\ [TURE 



[September 26, [918 



NOTES. 



'■•• able to announce thai Stom 



t:d 1.1 the nation, and ac< epted on 1 PS 



I ' nmeiil In !li<- Fii si « 'ommissiorn i <\ 



munificent donoi is Mr. C. II. !•'.. 



alisbury, who houghl Stonehenge in 1915. 



ration of the wai the income oi thi prr> 



- i" I" handed to the British Red Cross Society. 



Following Food Council to considei general 

 ons "i 1 >. .1 i < \ affecting the administration of the 

 Wini-.il \ nf i-'< „ni has been constituted : The Rt. Hon. 

 i R. Clynes (Food Controller), chairman; Major the 

 I Inn. Waldorf Astor (Parliamentan Secretarj to the 

 Ministn of Food), deputy-chairman; Sir Alan Ander- 

 son, K.B.E., vice-chairman; Sir |. F. Beale, K.H.I-'.. 

 il'ii-i Secretan to the Ministn "I Food); Mr. W. II. 

 Beveridge (Second Secretan to the Ministn of Food)j 

 Mr. \Y. II. Peal ; Capt. S. 1,. Tallents; and Mr. E. F. 

 \\ 'ise. Mr. !■'. I.. Turner will act as secretary. The 

 following special Boards in connection with 1 h<- 

 Council are being constituted : — Imports Board, 

 Home Supplies Board and Joint Finarici Board. 



Notici has been given that summei time will cease 

 and normal time be restored at 3 a.m. (summer time) 

 in the morning of Monday next, Septembei 30, when 



111' clock wi.Il In- put back lo 2 a.m. The hour 2-3 a.m. 



summer time will thus be followed bj the hour 

 i ; a.m. ( ireenwich time. 



Dr. W. W. Campbell, the director of the Lick 

 Observatory, of the University of California, has been 

 elected a cprrespondant of the Institute of France in 

 ih' section of astronomy. 



I 111-, Montvon prize of the Paris Academic des 



Sciences, of the value of 100/., has been awarded to 

 Drs. II. Guillemard and A. Labat for their researches 

 on asphyxiating gases 



THE annual Thomas Hawkslev lecture of the 

 Institution of Mechanical Engineers ivill be delivered 

 in the hall of the Institution of Civil Engineers on 

 Friday, October 4, by Dr. \Y. C. Unwin, who will 

 take as his subject "The Experimental Stud\ of the 

 Mechanical Properties of Materials." 



Ax address on "Commerce and lndustrv afler the 

 War" will be given, under the auspices of the Indus- 

 trial Reconstruction Council, bv Sir Albert Stanley, 

 President of the Board of Trade, on Wednesday, 

 October 2, at 4.30, in the Saddlers' Hall, Cheapside, 

 of admission to which can be obtained from 

 nd 1 Tudor Street, K.C.4. At the recent annual 

 'he Council the following new members 

 \. ' ti I to the executive committee: Sir C. 



McLeod, Miss 1.. Dawson, Mr. (.. Sella, Mr. J. 

 Baker, Mi T. 0. [acobsen, Miss M. F. Peak., Mr. 

 I'.. \\ id Lieut. II. Y. Roe. 



"I'm-- Mi 1] Office has given notice that it 



will not issuj urther copies of the Daily Weathei 

 Report, the \ N - Weather Report, and the Monthly- 



Weather Reporl du 1 the war. Subscribers and 

 others are notified tiiat, by arrangement with the 

 director, cdpies cat : For them and delivered 



after the war. Ob >n« •■ ill he made as hitherto. 



and doubtless all thi , promptly prepared 



and printed, but they are no li ivailable except for 



public service, when all il infiii nialion is 



1 nresent of the highes 



' MONUMENT iii bronze ha >■ I io Oswaldo 



11 Rio de Janeiro. 1 1 1 1 1 n a sitting 



and bears the following on: " A 



1. 2552, VOL. I02 ) 



Oswaldo Cruz, Homenagem do pe6soal da Directoria 



1 ■• 1 .1 1 de Saude Publica, 23-III-1903 -,-\ 1 1 1 - 1 . ,n. ( . 

 the dates marking the period of his mosl productive 

 work, the eradication of yellow fever from Rio. 



