May 28, 1914| 
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graphic Society, 35 Russell Square, W.C., from May 
27 until June 13 (Whit Monday and Tuesday excepted), 
between the hours of 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., free to the 
public on presentation of visiting card. 
Tue value of the discovery of flint implements of a 
very primitive type by Mr. Reid Moir at Ipswich has 
been widely recognised. The work of exploration has 
hitherto been carried on by the aid of a grant from 
the Royal Society. An appeal, which we trust will 
meet with adequate support, for a fund to assist the 
work has been issued by Sir A. Geikie, Sir Ray Lan- 
kester, Sir A. Evans, Sir H. Read, Prof. Marr, and 
Messrs. W. Whitaker and Henry Balfour. Sir Ray 
Lankester, whose address is 331 Upper Richmond 
Road, Putney, S.W., has consented to act as treasurer 
of the fund. 
WE regret to announce the death by drowning in 
Ceylon of Mr. E. R. Ayrton, the Archeological Com- 
missioner of the island. Mr. Ayrton was a valued 
officer of the Egyptian Exploration Fund, in which he 
served with Prof. Petrie at Abydos, with M. Naville 
and Mr. H. R. Hall at Dér-el-Bahri, and then with 
Mr. Thomas Davis at the Tombs of the Kings, con- 
tributing largely to his success. He afterwards re- 
sumed explorations at Abydos, and elsewhere for the 
Egyptian Exploration Fund, by the members of which 
he was held in great respect. After a course of studies 
in Indian languages, he was appointed on , the 
Archeological Survey of Ceylon, where he cooperated 
with Mr. H. C. P. Bell in his archzological work. 
His untimely death will be regretted by all students 
of Ceylonese antiquities. 
On Tuesday next, June 2, Prof. A. Fowler will 
begin a course of two lectures at the Royal Institu- 
tion on celestial spectroscopy; on Thursday, June 4, 
Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson will deliver the first of 
two lectures on Faraday and the foundations of elec- 
trical engineering; and on Saturday, June 6, Mr. S. 
Goetze will commence a course of two lectures on 
studies on expression in art. The Friday evening 
discourse on June 5 will be delivered by Prof. W. H. 
Bragg on X-rays and crystalline structure, and on 
June 12 by his Excellency the Hon. Walter Hines 
Page (the American Ambassador) on some aspects of 
the American democracy. 
AFTER the erection of the memorial window to 
Lord Kelvin in Westminster Abbey, there was a 
balance in hand from the fund collected for this 
purpose. This is to be disposed of by the establish- 
ment of a Kelvin gold medal to be awarded triennially 
as a mark of distinction achieved in engineering work 
of the kinds with which Lord Kelvin was especially 
identified. The award will be made on each occasion 
by a committee consisting of the presidents of the 
Institutions of Civil, Mechanical, and _ Electrical 
Engineers, the Institution of Naval Architects, the 
Iron and Steel Institute, and the Institution of Mining 
and Metallurgy, after the consideration of recom- 
mendations to be invited from the principal engineer- 
ing societies in all parts of the world. 
THE first meeting of the International Scientific 
Radio-Telegraphic Commission was held in Brussels 
NO. 2326, VOL. 93] 
on April-6,. “Mx. -W. Duddelh,¥.R.S.,, Dr. We 4. 
Eccles, and Dr. E. W. Marchant representing Great 
Britain. The other members of the British National 
Committee are Prof. G. W. O. Howe, Sir Oliver 
Lodge, F.R.S., Sir Henry Norman, M.P., and Prof. 
Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S. It will be remembered 
that this International Scientific Radio-Telegraphic 
Commission was founded in October last for the pur- 
pose of carrying out scientific experiments in wireless 
telegraphy, and that by the generosity of Mr. Gold- 
schmidt, of Brussels, the use of a large wireless 
station and the sum of 50,000 francs was placed at | 
the disposal of the commission. Measurements are 
being made of the strength of the signals sent out 
from Brussels. The National Committee of each 
country represented on the commission organises the 
method of making the measurements, and arranges 
with experimenters to carry them out. 
A CORRESPONDENT writes :—‘‘ By the death of Miss 
Freund (Nature, May 21, p. 299), for many years 
lecturer in chemistry at Newnham College, Cam- 
bridge, science has lost a devoted follower, chemistry 
an enthusiastic and original teacher, investigator, and 
writer, and her friends a wise, warm-hearted, and 
gentle woman. During most of her life Miss Freund 
laboured under a great physical disability; but she 
was always in her laboratory, guiding, encouraging, 
directing her students; whenever she had a_ spare 
hour or two she was pursuing some piece of investiga- 
tion, and for many years she spent much time in the 
vacations in writing that remarkable book on ‘Chem- 
ical Composition,’ which made her well known to all 
chemists. Miss Freund was a genuine student of 
science ; her work is marked by thoroughness, lucidity, 
sound judgment, suggestiveness, and grasp of the 
relative importance of different classes of facts. It is 
known to her friends that she was preparing a book 
on practical chemistry; should the manuscript be 
sufficiently advanced for publication to be possible, not 
a few teachers of chemistry will welcome the book 
with enthusiasm, not a few will be astonished at the 
thoroughness and the boldness of it.”’ 
Mr. WitiiamM West, of Bradford, died on May 14 
at his residence in Bradford from heart failure. He 
was a native of Woodhouse, Leeds, where he was 
born February 22, 1848, so that he was in his 
sixty-seventh year. He was brought up as a phar- 
maceutical chemist, carrying on business in Little 
Horton Lane, Bradford, in which town he settled 
about 1872. More than a decade later he gave up 
that business on becoming lecturer in botany, 
biology, pharmacology, and kindred subjects at the 
Bradford Technical College. He was a most suc- 
cessful teacher, and his students kept up their attend- 
ance at his classes even after the completion of their 
necessary courses. It is stated that his. success in 
sending up students to the Royal College of Science. 
was remarkable, and it is largely owing to his 
influence, example, and teaching that Bradford pos- 
sesses an unusual number of investigators in natural 
science. His elder son, William West, jun., a most 
able botanist, died of cholera in India within a fort- 
night of landing to take up a biological appointment ; 
