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academic work and in industry have been privileged to 
train a second generation of men—your chemical 
grandchildren—whose labours it is hoped may add 
further testimony to the. inestimable value of your 
guidance and example. 
As a permanent tribute of our gratitude and affec- 
tion towards you and in grateful remembrance of all 
your kindnesses and encouragement to us, we desire, 
on this occasion, to present your bust to the Chemical 
Society of London. We trust this proposal will com- 
mend itself to you, and that it will be some pleasure 
to you and your children to know that such an asso- 
ciation with the representative Chemical Society of 
this country will be established for all time. 
We sincerely wish that you may be spared to enjoy 
further years of good health, happiness, and activity. 
The address had been signed by about 140 of 
Sir Henry’s former students, many of whom now 
occupy responsible positions both in academic 
work and in association with chemical industries, 
and are to-day distributed not only in all parts 
of the United Kingdom, but also in Germany, 
Russia, Canada, the United States of America, 
Australia, South Africa, and Japan. 
Sir Edward Thorpe then unveiled the bust of Sir 
Henry Roscoe, and on behalf of the subscribers 
asked the president of the Chemical Society to 
accept it as a permanent memento from Sir 
Henry’s former students of his lifelong association 
with, and interest in, the welfare of the society. 
Sir Edward also extended to Mr. Albert 
Drury, R.A., the thanks of the committee for the 
excellent and striking likeness that he had secured. 
He also asked Sir Henry to accept as a further 
memento from his students a replica of the bust 
for himself and the members of his family, which 
was in course of preparation, 
The gift to the Chemical Society was acknow- 
ledged by the president, Prof. W. H. Perkin, 
F.R.S., who said he feit sure that it would be a 
great pleasure to the members of the council and 
to the fellows of the society to place the bust in a 
fitting position, in their rooms, where they would 
always value it as a token of the great admiration 
and affection they all had for Sir Henry Roscoe. 
He also expressed to Sir Henry Roscoe the appre- 
ciation of the fellows of the society for his con- 
tinued interest in the society, and for the valuable 
donations that he had given them, especially in 
connection with their library. 
Sir Henry Roscoe, in acknowledging the gifts 
both to himself personally and to the Chemical 
Society, expressed the great pleasure that it gave 
him to be present, and to say how deeply touched 
he was by this renewed expression of esteem and 
affection thus shown to him by his old pupils. 
““No honours, no rewards, can, I think,’’ he said, 
“compare with this, and to these men, whom I like 
to look upon as my scientific sons, come my heartfelt 
thanks. To their kindness rather than to my own 
deserts is this fresh recognition due, for looking back 
over my fourscore years of life, 1 see how small the 
deeds, great though the will may have been. To 
you, Sir Edward Thorpe, as chairman of the com- 
mittee, as well as to Dr. Charles Keane, the secretary, 
and to the other members of the committee, my 
special thanks are due. I thank the Chemical Society 
through you, Mr. President, for the great honour it 
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has done me by placing my effigy in its library. I _ 
cannot flatter myself that the coming generation of — 
fellows of the Chemical Society, will look upon my 
face with the veneration with which they will gaze on 
the features of the great masters whose busts adorn — 
your walls, but if the sight of this one recalls to their — 
memory that this was a man who loved his science, 
his teaching, and his students, and if that sight helps — 
to imbue them witha like love, then perhaps my bust in 
your library may be of some use. Now, my friends, I 
thank you all, and wish you all God-speed.” 
NOTES. 
We regret greatly to announce that Sir Robert S. — 
Ball, F.R.S., Lowndean professor of astronomy and 
geometry in the University of Cambridge, and director 
of the Cambridge Observatory, died on ‘Tuesday, 
November 25, at seventy-three years of age. 
Tue Home Secretary has appointed a Committee 
to inquire what acticn has been taken under the Wild 
Birds Protection Acts for the protection of wild birds, 
and to consider whether any amendments of the law 
or improvements in its administration are required. 
‘The members of the Committee are:—The Hon. E. S. 
Montagu, M.P., Under-Secretary of State for India 
(chairman); Lord Lucas, Parliamentary Secretary to 
the Board of Agriculture; Mr. Frank Elliott, of the 
Home Office; Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, Mr. W. R. 
Ogilvie Grant, and Mr. Hugh S. Gladstone. The 
secretary to the Committee is Mr. H. R. Scott, of 
the. Home Office, to whom any communications on — 
the subject of the inquiry may be made. ' 
Tue death is announced, at fifty-one years of age, — 
of Mr. H. F. B. Lynch, well known by his extensive _ 
travels in the Middle East for purposes of scientific, — 
political, and commercial research, 
AN exhibition of one hundred and forty of the 
remarkable series of photographs, greatly enlarged, 
taken by Mr. H. G. Ponting during the British 
Antarctic Expedition of 1910-13, will be opened on 
Wednesday next, December 3, at the Fine Art Society, 
148 New Bond Street, London, W. 
Tue death is announced, in his fortieth year, of 
Dr. Ora W. Knight, who had been consulting chemist 
and assayer to the State of Maine since 1903. He 
had previously been assistant chemist at the Maine 
experiment station for several years. Dr. Knight — 
was known as an ornithologist and a botanist; he — 
was the author of a standard book on the birds of 
Maine, and his herbarium contained a nearly com- 
plete collection of the plants of that State. 
Tue death is announced of the veteran Italian 
geologist, Prof. Igino Cocchi, of Florence. He was 
born in 1828, and was one of the most active pioneers 
in stratigraphical geology in Italy. In 1867 he became 
the first president of the committee directing the 
Geological Survey of Italy, which he had been mainly 
instrumental in founding. Some of his studies were 
made in England, and he was elected a foreign corre- 
spondent of the Geological Society of London in 1874. 
THE Smithsonian Institution announces the follow- 
ing changes in the personnel of the department of 
