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NATURE 



[February 20, 19 19 



i i' 1 obtain tin 



cti >t lie on 1I1, 1 i and cloth- 

 ing ol everj oci upant ol 1 In building. I he pow< 

 conferred under thi new Ordei should bi ol considei 

 i'li value ui the control of the diseases named, somi 

 of which are almosi n< \ to Bi itain. 



The death of Mr. Stephen Reynolds .11 Sidmouth 

 un l-\ In ii.u \ 14, iii his thirty- i deprives the 



country of oni whosi work foi British fisheries will 



not ii in 1 11 fo 1. As adviser on inshore fisheries ti 



I In 1 ii 1 lommission, .mil 1 esident inspi 1 ti 



ol fisheries for the south-western area, Mr. Reynolds's 

 practical knowledge and sympatjietii interesl have 

 been of the utniosl valui in developing the fisheries 

 of Devon and Cornwall, and the gap caused by hi- 

 death will be difficult to fill. Mr. Reynolds was 

 B.Sc. uf the University of Manchester, and studied 

 at tin Ecole des Vlines in Paris, but ill-health led 

 him to changi his plans foi a career, and in [903 he 

 became- associated with the Woollej Brothers, fisher- 

 men, at Sidmouth, with one of whom he worked foi 

 lli- was thus brought into close contaci 

 with the problems ol English fisheries and fishermen, 

 whose interests he eloquently advocated in mam 

 articles and other writings. The movement in favour 



of the further development of inshore and longs! 



fisheries was initiated In Mr. Reynolds, practically as 

 the result ol a remarkable series of articles in the 

 Times uf February 7, to, -ml 17, [912. rhese were 

 followed by the appointment "l Mr. Cecil Harmsworth's 

 committee consisting ol members of Parliament, and 

 then by the Departmental Committee on Inshon 

 Fisheries, which reported in April, 1914, and of which 

 Mr. Reynolds was a member. The outbreak of wat 

 prevented legislation liased on the report, but special 

 activities — those of the Fish Food and Motor I. nan 

 Committee — were directed to the increased productivity 

 of the smaller fisheries, and Mr. Reynolds took a 

 prominent part in the practical working out of tin 

 schemes promoted under the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries. He was a most zealous inspector, and 

 knew his district and men as no one else did. 

 Though not a scientific investigator himself, he was 

 still alert to any discoveries, and keen to apply them. 

 He was widely human in his outlook on the fishing 

 industry, thinking far more of the fishermen than of 

 the material side of their occupation. He possessed 

 philosophic insight into the results of modern scientific 

 investigation, and a year or two ago had developed 

 a svstem which applied to mental evolution Bergson's 

 &dn vital, ft is to be regretted that he was unable 

 to publish this work. 



Lt.-Col. Sir Mark Sykes, Bart., M.P., whose 

 death occurred in Paris on February H>, in his fortieth 



made a close study of peoples and customs of 

 the East, and was the author of several notable works 

 upon them. His latest volume, "The Caliph's Last 

 Heritage,' published in 1915, i s largelj concerned 

 with his travels in Asiatic Turkey in 1906-13, and 

 Covers Id in Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan. 



Asia Minor, Turkish Armenia, and a journey in 

 Lower Egypt. His personal narratives are full of 

 vigour and reality, often highly and truly picturesque. 

 and constant!- nn^. Among Sii Mark Sykes's 



nth. 1 winks ar< I ugh Five Turkish Provinci 

 and " Dar-ul-Islam : Five Mansions of the House ol 

 Othman." He mapped the north-west region of Meso- 

 potamia and the desei 1 south "I Jerusalem, and in 

 the course of his travels made road-maps of fr 1 

 thousand miles of road previous!) unmapped in Asiat 

 Turke\. His intimate knowledge of Eastern peoples 

 was of great value-, and manj will regret that the 

 Empire should be deprived in ihese times of a states- 

 man of his understanding anil capacity. 



