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NATURE 



[May 6, 1922 



adjuncts which X-rays and radium were to prove in 

 the treatment of malignant disease. At the Middlesex 

 Hospital he acted for a number of years as chairman 

 of the Cancer Investigation Committee, and thus held a 

 watching brief for any new remedial agent hkely to 

 prove of benefit in the treatment of cancer. He was 

 an excellent teacher and did not spare himself in the 



many services which he was asked to undertake. He 

 was at some time president of the clinical section of 

 the Royal Society of Medicine, of the Medical Society 

 of London, and of the Rontgen Society. Throughout 

 the period of the war he acted as Officer-in-Charge of 

 the Surgical Division of the 3rd London General 

 Hospital at Wandsworth. 



Current Topics and Events. 



Dr. E. H. Griffiths, the General Treasurer of 

 the British Association, informs us that Sir Charles 

 Parsons has conveyed to the Trustees of the Associa- 

 tion a gift of ten thousand pounds 5 per cent. War 

 Loan Stock, which he has placed unreservedly at the 

 disposal of the Council. This generous gift comes at 

 a very opportune time, as the finances of the Associa- 

 tion have suffered depletion during the past seven 

 years, and there was a danger that the activities 

 of an association which has rendered such notable 

 services to science in the past might suffer restric- 

 tion. It is interesting to note that the total sum 

 granted in aid of research by the Association, since 

 its foundation in 1831, exceeds 83,000^. 



The Mount Everest Expedition, with the exception 

 of Messrs. Finch and Crawford, who are delayed by 

 the transport of the oxygen apparatus, arrived at 

 Khampa Dzong on April 11. General Bruce's 

 despatch to the Times describes the march from 

 Phari Dzong. Considerable difficulty was experienced 

 in obtaining a sufficiency of transport animals. The 

 Tibetan authorities did their best, but owing to the 

 earUness of the season many of the animals were in 

 very poor condition. The expedition travelled in 

 two divisions and found the march very trying. 

 On the Dongka pass, where ridges of 17,000 ft. had 

 to be crossed, low temperatures were experienced, 

 but fortunately the bUzzard experienced on the 

 previous day had ceased. All members of the 

 expedition are in good health, the trying experiences 

 having affected neither the white men nor the hilknen. 



The Bessemer Gold Medal of the Iron and Steel 

 Institute for the year 1921 has been awarded to Mr. 

 Charles Fremont, in recognition of his services in 

 the advancement of the metallurgy of iron and steel 

 and the technology of the testing materials. The 

 following grants from the Andrew Carnegie Research 

 Fund were made during the year by the council of 

 the Institute : 100/. to Dr. L. Aitchison. Birmingham, 

 for the investigation of the low apparent elastic limit 

 in quenched and work-hardened steels, with particular 

 reference to fatigue strength, proof stress, and con- 

 stitution ; 100/. to Prof. C. O. Bannister and Mr. A. 

 E. Findley, Liverpool, for the investigation of the 

 mechanical properties and heat treatment of very 

 low carbon high chromium steels ; 100/. to Mr. F. C. 

 Langenberg, of Watertown Arsenal, United States, 

 for research on impact testing ; and 50/. to Mr. J. N. 

 NO. 2740, VOL. 109] 



Greenwood, Sheffield, for research in optical data of 

 steels and steel -making materials necessary for 

 correcting temperature measurements of molten steel 

 taken with an optical pyrometer. 



The Third Hurter and Drif&eld Memorial lecture of 

 the Royal Photographic Society is to be delivered at 

 the Royal Society of Arts, at 8 o'clock, on Tuesday, 

 May 9, by Prof. The. Svedberg, who will take as his 

 subject " The Interpretation of Light Sensitivity in 

 Photography." 



At the annual general meeting of the Manchester 

 Literary and Philosophical Society held on April 25, 

 the following officers and members of council were 

 elected : — President : Mr. T. A. Coward ; Vice- 

 Presidents : Sir Henry A. Miers, Mr. W. Henry Todd, 

 Prof. Arthur Lapworth, and Mr. C. E. Stromeyer ; 

 Hon. Secretaries : Dr. H. F. Coward and Prof. T. H. 

 Pear ; Hon. Treasurer : Mr. R. H. Clayton ; Hon. 

 Librarians : Mr. C. L. Barnes and Dr. Wilfrid Robin- 

 son ; Hon. Curator : Prof. W. W. Haldane Gee ; 

 Members of Council : Dr. W. M. Tattersall, Prof. F. E. 

 Weiss, Mr. Francis Jones, Miss Laura Start, Prof. S. 

 Chapman, Prof. W. L. Bragg, the Rev. A. L. Cortie, 

 Mr. R. L. Taylor, and Mr. William Thomson. 



A PROVISIONAL programme has been issued of the 

 annual general meeting of the Society of Chemical 

 Industry to be held in Glasgow on July 4-XI next. 

 On the first day of the meeting, formal business wU\ 

 be discussed and Dr. R. F. Ruttan will deliver his 

 presidential address. During the morning of July 5, 

 Prof. H. E. Armstrong will give the Messel Memorial 

 lecture, while on the following day a novel feature 

 will be introduced in the form of a demonstration 

 of kinematograph films showing the manufacture 

 of rubber, the production of sulphur, and the prepara- 

 tion of paper from wood. The Chemical Engineering 

 Group of the Society will hold two sessions on July 6, 

 at which papers on the design of ammoniacal liquor 

 stills, tar and glycerine distillation, and the general 

 problem of evaporation will be read. Visits to 

 various works, among which are the Nobel Industries, 

 Ltd., and several excursions, will occupy the remaining 

 portions of the meeting. 



At the fifth annual general meeting of the Society 

 of Glass Technology held on April 26, Prof. W. E. S. 

 Turner was elected president. In his presidential 

 address entitled " The British Glass Industry : its 



