July 29, 1920] 



NATURE 



697 



position in the world ; it is of the utmost value to all 

 workers in tropical medicine, and its success is due 

 to the tireless devotion of its editor. 



Dr. Andrew Balfour, C.B., C.M.G., director-in- 

 chief of the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research, 

 London. Dr. Balfour was director of the Wellcome 

 Tropical Research Laboratories, Khartum, from 

 1902-13. His knowledge of the theory and practice 

 of tropical sanitation is unsurpassed. His intellectual 

 Activities also overflow into literary channels, and he 

 is known as the author of novels and tales of 

 adventure. 



Prof. R. T. Leiper, helminthologist to the London 

 School of Tropical Medicine since 1905. Prof. Leiper 

 has established a world-wide reputation for his know- 

 ledge of those parasitic worms that affect man, more 

 especially in tropical lands. His recent elucidation of 

 the part played by fresh-water snails in the transmis- 

 sion of the Bilharzia disease of Egypt is of the greatest 

 scientific and economic importance. 



Major E. E. Austin, D.S.O., assistant in the 

 British Museum (Natural Historv). Author of 

 numerous monographs on flies. " Especially well 

 known to students of tropical medicine for his mono- 

 graph on the tsetse-flies. 



Dr. a. L. Guillaume Broden, director of the State 

 School of Tropical Medicine, Brussels. Formerly 

 director of the Bacteriological Laboratory at Leopold- 

 ville, Belgian Congo. Has published numerous works 

 on trypanosome diseases of man and domestic stock. 



Mrs. Albert Chalmers, in recognition of the work 

 of the late Dr. A. J. Chalmers, who succeeded Dr. 

 Balfour as director of the Wellcome Tropical Research 

 Laboratories, Khartum. Dr. Chalmers was joint 

 author with Dr. Castellani of a most comprehensive 

 text-book of tropical medicine. 



Prof. B. Grassi, professor of comparative anatomv, 

 University of Rome. Distinguished as a zoologist. 

 Played a leading part in Italy in demonstrating the 

 transmission of malaria by Anopheline mosquitoes. 



Dr. F. Mesml, professor at the Institut Pasteur, 

 Paris. Joint author with Prof. Laveran of the 

 standard work on trypanosomiasis. 



Dr. Edmond Sergent, director of the Institut 

 Pasteur, Algeria. Dr. Sergent is the elder of two 

 brothers greatly distinguished for their researches in 

 tropical medicine. 



Dr. C. W. Stiles, professor of zoology. United 

 States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service ; 

 scientific secretary of the Rockefeller Sanitary Com- 

 mission for the Eradication of Hookworm Disease — a 

 disease which was responsible for widespread mental 

 and physical deterioration in the Southern States of 

 America. 



Dr. T. Zammit, who made a fundamental observa- 

 tion which led to the discovery that goat's milk was 

 the source from which man contracted undulant fever. 

 His archaeological researches on the megalithic 

 remains of Malta are well known, and the University 

 of Oxford has recently shown its appreciation of his 

 work bv conferring on him an honorary degree. 



.■\fter the ceremony the laboratories were inspected 

 by the large, distinguished gathering of scientific and 

 influential people, and general admiration was ex- 

 pressed for the completeness of the building and its 

 equipment. The well-furnished library and the 

 museum, which already contains many interesting 

 exhibits, attracted considerable notice, while the 

 lighting and spaciousness of the main laboratory were 

 also much commended. 



The occasion was marked by the issue of an 

 interesting illustrated "Historical Record," tracing 

 the progress of the .School from its foundation in 

 1898 to the present time. 



NO. 2648, VOL. 105] 



At a banquet held in the evening Sir Francis 

 Danson appealed for a sum of 100,000?. to meet the 

 increased cost of maintenance of the Liverpool Labora- 

 tories and of the new Sir Alfred Jones Tropical 

 Laboratory, now in course of erection at Sierra 

 Leone. Sir Francis Danson himself contributed to 

 the fund a sum of 1000/., in memory of his son who 

 fell in the war. 



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Central Headquarters for British Chemists- 



T a dinner held in honour of Lord Moulton on 

 July 21, Sir William Pope announced that a 

 public appeal was about to be made for funds for 

 the erection of central headquarters for British 

 chemistry. None of the chemical bodies has the 

 accommodation for a meeting of more than two 

 hundred persons, or adequate library space. The 

 Chemical Society conducts its business at Burlington 

 House, Piccadilly, in rooms provided by the Govern- 

 ment nearly fifty years ago, when the membership 

 was about one-fifth of what it is to-day. The Insti- 

 tute of Chemistry possesses a good building in Russell 

 Square, completed during the first year of the war, 

 but it is barely adequate for the present activities of 

 the institute, which has to look to colleges for hos- 

 pitality for any general meeting of unusual interest 

 and for lectures. The Society of Chemical Industry 

 and the Society of Public Analysts hold their meetings 

 at the Chemical Society's rooms. Neither of these bodies 

 nor any other which is concerned with chemistry, such 

 as the British Association of Chemical Manufacturers, 

 the Faraday Society, the Biochemical Society, and 

 those devoted to the various branches of technology — 

 brewing, dyes, glass, ceramics, iron and steel, n'on- 

 ferrous metals, leather, concrete, petroleum, and so 

 forth — possesses accommodation to compare with the 

 spacious halls and headquarters of the Institutions 

 of the Civil, the Mechanical, and the Electrical 

 Engineers, and of the Royal Society of Medicine. 



The appeal, which will be made by the Federal 

 Council for Pure and Applied Chemistry, on which 

 practically all the chemical interests of the country 

 are represented, has the cordial support of Lord 

 Moulton, who, as Director-General of Explosives 

 Supplies, Ministry of Munitions, repeatedly acknow- 

 ledged the services rendered during the war by these 

 scientific, technical, and industrial bodies. 



The scheme, which aims at providing under one 

 roof, so far as is practicable, a common meeting- 

 place, librar\', and editorial facilities for technical 

 journals, is highly desirable, and indeed imperative, 

 as a matter of supreme importance to the welfare of 

 the whole country in relation to questions of defence 

 and the maintenance and development of all branches 

 of industry and commerce which depend on the 

 applications of chemistry. The sum required for 

 building is estimated at 250,000/. : a similar sum is 

 required for establishing a chemical library and to 

 provide for the compilation and production of works- 

 of reference in the English language. 



University and Educational Intelligence. 



Leeds. — Owing to the unavoidable growth of the 

 expenditure necessary for the maintenance of the 

 efficiency of its work, the council has come to the 

 conclusion that an increase must be made in the 

 scale of fees charged to students for tuition and 

 examination. The increase has been kept as low as 

 possible, in no case being more than about 173 per 

 cent. 



