February 27. [.919 



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will elucidate all the cultural development of the 

 nation. Thus the museum will comprise, in addition 

 to the collections ol fine art and the national poi 

 exhibits elucidating th< evolution oi all the arts and 

 crafts and their application to all branches ol human 

 activity. The same applies to the application ol 

 science to the industries and the exploitation of the 

 natural resources 'ii the country a subject in which 

 Mr. Roost el 00k .1 profound and practical in 

 It is proposed that the building shall tx 

 Washington. We wish tht schemi all success. 



Summer time will be brought into force this 

 the morning of Sunda; , . and will continui 



until the night ol Sunday-Mo 



We announce with much regret the death on 

 Febi uary Dr. 



F. Du Cant Godman, F R.S., trustee ol th< British 

 Museum, and distinguished fot his work in natural 

 history, especially ornithology. 



\\ i notici with regret tht announcement of the 

 death, in his fifty-seventh year, of Lt.-Col. A. M. 

 Paterson, professor ol anatomj in the Univers 

 Livt rp -pi esident of the Ana- 



Great Bt itain and Ireland. 



The Linen Industry Research Association ol Belfast 

 is about to appoint a dit -.arch at a salary 

 of not les- than tcool. per year. 1 candi- 

 date will bi expected to make a survey of the • ntire 

 field of research in the linen industry, 

 programme of research, and to org super- 

 vise the carrying out of the scheme. 



Dr. T. A. Henry, superintendent of the labo 



at the Imperial Institute, London, has been appi 

 director of the Wellcome Chemical Research Labora- 

 tories, London. Dr. F. I., l'vnian, the former direc- 

 tor of the-. -, has accepted 'he professor- 

 ship of technoloj ch nistry in the Collegi of 

 Technology . I nh ei sit ■ ol Man. h 



I 1 is intended to hold a discussion on " M 



in the Industries " at the meeting oi the Phi 



-, on Friday, March 28, at the Imperial College 

 of Scienci . South Kensington. Sir R. T. Glazebrook, 

 Director ol the National Physical Laboratory, has 

 promised to introduce th.- discussion, and it i- ex- 

 pected that several ol th.' leading authorities on fine 

 measurements will take part. 



tlh lecture of the series arranged bv the 

 Industrial Reconstruction Council will be held it 

 Saddit re' 1 [all, Chea] E.< >., on Wedne 



March 5. The chair will be taken at 4.30 b\ Sir 

 Georgi Riddel 1, B pt entitled "Indus- 



trial Changes Caused In the War" will he delivered 

 i.\ Prof. \. \\ . Kirkaldy, Universitj ol Birmingham. 

 Appi.. ckets should I..- made to th. Secre- 



tary, Industrial Reconstruction Council, 2 and 4 I 

 I < '■» 



ruesday, March 4, Prot II. Maxwell Lefroj 

 will deliver a lecturt at the Royal Institution on 

 how silk is grown and made mulberrj silk, and ..n 

 March it on insect problems. The Fridaj evening 

 discourse on March 7 will bi delivered h\ Prof. 

 II. C. H. Carpenter on the hardening ol steel; on 

 March 14, Prof. A. Keith 01 ol hearing 



from a new point of view. On Saturday, March 8, 

 Sir J. J. Thomson will give the fit urse ol 



si\ lectures on spectrum analysis and it- applii 

 to atomic structure. Prof. Hele-Shaw's lectures or 

 "Clutches," announced foi March 4 and 11. are un- 

 avoidably postponed until 



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.th of Mr. Henry Bell 

 February 17. An account of his career 

 rs in the Engineei for Februar) 21. Mr. 

 \\ ..rtl. j was • mi mber of the firm oi stean 

 rs, Alfred Holt and Co., of Liverpoi 



hi- ,|. ath. lie was ii 

 naval ardiitect with various firms on the I 

 tier joining the Liverpool linn he was respon 

 a features in h -1 manj -hips belonging 



1 Holt Co. Mi W .nil. j was a member of thi 

 Institution of Civil Engineers and the Institution of 



! Vrchitects. During the war he took an ai 

 part in placing Liverpool in the forefronl as a muni- 

 tion-producing area. 



I nr: next ordinal} scientific meeting of the Chemical 

 Society will he held at Burlington House on Thursday. 

 March 6, at ,s p.m., when Prof. J. W. Nicholson will 

 entitled "Emission Spectra and 

 Atomic Structure." It was announced at the mi 

 held on February 20 that the following chart 

 list of officers and council had been proposi 

 council: — President: Sir James J. Dobbie. \. 

 I . -Presidents : Dr. II. J. II. Fenton and Prof. 

 - Walker. New" Ordinary Members of Council: 

 Ah. J. A. Gardner, Prof. F. E. Francis, Dr. C. A. 

 Keane, and Sir Robert Robertson. The anniversary 

 dinner of the society will be held in the Connaught 

 Rooms, Great Queen Street, W.C.2, on Thursday, 

 March 27, at 6.4; for 7 o'clock. 



We extract from the Lancet the following obitt 

 notice of Prof. R. Blanchard, who died on Februan 8 

 at sixty-one years of age. Prof. Blanchard had occupied 

 for long the chair of parasitology at the faculty id 

 medicine in Paris, and his great reputation in Fran., 

 and abroad was due to his works on medical zoology, 

 and particularly to his researches on the animal 

 carriers of pathogenic germs and their role in the 

 propagation of epidemics. The "Traite de Zoologie 

 Medicale," in two volumes, firsl appeared in 1886 

 \t the time ..I his death he was engaged on the greal 

 task of a history of medicine, and had made some 

 progress in the publication of a corpus inscriptionnni 

 devoted to medicine and biology. His diligence was 

 incredible. Prof. Blanchard was secretary to the 

 Acaderm of Medicine, and he founded the French 

 Society for the History of Medicine, the Colonial 

 Institute of Medicine, and the French Congress of 

 Zoology. For twenty years he acted as general secre- 

 tary to the Zoological Society of France. Owing to 

 th. part which he took at several of the Inter- 

 national Congresses of Medicine he became a well- 

 known figure abroad. 



Mathematicians and astronomers will learn with 

 much regret thai news has been received through a 



pondent in Stockholm announcing the death of 

 Alexander Michailovitch Liapounoff. He i- said to 

 have died at Odessa by his own hand as a result of 

 the Bolshevist regime, but we have no means of con- 

 firming the report. Liapounoff held the chair of 



I mathematics in the Petrograd Academy. Mi- 

 nion- important papers were published mainly in the 

 Memoirs of the Academy and in Liouville's Journal. 

 Unfortunately for English nadirs, a number 

 written in Russian, onl) summaries and abstracts 

 Ming in French. Hi- earlier wank lay in the 

 direction of broad, general theorems in hvdro- 

 mics and the theory of gravitating masses. His- 

 later, and perhaps best-known, work dealt with die 

 stability of thi pear-shaped figun of a rotating mass 



lid, .1 problem of the first importance to theories 

 ol cosmogony. Poincar^ had developed a method for 

 the analytical discussion of thi problem in 1901, but 



