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in metallurgy, and began that long association with 

 Dr. Arnold in the development of the University as 

 a centre of metallurgical education and research. 

 Besides the work of training chemists and managers for 

 the steel industry of the city, the two collaborators 

 published numerous papers containing important 

 contributions to metallurgy, and were always ready 

 to assist local manufacturers by advice, by con- 

 ducting special investigations, and when necessary 

 by defending their patent rights against attacks. 



In 191 1 Dr. McWilliam left for India to become 

 government inspector of steels in that country, and held 

 that responsible position for six years. He then 

 entered the Tata Iron and Steel works and for a year 

 did excellent service in the technical reorganisation 

 of the steel departments. On his return to Sheffield 

 he took up a consulting practice, for which he was 

 peculiarly qualified from his intimate knowledge of 

 the manufacture and properties of steels of high quahty. 

 As an active member of technical societies, he could 

 always be counted on to illuminate a discussion by 

 drawing on his stores of experience and by his shrewd 

 criticism and ready wit. His good literary style is 

 seen to advantage in the well-known work " Modern 

 Foundry Practice," which he wrote in collaboration 

 with Dr. Longmuir. Of fine presence and genial 

 manner, he was a popular figure in the city of his 

 adoption, and enjoyed the esteem and affection of his 

 friends and colleagues, among whom were so many 

 who owed to him a part of their metallurgical training. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal of the 

 death on March 26 of Dr. W. Ainslie HoUis at the great 

 age of eighty-two years. Dr. Hollis was educated at 

 Cambridge and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, receiving 



his M.D. in 187 1. He was elected a Fellow of the 

 Royal College of Physicians of London in 1876. Most 

 of his life was spent at Brighton, where he set up in 

 private practice; but his activities led him more to 

 literary and scientific pursuits, during the course of 

 which he made a fine collection of British macro- 

 lepidoptera. He was president of the Brighton and 

 Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society and of the Brighton 

 Natural History and Philosophical Society, and in 

 1 913 he served as president on the occasion of the 

 Brighton meeting of the British Medical Association. 

 Dr. Hollis was the author of numerous contributions 

 to medical journals on disseminated fibrosis of the 

 kidney, the duration of life in infective endocarditis, 

 and other topics. 



The death is announced, in his sixty-third year, 

 of Dr. Henry Edgerton Chapin, who was professor 

 of biology in Ohio University from 1891 to 1900. He 

 then removed to New York to teach biology and 

 physiography in the high schools there. He was the 

 author of many scientific monographs, and collaborated 

 in writing Chapin and Rettger's " Elementary Zoology 

 and Guide." 



We much regret to announce the death on April 21, 

 in his seventy-third year, of Sir Alfred Bray Kempe, 

 F.R.S., treasurer of the Royal Society from 1898 to 

 1919. 



We regret to record the death on April 19, at 

 seventy years of age, of Sir Alfred Pearce Gould, 

 K.C.V.O., late vice-chancellor of the University of 

 London, and president of the Medical Society of London 

 and of the Rontgen Society. 



Current Topics 



At the meeting of the London Mathen^atical 

 Society to be held on May ii, at 5 p.m., in the rooms 

 of the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, 

 Prof. G. H. Hardy will deliver a lecture on " The 

 Elements of the Analytic Theory of Numbers." 

 Members of other scientific societies will be welcome. 



The Institute of Physics, of which Sir J. J. 

 Thomson is president, is arranging for the delivery 

 of a course of public lectures with the view of 

 indicating the growing importance and place which 

 physics now holds in industry and manufacture. 

 The first of these lectures was delivered by Prof. 

 A. Barr of Glasgow, on Wednesday, April 26, in the 

 Hall of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 



Rai Bahadur Sarat Chandra Roy is carrying 

 on with a considerable measure of success his new 

 quarterly journal of anthropology, entitled Man in 

 India. The third number contains two important 

 articles by Mr. T. C. Hodson, the author of works 

 on the Nagas and other Assamese tribes, on exogamy 

 in India and free marriage, which merit the attention 

 of anthropologists, besides shorter notes on the 

 Kharwars and Khasis and on Indian palaeoliths. 

 The journal, which is published at Church Road, 

 Ranchi, deserves encouragement. 



NO. 2739, VOL. 109] 



and Events. 



A John Scott medal and certificate, with a premium 

 of 160/., has been awarded by the Board of Directors 

 of City Trusts, United States of America, to each of 

 the following : Dr. William Duane, for " his re- 

 searches in radio-activity and the physics of radium 

 and of X-rays " ; Prof. R. A. Fessenden, for " his 

 invention of a reception scheme for continuous wave 

 telegraphy and telephony " ; Mr. Elwood Haynes, 

 for " his discoveries in connection with stainless 

 steel, stellite, chrome-iron, etc." ; and Dr. T. B. 

 Osborne, for " his researches on the constitution of 

 the vegetable proteins." 



The annual meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute 

 will be held on May 4-5 at the house of the Institution 

 of Civil Engineers. On the first day of the meeting, 

 the new president, Mr. Francis Samuelson, will 

 deliver his presidential address, and the Bessemer 

 Medal will be presented to Prof. Kotaro Honda. 

 The remainder of the meeting will be devoted to 

 the discussion of some thirteen papers by various 

 workers on the constitution, properties, and manu- 

 facture of iron and steel. The annual dinner of the 

 Institute will be held on May 4 at 7.30 p.m. at the 

 Connaught Rooms, Great Queen Street, W.C, and 

 the autumn meeting will be held in London on 

 September 5-7 next. 



