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NATURE 



[March ii, 192a 



demand the services and judij;i 

 women. 



iL of qualified medical 



The twenty-sixth James Forrest lecture will be 

 delivered at the Institution of Civil Engineers on 

 Tuesday, April 20, at 5.30 p.m., by Sir Dugald Clerk, 

 K.B.E., F.R.S., upon the subject of "Fuel Con- 

 servation in the United Kingdom." 



Prof. A. Fowler, professor of astrophysics, 

 Imperial College of Science and Technology, South 

 Kensington, and president of the Royal Astronomical 

 Society, has been elected a corresponding member of 

 the Paris Academy of Sciences, in the section of 

 astronomy, in succession to the late Prof. E. Weiss, 

 of Vienna. 



Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner has, at the request of 

 the Deputy-Minister of Fisheries, undertaken tem- 

 porarily the direction of the scientific work of the 

 Fisheries Department of the Ministry of Agriculture 

 and Fisheries. Prof. Gardiner's particular duty will 

 be to restart fishery investigations, which have neces- 

 sarily been in abeyance during the war. 



The Faraday Society has arranged a general dis- 

 cussion on " Basic Slags : Their Production and 

 Utilisation in Agricultural and other Industries," to 

 be held on Tuesday, March 23, from 7.30 to 10.30, 

 in the rooms of the Chemical Society, Burlington 

 House, London, W.i. Prof. F. G. Donnan, vice- 

 president, will preside over the discussion, and there 

 will be papers by Dr. E. J. Russell. Prof. C. H. Desch, 

 Sir T. H. Middleton, Sir Daniel Hall, Prof. D. A. 

 Gilchrist, and others. 



The U.S. National Research Council has received 

 a gift from the Southern Pine Association of 

 10,000 dollars to meet the incidental expenses of 

 a co-ordinated scientific study by a number of inves- 

 tigators of the regrowth of trees on cut-over forest- 

 lands, with the view of determining the best forestry 

 ► methods for obtaining the highest productivity. The 

 investigation will be conducted under the advice of 

 the Research Council's special committee on forestry, 

 and will not duplicate any present Government or 

 other undertakings along similar lines. 



It was announced at the ordinary scientific meeting 

 of the Chemical Society on March 4 that the fol- 

 lowing had been proposed for election as honorary 

 and foreign members, and that a ballot for their 

 election would be held on March 18 : W. D.' Ban- 

 croft, V. Grignard, H. Kamerlingh Onnes, E. Paterno, 

 P. Sabatier, J. B. Senderens, S. P. L. Sorensen, and 

 G. Urbain. The annual general meeting of the society 

 will be held at Burlington House on Thursday, 

 March 25, at 5 p.m., to receive the address of the 

 president. Sir James J. Dobbie, and to elect the 

 officers and council for the ensuing year. 



The following officers and council of the Geological 

 Society have been elected for the ensuing year : — 

 President : R. D. Oldham. Vice-Presidents : Prof.. 

 E. J. Garwood, G. W. Lamplugh, Col. H. G. Lyons, 

 and Prof. J. E. Marr. Secretaries: Dr. H. H.Thomas 

 and Dr. H. Lapworth. Foreign Secretary: Sir Archi- 

 bald Geikie. Treasurer: Dr. J. V. Elsden. Other 

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Members of Council : Dr. F. A. Bather, Prof. W. S^ 

 Boulton, R. G. Carruthers, Dr. A. M. Davies, 

 J. F. N. Green, R. S. Herries, J. Allen Howe, Prof. 

 O. T. Jones, Prof. P. F. Kendall, W. B. R. King, 

 Dr. G. T. Prior, W. C. Smith, Prof. H. H. Swinner- 

 ton, and Prof. W. W. Watts. 



The first of the Chadwick public lectures on mili- 

 tary hygiene was delivered by Gen. Sir John Goodwin,. 

 Director, Army Medical Service, on March 8 at the 

 Royal Society of Arts, the subject being "Army 

 Hygiene Prior to the Recent War." The lecturer 

 dealt with the history of hygiene from the earliest 

 times up to the period immediately preceding the war. 

 The ravages wrought by disease during the various 

 campaigns of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 

 and their effects upon the armies in the field were 

 detailed, and emphasis was laid on the lessons gained 

 during the South African War in the prevention of 

 disease. The various measures that have been 

 elaborated to improve the health of the Army wore 

 outlined, and stress was laid on the good results 

 accruing from education in hygiene of the Army as a 

 whole. In India, during the years 1878-82, the 

 number constantly sick among the European troops 

 was 681 per 1000, with a mortality of 20-5; in 1912 

 the corresponding figures were 28-8 and 46 respec- 

 tively. Immediately preceding the lecture Chadwick 

 gold medals and prizes were presented to Surg.-Comdr.. 

 Edward L. Atkinson, R.N., and Brig.-Gen. W. W. O. 

 Beveridge, A. M.S., for services in promoting the 

 health of the men of the Navy and Army. 



We are authorised to announce that H.R.H. the 

 Prince of Wales has been graciously pleased to become 

 the patron of the new British School of Archaeology 

 in Jerusalem, referred to in Nature of December i8' 

 last (p. 398). The school has been formed for the 

 study of the wide and important field of archEeologicat 

 research which has now been opened up in Palestine 

 and the surrounding districts. The director, Prof. J. 

 Garstang, of the University of Liverpool, is shortly 

 proceeding to Palestine to complete the organisation' 

 of the school. As soon as the political destiny of 

 Palestine has been fixed and a mandate formally 

 assigned, it is hoped that a department of antiquities 

 will be formed, under which the school looks forward 

 to collaborating with the Palestine Exploration Fund 

 in the excavation of an important site which has 

 already been provisionally selected. Anyone who is 

 interested in the school is invited to communicate 

 with the secretary at 2 H'mde Street, Manchester 

 Square, W. i. 



The Natural History Museum Staff Association 

 opened its series of scientific reunions for the current 

 year by holding a double reunion on March 2 and 3. 

 .\t the first most of the members of the International 

 Council for the Exploration of the Sea were present, 

 and the exhibits arranged in the board-room included 

 many specimens — some being classical type-specimens — 

 collected during the voyage of the Challenger. At the 

 second reunion other exhibits were added, so that the 

 whole series was of wide interest, and there was an 

 attendance of nearlv fiftv visitors, amongst whom may 



