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pleted, and will shortly be made available in 
England. Western Australia and Tasmania have 
decided, at a later stage than the other States, also 
to issue suitable books, but these will probably not 
be distributed before the departure of the party. 
As the full programme of the meeting is still 
subject to amendment, it may be withheld for the 
present. The- presidential address will be divided 
between Melbourne and Sydney, and the sectional 
presidential addresses will be distributed in the 
following way : 
Adelaide : Geography and Agriculture (part i.). 
Melbourne: Mathematics and Physics, Chemistry, 
Zoology, Economics and_ Statistics, Physiology 
(part i.). 
Sydney: Geology, 
Botany, and Education. 
Brisbane: Physiology 
(part ii.). ; 
Engineering, Anthropology, 
(part ii.) and Agriculture 
For ordinary business the sections will meet only 
in Sydney and Melbourne. Australian papers will 
occupy one-third of the available time in all 
sections, except those dealing with geology, 
zoology, geography, anthropology and botany, in 
which the proportion will be one-half. Perhaps 
the most important of all the local contributions 
will be an account by Dr. Douglas Mawson of the 
scientific results of the recent Australian expedition 
to Antarctica. Dr. Mawson is generously post- 
poning his announcement until this meeting: it 
will add a very distinctively Australian element to 
the proceedings of several sections, particularly 
of that concerned with geography. 
Citizens’ lectures are being undertaken in each 
centre, either by the Workers’ Educational Asso- 
ciation, Trades-Hall or University Extension 
Board, or a joint committee of two or more of 
these bodies. The following lectures and dis- 
courses are to be delivered during the meeting : 
Perth, W.A.: .July 28, Why: we 
the. ocean; Profs) VW.) As erdman': \ uly an, 
Stars and their. movements, Prof. A. S. Edding- 
ton; August 2, The primitive methods of making 
fire, and their survival for ceremonial pur- 
poses, H. Balfour; August 3, The electrical action of 
the human heart, Dr. “A. D. Waller. Kalgoorlie : 
School inspection : a review and retrospect, or Mining 
education in England, C. A. Buckmaster. Adelaide : 
August 10, The zther of space, Sir Oliver J. Lodge; 
August 11, Ancient-hunters, Prof. W. J. Sollas. 
Melbourne : August 17, Mimicry, Prof. E. B. Poulton ; 
August 18, The Greenwich Observatory, Dr. F. W. 
peecn: Sydney: August 21, Primitive many IPror 
Elliot Smith ; August 24, Atoms and electrons, Sir 
S nest Rutherford. Seaicpenee August 28, The mate- 
rials of life, eae EUaE: Armstrong ; Wireless Tele- 
graphy, Prof. W. O. Howe; August 31, The place 
of wae aditey cn general chica om. Sie TS ene 
Schafer. Public lectures (to which members 
of the association are not admitted as _ such) 
will also be delivered as _ follows :—Adelaide : 
“Saving and Spending,’ Prof. E. C. K. Gonner. 
Melbourne: ‘‘Brown Earth and Bright Sunshine,” 
Prof. B. Moore; ‘‘The Making of a Big Gun,” Dr. 
W. Rosenhain. Sydney: ‘‘Comets,” Prof. H. H. 
Turner; ‘‘Clocks,” Sir H. H. Cunynghame. Bris- 
bane: .‘“‘The Decorative Art of Papua,” Dr. A. C. 
Haddon. 
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NATURE 
[May 28, 1914 
Excursions will form an exceedingly important 
part of the meeting. In Sydney, for example, half 
the total available time is devoted to them. With 
the exception of the special trips in Western 
Australia and Tasmania, and to Broken Hill, 
members will not be asked before their departure 
to make any selection. On arrival at each centre, 
however, they will be requested to fill in a form 
stating in order their preferences for particular 
excursions. A definite number of visitors will 
have been arranged for on each excursion, and 
allotment will be made on the basis of the prefer- 
ences submitted. With the possible exception of 
a few of the more lengthy trips, it may now be 
taken for granted that no charges will be made 
upon excursions to members of the overseas party. 
The fulfilment of the promise to extend private 
hospitality to most of the visitors in each centre 
is already assured. To the committees dealing 
with this matter, and in fact to all concerned with 
the organisation of the meeting, the high and in- 
creasing interest which is being taken by the 
general public in Australia is a source of very great 
satisfaction. An enthusiastic and successful 
meeting 1s certain. 
NOTES. 
WE greatly regret to see the announcement of the 
death on Saturday, May 23, in his seventy-fifth year, 
of Dr. P. H. Pye-Smith, F.R.S., lately vice-chancellor 
of the University of London and consulting physician 
to Guy’s Hospital. 
THE death, at the age of seventy-five years, is 
announced in the issue of Science for May 15, of 
Prof. Newton H. Winchell, formerly State geologist 
of Minnesota and professor of mineralogy and geology 
at the University of Minnesota. 
Invitations have been issued by the president of 
the Royal Society, chairman of the General Board of 
the National Physical Laboratory, to meet the board 
at the laboratory on Friday, June 19, when the 
various departments will be open and apparatus will 
be on view. 
THE sixth informal spring foray of the British Myco- 
logical Society will be held in the Forest of Dean from 
Friday, May 29, to Tuesday, June 2. Daily forays will 
be made, from the Saturday to the Tuesday inclusive, 
and the various places to be visited will be selected 
on the previous evening. 
Tue council of the Institution of 
Engineers has appointed Mr. W. Duddell, 
F. Bailey, Mr. K. Edgcumbe, Mr. 
son, and Prof, J. T. Morris as delegates to the British 
National Committee of the International Illumination 
Commission, and will contribute equally with the 
Institution of Gas Engineers towards the expenses of 
the committee. 
Electrical 
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An exhibition of photographs by Mr. A. Radclyffe 
Dugmore, the African traveller and author of many 
works on photographing big game in their native 
haunts, is being held at the house of the Royal Photo- 
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