November 14. [918 



NATURE 



213 



I hi follow i <>i those w ho have bei n 



recommended by ih«- president and council of the 

 Royal Society t.>r election into the council for the 

 ensuing year al the anniversan meeting on Novem- 

 ber 30 : President: Sii Joseph "Thomson. Treasurer: 

 Sir Alfred Kempe. Prof. Arthur Schustei 



and Mi. W. B. I 1 pi Secretary: Prof. 



\\ \ Herdman. Olln-r Members o) the Council: 

 Beilbv, Prof. V. II. Blackman, Mr. 

 (". V. Bovs, Sir lames I. Dobbie, Sir Frank W. 

 Dyson, Or. M. O. Forster, Prof. F. W. Gamble, Dr. 



I. W. I.. Glaisher, Sir Richard Glazebrook, Sir 

 \lfred I). Hall, sir William Leishman, Prof. \\ . |. 

 Pope, Dr. W. II. R. Rivers, Prof. E. H. Starling, 

 Mr. J. Swinburne, and Prof. \V. \Y. Watts. 



I mi of assistants of the Salti rs' I 



has appointed Dr. M. O. Forsti 1 . F.R.S., 

 Rrsl director of the Salters' Institute of Industrial 

 Chemistry referred to in Naturi of October 24. 

 Sino [uly, 1015, Dr. Forstei has been chairman ol 

 the technical committee of British Dyes, Ltd., and 

 was, until recently, a member of the b 

 direi h 



In view of the urgenl necessity f< pr incurring 

 preliminary expenditui restation purposes, an 



interim authority has been - I up to earn out the 



irk pending the passing of legi 

 setting up permanent for the purpose. A 



supplementary estimate of the sum of too.oool. has 

 been made fur this authority. 



We regret to learn of the death al Utrecht, on 

 October 2 i , of Prof. II. E. J. G. du Bois, well known 

 to physicists by his numerous valuabl. contributions to 

 tin*- knowledge of magnetism and related - 

 Prof, du Bois was just beginning his work in the 

 new Bosscha Laboratory which the Dutch Govern- 

 in nl had built for him at Utrecht. 



I ni de ttfa ol Mr. Ed .■. ai d Bi nnis 1- announced in 



neer foi Novembei 8. VIr. Bennis was born 



ducated at the Quaker College ol 



Newtown, in Waterford. II. ■• : 'l be remembered foi 



his inventions of mechanical stokers, and for his work 



in connection with problems I -moke abatement. 



On Wednesda) , No p nia ■ iddri - 



of the 165th session of the Royal Society of Arts will 

 be delivered by Mr. Alan A. Campbell Swinton, 

 chairman of the council. The subject of thi 

 will be "Science and the Future." I In chair will be 

 taken al 4.30. 



Al the students' meeting of the Institution ol Elec- 

 trical Engineers, to be held on Friday, November 22, 

 al 7 p.m., at King's College, Strand, an address on 

 "The Permeability of Fainth Magnetic Materials," 

 1 iments, \\ ill be given In Pi of. 

 Ernes) Wilson. 



owing ha s of the 



Cambridge Philosophical Society for the ensuing ses- 

 sion [918-19: President: Mr. C. T. R. Wilson. 

 idents: I)r. Don, aster, Mr. W. II. Mills, 

 and Prof. Marr. Treasurer: Prof. Hobsoi 



Mr. A. Wood, Mr. G. II. Hardy, and Mr. 



II. II, Brindley. Sew Members oj the I 



Baker, Prof. Newall, and Dr. Fenton. 



During the coming session the meetings of the 

 British Association Geophysii il < ommittee will be 

 held on the third Tuesdays of November, Januarv, 

 February, Much, May, and June al the Royal Astro- 

 nomical Society. Al the meeting on November 19, al 

 t| p.m., Mr. R I) Oldham will open a discussion 

 on "The Constitution of the Earth's Interior." Thi 



Il with at the January and later 

 meetings will be seiches, seismology, terrestrial mag- 

 netism, geodesy, and atmospheric electricity. 



