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‘that before all other cities, and above all other 
places, Glasgow is the city and the place for a 
statue of Lord Kelvin. Men like Lord Kelvin 
were seldom solitary voyagers, but rather leaders 
of a great company of thinkers and experimenters 
labouring to lighten the burden of suffering 
humanity. As a practical inventor as well as 
a thinker his claims appealed to all, and would 
_ continue to do so. It was therefore with pride 
and joy and confidence that he asked the City of 
Glasgow, for all time to come, to take good care 
_ of a beautiful memorial of a truly memorable man. 
* Principal Sir Donald MacAlister, in moving a 
‘vote of thanks to Mr. Birrell, said that the Lord 
*Rector had performed the ceremony with his ac- 
customed felicity, and had worthily expressed the 
homage of the city and University to one of its 
_ brightest ornaments. In the name of the sub- 
‘seribers, Prof. S. P. Thompson moved a vote 
of thanks to the sculptor; this was seconded by 
Prof. Perry, and Mr. Shannan replied. 
At the luncheon following on the unveiling of 
the statue to Lord Kelvin the toast, ‘‘The Memory 
of Lord Kelvin,” was proposed by the Rt. Hon. 
Arthur James Balfour, M.P. 
Mr. Balfour dwelt upon Lord Kelvin’s happy 
combination of great gifts, making him at once 
the greatest master of theory and a leading spirit 
in every department of practical affairs. His 
services to mankind, as man of business, inventor, 
‘teacher, investigator of the great problems of 
the universe, in order more and more to raise the 
material condition of mankind, rank him as 
greatest of the great ‘group of physicists 
who have paved the way for the scientific revolu- 
_ tion in the midst of which we. are’ living. Lord 
'Kelvin’s want of sympathy with those latter-day 
«speculations to which his own labours led up was 
not the imperviousness to ideas which comes of 
mental inertia. 
other men depénded at the moment upon the 
intense inner life that he led, which concentrated 
his attention upon certain lines of investigation, 
and made him almost oblivious of what was going 
on outside the current of his own thought. Great 
in knowledge, great in achievement, yet in him- 
self the most modest, the most eager, the most 
childlike—in the good sense of the word—of men, 
his record had never been surpassed in the whole 
annals of physical science. 
THE PREHISTORIC SOCIETY OF EAST 
ANGLIA. 
HE members of the Prehistoric Society of 
East Anglia are to be congratulated on the 
systematic manner in which they are studying the 
properties of flint, with special reference to the 
identification of human workmanship. In _ the 
latest part of their proceedings! Dr. W. Allen 
Sturge discussess the patina of flint implements, 
and concludes that it is produced entirely by ex- 
_ posure on the surface. Permanent burial appears 
not only to retard, but even to prevent, patination. 
1 Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, 1910-11, 1911-12, 
vol. i., pt. ii. “(fondon: H. K. Lewis, rorz.) 
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NATURE 
But what he would accept from’ 
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Mr. J. Reid Moir describes some experiments 
on the chipping of flints, and attempts to show 
that the flaking of a margin by natural causes is 
comparatively irregular, while the blows directed 
by man to produce such flaking are at definite 
angles with much regularity. He also demon- 
strates that flakes produced by natural pressure 
often exhibit a bulb at each end. Mr. F. N. 
Haward follows with additional notes on the 
chipping of flints by natural agencies, and con- 
cludes that much can be accounted for by move- 
ments in the ground. He instances particularly 
the chipping due to the creeping motion of gravel 
at the top of pipes in the chalk. 
Among descriptive papers may be specially 
mentioned that by Mr. J. Reid Moir on the much- 
discussed human skeleton discovered by him in a 
glacial deposit at Ipswich. Though interesting, 
it is by no means convincing in its argument that 
the skeleton lay in undisturbed ground; and the 
difficulty in believing that the human being in 
question lived before the deposition of the boulder 
clay is further enhanced by the report of Prof. 
A. Keith, who finds that there is no essential 
difference between this skeleton and that of a 
modern civilised man. 
There may also be differences of opinion about 
the supposed flint implements, described by Mr. 
W. G. Clarke, from the basement bed of the 
Norwich Crag, in Norfolk; but Dr. Sturge’s 
elaborate paper on Mousterian and other late 
Paleolithic flint implements from _ superficial 
deposits in East Anglia will be accepted without 
hesitation, and is all the more welcome from the 
abundance of French specimens which the author 
is able to select for comparison from his own 
cabinet. All the papers are well illustrated, but 
this one by Dr. Sturge especially so; and the 
only fault we have to find with them is their 
frequent diffuseness. A more concise and system- 
atic mode of expression might be adopted in future 
with advantage. 
NOTES. 
An extra meeting of the Chemical Society will be 
held at Burlington House, Piccadilly, W., on Thurs- 
day, October 23, at 8.30 p.m., when the Ladenburg 
Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Prof. F. Stan- 
ley Kipping, F.R.S. 
A LECTURE will be given under the auspices of the 
Swedenborg Society at the rooms of the Society of 
British Artists, Suffoll Street, on the evening of 
November 19, by Prof. W. B. Bottomley, of King’s 
College, London, on Swedenborg’s doctrine of the 
origin of life. Sir W. F. Barrett, F.R.S., will occupy 
the chair. 
Tue High Commissioner of the Federated Malay 
States has notified that, in consideration of the import- 
ance of the London School of Tropical Medicine to 
the Government, a sum of 5o00o0l. has been voted as a 
contribution to Mr. Austen Chamberlain’s appeal for 
100,000. for the endowment of the school. The grant. 
was made by the Legislative Council on the repre- 
