NATURE 



[October 31. 19 18 



In mi 1 Mr. Cannon was appointed Assistawl Naval 

 < onstructot a1 the Vlinit alts , and at the time of his 

 dearth he was the \dnihnli\ overseei on submarine- 

 building at Messrs. Gammell I I ind Co.'s yard, 



nhead. 



\\ i regrel to announce the death mi Octobei 9, al 

 twenty-nine years ol age, ol Mr. Robert John Pococ] , 

 direotoi oi th« Nizamdah Observatory, Hyderabad. 



Dr. G. E. Moore will delivei his inaugural presi- 

 dential address to the Aristotelian Societ) at j^ Albe- 

 marle Streci mi Monday, November 4, at 8 p.m., 

 upon the subj I Somi fudgments of Perception." 



The John Scotl legacy medal and premium has, 

 on the recommendation of the Franklin Institute, been 

 awarded to Mr. F. P. Fairy in consideration of the 

 development of thi Fah} perrneameter. 



\\ 1 much regrel to announce the death on 

 October 26, a1 eighty-seven years of age, of the Rev. 

 A. \l. Norman, l-'.K.S., honorary canon of Durham, 

 and in 'mill- mi worker in many fields of natural 

 history. 



We notice with regret the announcement of the 

 death on October 23, in his ninety-firsrt year, of Mr. 

 K. BrudeneH Carter, the distinguished ophthalmic 

 surgeon and author of several valuable works upon 

 ophthalmic subjects. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, keeper of the Geological 

 Department of the British Museum (Natural History), 

 has been awarded the Cuvier prize by the French 

 Academy of Sciences. Other British recipients of tin- 

 prize have been Sir Richard Owen, Sir Roderick 

 Mm i bison, and Sir John Murray. 



Dr. A. L. D.w, who has been director of the 

 geophvsical laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington since its establishment in 1906, has re- 

 signed the position to engage in research work on 

 glass and allied materials for the Corning Class 

 Works, Corning, New York. 



The hundredth session of the Institution of Civil 

 Engineers will be opened on Tuesday, November 5, 

 at 5.30 p.m., when Sir John A. F. Aspinall, president, 

 will deliver an address, and will present awards made 

 bv the council for papers read and discussed or other- 

 wise dealt with during the past session. 



Prof. A. N. Skinner, formerly professor of mathe- 

 matics at the U.S. Naval Academy and assistant 

 'i"tner of the Naval Observatory, died on 

 August 14, aged seventyVthrei years. Prof. Skinner 

 discovi red Four variable stars, and was responsible for 

 1. ' 1 \ alions to determine the positions of 

 li. ]s//,'ii. Gesell. catalogue. 



li'i il Mr. Henry Westlake, at the age of 



sevenl is recorded in the Engineer for 



October 25. Mr. Westlake was a prominent figure in 

 South Yorkshire, was for some years a director 



"I Cat id Co., Ltd., and of the 



Workington Iron I Co. For more than fifty 



years he was a with the Staveley Coal and 



Iron Co. 



\\"i regi ei to nob tha ei foi Octobei 

 records the death of Mr. J. 1'. !.. Croslartd, who was 

 connected with the \ uli 1 reneral Insur- 

 ant- Co. for fortv-niin yeai duri the last twenty- 

 four of which he was chi< I t the company. 

 Mr. Crosland was a memtiei ol Institutions "I 

 Civil, Mechanical, and I 1 s, and took 

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a prominent pari in legislation dealing with boiler 

 accidents. He was seventy-nine years of age al the 

 time of his death. 



I in death of Mr. Thomas Charles Hutchinson, ih. 

 managing directoi of the Skinntngrove Iron Co*, is 

 announced in the Engineer for Octobei 25. Mr. 



Hutchinson was born in 1S40, and played 1 great 

 part in the development of the Cleveland district. 

 lie formulated a scheme for the erection of steel works 

 in connection with the existing Mast-furnace plant 



of his firm, adopted the new Talbot process, and 

 installed the lust electrically driven cogging mill in 

 ('■real Britain, lie took a keen interest ill the Iron 

 and Si. i I Institute and other kindred societies. 



Mr. Thomas Coi>rin<.io\, who died on October 21, 

 aged i-i^hty-nine, was a civil engineer deeplj interested 



in geology. For nearlv 1 ears he had I" 



fellow of the Geological Society, and he contributed 

 several papers on the geoiog) "I Hampshire, the ui, 

 of Wight, South Wales, ami other .lisuirts. He dis- 

 covered the only known petrified rootlets, probablv of 

 palms, in the tubular hollows of the Berkshin sa 

 stones, and he was the first to recognise the gii 

 stones in a fossil reptile, a I'lesiosaurian which In 



found in 1 he greensand of Wiltshire. 



Engineering lor Octobei .'5 records the death of Mr. 

 Josiah Richard I'enetl, who for many years was an 

 active agent in the development of warship design in 

 this country, particularly at Elswick. Mr. Perretl 

 did valuable work in the earlier days of experirm 

 research into the resistance of ships at Dr. Froude's 

 tank. He was born in 1048, and received his train- 

 ing at H.M. Dockvard, Devonport, the Roval School 

 of Naval Architecture, the Chatham Dockvard, and the 

 Admiralty. He joined the Elswick shipyard in 1887 as 

 first assistant to Sir Philip Watts. He reoeivi 1 i 

 tions from Japan, Italy, and Turkey; a paper In him 

 was read at the last Newcastle meeting of the Institu- 

 tion of Naval Architects. 



M. P.U'L KESTNER, the president of the Socil 

 Chimie lndustrielle, a society which has been recently 

 formed to promote the organisation and development 

 of industrial chemistry in France, will deliver an 

 address on "The Alsace Potash Deposits and their 

 Economic Significance in relation to Terms of Pea 

 to the London Section of the Society of Chemical 

 Industry on Monday next, November 4; the meet- 

 ing will be held at the moms of the Society of 

 Arts, John Street, Adelphi, at 7.^0 p.m. M. Kestner 

 is being entertained to luncheon on thai daj bi 

 Soiieu of Chemical Industry, and the company will 

 include Lord Moulton, Lord Burnham, Sir Robej 

 I I. nil" Id, sir Alfred Keogh; Si. Alfred Mond, Si, 

 Arthur Churchman, Sir Charles Parsons, Sir Boverton 

 Redwood, Profs. Louis, Pope, and Armstrong, Dr. 

 Reane, and other distinguished chemists and engineers, 



Ihe Sheriffs of the City of London, ami several rheniiral 

 manufacturers representing ibis important industry. 

 The quests are invited by the Lord Mayor to b 

 the Mansion House in tin afternoon. 



\i ,1 meeting of the council of the Institute "I 



Chemistry, held on Octobei 15, it was reported by the 

 General Purposes Coxnmittei that thi position of tin 

 institute in connection with the proposals contained in 

 the \\ hitley report had been undei consideration. A 

 b 1 lei had been addressed to the Minister of Labour 

 pointing out that, although modern productive in- 

 dustry depended so much on the work of .chemists, 

 1 n: ni . and the like, such technical experts do not 

 have am i>l. 1. ' in thi 1 onstitutkm of the 



