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[JANUARY 25, 1917 
Entente is one of the most pressing at the present 
time. Hitherto, as is well known, we have been 
largely dependent on Germany for those yearly con- 
densed and detailed reviews of progress in the different 
branches of science which form such an indispensable 
aid to all scientific workers. It is urgently necessary 
that the countries of the Entente should take a share— 
and perhaps the whole burden—of such publications in 
the future. Indeed, both because of the industrial 
harm that Germany has done us in the past by mono- 
polising, to all intents and purposes, this department 
of scientific work, and because we ought certainly to 
overcome that inertia which German activity seems to 
impress on the rest of the world, it is very advisable 
to follow the leadership of commerce and produce more 
of the labour which is of such great use in science 
outside Germany. ‘The present is the time for action, 
and we hope that Prof. Rignano’s letter will meet 
with a ready response from those in power, as well as 
suggestions from British men of science. 
Dr. Smmon FLEXNER, director of the Rockefeller In- 
stitute for Medical Research, New York, has been 
elected a foreign associate of the Paris Academy of 
Medicine. 
A PROPOSAL to introduce summer time again this 
year has been rejected by a majority of the Committee 
of the Prussian Diet, as it is considered that the change 
was a failure last year. 
Tue death is announced, at seventy-one years of 
age, of Mr. A. E. Jamrach, widely known among 
zoologists as a dealer in wild animals, which he im- 
ported from all parts of the world for zoological gar- 
dens, menageries, and private persons. For a long 
time almost the whole of the wild beast trade, both 
in this country and on the Continent, was under Mr. 
Jamrach’s control. 
Tue death is announced, in his seventy-fifth year, of 
Dr, Henri Emile Sauvage, founder, and until recently 
director, of the Station Aquicole, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 
Dr. Sauvage studied fishes, both recent and fossil, 
from every point of view, and published a long series 
of memoirs and papers bearing both on zoology and 
geology, and on several economic questions connected 
with these sciences. From 1874 to 1883 he was assist- 
ant-ichthyologist in the Paris Museum of Natural 
History, and made many contributions to knowledge 
of the fishes of West Africa, Indo-China, and Mada- 
gascar. In 1891 he also contributed a large volume 
on the fishes of Madagascar to M. Grandidier’s well- 
known work on that island. His most important 
writings on fossil fishes related to those of the French 
coal-bearing formations, but his smaller papers dealt 
with new species from many sources, among which 
may be mentioned Jurassic fishes from Catalonia 
(Spain) and from his own neighbourhood of Bou- 
logne-sur-Mer. He was also for many years director 
of the Boulogne Museum, and took a deep interest in 
all local affairs. Dr. Sauvage was elected a foreign 
correspondent of the Geological Society of London in 
1879, and a corresponding member of the Zoological 
Society in 1904. 
THE death, on January 16, of Mr. Benjamin G. 
Cole brings to a close a remarkably long .period of 
service as hon. secretary of a local scientific society. 
The Essex Field Club was founded in 1880 by Mr. 
William Cole, A.L.S., who js still its hon. secretary; 
but, two years later, his brother, above-mentioned, 
became associated with him as assistant hon. secre. 
tary, and served for thirty-five years continuously. 
Mr. Cole, a son of the late Mr. Julius Cole, of the 
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Trinity House, was approaching the age of se 
and was unmarried. In his earlier days he was a 
ardent entomologist. In company with his broth 
William, Prof, Raphael Meldola, Mr. E. A, Fi 
Mr. W. J. Argent, and others, he collected 
actively, chiefly in the fields (now built over) around 
Clapton, in Epping Forest, on the Essex marshes, and 
elsewhere. The pages of the Essex Naturalist and the 
entomological journals record not a few of his mo 
interesting captures, Of late years his collecting wads 
done mainly on the saltings and marshes around 
St. Osyth, where he lived in an old Martello Tower, 
converted into a dwelling, which enjoys a remarkably © 
fine and extensive view over sea, land, river-mouth, © 
and adjacent islands.. Mr. B. G. Cole also assisted — 
his brother as hon. curator of the. Epping Forest 
Museum at Chingford. : ote 
Tue death of Prof, J. B. Auguste Chauveau, which - 
we announced in our issue of January 11, removes 
from among us one of the most famous and many- 
sided biologists of our time. He was born in 1827, 
and at the age of twenty-one was elected on the staff 
of the Lyons Veterinary School, of which he became 
director in  1875.: He was later appointed 
Inspector-General of Veterinary Science in France, and 
at the time of his death he was professor of compara- 
tive pathology at the Paris Natural History Museum, 
where he built a new institute for the study of com-— 
parative physiology and pathology. His pathological 
work dealt mainly with the nature of contagion and 
of viruses, and included important work on tuber- 
culosis, septicaemia, and smallpox. His treatise on the 
comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals is 
a monument to his fame as a veterinarian, but he is 
perhaps best known as one of the makers of Physiology 
during the latter half of the last century, and one of 
the founders of tthe Journal de Physiologie et Patho- 
logie Générale. Although he. did work on the bio- 
chemical side (glycogenesis and sugar utilisation), the - 
mechanical side more especially was his forte ; the cardiac 
sound of Chauveau and Marey, and the dromograph — 
of Chauveau and Lortet, are classical instruments 
which did much to perfect our knowledge of the circu- 
lation, and will live in scientific history, Personally — 
he was an attractive figure; his fine ice was 
striking, his amiable characteristics made him much — 
beloved, his untiring energy, even until late years, and 
his catholicity of outlook inspired the young generation — 
of investigators who came in contact with him. Such 
men the world cay ill spare, 
THE report of the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery — 
for the past year indicates that in spite of the war 
steady progress has been continued. Many con- 
valescent soldiers have made use of the institution, and — 
one Australian, invalided to England, has presented a 
collection of beetles made while he was on service in 
Egypt. A special exhibition of flowers, fruit, and — 
insects to commemorate the Shakespeare tercentenary 
was on view, and to this department the late Mme. 
G. Jervis presented valuable botanical works. The 
insect collection has been rearranged, and is now more 
than of local importance. The inclusion of the Chan- 
ing Pearce collection of fossils from the Great Oolite, 
Bradford Clay, and Forest Marble of the west of 
England is of great value as an addition to the older 
series. A collection of sketches in oils illustrates — 
events in the past history of the city. 
Pror, FLINDERS PETRIE publishes, in Ancient Egypt, 
part iv. for 1916, an important paper on ‘‘ Funereal 
Figures in Egypt." To reach the beginning of the use 
of such figures he goes back to existing beliefs in 
Africa, where the love and veneration of the family 
