tugal," the volume dealing with the rock paintings 

 of Altamira in the series published under the 

 auspices of the Prince of Monaco, written in con- 

 junction with the Abbe Breuil, and the archae- 

 ological section of " Les Grottes de Grimaldi." 



of the Baluch tribes and of their language ; he pub- 

 lished a Baluchi grammar and reading-book, which 

 were for many years used by students ; an account 

 of the Baluch race, issued by the Royal Asiatic 

 Society; and "The Popular Poetry of the 

 Baluchis," published by the Folklore Society. He 

 made a large collection of Buddhist art, which 

 passed into the hands of the Berlin Museum, and he 

 helped to arrange the Buddhist rooms of the British 

 Museum. He was an active member of the Royal 

 Asiatic Society, of which he was vice-president. He 

 knew Arabic, Persian, and Portuguese well, and 

 this knowledge he utilised in his new translation, 

 with copious annotations, of " The Book of Duarte 

 Barbosa," published last year by the Hakluyt 

 Society. His death leaves a gap in the small 

 circle of oriental scholars. 



Mr. Mansel Longworth-Dames, whose death 

 in his seventy-second year is reported, entered the 

 Indian Civil Service in 1868. He served in the 

 Punjab for twenty-eight years, with an interlude in 

 1879, when he was on duty with the troops in the 

 second Afghan war. While he was stationed in the 

 trans-Indus districts he acquired a good knowledge 



We regret to report the death of Mr. C. F. T. 

 Hadrill, clerk in the General Library of the 

 ' British Museum (Natural History). Seized on 

 January 12 with influenza while on his way home 

 from the Museum, he succumbed to its effects within 

 I four days, on the evening of January 16, Mr. 

 ! Hadrill first took service with the Trustees in the 

 1 Copyright Office at the British Museum, Blooms- 

 I bury, in 1888. Thence he was transferred to the 

 I General Library at the South Kensington division 

 i of the Museum in 1895. Save for the period of his 

 war service (1915 to 1919), he held his position con- 

 tinuously up to the day of his death. Thoroughly 

 I interested in his work, in which he took gneat pride, 

 i he was intimately acquainted with the books under 

 his charge, as all who came into contact with him, 

 whether Museum officials, or students, or casual 

 visitors, soon realised ; and his services, always most 

 willingly, obligingly, and efficiently rendered, were 

 consequently in perpetual demand. His loss will be 

 felt as a personal one by a large circle of scientific 

 workers, including those connected with the " Zoo- 

 logical Record," for which he was one of the 

 researchers. 



Notes. 



The Bakerian lecture of the Royal Society will be 

 delivered on March 9 by Prof. T. R. Merton and 

 Mr. S. Barratt pn "The Spectrum of Hydrogen." 



The fifth Silvanus Thompson memorial lecture of 

 the Rontgen Society will be delivered by Sir Oliver 

 Lodge at the Institution of Electrical Engineers on 

 Tuesday, March 21. 



At a meeting of various sections of the welding 

 industry held on January 26 it was resolved that a 

 new society, to be known as the Institution of Welding 

 Engineers, be formed. The society will embrace all 

 systems of welding, and anyone who is interested in 

 welding and allied industries will be eligible for 

 membership. The hon. secretary {pro tem.) is Mr. 

 C. Raggett, and the temporary home of the new 

 institution is at 30 Red Lion Square, London, W.C.i. 



Information has reached us from Mr. D. H. Cain, 

 13 Duke Street, St. James's, S.W.i, that an English 

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company, known as Radium Ore Mines, Ltd., is to 

 ' re-0f>en the Tolgarrick radium mine situated near 

 Truro. According to this announcement, the mine 

 was abandoned at the outbreak of the war, but is 

 already installed with all the plant necessary for im- 

 mediate resumption of work. Two rich lodes of 

 uranium ore are to be worked, and the intention is 

 to treat the ore on the spot. The development of 

 radium spas in this connection is also foreshadowed. 



Two noteworthy prizes for the discovery of a cure 

 for cancer have recently been announced, namely, one 

 by Lord Atholstan of 100,000 dollars, and the other by 

 Sir William Veno of lo.oooZ. Both prizes are limited 

 to students and graduates of recognised universities, 

 and they will be awarded to the first investigator who 

 within the next five years succeeds in discovering a 

 non-surgical effective cure for cancer. The awards 



i will be made on the decision of the Royal Colleges 



j of Physicians and Surgeons in London. 



