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NATURE 



[February 25, 1915 



years ago it occupied a very conspicuous position, 

 and Auwers's work on the German share in the 

 complete investigation exhibits at least all that 

 could be derived from the process. Of still earlier 

 date, and of unquestioned excellence and success, 

 were his discussions of the variable proper 

 motion of Sirius and Procyon. How brilliantly 

 his location of the position of the unsuspected 

 satellites was justified, is well known. 



It would be impossible to do justice in a short 

 notice to talents so varied and to an industry so 

 active as Auwers exhibited throughout a long 

 career, but it may be permitted to say that, not- 

 withstanding the bitter estrangement that separ- 

 ates us from German thought and German 

 ambitions, every English astronomer would be 

 willing to lay a tribute of respect on the grave 

 of Arthur Auwers. W. E. P. 



NOTES. 



Sir Anthony A. Bowlby has been chosen Bradshaw 

 lecturer of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 

 for the ensuing year. 



It is announced in Science that Prof. R. H. 

 Richards, professor emeritus in the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, has been awarded the gold 

 medal of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of 

 America in recognition of his services in the advance- 

 ment of the art of ore dressing. 



At the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society 

 on Monday, February 22, Dr. Page, the American 

 Ambassador, presented to Dr. Scott Keltic, secretary 

 of the Royal Geographical Society, the Cullum gold 

 medal for long and eminent service to geography, 

 awarded by the American Geographical Society. 



The gold medal of the Institution of Mining and 

 Metallurgy — the "blue ribbon " of the profession — has 

 been awarded to a distinguished Canadian, Dr. Willet 

 G. Miller, provincial geologist of Ontario, in recog- 

 nition of the eminent services rendered to mining by 

 his admirable work as an economic geologist. 



The officers of the Royal Astronomical Society 

 elected at the annual meeting on February 12 were 

 as follows : — President, Prof. R. A. Sampson ; Vice- 

 Presidents, Dr. J. W. L. Glaisher, Major E. H. Hills, 

 Dr. W. H. Maw, and Prof. H. H. Turner; Treasurer, 

 Mr. E. B. Knobel ; Secretaries, Prof. A. S. Eddington 

 and Prof. A. Fowler ; Foreign Secretary, Prof. Arthur 

 Schuster. 



Prince B. Galitzin has been elected an honorary 

 fellow of the Physical Society. The following is the 

 list of officers of the society elected for the ensuing 

 year : — President, Sir J. J. Thomson. Secretaries, Dr. 

 S. W. J. Smith (Royal College of Science, S.W.), 

 and Dr. W. Eccles (University College, Gower Street, 

 W.C.). Foreign Secretary, Dr. R. T. Glazebrook. 

 Treasurer, W. Duddell. Librarian, Dr. S. W. J. 

 Smith. 



At the annual general meeting of the Geological 

 Societv, held on February 19, the following officers 

 were elected : — President, Dr. A. Smith Woodward ; 

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Vice-Presidents, Dr. H H. Bemrose, Mr. Clement 

 Reid, Dr. A. Strahan, and the Rev. H. H. Winwood'; 

 Secretaries, Dr. H. H. Thomas and Dr. H. Lapworth; 

 Foreign Secretary, Sir Archibald Geikie, O.M., 

 K.C.B. \Treasurer, Mr. B. McNeill. The president's 

 address delivered at the meeting dealt with the evolu- 

 tion of the fishes in geological time. 



The virtual German monopoly in the manufacture 

 of dye-wares is a matter of national concern in other 

 countries as well as in Britain. It is announced that 

 arrangements have been made by the Benzol Products 

 Company of Philadelphia to commence dye manufac- 

 turing on a large scale in about six months' time. A 

 new company, styled the " Russian Society of Chem- 

 ical Industry," has also been formed in Moscow 

 to manufacture dyes for the sixty large consumers in 

 that district. 



On Tuesday next, March 2, Prof. W. J. Pope will 

 begin a course of two lectures at the Royal Institu- 

 tion on colour photography (scientific applications) : 

 (i) " Photographic Appreciation of Colour in Mono- 

 chrome " ; (2) " Photography In Natural Colours " ; and 

 on Thursday, March 4, Sir Herbert Warren will begin 

 a course of two lectures on poetry and war. The 

 Friday evening discourse on March 5 will be delivered 

 by Prof. E. B. Poulton on mimicry and butterflies, 

 and on March 12 by Sir Rickman J. Godlee on back 

 to Lister. 



News has been received of the arrival at Khartum 

 of Dr. C. Christy, who has been engaged during the 

 past three years on a zoological mission In the Belgian 

 Congo undertaken officially on behalf of the museum 

 at Tervueren. We hear that he has made very large 

 collections of the animals of the Ituri forest and other 

 regions of the Congo traversed by him, though it is 

 difficult to say what is to become of the specimens 

 under the conditions existing In Brussels. Dr. Christy 

 was fortunate in shooting two okapi, thus joining 

 the very small band (not more than three or four) of 

 white men who have shot an okapi. Nearly all the 

 specimens now In Europe were killed by natives. Dr. 

 Christy's bag also Included several specimens of 

 Melnertzhagen's great black forest pig and many of 

 the dwarf Ituri buffalo. 



Science announces the following deaths of men 

 known in the scientific world :— Dr. Anthony Wood- 

 ward, at one time assistant in the department of 

 geology and for thirty-seven years librarian of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, New York 

 City; M. Alfred Tournier, formerly professor of viti- 

 culture at the University of California and later con- 

 nected with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who 

 was killed on December 12 in the war; Dr. C. F. 

 Brackett, professor emeritus of physics in Princeton 

 University, in his eighty-second year; Dr. Bl Sharp, 

 formerly corresponding secretary of the Philadelphia 

 Academv of Natural Sciences and professor of in- 

 vertebrate zoology there and in the University of 

 Pennsylvania, aged fifty-six years. 



We regret to announce that among the victims of 

 the war must be numbered M. Joseph Dechelette, 



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