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the tonnage of the acreage will be approximately 

 15,000,000, and should yield at least 800, ooo/. over 

 a period of years, of wliich the city and the University 

 will have equal shares. The income which the Univer- 

 sity will derive from the gift is to be devoted solely 

 for equipping and maintaining a geological depart- 

 ment in the State University in the city of Morgan- 

 town, West Virginia. Western Reserve University 

 lias also received a noteworthy gift from Mr. Samuel 

 iSIather, of Cleveland, who has announced that he 

 will provide funds for the erection of the new building 

 of the School of Medicine. The estimated cost of 

 this is about 506,000/. 



At a meeting of the council of the British Medical 

 Association held on February 15, the gold medal of the 

 association was awarded to Sir T. CUfford Allbutt, 

 Regius Professor of Physic in the University of 

 Cambridge, for his long and distinguished services to 

 lie profession and the association, and in commemora- 

 ;ion of his five years' presidency of the association 

 in the time of the great war, 1916-1921. In propos- 

 ing the award, the Treasurer of the Association, Dr. 

 G. E. Haslip, said that on all the three grounds for 

 which the medal was customaiily awarded no more 

 fitting recipient could be found. Alike for his 

 scientific attainments, for the measure in which he 

 had enhanced the honour and dignity of the profession, 

 and for his devoted services to the British Medical 

 Association, Sir Clifford Allbutt richly merited this 

 distinction. It was agreed that an engrossed testi- 

 monial, stating the grounds of the award, should be 

 prepared and presented, together with the medal, 

 at the Glasgow meeting in July next. 



We have received from The City Sale and Exchange, 

 81 Aldersgate Street, E.C., the sole British agents, the 

 catalogue of microscopes and photomicrographic 

 apparatus of the Koristka Optical Co., Milan. Kor- 

 istka microscopes are obtainable for all classes of 

 work ; the objectives have a reputation for being of 

 the highest quality, and are of the apochromatic, 

 semi-apochromatic (fiuorite), and achromatic types! 

 A binocular form and a light aluminium travel- 

 ling stand are supplied. The photomicrographic 

 apparatus includes both vertical and horizontal 

 forms, half -watt lamps of 100-300 candle-power 

 constituting the illuminant. Dark - ground con- 

 densers, blood-counting apparatus, microtomes, hot 

 and mechanical stages are also hsted. The micro- 

 scope stands included in the catalogue can be suppUed 

 Irom stock, and are approximately only half recent 

 German prices for similar models. 



The Annual Conversazione of the Institution of 

 i:icctrical Engineers will be held at the Natural 

 History Museum, South Kensington, S.W., on 

 Thursday, June 29. 



The Guthrie Lecture of the Physical Society will 

 be delivered on March 24 at 5 o'clock, at the Imperial 

 College of Science, by Prof. N. Bohr, who will take 

 as his subject " The Effect of Electric and Magnetic 

 Fields on Spectral Lines." 



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The Chemical Manufacturers' Sub-Section of the 

 London Chamber of Commerce, at a meeting held on 

 February 28, unanimously adopted a resolution, " that 

 this meeting is of opinion that the Safeguarding of 

 Industries Act is of great potential value, and records 

 its conviction that the establishment in this country 

 of a Fine Chemical Industry is of the utmost national 

 importance." 



At the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on 

 March 6 the president announced that all the members 

 of the Mount Everest Expedition have now left Eng- 

 land, and General Bruce with his two assistants from 

 the Gurkha Regiments of the Indian Army, Captain 

 Geoffrey Bruce and Captain Morris, must be by this 

 time at Darjeehng making preparations for the start 

 of the expedition at the end of this month. They 

 will be especially concerned with the two most im- 

 portant matters, firstly, the organisation of the special 

 corps of Himalayan cooUes enhsted from Nepal, and 

 the borders of Sikkim, and Tibet, and, secondly, with 

 transport arrangements which will require very careful 

 and methodical planning, for the expedition is larger 

 this year than last , and is more fully equipped. 



The following weie elected at the annual general 

 meeting of the Geological Society on February 17: — 

 President : Prof. A. C. Seward ; Vice-Presidents : 

 Prof. E. J. Garwood, Mr. R. D. Oldham, Dr. G. T. 

 Prior, and Di. H. H. Thomas ; Secretaries : Mr. 

 W. Campbell Smith and Mr. J. A. Douglas ; Foreign 

 Secretary : Sir Archibald Geikie ; Treasurer : Mr. 

 R. S. Herries ; Other Members of Council : Mr. 

 F. N. Ashcroft, Dr. F. A. Bather, Prof. P. G. H. 

 Boswell, Prof. W. S. Boulton, Mr. T. C. Cantril), 

 Dr. J. S. Flett, Mr. J. F. N. Green, Dr. F. H. Hatch, 

 Prof. O. T. Jones, Mr. W. B. R. King, Prof. S. H. 

 Reynolds, Sir Aubrey Strahan, Prof. W. W. Watts, 

 and Mr. H. Woods. 



At the annual general meeting of the Association 

 of Economic Biologists held on February 24, the 

 following officers and council were elected for the 

 year 1922 : — President : Prof. E. B. Poulton ; Vice- 

 Presidents: Prof. V. H. Blackraan, Dr. G. A. K. 

 Marshall ; Treasurer : Dr. A. D. Imms ; Editors : Dr. 

 Wm. B. Brierley (Botany), Mr. D. ' Ward Cutler 

 (Zoology) ; Secretaries : Dr. Wm. B. Brierley (General 

 and Botanical), Dr. J. Waterston (Zoology) ; Council : 

 Prof. V. H. Blackman. Dr. G. A. K. Marshall, Dr. 

 S. A. Neave, Dr. W. Lawrence Balls, Mr. F. T. 

 Brooks, Dr. E. J. Butler, Dr. E. J. Russell, Prof. J. 

 Percival, Dr. W. F. Bewley, Mr. A. W. Bacot, Dr. J. 

 W. Munro, Mr. A. B. Bruce. 



On Thursday, March 16, Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell 

 will begin a course of two lectures at the Royal 

 Institution on " The Cinema as a Zoological Method." 

 The Friday evening discourse on March 17 will be 

 delivered by Prof. A. P. Laurie on " The Pigments 

 and Mediums of Old Masters," and on March 24 by 

 Prof. F. G. Donnan on " AuxiUary International 

 Languages." 



