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[November ii, 1915 



of the late Prof. Story-Maskelyne, F.R.S., of 

 Basset Down, Swindon. They have one son, 

 Nevil, who, after doing- duty in the Secretary's 

 Department of the War Office shortly after the 

 outbreak of the war, is now on active service. 



T. E. Thorpe. 



We regret to learn that Dr. Theodor Boveri, pro- 

 fessor of zoology and comparative anatomy in the 

 University of Wiirzburg, died there, after a long illness, 

 on October 15, at fifty-three years of age. 



The death occurred on November 5, at sixty-three 

 years of age, of Mr. J. Sinclair, editor of the hive 

 Stock Journal and the Agricultural Gazette, and 

 author and editor of many standard works on stock- 

 breeding and agriculture. 



We learn from Science that Prof. Augustus J. Du 

 Bois, for thirty years professor of civil engineering 

 in the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, died 

 on October 19, at the age of sixty-six years ; and that 

 the Rev. C. M. Charroppin, S.J., formerly head of the 

 department of science of St. Louis University, died 

 on October 17. 



The following have been elected officers of the Cam- 

 bridge Philosophical Society for the ensuing session, 

 1915-16 -.—President : Prof. Newall. Vice-Presidents : 

 Dr. Shipley, Dr. Fenton, Prof. Eddington. Treasurer : 

 Prof. Hobson. Secretaries : Mr. A. W^ood, Dr. Arber, 

 Mr. G. H. Hardy. New Members of the Council : 

 Dr. Bromwich, Dr. Doncaster, Mr. C. G. Lamb, Dr. 

 Marr, Mr. J. E. Purvis. 



At the annual meeting of the Faraday Society on 

 October 19 the following officers and members of 

 council were elected to serve for the year 19 15-16 : — 

 President : Sir Robert Hadfield. Vice-Presidents : 

 Prof. K. Birkeland, Bertram Blount, W. R. Bousfield, 

 K.C., Prof. F. G. Donnan, Dr. Eugene Haanel, Prof. 

 A. K. Huntington, Dr. T. M. Lowry. Treasurer : 

 Dr. F. Mollwo Perkin. Council : W. R. Cooper, Dr. 

 C. H. Desch, Dr. J. A. Harker, Emil Hatschek, 

 Cosmo Johns, Prof. A. W. Porter, E. H. Rayner, A. 

 Gordon Salamon, Dr. G. Senter, Cav. Magg. E. 

 Stassano. 



A FURTHER appeal is made for the presentation or 

 loan of telescopes for use with the batteries at the 

 Front. Large telescopes on. stands, deer-stalking tele- 

 scopes, good pocket telescopes — in short, any type ex- 

 cept toys are acceptable. Astronomical eye-pieces, etc., 

 not wanted on service, are removed before issuing and 

 marked with a number identical with that engraved 

 on the telescope. Offers or instruments should be sent 

 to the secretary, Lady Roberts's Field Glass Fund, 

 National Service League, 72 Victoria Street, S.W. 



It has been found necessary to make certain altera- 

 tions in the arrangements originally made for the 

 London meetings of the Institution of Electrical 

 Engineers. The revised programme for the immediate 

 future is : — November 18, the inaugural address of 

 the president, Mr. C. P. Sparks; November 25, "Some 

 NO. 2402, VOL. 96] 



Difficulties of Design of High-speed Generators," by 

 Prof. A. B. Field; December 16, "The Design of 

 High-pressure Distributing Systems," by J. R. Beard; 

 January 13, "The Predetermination of the Perform- 

 ance of Dynamo-Electric Machinery," by Prof. Miles. 

 Walker; January 20, "The Possibilities in the Design 

 of Continuous-current Traction Motors," by N. W. 

 Storer. 



The President of the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries has appointed a Departmental Committee 

 to make arrangements with a view to the mainten- 

 ance, so far as possible, of adequate supplies of fer- 

 tilisers for the use of farmers in the United Kingdom. 

 The Committee is constituted as follows : — The Right 

 Hon. F. D. Acland, Parliamentary Secretary to the 

 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (chairman); Mi-. 

 R. H. Rew, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries; Mr. 

 T. H. Middleton, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries; 

 Mr. G. J. Stanley, Board of Trade; Mr. J. Dundas 

 White, Scottish Office; Mr. H. Ross Skinner, Minis 

 try of Munitions; Mr. E. J. Foley, Admiralty; Mr. 

 R. J. Thompson, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. 

 The secretary of the Committee is Mr. H. D. Vigor, 

 3 St. James's Square, London, S.W. 



The death is announced of Dr. Gaston Vasseur, 

 professor of geology in the University of Marseilles, 

 at the age of sixty years. His early works on the 

 Tertiary formations of the Paris basin and the west 

 of France placed him in the first rank of French strati- 

 graphical geologists, and for many years he was em- 

 ployed by the Geological Survey of France in prepar- 

 ing the detailed map of the south-western area, which 

 he had the satisfaction of completing. He also pub- 

 lished as an independent work an important geological 

 map of the whole of France. During the progress of 

 his researches in the field he amassed a great collection 

 of fossils, now in the museum of Marseilles, where it 

 still awaits detailed study and description. 



The death is announced of Dr. C. J. Bouchard, 

 professor of pathology in the University of Paris. 

 Born in 1837, Prof. Bouchard received the early part 

 of his medical education at the Lyons Medical School 

 before entering the faculty of medicine of the Univer- 

 sity of Paris, where he graduated in 1866. He was 

 appointed professor of pathology in the University of 

 Paris in 1873, afterwards acting as dean of the faculty 

 of medicine. In 1887 he became a member of the 

 Institut, and later an officer of the Legion of Honour 

 and president of the Academy of Sciences. He laboured 

 devotedly for more than fifty years at clinical medicine 

 and general pathology, conducting research work which 

 in many directions materially influenced the course of 

 practical therapeutics. He worked upon ptomaine 

 poisoning and autointoxication, on the functions of the 

 leucocytes, on the pathology, of nutrition, on the bac- 

 tericidal power of the blood, immunisation and vac- 

 cination, on radiology, and on many of the problems of 

 tuberculosis. He published several works, including a 

 justly popular text-book of pathology. He took a con- 

 siderable part in bringing about friendly relations be- 

 tween French and British doctors, and was chairman 

 of the committee which organised the visit of British 



