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attain a high degree of definiteness. Discussions 
by C. J. Kullmer on the shift of the storm track, 
and by Charles Schuchert on climates of geologic 
time, complete the volume. 
The memoir is written in Prof. Huntington’s 
usual vigorous style, and is well illustrated with 
photographs, diagrams, and curves. In this con- 
nection it must be remarked that although the 
graphical method of comparison is very valuable, 
it would have been usefully supplemented in the 
case of the long series of comparable values by 
the calculation of correlation coefficients, which 
give a quantitative measure of the relationship. 
The vigorous American style, also, is apt to strike 
English ears harshly, as when on page 73 the 
author writes: ‘‘The present water supply .. . 
is almost negative, and the possibilities of agricul- 
ture still smaller.” These, however, are very 
minor details, and in no way detract from the 
value of the memoir as a detailed comparative 
study of several lines of evidence bearing on a 
subject hitherto somewhat neglected. 
NOTES. 
Tue London office of the British Association has 
learned from the officers of the Association in 
Australia that the overseas party has safely arrived, 
and that the meeting is proceeding in accordance 
with the original programme. 
Tue Meteorological Conference, which was to have 
taken place in Edinburgh in September, has had to 
be postponed. A further announcement respecting it 
will be made in due course. 
Tue International Seismological Congress, which 
was shortly to have been held at St. Petersburg, has 
been postponed. 
Ir was stated in our last issue (p. 590) that forms 
had been circulated by the British Association Com- 
mittee for Radiotelegraphic Investigation for the use 
of those who will observe the forthcoming solar eclipse 
and who were prepared to make notes of “strays ”’ 
and to record the measurement of the strength of 
signals, five high-power wireless telegraph stations in 
Europe having undertaken to make a series of special 
emissions during the eclipse. The outbreak of hos- 
tilities on the Continent will doubtless make it im- 
possible for the programme of proposed emissions to 
be carried out, and intending recorders of the ob- 
servations above referred to are therefore informed 
that the suggestions of the Committee cannot be 
carried into effect. 
THE many friends of Prof. W. A. Bone will be 
distressed to learn of the death, on August 8, at a 
Leeds nursing home, of Mrs. Bone, which followed 
upon an operation. Prof. and Mrs. Bone with their 
family were on holiday at Burnsall, Wharfedale, 
when the necessity for the surgical operation referred 
to arose. Mrs. Bone took a deep interest in the 
progress of science, and subordinated all other con- 
siderations to the furtherance of her husband’s scien- 
Prof. Bone will receive the respectful 
sympathy of his scientific friends, and past and pre- 
sent colleagues. 
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NATURE 
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cipal of the Monmouthshire Training College, and 
| AUGUST” 13,° 1974 
Tue death is announced, in his eighty-third year, 
of Prof. F. Humphreys Storer, a_ distinguished 
American chemist. In 1853 he served as chemist to 
the U.S. North Pacific exploration expedition. After 
studying abroad, he spent several years in practising 
as a chemist at Boston. From 1865 to 1870 he was 
professor of general and industrial chemistry at the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and from, 
1870 to 1907 he held the chair of agricultural chem- 
istry at the Bussey Institution. He was the author 
of several text-books of chemistry, two of which were 
written in collaboration with Dr. C. W. Eliot, the 
ex-president of Harvard. 
WE regret to notice the death, on Saturday last, at 
the age of forty-eight, of Sir Edward Anwyl, prin- 
lately professor of Welsh and Comparative Philology 
at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. 
Ir is stated in the Geographical Journal that the 
Swedish Riksdag has voted to the Anglo-Swedish 
Antarctic Expedition the sum asked for, viz. 150o0l. a 
year for five years, on condition that a similar amount 
is raised in England. Prof. O. Nodenskjold will 
assume the leadership of the expedition for the first 
vear and a half. The other members of the staff 
have not yet been chosen. 
Ir is stated in the Morning Post that in future the 
distribution of the Nobel prizes will take place on 
The 
June 1 instead of in December, as hitherto. 
next distribution has been fixed for June 1, 1915. 
Tue Earl of Londesborough and Mr. E. O. Sachs, 
of the British Fire Prevention Committee, have circu- 
lated a letter appealing for the names and addresses 
of qualified men prepared to enrol themselves as an 
emergency fire service force to be placed at the service 
of the Government for use in our fortified and de- 
fended places, our arsenals and national stores, and 
in certain Government establishments requiring special 
protection. Retired Fire Brigade officers and firemen 
—both professional, volunteer and private—and a 
limited number of Fire Brigade officers and firemen 
of inland (country) brigades, both volunteer and 
private, not exceeding three from any one brigade, 
are needed. It is also proposed to form a_ supple- 
mentary roll of young engineers (used to steam 
engines or motor-cars) and young surveyors or archi- 
tects (used to building, survey, or dangerous structure 
works), who, although not having actual fire experi- 
ence, would be valuable in an emergency fire service 
force. Applications for enrolment should be addressed 
to Lord Londesborough and Mr. Sachs at the offices 
of the British Fire Prevention Committee, 8 Waterloo 
Place, London, S.W. 
THE current number of the Geographical Journal 
contains well-executed process plates of the memorial 
about to be erected to Captain Scott and the com- 
; panions who perished with him in the Antarctic, and 
that of Dr. E. A. Wilson, which was unveiled at Chel- 
tenham on July 8 by Sir Clements Markham. The 
design of the Scott memorial is the work of Mr. A. H. 
Hodge, and the gereral plan is as follows :—A granite 
pylon is surmounted by a bronze group representing 
