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renewed for a further second or third year. The 
election will take place in May next. All applications 
must be sent before April 1 to the Clerk of the Grocers’ 
Company, Grocers’ Hall, E.C.z, upon a special form 
obtainable upon application. 
Tue Riverbank Laboratories for research in Acous- 
tics, Geneva, IIll., U.S.A., are establishing one or two 
research fellowships in acoustics, and invite applica- 
tions for the same from college graduates who have 
taken advanced courses in physics and mathematics, 
and shown in their work qualities essential for 
success in independent investigation. The terms of 
appointment will be determined by the qualifications 
of the person or persons appointed. Applications 
should be sent to Mr. B. Cumming, Secretary, The 
Riverbank Laboratories, Geneva, Illinois, U.S.A. 
Tue Minister of Health has appointed the following 
representatives of the British Waterworks Associa- 
tion and the Institution of Water Engineers as a 
standing advisory committee to confer with represent- 
atives of the Ministry on questions of water supply : 
Mr. C. S. Musgrave, Mr, A. R. Atkey, Mr. A. B. E. 
Blackburn, Lieut.-Col. J. R. Davidson, Mr. F. W. 
Macaulay, and Mr. W. Terrey. The subjects dis- 
cussed at the committee’s first meeting included (1) 
the steps to be taken for formulating the outlines of a 
national water policy ; (2) the survey of the water re- 
sources of England and Wales; and (3) the standard- 
isation and testing of water fittings. 
Mr. R. I. Pococx is retiring next March from the 
post of superintendent of the Zoological Gardens, 
Regent’s Park, to which he has been attached since 
1904, and the council has appointed Dr. Geoffrey 
Marr Vevers to succeed him. Dr. Vevers is at present 
a Beit Memorial Research fellow and an assistant at 
the London School of Tropical Medicine. He will 
have as his staff Mr. D. Seth-Smith as curator of 
mammals and birds, Mr. E. G. Boulenger as curator 
of the aquarium and of reptiles, and Miss L. E. 
Cheesman as curator of insects. Dr. R. W. A. 
Salmond has been appointed honorary radiologist and 
Prof. G. H. Wooldridge as honorary consulting 
veterinary surgeon to the society. 
Pror. ALFRED LACROIX, president of the Geologi- 
cal Society of France, has been selected as the 
recipient of the Hayden memorial geological award 
for 1923 of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia. The award, which is made every three 
years, and consists of a gold medal, was founded in 
1888 in memory of Dr. Ferdinand V. Hayden, at one 
time director of the United States Geological Survey, 
“as a reward for the best publication, exploration, 
discovery or research in the sciences of geology and 
paleontology.”’ Prof. Lacroix is well known among 
geologists ; he was made professor of mineralogy at 
the Paris Museum of Natural History in 1893, and in 
1gor he was elected a foreign member of the Geologi- 
cal Society, from which he received the Wollaston 
medal in 1917; in 1904 he was elected a member of 
the Paris Academy of Sciences, and for the past eight 
years has been permanent secretary for the physical 
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sciences. His work includes studies of contact and 
endomorphic metamorphism and a detailed investi- 
gation of Mont Pelée. Among previous well-known 
recipients of the award are Suess, Huxley, Sir Archi- 
bald Geikie, Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Prof. H. F. 
Osborn, and Prof. T. C. Chamberlin. 
Mr. E. D. Simon, late Lord Mayor of Manchester, 
has arranged with the Rothamsted Experimental 
Station to devote the whole of his farm and dairy 
| herd at Leadon Court, Herefordshire, to a thorough 
test of the soiling system designed by Mr. J. C. Brown, 
formerly of the Harper Adams Agricultural College, _ 
in which a dairy herd is maintained largely on the 
produce of the arable land. Mr. Simon has obtained 
Mr. Brown’s services as resident manager, and has 
authorised the Rothamsted authorities to publish all 
or any records and accounts that may be deemed 
helpful to farmers. It is believed that Mr. Brown’s 
system will prove of great value; but in these difficult 
times the ordinary farmer could not afford to experi- — 
ment on his own account, and the trial requires more _ 
land and dairy cows than could be provided at a 
college or an experimental farm. The experiment — 
will serve a valuable purpose in showing how far the 
various modifications introduced will be financially — 
advantageous to the dairy farmer, and agriculturists 
generally will greatly appreciate Mr. Simon’s generous ~ 
action. 
ATTENTION was recently directed in these columns 
(November I1, p. 642) to the probable use of the 
cinema in England and France as a means of agri- 
cultural education among farmers. It is interesting 
to note that the United States Department of Agri- — 
culture has employed this method for the last nine 
years. At the present time they have 150 films 
available dealing with many branches of farming 
activity, and with rural life generally. Special atten- — 
tion is paid to the control of disease, both of animals — 
and plants, and the best methods of crop production. — 
The American parks and game preserves, which are 
in the charge of the Department of Agriculture, also 
receive attention, and their value to the nation is~ 
illustrated from many points of view. It is probable, 
however, that the films dealing with Extension 
Service activities of the Department are the most 
important. Of recent years the development of co- 
operation, both for the business interests and the 
amenities of rural life, has proceeded at an ever- 
increasing rate. There is no doubt that the progress” 
of this movement has been, and will be, greatly 
stimulated by the use of films ; they cannot, of course, 
replace in any way the valuable personal contact 
with the farmer, which is the corollary of an adequate 
research and advisory service, but they can help 
greatly in disseminating a general idea of the expert 
assistance that is available. ; 


















On two previous occasions last month (December 2, 
p. 743, and December 30, p. 884) we referred to film 
displays in connexion with the Mount Everest Expedi- 
tion of 1922. Another effort to place before the public 
a record of the results obtained, is the éxhibition of 
