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the size of the subscribing- undertakings, is suffi- 

 ciently large to ensure that the association, if 

 successful, will have ample funds at its disposal. 

 It is generally admitted that much remains to 

 be done to bring about closer co-operation between 

 science and industry, and it is therefore satis- 

 factory to note that the new association proposes 

 to arrange systematic conferences between manu- 

 facturers and teachers, at which the methods of 

 teaching and the production of the particular type 

 of trained man which manufacturers desire for 

 their laboratories and works can be discussed. 



PRINCE BORIS GALITZINE, For.Mem.R.S. 



PRINCE BORIS BORISOVITCH GALIT- 

 ZINE died at Petrograd, after a short ill- 

 ness, on May 4/17 of this year, at the early age 

 of fifty-four years. At the time of his death he 

 was director of the meteorological service of the 

 Russian Empire, which has its centre, in the 

 winter, at the Nicholas Central Observatory, 

 Petrograd, and, in the summer, at the Constantine 

 Observatory at Pavlovsk, about twenty miles 

 away. For that appointment he was chosen by 

 the Imperial Academy in succession to Lieut. - 

 General Rykatcheff, who retired in 191 3 after 

 many years' service. 



Before his appointment he was a member of the 

 Academy, to which he was appointed in 1894, 

 sometimes acting as secretary, a professor in the 

 University of Petrograd, and in charge of the 

 seismological station at Pulkovo, which had been 

 initiated by him, with the co-operation of Prof. 

 Backlund, in November, 1906. 



Born at Petrograd on February 18, 1862 (O.S.), 

 Prince Galitzine was brought up at first abroad, 

 and spent the eight years, 1880-1887, as a 

 naval officer; he graduated in philosophy at 

 Strasburg in 1890, and became Privatdocent in 

 Moscow, and afterwards professor of physics in 

 Jurjef, before his promotion to Petrograd in 1893. 

 His earlier scientific papers were chiefly on the 

 properties of gases and liquids, and the critical 

 state, but his work covered also other branches 

 of general physics. So early as 1887 he pub- 

 lished, with General Rykatcheff, a handbook of 

 meteorology, and later he organised, carried out, 

 and reported upon the observation of clouds and 

 other meteorological and hydrographical obser- 

 vations of the expedition of the Imperial Academy 

 of Sciences to Nova Zembla in 1896. 



He is, however, best known for his work in 

 seismology, in which department of science he was 

 a distinguished leader. He was elected president 

 of the international Seismological Association at 

 the meeting at Manchester in 1912. He designed 

 the instruments which go by his name, and which 

 are recognised as giving records specially adapted 

 for the analysis of the various displacements of 

 the solid earth, transmitted m the form of earth- 

 quake waves from one point to another of the 

 globe. 



A complete set of instruments of this type was 

 presented bv Prof. Schuster to the observatory at 



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Eskdalemuir — the pair of horizontal recorders in 

 191 1, and the vertical recorder in 1912. Prince 

 Galitzine came to England with his wife in 191 1, \ 

 and made use of the opportunity to visit Eskdale- 

 muir and supervise the erection of the horizontal 

 pendulums there. Thereafter he took a paternal 

 interest in the observatory. He visited it again 

 at the time of the meeting of the International 

 Association in 1912, and in the same year he gave 

 a remarkable address to the meeting of the Inter- 

 national Mathematical Association at Cambridge. 

 He received the degree of Sc.D. from the 

 University of Manchester in 191 1, and was only 

 recently elected a foreign member of the Royal 

 Societ}-. His untimely death will be felt as a 

 great loss by all who are interested in meteoro- 

 logical and geophysical subjects. His genius 

 was undoubted. His energy and goodwill in- 

 spired confidence and commanded success. 



Napier Shaw. 



NOTES. 



We notice with very deep regret the announcement 

 that Prof. E. Metchnikoff, foreign member of the 

 Royal Society, died at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, 

 on July 15, at seventy-one years of age. 



The death of Mrs. McKenny Hughes, wife of the 

 Woodwardian Professor of Geology in the University 

 of Cambridge, which occurred on the 9th of this month, 

 will be widely regretted. She was the constant com- 

 panion of her husband in his geological expeditions, 

 not only in Great Britain, but also so far as to the 

 Caucasus and western America, which they visited 

 after meetings of the Greological Congress in Russia 

 and in the United States. She took a keen interest in 

 natural history, was a lover of flowers, especially the 

 Alpine kinds, as was shown by the charming garden 

 at their house in Cambridge, and had great artistic 

 tastes, sketching admirably in water-colours. Sharing 

 her husband's interests in geology and archaeology, she 

 joined him in writing the volume on Cambridgeshire 

 in the " Cambridge County Geographies," and her 

 hand may be seen in two drawings illustrating his 

 paper on the Cae Gwyn cave in the forty-fourth volume 

 of the Geological Society's Quarterly Journal. She 

 made the moUusca, recent and subfossil, her special 

 study, determining those found in that cave, and con- 

 tributing an excellent paper on the subfossil contents 

 of some Cambridgeshire gravels to the Geological 

 Magazine for 1888. Her death takes away from 

 Cambridge a lady of rare attractiveness and most 

 valuable as a social influence, for she never flagged 

 in helping her husband to make young geologists 

 feel, as they passed through the University, that, 

 great as was her love for the inmates of her home, 

 she could yet find a place for them. 



Economics has suffered a serious loss in the death 

 of Capt. W. J. Mason, who was killed in action on 

 Julv 3. Although only twenty-seven years of age, 

 Capt. Mason, without contributing to the literature 

 of economics, was making his influence felt, both as 

 a lecturer and as a member of that rising school of 

 economists which is devoting its attention to the 

 social aspects and living problems of the science. 

 Capt. Mason, whose experience was unusually wide, 

 having been an examiner in the Exchequer and Audit 

 Department, after a distinguished academic career at 

 the London School of Economics, where he obtained 

 both the Gerstenberg scholarship in 191 1 and the 



