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NATURE 



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lirmed. The college organisation for modern lan- 

 guages, literatures, and national histories, which 

 'lest commemorates him, was conceived and 

 tunded just in time for the war, which so fully 

 ■ iidorsed his foresight and amplified his oppor- 

 tunities, less perhaps among the Romance lan- 

 guages than in the Slavonic and modern Greek 

 departments which lay nearest to his personal 

 interests. Knowing as intimately as he did the 

 problems and the possibilities of the city-state 

 world of ancient Greece, he was able in an excep- 

 tional way to interpret here the ideals, no less than 

 the failures, of the Balkan peoples, whom he 

 understood and impressed like the naughtier boys 

 in his settlement clubs. Honours conferred by the 

 Greek and Serbian Governments, and the close 

 personal relations which he maintained with 

 leaders such as M. Venizelos and President 

 Masaryk — the latter one of his professors until his 

 own country claimed him — are testimony enough 

 on this side, and he just lived to see in the act of 

 realisation much for which he had long striven. 

 Such a man would not spare himself, and he would 

 lavish help and encouragement along the whole 

 breadth of his interests at times when only the 

 greatest prudence could have preserved his health ; 

 but so he loved to live. 



We regret to announce the death in London on 

 May 6 of Dr. J. Hamilton Fullarton, so long 

 associated with scientific fishery research in Scot- 

 land. Dr. Fullarton was born at Brodick, Arran, 

 in 1856. He had a distinguished career as a 

 student at Glasgow University, taking many 

 prizes and bursaries, and graduated M.A., with 

 the highest honours in natural science, in 1881, 

 and D.Sc, ten years later. After acting for some 

 years as assistant to the professor of natural 

 history in his alma, tnater. Dr. Fullarton entered 

 the service of the Fishery Board for Scotland as 

 a naturalist on the scientific staff in 1889, a post 

 which he held for eight years. On quitting the 

 Fishery Board service, Dr. Fullarton studied medi- 

 cine with a view to a medical career, and re- 

 ceived the qualifications of L.R.C.P. and 

 L.R.C.S.(Edin.). After serving for a short 

 period as medical ofilicer on an Atlantic 

 liner, he settled in London as a consultant, 

 and gradually built up a considerable prac- 

 tice. Prior to this, on the initiation of the 

 international fishery investigations, Dr. Fullarton 

 re-entered the service of the Fishery Board, and 

 did valuable work for a year in the supervision 

 of the scientific investigations on board the re- 

 search steamer Goldseeker. It is as an expert 

 on fisheries that he will be chiefly remembered in 

 scientific circles. He devoted himself in particular 

 to the study of shellfish, such as the common edible 

 mussel, the oyster, the cockle, and the "clam," 

 and wrote numerous papers on their cultivation 

 and natural history. In connection with this 

 branch of his fishery work Dr. Fullarton on more 

 than one occasion visited the districts in France 

 and Holland where oyster-culture and mussel- 

 culture are principally carried on. He also made 

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a useful series of researches on the breeding and 

 development of the European lobster. 



The death is announced at Copenhagen of the 

 well-known Danish philologist. Prof. L. F. A. 

 WiMMER, at eighty-one years of age. Prof. 

 VVimmer was the author of an important book 

 on the Runic alphabet, " Runeskriftens oprindelse 

 og udvikling i Norden," published in 1874, in 

 which he suggested that the Runes were really 

 Latin letters adapted for carving in wood, and 

 of four volumes on Runic inscriptions in Den- 

 mark. In several of the Sagas it is recorded that 

 Runes were inscribed on round pieces of wood, 

 called Kefli, or Runic sticks. It has been sug- 

 gested that the Eddas were recorded in this way, 

 but the evidence is not quite satisfactory. 



The bearer of a name highly esteemed in 

 botanical circles has just passed away in the person 

 of AuGUSTiN PvRAMUS De Candolle, who died at 

 Vallon, near Geneva, on May 9, at the age of 

 fifty-one, surviving his father only eighteen 

 months. The family is of French origin, but for 

 four generations it has been settled at Geneva, 

 adopting the local fashion of employing a capital 

 letter for De. Born in England in 1869, the late 

 botanist visited our shores on many occasions ; 

 in 1889 he came to London to receive the Linnean 

 gold medal awarded to his grandfather by the 

 Linnean Society of London, and in 1904 he 

 attended the British Association meeting at Cam- 

 bridge. He published but little, only about a 

 dozen short memoirs on systematic descriptions 

 of new plants from Madagascar and Tonquin, on 

 parthenogenesis, and on the influence of electricity 

 on the germination of seeds. He filled the office of 

 president of the Societe Botanique de Geneve in 

 1905. The brilliancy of the line was shown in the 

 great-grandfather, A. P. De Candolle (1778-1841); 

 grandfather, Alphonse De Candolle (1806-93); 

 and father, Casimir De Candolle (1836-1918). 



By the death, on February 27, of Alfred J. 

 Moses, professor of mineralogy at Columbia Uni- 

 versity, the science of mineralogy has lost (says 

 "H. P. W." in Science) one of its most eminent 

 and valued exponents. Prof. Moses's work as a 

 teacher, as a writer, and as a scientific investi- 

 gator can scarcely be too highly esteemed, and his 

 loss to all branches of his profession is most 

 keenly felt. His text-book on "Mineralogy, 

 Crystallography, and Blowpipe Analysis " will for 

 many years remain the standard in a large 

 majority of the universities in which courses in 

 these subjects are given. His work on "The 

 Characters of Crystals," published in 1899, is the 

 first treatise published in America upon physical 

 crystallography, a branch of crystallography which 

 was early recognised by him as of primary import- 

 ance to chemists, geologists, and mineralogists, 

 arid has within very recent years assumed a 

 scope and developed practical applications which 

 have more than justified his early visions of its 

 future. 