NO. 2573, VOL. I02*] 



Sir Roper Lb i hbridge, w hose d< ath at thi .<_ 



seventy-nine is annoum ed, 



position in thi Indian educational service, and, on his 

 retirement, in English public life. Aftei a distin- 

 guished careei at Oxford he was ap] ited Govern- 



1111 111 pi .'I. SSOl of polilii al n\ in the I ni' - 



Of ( '.ill lit ta, Ii. 1 am. -r, 1,-1.11 J ol tin .;, _ 



mission in [877, and then held the post ol Political 

 Agent. Sii Ropei Lethbridge was best known in 



I H'lia as Pi ess ( , ,i! ssi foi ill, supi ■ 



thi ■ , 1 nacular Pri ss, I [e made a particuli 1 - 

 Imperial Preference as it 1 - lia. Onhisreturn 



to P. in; Ian, I In becami Meml I Parliament Foi North 



Kensington, and held many public offices, 

 them president of tin- Devonshire Association and 

 member of tin Exeter Diocesan Board of Education. 

 Sir Roper Lethbridge |...ss, ,, n | a wide knowledgi 

 Indian affairs and of English public life. 



Mr. Thomas Ci vrkson has been elected president of 

 the Institution of Automobili Engineers foi thi ensuing 



year. 



Sir Oliver Lodge will deliver the Friday evening 



discourse at the Royal Institution on February 28 at 

 5.30 p.m. on "Ether and Matter." Owing to indis- 

 position, Prof. J. A. McClelland will he unabk to 

 delivei his discourse on "Nuclei and Ions," as 

 announced. 



At the annual meeting of the Malacological Society 

 of London, held on February 14, Mr. G. K. Gude was 

 elected president in succession to Mr. J. R. I. P. 

 Tomlin. Mr. Gude has for the past nine years tilled 

 the office of hon. secretan ol the society. 



We learn from Science that tin National Geographic 

 Society has presented the Hubbard gold medal to Mr. 

 V. Stefansson, whose explorations during the last ti\. 

 and a half years in the Arctic regions have resulted 

 in the reduction of the unknoyvn polar regions of tin 

 western hemisphere by approximately 100,000 square 

 miles. 



Tin; death is announced, in his fortieth year, of Dr. 

 \V. Erskine Kellicott, professor of biology at the Col- 

 lege of the City of New York. Dr. "kellicott had 

 previously held for several years a similar chair at 

 Goucher College, Baltimore, and from [908 to 1917 

 was directoi ol thi Marine Biological Laboratory at 

 Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He- had written several 

 books mi evolution, embryology, and kindred subjects. 



We regret to note that the death of Mr. George 

 Pauling is recorded in Engineering for February 14. 

 Mr. Pauling yvas tin- senior partner in the firm of 

 Pauling and Co., Ltd., which constructed the whole 

 of the Rhodesian railways, in addition to many mil' s 

 of line in other parts of South Africa. From [894 

 to 1896 he served as Minister of Mines and Public 

 Works in Rhodesia, and was also a member of tin 

 Executive Council. 



The following officers and council of the Roval Astro- 

 nomical Society were elected at the annual general unit- 

 ing on February 14 : President : Prof. A. Fowler. 

 Vice-Presidents: sir F. \\ . Dyson, Astronomer Roval, 

 Dr. J. W. L.Glaish.-r, Major P. A. MacMahon, and Prof. 

 II. F. Newall. Treasurer: Mr. E. B. Knobel. Secre- 

 taries: Dr. A. C. D. Crommelin and Rev. T. E. R. 

 Phillips. Foreign Secretary: Prof. II. II. Turn. 1 . 

 Council: Prof. A. E. Conrady, Dr. J. 1.. E. Drever, 

 Prof. A. S. Eddington, Brig.^Gen. E. 1 1. Hills, Mr. 

 |. II. feans, Or. Han, Id Jeffreys, Mr. II. S. fones, 

 Lt.-Col.' H. 0. Lyons, Mr. E. W. Maun, I,,. Dr. \V. II 

 Maw, Prof. J. W. Nicholson, and Lt.-Col. F. J. M 

 Stratton. 



