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Upon inquiry made shortly before going to press 
yesterday we learned with regret that Sir David Gill 
was not quite so well; his condition is still a cause 
of anxiety. 
WE record with regret the death on Wednesday 
morning, January 21, in his ninety-fourth year, of 
Lord Strathcona, High Commissioner in London for 
the Dominion of Canada, and Chancellor of McGill 
University, Montreal, and the University of Aberdeen. 
Tue Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Peters- 
burg has elected Sir Edward Thorpe as a correspond- 
ing member. 
Mr. G. W. Hess has been appointed to succeed the 
late Mr. C. Leslie Reynolds, as superintendent of the 
National Botanic Garden, Washington. 
Mr. J. I. Craic has been transferred from the 
directorship of the meteorological section of the 
Egyptian Survey Department to the controllership of 
the Department of Statistics, and has been succeeded 
at the survey by Mr. H. E. Hurst. 
Mr. W. D. Marks, formerly Whitney professor of 
dynamic engineering at the University of Penn- 
sylvania, has died at the age of sixty-four. He had 
been consulting engineer to several of the leading 
American cities, and was the author of a large number 
of scientific reports and papers. y 
Tue death is reported, in his sixty-eighth year, of 
Dr. S. C. Chandler, of Wellesley, Mass. From 1864 
to 1870 he served on the U.S. Coast Survey. He then 
spent fifteen years as a life insurance actuary. In 
1896 he became editor of The Astronomical Journal, 
In recognition of his researches, Dr. Chandler had re- 
ceived the Watson gold medal, and the gold medal of 
the Royal Astronomical Society. 
Mr. A. H. Core, a well-known American writer and 
lecturer on biological subjects, has died at Chicago at 
the age of fifty-seven. He had been connected suc- 
cessively with the Peddie Institute, Colgate Univer- 
sity, the University of Chicago, and the Chicago 
Teachers’ College. He developed a method of demon- 
strating the movement of sap in the leaves of plants, 
and also a plan of teaching biology from living plants 
and animals with a projection microscope. He also 
made important contributions to the production of 
anaesthesia in animals used in zoological laboratories. 
Recent American obituary includes the name of 
Prof. Winslow Upton, for nearly thirty years head of 
the department of astronomy at Brown University, 
Providence, R.I., and director of the Ladd Observa- 
tory since its erection in 1891. He was born in 1853, 
and held various posts in connection with the U.S. 
Lake Survey, the U.S. Naval Observatory, and the 
U.S. Signal Service, before receiving his academic 
appointment. He had taken part in several important 
eclipse expeditions, and in 1896-7 was absent on leave 
from Brown University for work at the southern 
station of Harvard University at Arequipa, Peru. 
Tue City of London Entomological and Natural 
History Society and the North London Natural History 
NO. 2308, VOL. 92] 
NATURE 
[JANUARY 22, I9I4 
Society have been amalgamated to form the London 
Natural History Society. Meetings of the new society 
are held at Hall 20, Salisbury House, Finsbury Circus, 
London, on the first and third Tuesdays of the month. 
The new society starts its career with 190 members 
and sixty associates, and it has branches at Chingford 
and Woodford. Mr. L. B. Prout is president, and 
Mr. T. R. Brooke, 12 Warren Road, Chingford, with 
Mr. J. Ross, 18 Queen’s Grove Road, Chingford, are 
joint secretaries. 
Tue late Capt. Scott's original journals written 
during his expedition to the south pole, have been 
placed on view in the manuscript department of the 
British Museum. The journals are to be exhibited to 
the public for an indefinite period, and it is to be 
hoped they may remain permanently in the British 
Museum. The records are contained in nine large 
notebooks, in which are the entries, written in ink, 
made on board the Terra Nova and after the party 
had landed at its headquarters ; and six smaller books, 
of which three were used for the earlier sledging 
journeys, and three were taken to the pole. 
Tue views of Mr. R. Mond on the desirability of 
feeding infants on raw milk and the little danger of 
tuberculous infection thefefrom, referred to in NATURE, 
January 8, p. 537, have, according to The Times, 
aroused considerable interest. Mr, Charles Bathurst, 
M.P., speaking at a meeting of the Gloucestershire 
Farmers’ Union, expressed his concurrence with the 
views of Mr. Mona, and submitted that the Royal 
Commission on Tuberculosis in its final report had 
gone far beyond its own experiments in assuming 
that human and bovine tuberculosis are intercom- 
municable. Sir James Barr and Dr. Latham, on the 
other hand, consider that there is a real danger of 
contracting tuberculosis from raw milk. 
A LEAGUE, entitled the ‘‘ Lega Nazionale per la Prote- 
zione dei Monumenti Naturali,’’ has recently been 
formed in Italy for the protection of the fauna and 
flora of the country, and of such geological and geo- 
graphical features as are of scientific and esthetic 
interest. The existence of these objects of natural 
beauty and interest is now threatened from various 
sides, and to so great an extent that concerted action 
is necessary for their preservation. The headquarters 
of the league are in Rome, Prof. R. Pirotta, the 
director of the Royal Botanical Institute of Rome, 
being president of the organising committee. The 
association hopes to accomplish its object by the assist- 
ance of (1) an active propaganda, including publica- 
tions, conferences, excursions, &c.; (2) legislative 
enactments for the safeguarding of natural objects of 
interest ; (3) the establishment of reserves and national 
parks. The executive council includes a zoologist, i 
botanist, a geologist, a geographer, and an agricul 
turist. 
Tue probability that another Antarctic expedition 
will be in the field at the same time and in the same 
quarter as Sir Ernest Shackleton’s appears to afford 
reason for nothing but satisfaction, as the objects of 
the two are not mutually exclusive. Dr. Felix Konig 
intends to lead an Austrian expedition from Buenos 
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