September i_\ [918 



XA1URE 



•ill Administration in the London 

 si hool of Eci la fund "I 



140(1/. per annum for the stud} i>f means to prevent 

 ution. Hi suppot ti d the Indian 

 Modi ' I .iiin 1! reform in 



India, .mil received thi honour of knighthood in 1916. 

 Ii is for tuna Ratan's industrial enterprises 



are now under the competent supervision of his 

 brother, SL I ' 



I in death is announced, a( the age of sixtj years, 



of Dr. J. Harper Lou of chemistrj al 



tin North-Western University Medical School, 



igo, and a former president of the American 



Chemical Society. 



The recerri death of Mr. W. Francis de Vismes Kane, 

 of Drumreaske, Monaghan, Ireland, at the age of 

 r-eight, is announced in the Irish Naturalist 

 for July. Mr. Kane was will known to entomologists 

 through his "Handbook ol European Butterflies" 

 and his '*< atalogui oi the Lepidoptera of In- 

 land " (1901), hut his scientific interests were wide, as 

 he attained distinction also as a student of the fresh- 

 water Enton oric archaeology. 



Njews has just been received that Lieut. L. J. F. 

 OertJing, who v missing on August 8, 



died on that date from wounds received in 

 action. Lieut. Oertling was in the twenty-seventh 

 of bis age, and was educated at Clifton College, 

 afterwards entering the busini s* of his father. Sir. 

 Henry Oertlin£<. the well-known manufacturer of 

 chemical and other types of balances. He joined the 

 Inns of Courts O.T.C. shorth after the outbreak of 

 war. and obtained a commission in the Bedfordshire 

 Regiment (T.), proceeding to France with i In 

 Sth Battalion. Eventualh he became attached to thi 

 Royal Flying Corps, 



Prof. Fraser Harris has now completed the his- 

 tory of the medical aspect oi the great disaster at 

 Halifax, N.S., on Decembei 6, 1917. It is expected 

 that the history and its appendices will be published 

 under the auspices of the Halifaj Relief Commission, 

 a bodv appointed by the 1 Government to 



over the can of all matters arising out of the 

 dis ■ 



The Farada\ Socii d for a series 



il discussion^ of imp ■ entific subjects 



during the comiie 1 »i November 4 the sub- 



en discussion will be the occlusion of gases by 

 lis; and that at the December meeting will be 

 the present position of the electrolytic dissociation 

 theory. After the New Year, discussions will be held 

 on catalysis, the theory of flotation processes, and the 

 ol fuel. All thesi subjects are of wide 

 interest on both the industrial and the scientific sides, 

 ii.ii discussion b) competent authorities should 

 a stimulating influi heir development. 



Communication^ are invited from investigators who 

 devoted particulat attention to any of the sub- 

 - in the programme. Th of the society 



Victoria Street. S.W.i. 



'I'm sixth annual meeting 1 thi Indian Science 

 •ill he held in Bombay from January 13 

 to is next, under the patronage of Lord Willingdon, 

 tin- 1 1, .Minor i.t B .I the presidency of Sir 



Leonard Rogers, F.R.S. Th. sections and their presi- 

 ■ will be: VppHed Botan and igrictflture, the 

 II. .n. 1. F. Keatinge; Physics and Mathematics, Dr. 

 I) \. Mallik; Chemistry, Mr. F. L. Usher; Sys- 

 tematic Botany, Mr. S. R. Kashyap; Zoolo<;\ , Mi 

 S. W. Kemp; Geology, Dr. L. L. Fermor; and 

 Medical Research, Lt.-Col. Glen List cm. Furthet 

 NO. 2550. VOL. I02] 



particulars ,,| the mei ' :i ma; ••• obtained from th. 

 lion, s, 1 1, ,.,,... 1 1 risen, Indian Muni- 



tions Board, - 



An editorial article in , ,,; Journa 



Septembei (vol. lii., No some Lmpoi 



points in th in. in latut 1 - H ivarl peaks. It 



te St .I all names 



and employ only numln 1 Mount 



Everest is thi 1. Vusten is 



not allowed in place ..t K- or iis ... rtonym 



Pk. t3/52A. Most of the peaks havi names, 



.mil the difficult} in i_;ivm:_; nanus seems to lie in 

 finding will harmonise with such is exist. 



The Survi \ 1.1 India rightl} objects to trivial 

 which are out of keeping with the ranges . 

 Cathedral Peak, Broad Peak, and so forth ma 

 appropriate locally, but are unsuitable continentally, 

 and in any case are not specific. The numberin 

 peaks on the system now adopted has the merit of 

 indicating the degree-sheet on which the peak occurs. 

 In the example cited above, 52A is the number of the 

 degree-sheet and 13 tin- number of the peak. On the 

 other hand, the system has obvious defects, the 

 greatest, perhaps, being that numbers are difficult to 

 remember, and give anonymity to the peaks. Mr. 

 ! links suggests eight figure-numbers giving latitude 

 and longitude. That would involvi greater precision, 

 if a severet tes of thi memory, but introduces com- 

 plications when two peaks lii' .Ins.' together and 

 seconds have to be added. No doubt in time manv 

 of these peaks will receive names, despite official dis- 

 approval. 



In the July issue of the Journal of the Land Agents' 

 Society there appears an article on "Wild Birds and 

 Legislation," by Dr. W. E. Collinge. Although there 

 will not be general agreement with the author in his 

 conclusions that the question of wild-bird protection 

 has never received reallj serious consideration, that 

 the majority of tin- Wild Birds' Protection Acts have 

 been ill-considered, and that no attempt has been madi 

 by those who advocate the protection of wild birds to 

 understand the problems presented by wild-life, mi 

 we thoroughly indorse hi: cpinisn that then- 11 im- 

 mediate need for a new and comprehensive Act — one 

 that would afford protection to rare and vanishing 

 species as well as to those birds which an- beneficial, 

 and would at the same time allow for tin- taking of 

 adequate repressive mi a inst those species 



which are destructive and havi numerous. 



As a matter of fact, a Departmental Committee was 

 appointed by the Home Secretary in 1013 to consider 

 what amendment in the law relating to wild birds 

 and its administration might be required. This Com- 

 1 held a number of 1 al which such ques- 



tions as those raised b- Dr. Collinge were freely dis- 

 cussed and considered, and many witnesses, repre- 

 senting all parties interested, wire examined. The 

 war, unfortunately, put a stop to the deliberations of 

 the Committee, bul it is to be hoped that when the 

 Committei 1 neets it will be able to suggest lines 



on which a new Wild Birds' Protection Act, applic- 

 able to the whole of the British Isles, should be 

 the Act at present in force, with 

 its perplexing supplementary Acts and the local Orders 

 issued under them. The economic, status of bit 

 now fully recognised, and it is high time that 

 shoul I in Ornithological Bun .111, -i lilar in 



Function to thai long since established in the 

 States of America. To such a bureau should be ie- 

 all matters in connection with the administra- 

 tion of the Wild Birds' Protection ' and the con- 

 sideration of such modifications as may be necessarv 

 to meet special and local conditions. 



