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NATURE 
[DECEMBER II, 1913 
NOTES. 
Tue council of the British Association, acting 
under authority of the general committee, has made 
the following grants out of the gift of 10,oool. made 
to the association for scientific purposes by Sir J. K. 
Caird at the Dundee meeting of the association last 
year :—(1) sool. to the committee on radio-telegraphic 
investigations; (2) an annual grant of rool. to the 
committee on seismological investigations, which is 
carrying on the work of the late Prof. John Milne, 
F.R.S.; (3) an annual grant of rool. to the committee 
appointed to. select and assist investigators to carry 
on work at the zoological station at Naples; (4) 250l. 
towards the cost of the magnetic re-survey of the 
British Isles, which has been undertaken by the Royal 
Society and the British Association in collaboration. 
For the Australian meeting of the British Associa- 
tion in August next year, under the presidency of 
Prof. W. Bateson, F.R.S., the following presidents 
of sections have been appointed:—A (Mathematics 
and Physics), Prof. F. T. Trouton, F.R.S.; B (Chem- 
istry), Prof. W. J. Pope, F.R.S.; C (Geology), Sir 
T. H. Holland, K.C.1.E., F.R.S.; D (Zoology), Prof. 
A. Dendy, F.R.S.; E (Geography), Sir C. P. Lucas, 
K.C.M.G.; F (Economics), Prof. E. C. K. Gonner; 
G (Engineering), Prof. E. G. Coker: H (Anthro- 
pology), Sir Everard im Thurn, K.C.M.G.; I (Physio- 
logy), Prof. C. J. Martin, F.R.S.; K (Botany), Prof. 
F. O. Bower, F.R.S.; L (Educational Science), Prof. 
J. Perry, F.R.S.; M (Agriculture), Mr. A. D. Hall, 
F.R.S. 
Sir Pure Warts, K.C.B., F.R.S., has received 
the Order of the Rising Sun (Second Class) from the 
Emperor of Japan. 
Tue Royai Society announces that the studentship 
on the foundation of the late Prof. Tyndall for scien- 
tific research on subjects tending to improve the con- 
ditions to which miners are subject has been awarded 
for the ensuing year to Mr. J. I. Graham, of Bentley 
Colliery, Doncaster, for an investigation into the cause 
of spontaneous combustion of coal, with special refer- 
ence to. gob-fires. 
Ar the annual general meeting of the Faraday 
Society, held on November 26, the following officers 
and council were elected to serve for the year 
1913-14 :—President, Sir Robert Hadfield, F.R.S.; 
Vice-Presidents, Dr. G. T. Beilby, F.R.S., Prof. K. 
Birkeland, W. R. Bousfield, K.C., Prof. Bertram Hop- 
kinson, F.R.S., Prof. A. K. Huntington, Dr. T. 
Martin Lowry, and Alexander Siemens; Treasurer, 
Dr. F. Mollwo Perkin; Council, R. Belfield, Dr. H. 
Borns, W. R. Cooper, Prof. F. G. Donnan, F.R.S.; 
Emil Hatschek, Dr. R. S. Hutton, Prof. A. W. 
Porter, F.R.S., E. H. Rayner, Dr. R. Seligman, 
and Maurice Solomon. 
Ir is proposed to establish a permanent memorial to 
the late Sir William White, K.C.B., F.R.S. The In- 
stitution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Mechanical 
Engineers, Institution of Naval Architects, Iron and 
Steel Institute, Royal Society of Arts, Institution of 
Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, North-East 
NO. 2302, VOL. 92| 
Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, In- 
stitute of Marine Engineers, and Institute of Metals, 
are stipporting the scheme, and jhave inyited their 
members to contribute. A general committee (under | 
the chairmanship of Lord Brassey) has been formed — % 
representing the engineering profession, the Navy anee : 
Merchant Service, and some Government Depart- — 
ments. The form which the memorial is to take in i 
depend upon the support which is given to tf 
scheme. It is requested that all cheques be crossed 
“Coutts and Co.,’’ and made payable to ‘*The ‘Sir 
William White Memorial Fund,’ and sent to Dr. — 
J. H. T. Tudsbery (hon. treasurer), Institution me 
Civil Engineers, Great George Street, Westminster, 
S.W. The general committee is thoroughly repre- 
sentative, and includes the president of the Royal 
Society, and other well-known men of science. The 
fund already amounts to 13681. 
Dr. R. T. Giazesroox, director of the National 
Physical Laboratory, asks us to supplement the article 
on the British radium standard contributed to our 
columns last week by Prof. Rutherford, with a refer- 
ence to the directions which have been issued for 
sending radium to the laboratory. In the case of 
radium it is necessary to be particularly careful as 
to its transmission. It is stated, therefore, in the 
circular describing the work undertaken by the labora- 
tory, that anyone wishing to send radium for test 
must advise the laboratory of his intention at least 
one day previous to sending the specimen. The letter 
of advice should state approximately the value of the 
specimen and the method by which it is being sent. 
All communications and specimens should be addressed 
to the Director, the National Physical Laboratory, 
Teddington, Middlesex, and all packages containing 
specimens should be marked clearly, ‘‘R. Depart- 
ment.” The laboratory takes no responsibility for the 
sample until it has actually arrived and a formal 
receipt acknowledging its arrival has been transmitted 
to the sender. Samples will be returned ordinarily 
by registered post, the sender being charged postage 
and registration fee. 
Ir has already been fully recognised that Capt. 
Scott’s second Antarctic Expedition was better served 
in the department of photography than any of its 
predecessors. The public should therefore welcome 
the opportunity of inspecting some 150 enlargements 
of Mr. H. G. Ponting’s exquisite photographs—and 
not the public alone, but those interested in zoology 
and the study of ice also. These photographs are on 
exhibition in the gallery of the Fine Art Society, 148 
New Bond Street. Some of the ice photographs are 
of extraordinary beauty and interest, such as the illus- 
tration of pressure ridges (No. 81) and that of the 
cliffs of the Barne Glacier (No. 109). The studies of 
seals and penguins are wonderful, and must represent 
the result of infinite patience in securing them. Many 
of the photographs are known from lectures and the 
book of the expedition, but in their present form they” 
allow of closer inspection and fuller appreciation. It 
need scarcely be said that the familiar figures» of 
members of the expedition frequently appear, and add 
to the interest of the collection. 
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