Ai the anniversarj meeting ol the Mineralogical 

 Society, held on November 5, the following officers 

 and members of council wen elected President: 

 Sir William P. Real., Han. Vice-Presidents : Prof. II. L. 

 Bowman and Mr. A. Hutchinson. Treasurer: Dr. 

 J. W. Evans. General Secretary: Dr. G. T. Prior. 



\n Secretary: Prof. W. W. Watts. Edito 

 the Journal: Mr. L. J. Spencer. Ordinary Mem 



■until: Mr. H. Collingridge, Mr. T. Crook Dr 

 G. F. Herbert Smith, Dr. II. II. Thomas, Mr. H. F. 

 Collins, Mr. I. 1'. De Castro, Prof. II. Hilton, Lieut. 

 \. Russell, Dr. A. Holmes, Miss M. \y. Porter, Mr 

 R. II. Rastall, and Sir J. J. H. 'lead. 



The council of the Chemical Societj has a: 

 foi three lectures, bearing on the ultimate con 

 tion of matter, to be delivered during the present 

 session. The first lecture, entitled "The Conception oi 

 the Chemical Element as Enlarged by (he Sue 

 Radio-active Chant;.," will be delivered by Prof. F. 

 Soddy at the ordinarj scientific meeting to be held 

 at Burlington House on Thursday, December 19, at 

 8 p.m. Four informal meetings of the soi ii 

 will be held during the present session. The 

 object of these meetings is to give fellows greater 

 facilities for social intercourse than are afforded 

 l.\ the ordinary scientific meetings. The first will be 

 held at Burlington House on Thursday, November 21, 

 al 8 p.m., when the following exhibits will be on 

 view :- Specimens illustrating the manufacture of sac- 

 charin (Boots Pun Drug Co., Ltd.), optical glass 

 (Chance Bros, and Co., Ltd., and the Derby Crown 

 Glass Co., Ltd.), tungsten products (Ediswan Electric 

 Co., Ltd.), photographic chemicals (Ilford, Ltd.), fine 

 chemicals (T. Morson and Son, Ltd.), and apparatus 

 (Silica Syndicate, Ltd.). 



We regret to record the death of Sir James William 

 Restler on November 4. Sir James was born in 1851, 

 and was chief engineer to the Metropolitan Watel 

 Board. From an account of his career which appears 

 in Engineering for November 8, we learn thai hi 

 completed his education at King's College, London, 

 and received his professional training with the firm 

 of Messrs. John Aird and Sons. In 1883, as 1 hid 

 engineer to the late Southwark and Y.iuxhall Water 

 Co., he carried out works of nitude, 



im aiding the construction of reservoirs having a 

 capacity of 1,750,000^000 gallons, and filter-beds cover- 

 ing tvventy-threi acres. Sir James designed the Honor 

 Oak reservoir, which was opened in [909. He fre- 

 quently gave technical evidence before Royal Com- 

 missions and at Parliamentary inquiries. He was a 

 member of council of the Institution of Mechanical 

 Engineers, and had been 1 lected a member of council 

 of ih" Institution .if Civil Engineers for the current 

 session. 



Prof. G. Brum, of the R. [stituto Tecnico 

 Superiore, Milan, writes to suggest that now the 

 I )ardai lied bj Bi itish and Allied Fi n 



a monument to the memory of II. I.. J. Mo 

 should bi erected at the place where he died. "A call 



for a subscription to this end would be enthusiastically 

 answered, n.u onh in Greal Britain, but also through 

 all tin Vllied countries." While fully appreciating 

 Prof. Bruni's suggestion, some of Moseli 



..I much in favour id the erection ol a 



monument at such a distant and inaccessibli 



Xo doubt inclusive memorials will the 



various Govi those who fell al thi Dar- 



II s, and it would be a little invidious 1.. pick out 



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