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the other subjects dealt with. The report gives an 
excellent summary of the researches, and is all the 
more useful as full references are given to the original 
apers in which they appear. Lord Moulton, Sir 
Clifford Allbutt, and Prof. Hay retire from the com- 
mittee, and their places are taken by Viscount 
Goschen, Dr. Chalmers, and Prof. Murray, and Major 
Waldorf Astor, M.P., becomes chairman, 
Tue death is announced from Paris of the Vicomte 
M, de Vogiié, a member of the French Academy, anda 
well-known writer and diplomat. Born in 1848, the 
late Vicomte served in the war of 1870, and after- 
wards entered the diplomatic service, and held appoint- 
ments successively at Constantinople, Cairo, and 
Petrograd. In 1873 his ‘‘ Voyage en Syrie et en Pales- 
tine,’’ published in the Revue des Deux Mondes, at- 
tracted much attention. He also edited a posthumous 
work of the Duc de Luynes entitled ‘‘ Voyage d’ex- 
ploration 4 la Mer morte, 4 Petra, et sur la rive gauche 
du Jourdain.’”’ The Vicomte de Vogiié was the author 
of several historical and other volumes, and did much 
to awaken French interest in the intellectual life of 
Russia. Since the outbreals of war he had been presi- 
dent of the Société de Secours aux Blessés. 
Tue French Academy of Sciences has just lost a mem- 
ber by the death of M. Léauté. Born in 1847, M. Léauté 
left the Polytechnic School as a Government indus- 
trial engineer (ingénieur des manufactures de l’Etat), 
and eventually became Director of Telephones. After 
writing some early papers on pure mathematics, he 
devoted himself to theoretical mechanics, and wrote 
important papers on linkages, transmission of power 
by cables, and regulators of hydraulic and_ other 
machines. By means of a differential equation and 
an associated graph, he successfully attacked the 
problem of the dangerous long-period oscillations of 
hydraulic machinery. In announcing his death to the 
Academy, the president directed attention to the fact 
that ‘his work is the best reply to those who fancy 
that theory and practice are irreconcilable, and that 
‘savants’ cannot render any useful service for the 
advance of industry, even if it is granted that they do 
not actually retard it.” 
A SMALL committee has been formed in Glasgow for 
the procuring of a suitable local memorial of the late 
Sir William Ramsay. It is proposed that the memo- 
rial shall be placed in the University buildings, per- 
haps in the Department of Chemistry. Ramsay was 
born in Glasgow, and received his education at the 
Academy and the University. For eight years he 
,held, in succession, the posts of assistant in the Young 
Laboratory of Technical Chemistry, and_ tutorial 
assistant to the Regius professor of chemistry, the 
late Dr. John Ferguson. He left Glasgow in 1880 
to become professor in University College, Bristol, 
but he always maintained close relations with the city 
and with the University, from which he received the 
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Lady Ramsay 
is a member of a well-known Glasgow family. The 
proposal of the Memorial Committee has received a 
large measure of support, and it has been thought 
expedient to limit the subscription to two guineas. 
Mr. H. B. Fyfe, B.L., of 115 St. Vincent Street, 
Glasgow, is acting as treasurer of the fund. 
_Appuications for the Government grant for scien- 
tific investigations for r9r7 must be made on printed 
forms obtainable from the clerk to the Government 
Grant Committee, Royal Society, Burlington House, 
W., and returned to reach the offices of the society 
by, at latest, January 1. ; 
To commemorate the fiftieth birthday of Dr. Sam. 
Eyde, the Norwegian inventor, the sum of 100,000 
NO. 2457, VOL. 98| 
NATURE 
[NovEMBER 30, 1916 
kroner has been set aside by the Norwegian Hydro- 
Electric Nitrogen Company for the formation of a Sam, 
Eyde Fund to be devoted to the advancement of chem- 
ical and physical research. “The fund is to be ad- 
ministered by the Board of the Nansen Fund, 
Tue death, on November 20, is announced, from 
wounds received on October 1, of Lieut. Corin H. B. 
Cooper, R.E. Mr, Cooper, after graduating in science 
at McGill College and University, Montreal, specialised 
in geology, and acted for a time as demonstrator 
under Profs. Adams and Bancroft at McGill Univer- 
sity. At the outbreak of the war he was engaged on 
Government survey work in the oilfields of the Rocky 
Mountains. ; 
WE regret to see the announcement of the death on 
November 23 of Mr. Charles Umney, the pharma- 
ceutical chemist, in his seventy-fourth year. He was 
chairman of the Chemical Section of the London ~ 
Chamber of Commerce, and we learn from the 
Chemist and Druggist that a measure of his ability 
and power was then afforded when he took Revenue 
representatives into his firm’s laboratories in order to 
watch the experiments that he devised and carried out 
for the purpose of ascertaining the loss of spirit in 
making liquid galenicals. Upon these experiments 
was based the rebate on exportation of spirituous — 
medicinal preparations under drawback. As a phar- 
macist pure and simple his history may be found in 
the records of the Pharmaceutical Society and the 
British Pharmaceutical Conference. For many years 
he was one of the society’s examiners. He worked for 
the conference as a paper contributor, a debater, mem- 
ber of the committee, and'in 1884 he became the — 
treasurer, holding that office until, in 1888, he was 
appointed president of the body, holding the office at 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1889 and at Leeds in 1890. 
Tue death of Mr. R. F. Mann, at the age of thirty- 
five, occurred on November 17. Mr. Mann had been 
an X-ray operator at the Middlesex Hospital during — 
the last seventeen years. He was the inventor of one 
of the earliest forms of localisers for use in the re- 
moval of foreign bodies from the limbs. In the years 
when the effects of X-rays upon malignant disease 
were being investigated, the risks to which the opera- 
tors were subject were not known, and it was during 
this period that he contracted X-ray dermatitis, which 
had a malignant termination. He underwent numer- 
ous operations during the last eight years, but bravely 
and loyally held to his work. Since the outbreak of 
war he had, in fact, added to his Work by undertaking 
the radiographic work at the Branch Military Hospital 
at Clacton (Middlesex Hospital), and later in connec- 
tion with the Duchess of Bedford’s Military Hospital 
at Woburn. 
Tue death, by accident, at Hadley Wood railway 
station, is announced of Capt. W. H. Jaques, of the 
United States Navy, known for his scientific work in 
connection with ordnance engineering and the produc- 
tion of early submarines. Capt. Jaques was born in 
Pennsylvania on December 24, 1848, and graduated 
at the U.S.-Naval Academy in 1867. He was an 
assistant on the U.S. Coast Survey in 1870-74; with 
the New York Board of Education, 1874-78; secretary 
of the U.S. Gun Foundry Board, 1883-85; and secre- 
tary of the Senate Commission on Ordnance and 
Warships, 1886-87, when he became superintendent of 
the gun factory at the Bethlehem works of the Car- 
negie Steel Co. Oapt. Jaques was a member of the 
Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of 
Mechanical Engineers, and the Iron and Steel Insti- 
tute, and an associate member of the Institution of 
Naval Architects. His scientific work was concerned 
chiefly with the manufacture of heavy ordnance, 
