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NATURE 



[May I, 1919 



The Indian Public Works Department has lost a 

 zealous and capable administrator by the death of Mr. 

 George Thomas Barlow, Chief Engineer and Secretary 

 in the Irrigation Branch of the United Provinces 

 Government. Mr. Barlow's connection with irrigation 

 work in northern India had been long and honourable, 

 dating back in unbroken sequence to> the year 1887, 

 when he went out to India after a course of technical 

 training at Coopers Hill, followed by a year of prac- 

 tical engineering work in Scotland. From that time 

 until his death he was continuously engaged on irriga- 

 tion schemes, at first at various posts on the Ganges, 

 and afterwards, from 1901, in Bundelkund, a trans- 

 Jumna tract of the United Provinces, where he was 

 executive engineer on a considerable number of under- 

 takings for ameliorating drought-stricken areas. 

 Under Mr. Barlow's direction many surveys of 

 different localities were made, numerous reservoirs 

 constructed, and large masonry dams and canals 

 brought into existence. He was promoted Super- 

 intending Engineer in 191 1, and received the C.I.E. 

 for his services in 1915. The following year he was 

 app>ointed Secretary to the Government in the Irriga- 

 tion Branch, and so recently as last October he was 

 placed on deputation with Mr. Meares to undertake a 

 systematic hydro-technical survey of the whole country. 

 He was engaged in these researches up to the time 

 of his death. Mr. Barlow was the author of several 

 text-books dealing with irrigation work. 



The death of Mr. A. McHenry, which occurred 

 somewhat suddenly on April 19, removes one of the 

 oldest and most assiduous workers from the field of 

 Irish geology. For more than forty years Mr. 

 McHenry was on the staff of the Geological Survey, 

 and the first mapping of some of the difficult areas in 

 the north-west of Ireland fell to his share. He was 

 always responsive to new discoveries, and was as 

 enthusiastic in the revision of Silurian rocks by their 

 graptolitic zones as in tracing thrust-planes and 

 possible inversions of succession. His warm-hearted 

 and unselfish character has left am enduring memory 

 from days when controversies were not always con- 

 ducted with such marked generosity and considera- 

 tion. The Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Ire- 

 land contain ample evidence of his original observa- 

 tions. In addition, Mr. McHenry was the first to 

 point out how the succession of intrusive igneous 

 rocks in the Mourne Mountains corresponds with the 

 volcanic episodes farther north, and he has left behind 

 him unpublished records which may prove to be of 

 considerable service in the elucidation of the problem 

 of the Dingle series. 



The task imposed on industries by the war was 

 the production in quantity of accurately standardised 

 products. To ensure the successful development of 

 peace-time trade, the high standard of accuracy and 

 quality thus set must be maintained, and this is pos- 

 sible only by the institution in each factory of a 

 system of inspection similar to that in operation 

 during the war. Particulars have reached us of a 

 new organisation, called the Technical Inspection 

 Association, which has been formed recently for this 

 purpose. There are doubtless many private firms 

 which desire to set up a system of inspection in 

 order to ensure interchangeability and uniform quality 

 of these products. Such firms will be interested 

 in the new association. The objects of the asso- 

 ciation are to keep members of the inspection staff 

 of the Ministry of Munitions in close touch with each, 

 other, and to develop generally the progress and 

 standardisation of methods of inspection in engineer- 

 ing, chemical, and allied industries with the view of 

 conserving and co-ordinating the experience gained 



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during the war for national use. The work will thus 

 be of considerable scientific interest as well as indus- 

 trial value. The temporary address of the association 

 is Hotel Metropole, Northumberland Avenue, London^ 

 S.W.I. 



We regret to record the death of Mr. Wilfred James 

 Lineham at Brighton on April 22. Mr. Lineham, who 

 was sixty years of age, was well known as a teacher 

 of engineering and as an author of engineering text- 

 books. He was connected with the Goldsmiths' Col- 

 lege for thirty years, and was formerly on the staff 

 of the Arrnstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne. He 

 took an active pare in the founding of the Association 

 of Teachers in Technical Institutes, and for many 

 years was a member of the engineering faculty of 

 London University. Mr. Lineham was a member of 

 the Institutions of Civil Engineers, Mechanical En- 

 gineers, and Electrical Engineers. During the war a 

 great deal of munition work was carried on at the 

 Goldsmiths' College, and there is little doubt that 

 Mr. Lineham 's death was accelerated by the heavv 

 work entailed thereby. It is of interest "to note that 

 he was an artist, and had exhibited at the Roval 

 Academy. He had many friends, both amongst prac- 

 tical engineers and teachers, and his loss will be 

 deeply regretted. 



The seventy-second annual meeting of the Palseonto- 

 graphical Society was held at the rooms of the Geo- 

 logical Society, Burlington House, on April 25, Dr. 

 Henry Woodward, president, in the chair. The 

 council's report announced the completion of the 

 seventy-first volume of monographs, with instalments 

 of Wealden and Purbeck fishes, Pliocene Mollusca, 

 Cambrian Trilobites, and Palaeozoic Asterozoa. Mr. 

 Henry Dewey, Dr. F. L. Kitchin, Mr. W. P. D. 

 Stebbing, and Mr. Henry Woods were elected new 

 members of council. Dr. Henry Woodward, Mr. 

 Robert S. Herries, and Dr. A. Smith Woodward were 

 re-elected president, treasurer, and secretary respec- 

 tively. 



The death is announced of Dr. Fernand Priem, 

 honorary professor of geology in the Lyceum of 

 Henri iV., and correspondant of the National Museum 

 of Natural History, Paris. Dr. Priem was born on 

 November 10, 1857, at Bergues, near Dunkerque, and 

 studied palaeontology under the late Prof. Albert 

 Gaudry. He made many notable contributions to our 

 knowledge of fossil fishes, among which may be 

 specially mentioned his memoir on the fossil fishes of 

 the Paris basin, published separately by the Annales de 

 Paleontologie in 1908, and his description of new 

 Cretaceous fishes from Persia included in the report 

 of the Mission de Morgan in the same year 



The annual British Academy lecture on a master 

 mind (Henriette Hertz Trust) will this year have as 

 its subject "Leonardo da Vinci," and be delivered by 

 Mr. C. J. Holmes, director of the National Gallei-y,. 

 in the rooms of the Royal Society on Friday, May 2, 

 at five o'clock, this being the anniversary of the 

 death of Leonardo da Vinci. Sir Frederic Kenyon, 

 president of the British Academy, will be in the chair. 



Dr. Winifred Cullis and Miss Mona Wilson have 

 accepted membership of the Industrial Fatigue Re- 

 search Board, recently appointed by the Department 

 of Scientific and Industrial Research and the Medical 

 Research Committee jointly to study questions of 

 industrial fatigue. 



Sir Hugh Charles Clifford, Governor of the 

 Gold Coast, has been appointed Governor and Com- 

 mander-in-Chief of the Colony and Protectorate of 

 Nigeria, in succession to Sir Frederick Lugard, who 

 will retire from the Colonial Service in July. 



