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NATURE 



[March 9, 19 16 



Lauder, Mr. Bedford McNeill, Prof. G. T. Morgan, 

 Mr. D. Northall-Lnurie, Mr. G. Stubbs, and Mr. T. 

 Tickle. 



The Faraday Society will hold an informal discus- 

 sion on " Methods and Appliances for the Attainment 

 of High Temperatures in the Laboratory," on Wed- 

 nesday, March 15, at 8 p.m., at the Institution of 

 Electrical Engineers, Victoria Embankment, London, 

 W.C. Dr. J. A. Marker, of the National Physical 

 Laboratory, will open the discussion, over which Sir 

 Robert Hadfield, the president of the society, will pre- 

 side. Workers interested in the subject, and particu- 

 larly those prepared to speak on the results of their 

 personal experiences, are invited to be present and 

 take part in the discussion. Further particulars may 

 be obtained from Mr. F. S. Spiers, secretary of the 

 society, 82 Victoria Street, London, S.W. 



The following officers and council of the Geological 

 Society of London have been elected for the ensuing 

 year : — President, Dr. A. Marker ; Vice-Presidents, 

 Sir T. M. Molland, Mr. E. T. Newton, the Rev. M. M. 

 Winwood, and Dr. A. Smith Woodward ; Secretaries, 

 Mr. M. M. Thomas and Dr. H. Lapworth ; Foreign 

 Secretary, Sir Archibald Geikie ; Treasurer, Mr. Bed- 

 ford McNeill. In addition to these officers the members 

 of the new council are : — Mr. M. Bury, Prof. J. Cad- 

 man, Prof. C. G. Cullis, Mr. R. M. Deeley, Prof. 

 W. G. Fearnsides, Dr. W. Gibson, Dr. F. L. Kitchin, 

 Dr. J. E. Marr, Mr. R. D. Oldham, Mr. R. M. Ras- 

 tall, Prof. T. F. Sibly, Prof. W. J. Sollas, Dr. J. J. M. 

 Teall, and Mr. W. Whitaker. 



The third Indian Science Congress met at Lucknow 

 on January 13-15. The growing interest in scientific 

 inquiry observable in India is evidenced by the rapidly 

 increasing popularity of this body. In spite of the 

 war, about seventy papers were read at the congress 

 and more than 300 visitors attended the meetings. The 

 list of papers discloses a surprisingly large volume of 

 scientific work in India, and there is every reason to 

 look for a successful and useful future of the congress. 

 The presidential address was delivered by Sir S. G. 

 Burrard, F.R.S., who took as his subject "The Plains 

 of Northern India, and their Relationship to the Hima- 

 laya Mountains." Sir A. G. Bourne, F.R.S., has been 

 elected president for 1916-17, and the next meeting 

 will probably be held at Bangalore. 



We have received a provisional programme of the 

 eighth meeting of the Italian Society for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, arranged to be held at the Royal 

 University of Rome on March 1-4. The session was 

 originally intended to be held at Bari, but as this city 

 is too near the theatre of war it was resolved to 

 meet at Rome instead. The president was Prof. Camillo 

 Golgi, the vice-presidents being Prof. Guido Castel- 

 nuovo and Prof. Vittorio Rossi, and the secretary 

 Prof. Vincenzo Reina. The inaugural address, 

 delivered by Prof. G. Cuboni, dealt with the 

 problems of agriculture at the present time. General 

 discourses were given by Prof. R. Nasini on Italian 

 chemistry; by Prof. G. Valenti on hydraulic problems 

 and water legislation ; by M. Pantaleoni on economic 

 lessons of the war; by G. Luigi on eugenics and the 



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decay of nations ; and by P. Fedele on imperialism in 

 German history. Sectional papers were given by 

 G. Levi on inorganic chemical industry; by E. 

 Molinari on the industry of some important -organic 

 compounds; by F. Garelli on the industry of fats; by 

 E. Miolati on electrochemical industry; by M. Ascoli 

 on electrotechnics ; by E. Bianchi on the state of the 

 Italian industry of geodetic-astronomical instruments ; 

 by P. Gamba on the exploration of the upper atmo- 

 sphere. In the medical-hygienic section C. Moreschi 

 dealt with the prophylactic use of antityphoid and 

 anticholera injections ; V. Pensuti with vaccino-therapy 

 of typhoid ; and A. Perroncito and G. Grixoni with 

 hygienic problems of modern war. A list of philo- 

 sophical and geographical papers is also given in the 

 programme issued. 



The death is announced of Prof. Vladimir A. Ticho- 

 mirov, professor of pharmacy and materia medica at 

 Moscow University and Russian Councillor of State. 



The death has occurred at Sheffield, in his sixtT^- 

 fourth year, of Mr. G. T. W. Newsholme, who was the 

 first provincial pharmacist to occupy the position of 

 president of the Pharmaceutical Society. Mr. News- 

 holme became vice-president of the society in 1897, 

 and in 1900 was elected president, holding the ofiice 

 for three years. Me was a governor of Sheffield Uni- 

 versity. 



The death is announced, in his fifty-eighth year, of 

 Dr. J. Nelson, a native of Copenhagen, and a graduate 

 of the University of Wisconsin, who had occupied the 

 chair of biology at Rutgers College, New Jersey, since 

 1888. He had also held various scientific appointments 

 under the State of New Jersey, including membership 

 of a tuberculosis commission and the post of inves- 

 tigator of oyster culture. 



Mr. L. Duncan, formerly associate professor of ap- 

 plied electricity at Johns Hopkins University, and head 

 of the department of electrical engineering at the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has died at the 

 age of fifty-three. He was twice president of the 

 American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and had 

 written on electric traction for the " Encyclopaedia 

 Britannica." He served as consulting engineer during 

 the electrification of the transit systems of New York. 



The death is announced, in his eighty-first year, oj 

 Dr. W. A. Knight, emeritus professor of moral philo- 

 sophy in the University of St. Andrews. Prof. Knight 

 was the author of many literary works, including 

 " Studies in Philosophy and Literature " (1879), 

 " Essays in Philosophy, Old and New " (1890), and 

 "Varia, being Studies on Problems of Philosophy and 

 Ethics " (1901), but he will be remembered chiefly as 

 the devoted editor and interpreter of the poet Words- 

 worth and the Wordsworth family. 



The death has occurred in his sixtieth year of Prof. 

 Pietro Grocco, director of clinical medicine in the R. 

 Istituto di Studi Superiori of Florence. After studying 

 in Paris and Vienna he was, we learn from the Lancet, 

 appointed to a chair of practice of medicine at Perugia, 

 which he occupied for three years, when he was 

 elected to a post on the same subject at Pisa, whence 