I\ accordance with the decision arrived ai at the 



'">ii. linan gi eral meeting of the Institute of 



Chemistrj held on April 27, local sections are rum 

 being formed in various important centres. The 

 inaugural meeting of the Liverpool and North- 

 Western section "I the institute was held on Thurs- 

 day, Sept ei 11 bi 1 1 \ I be registrar, who was in attend- 

 ance bj the direction of the council, referred to the 

 objects i" be attained l>\ the establishmenl "I local 



Sections. It is anticipated that local sections will 



be inaugurated during the coming session at Man- 

 chester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Gretna, 



and probabK oilier centres. 



Tm. twenty-second annual autumn forav ol the 

 British Mycological Society was held, in conjunction 

 with the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, at Selby from 

 September 9 to 14, under the presidency of the Verv 



Rev. Dr. David Paul. On September 9 Dr. Harold 

 Wagei delivered a popular address on fungi. On 



September 11 Dr. Paul gave his presidential address 

 on "The Earliei Stud) of Fungi in Britain," dealing 

 with mycological work up to the time ol Berkeley. 

 Other papers contributed during the week, were two 

 bv Dr. Wager on "Spore Coloration in the Fungi" 

 and on "A Fluorescenl Colouring Matter bom Lxp- 

 /<>»/. 1 incdna" ; "New or Rare British Parasitic 

 Fungi," by Mr. A. D. Cotton; and ■Observations on 

 some Sand-dune Fungi," by Mr. II. J. Wheldon. At 

 the general business meeting tin officers for Jin- 

 ensuing year win elected as follows-. President, Dr. 

 Harold Wager; vice-president. Miss G. Lister; 

 genera] secretary and editor. Mr. C. Reaj secretan 

 and recorder, Miss E. M. Wakefield: treasurer and 

 forav secretary, Mr. A. A. Pearson. These, with tin 

 following elected members, Mr. W. N. Cheesman, 

 Dr. B. Elliot, Prof. M. C. Poller, ami Miss A. 

 Lorrain Smith, will form a council for the general 

 management of the society. 



We learn from Science that news has been received 



In Piof. R. I-'. Crigs'S, director of the Kalm.ii expedi- 

 tions of the U.S. National Geographic Society, an- 

 nouncing the termination and giving particulars of 

 the work- of this year's field party, composed of Messrs. 

 |. Sayre and P. R. Hagelbarger, in tin- Valle; of Ten 

 Thousand Smokes. The topographic survey begun lasl 

 year was extended to the shore of the Bering Sea, 

 adding some 1500 square miles to the map, and com- 

 pleting a section across the base of the Alaska Penin- 

 sula from Kalmai BaV to N'aknek. This survey will 

 furnish the data for the construction of a topographic 

 map on the scale of 1 250,000 of the same slandard 

 of accural v as the work of the I nited Stales ( bo- 



logical Survex on mans of this scale. 



A BI-MONTHLY periodical entitled the Journal of 

 General Physiology is about to be started In tin- 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York. 

 Il will be edited bv Dr. Jacques l.oeb and Prof. 

 W. J. V. Osterhout. Its aim is to -nn as an organ 

 of Dublication for papers di voted to the investigation 



of life-processes from a phv sico-chemical viewpoint. 



Il has been decided to found a medical journal in ■ 

 Mexico loi the publication of contributions bv Mexican 

 physicians and surgeons and information concerning 

 the progress "I" the medical sciences in oilier parts of 



the world. Dr. F. BeHo, of Puebla, has b,. n ap- 

 pointed editor. 



