APRIL 2, 1914| 
subscription with the approval of the family, friends, 
and admirers of the great French mathematician. It 
is proposed to arrange for a medal with Poincaré’s 
portrait inscribed on it, and to secure a fund, the pro- 
ceeds of which will be employed to encourage and 
assist young men of science engaged in those branches 
of knowledge with which Poincaré’s name is chiefly 
associated. Donations may be sent to M. Ernest 
Lebon, secretary and treasurer, 4bis Rue des Ecoles, 
Patis, V., 
THE tragic death of the late Dr. H. O. Jones and 
his wife in the Alps in August, 1912, was recorded in 
these columns at the time (vol. Ixxxix., p. 638). We 
note with interest that a tablet bearing the following 
inscription has been placed on the walls of Lewis’s 
School, Pengam :—‘‘In affectionate remembrance of 
Humphrey Owen Jones, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., Fellow 
of Clare College, Cambridge. A distinguished worker 
in the field of physical chemistry—a former pupil of 
the school—who while on his honeymoon in the Alps 
was killed with his wife by falling from the Aiguille 
Rouge de Peteret on the 15th August, fg12, at the 
age of 34 years. This tablet is by the staff, boys, and 
friends of Lewis’s School sorrowfully inscribed.” In 
memory of his wife (whose maiden name was Muriel 
Edwards), who was a distinguished student of the 
University College of North Wales, a fund of about 
vol. has been raised by her fellow-students and handed 
over to the college to found a ‘Muriel Edwards’s 
Prize’’ for distinction in chemistry or physics. 
THE annual general meeting of the Ray Society was 
held on March 26; the ‘president, Prof.’ W. C. 
McIntosh, in the chair. The report of the council 
commenced with an appreciative notice of the late 
president, Lord Avebury, and an expression of regret 
at his death, and stated that three volumes, a ‘‘ Biblio- 
graphy of the Tunicata,”’ by the secretary, and vols. i. 
and ii. of the ‘‘ British Parasitic Copepoda,” by T. 
and A. Scott, for 1912 and 1913, had been issued 
during the past year; that the volumes for the present 
year would be vol. iii. of the ‘‘ British Freshwater 
‘Rhizopoda,” by G. H. Wailes, and vol. v. of the 
‘‘ British Desmidiacee,’”’ by W. and G. S. West; and 
that the issue for 1915 would be vol. iii., part 1, of 
the ‘‘ British Marine Annelids,’’ by the president. The 
account of income and expenditure showed that the 
finances of the society were satisfactory... Prof. 
McIntosh was re-elected president, Dr. DuCane God- 
man treasurer, and Mr. John Hopkinson secretary. 
Tue following are the lecture arrangements at the 
Royal Institution, after Easter :—Dr. W. Wahl, two 
lectures on problems of physical chemistry; Prof. W. 
Bateson, two lectures on (1) double flowers, (2) the 
present state of evolutionary theory; Prof. D’Arcy W. 
Thompson, two lectures on natural history in the 
classics; Prof. A. Fowler, two lectures on celestial 
spectroscopy : experimental investigations in connec- 
tion with the spectra of the sun, stars, and comets; 
Prof. Svante Arrhenius, three lectures on identity of 
laws in general and biological chemistry; Prof. Sil- 
vanus P. Thompson, two lectures on Faraday and 
the foundations of electrical engineering; Dr. T. E. 
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Stanton, two lectures on similarity of motion in fluids ; 
Prof. C. J. Patten, two lectures on bird migration; 
Prof. J. W. Gregory, two lectures on (1) fiords and 
their origin, (2) fiords and earth movements. The 
Friday evening meetings wiil be resumed on April 24, 
when the Astronomer Royal, Dr. F. W. Dyson, will 
deliver a discourse on the stars around the north pole. 
Succeeding discourses wili probably be given by Prof. 
Karl Pearson, Prof. F. Keeble, Mr. R. Mond, Prof. 
J. C.}. Bose sand Prot) WH. Brace. 
In the Times of March 25 is announced the dis- 
covery at Kolophon, in Ionia, of a remarkable col- 
lection of Greek surgical instruments. They exhibit 
a type of workmanship unequalled in any other extant 
specimens, and generally reveal the high progress in 
surgery which the ancients achieved. With two ex- 
ceptions all the instruments are of bronze, and even 
in the case of those made from steel a piece of bronze 
is added, preserved, apparently for ceremonial reasons 
as a mystic, sacred metal. The collection includes 
polypus pincers for the removal of growths, an 
elevator for raising a piece of depressed bone in the 
skull, a drill-bow for trephining the skull to produce 
an exit for the evil spirits which were believed to 
cause madness and epilepsy, a scoop or cuvette for 
gynecological work, a cautery and probes of modern 
type, scales, and cupping vessels. It is to be regretted 
that this valuable collection has been secured for the 
Johns Hopkins University, and will shortly be taken 
to America. Models, however, are being made, and 
will be on view in London within a few weeks. 
THE royal medals and other honours of the Royal 
Geographical Society have been awarded this year 
as follows :—The Founder’s medal to Prof. Albrecht 
Penck, professor of geography at Berlin University, 
and director of the Oceanographical Institute; the 
Patron’s medal to Dr. Hamilton Rice, of Boston, 
U.S.A., who for ten years has been closely investigat- 
ing a little-known part of the large region of northern 
South America drained by the headwaters of the 
Orinoco and of the northern branches of the Amazon; 
the Murchison grant to Commander H. L. L. Pen- 
nell, R.N.,. who was a member of the Antarctic expedi- 
tion of r910, and was. specially selected by Captain 
Scott to command the Terra. Nova after the landing 
of the shore party; the Gill memorial to Mr. A. E. R. 
Wollaston, who has made extensive journeys in many 
parts of the world for zoological and other work; the 
Cuthbert Peck grant to Dr. J. Ball, of the Geological 
Survey of Egypt, who has carried out a large amount 
of scientific geographical work; and the Back grant 
to Mr. J. N. Dracopouli, for his careful survey and 
other work in the Sonora desert of Mexico in 1911-12, 
and his expedition to the Lorian Swamp and neigh- 
bouring regions in 1912-13. 
THE annual report of the council of the Institution 
of Mining and Metallurgy was presented at the annual 
general meeting of the institution on March 26. The 
report refers to the purchase of the freehold of No. 1 
Finsbury Circus, as a permanent home for the insti- 
tution, and states that the stability of the institution 
