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NATURE 



[March i6, 1916 



assembled in the museum to witness the presentation. 

 Dr. A. Strahan, director of the Geological Survey and 

 Museum, briefly recapitulated the history of the move- 

 ment. The Rifjht Hon. Sir William Mather, who was 

 to have unveiled the bust, was unfortunately prevented 

 from attending by a chill, but his place was kindly taken, 

 at the last moment, by Sir William Garforth, who had 

 played a very active part on the committee. After un- 

 veil! nij the bust. Sir William referred in cordial terms 

 to Sir Archibald's contributions to science and litera- 

 ture, and then, on behalf of the subscribers, presented 

 the bust to the museum. The Right Hon. J. Herbert 

 Lewis accepted the gift on behalf of the Board of Edu- 

 cation ; he remarked that it was a source of gratifica- 

 tion to the Board that the artist commissioned to 

 execute the bust happened to be another of its distin- 

 guished servants, Prof. E. Lanteri, who had done so 

 much to uphold the standards of the Royal College of 

 Art. The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh then, on behalf 

 of the subscribers, presented to Sir A. Geikie a marble 

 replica of the bust. In warmly acknowledging his 

 appreciation of the gift, Sir Archibald spoke of the 

 powerful effect the Museum of Practical Geology had 

 had upon him in his early student days, and of the 

 great educational value of its collections. The bust is 

 a remarkabl)'^ good likeness and a beautiful example 

 of Lanteri 's work. Among those present at the cere- 

 mony were Sir T. Lauder Brunton, Sir Lazarus 

 Fletcher, Sir Thomas H. Holland, Sir F. G. Kenyon, 

 the Right Hon. Lord Lyell, Major F. G. Ogilvie, Prof. 

 W. W. Watts, Dr. A. Smith Woodward, and Messrs. 

 Bedford McNeill and C. McDermid, representing the 

 Institution of Mining and Metallurgy. 



Members of the British Association who attended 

 the Dundee meeting in 19 12 will remember the striking 

 announcement made on the first night, that Sir James 

 Caird (then Dr. Caird), one of the leading business 

 men of the city, had given the sum of io,oooZ. towards 

 the funds of the association. We regret now to 

 announce that this eminent citizen of Dundee, and 

 great public benefactor, died on March 9, at seventy- 

 nine 5-ears of age. During his lifetime his donations 

 for public purposes amounted to a quarter of a million 

 pounds, among them being, in addition to the gift 

 to the British Association, 5000^. to the Rojal Society, 

 24,oooZ. for Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition, loooZ. 

 to the Zoological Society of London, and gifts of 

 valuable collections to the Dundee Museum. In 1903 

 the University of St. Andrews, "in consideration of 

 his great and practical interest in the philanthropic 

 and educational work of the city," conferred on him 

 the degree of Doctor of Laws, and he received the 

 distinction of a baronetcy in 1913. 



The death of Lady Baker, widow of Sir Samuel 

 Baker, closes one of the most romantic careers in the 

 history of the Upper Nile and Uganda. She was 

 Hungarian by birth, being a daughter of Finian von 

 Sass. She nursed Samuel Baker through a serious 

 illness, and her devotion then led to a marriage of 

 exceptional harmony and usefulness. It was doubt- 

 less largely owing to her influence that Baker de- 

 veloped from a sportsman into a geographer and ulti- 

 mately into a statesman. He went to the Upper Nile 

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to shoot big game ; he gradually devoted more and 

 more of his attention to geographical exploration, and 

 finally, as he and his wife realised the deplorable con- 

 dition of the natives, Baker entered on the crusade 

 for the suppression of the slave trade, which led to 

 the Egyptian conquest of the Sudan and the African 

 work of Gordon. In the widening of Baker's sym- 

 pathies and his adoption of a philanthropic, political 

 mission, he was obviously inspired by his wife. She 

 accompanied him on his expedition in 1860-62 into 

 Abyssinia, and on the important expedition of 1862-65 

 which discovered the Albert Nyanza, and she returned 

 with him to the Upper Nile in 1870, and on the expedi- 

 tion which established Egyptian supremacy there, and 

 began the long campaign against the Sudan slave 

 trade, which was pursued with varying fortune until 

 the collapse of Mahdism and the Anglo-British re- 

 conquest. Lady Baker proved throughout of heroic 

 courage, gifted with remarkable insight into the native 

 mind, and exceptionally fertile in resource. On more 

 than one occasion her quick realisation of danger and 

 prompt action saved the expedition from disaster. In 

 1874 Sir Samuel Baker purchased an estate near New. 

 ton Abbot, South Devon, where he died in 1893, and 

 where Lady Baker lived until her death on Saturday 

 last, March 11. 



Sir John Wolfe Barry has been elected an honorary 

 member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 



Dr. Th. Hesselberg informs us that since the be- 

 ginning of this year he has taken up his functions as 

 director of I'lnstitut meteorologique de Norvege, Kris- 

 tiania. 



The Institute of Industry, Ltd., has arranged a con- 

 ference of representative trade interests to be held at 

 the Savoy Hotel on Thursday, March 30, to discuss 

 "The Creation of a National Organisation adequately 

 representing British Industrial Interests." 



At the meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 

 held on March 6, the following candidates were 

 elected Fellows of the Society :—Df. R. J. T. Bell, 

 Dr. F. E. Bradley, Mr. H. Briggs, Mr. C. T. Clough, 

 Dr. E> J. Crombie, Mr. E. H. Cunningham Craig, 

 Dr. A. W. Gibb, the Hon. Lord Guthrie, Prof. P. T. 

 Herring, Sir Duncan A. Johnston, Mr. H. Levy, 

 Dr. J. E. Mackenzie, Dr. W. F. P. M'Lintock, Prof. 

 R. Muir, Dr. J. Ritchie, Mr. D. Ronald, the Hon. 

 Lord E. T. Salvesen, Mr. D. R. Steuart, Mr. J. 

 Martin White. 



Many in England will receive with great regret the 

 news which has reached us that Prof. Oswald Kiilpe 

 died in Munich on December 30, 1915, at the age of 

 fifty-three. He was well known to students in this 

 country for his original work in psychology and 

 philosophy. He was associated with Prof. Wundt in 

 the foundation of the experimental laboratories at 

 Wurzburg, Bonn, and Munich. One of his recent 

 works, "Die Philosophic der Gegenwart," has been 

 translated into English and published under the title, 

 "Present Philosophy in Germany." He visited this 

 country in Maj', 1914, on the invitation of the Univer- 

 sity of London, and delivered a course of lectures on 

 aesthetics at Bedford College. 



