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than on any discovery in a special department. He 
was essentially a disciple of Virchow and a follower of 
his methods. 

Mr. E. W. NELSON. 
THE science of oceanography and the scientific study 
of fisheries have lost a devoted and able worker by 
the tragic death of Mr. E. W. Nelson, the scientific 
superintendent of the Fishery Board’s marine labora- 
tory at the Bay of Nigg near Aberdeen, who was found 
dead in his laboratory on the morning of January 17. 
He had been appointed in September 1921 to succeed 
Dr. T. Wemyss Fulton in the service of the Fishery 
Board for Scotland, and he was proving himself a 
very effective investigator of Fishery problems. He 
was much liked and respected by his staff, and every 
one was looking forward to the work that he would 
do, especially as regards the physical conditions of 
the sea in their relation to fisheries, for it was in the 
bearings of physics on biology that he was most 
interested. He had an ingenious mind, more of the 
mathematical than of the biological order ; though 
he was a keen naturalist as well. He was particularly 
well suited for the post that he held and he seemed 
to be very happy in his work. 
Mr. Nelson was educated at Christ’s College, Cam- 
bridge, and he was working at Plymouth Biological 
Station when he was chosen in rgro to be a biologist 
to the British Antarctic Expedition led by Capt. 
Scott. He made an elaborate biological survey 
around the Cape Evans station, and Scott speaks in 
his “ Journals ” very appreciatively of his enthusiasm, 
carefulness, and practical ingenuity. Mr. Nelson was 
one of the thirteen men who stayed at Cape Evans 
for a third year under the command of Surgeon Atkin- 
son. During the war Nelson served in the Royal 
Naval Division. 
Mr. Nelson was a pleasant and cheerful personality, 
very kindly, though fond of an argument, very keen 
about his own work, but delightfully willing to help 
others, not wearing his heart on his sleeve, but full 
of good-will. 
NATURE 
[FEBRUARY 3, 1923 
Dr. TatrourD ELy,. 
Dr. TatrourD Exy, whose death was recently 
announced at the age of eighty-six, was a nephew of 
Frank Ely, the dramatist, and great-nephew of Sir 
T. N. Talfourd, author of “Ion.” During the greater 
part of his life he was closely connected with Univer- 
sity School and College, London. He was vice-principal 
and classical tutor at University Hall, classical master at 
University College School, and secretary of the College. 
This last post he resigned in order to study archeology 
at Berlin, where he worked with Ernest Curtius, 
Kirchof, Robert, Furtwangler, and Waltenbach, and 
became acquainted with other leading scholars. He — 
travelled largely in Europe, and had an exciting — 
adventure at Olympia with brigands whom he routed. 
In his later years he was connected with many learned — 
societies—the Antiquaries, Hellenic, Royal Archzo- 
logical, and others. The literary works by which he 
will be best known are “ A Manual of Archeology ” and 
“Roman Hayling,” embodying the results of his own _ 
excavations at Hayling Island, besides many papers 
on archeology. . 
THE death of Miss Charlotte Sophia.Burne has left a 
gap in the ranks of English students of folklore. A — 
native of Shropshire, she edited with additions the 
collections of Miss G. F. Jackson, which were published 
under the title of ‘‘ Shropshire Folklore,” one of the best 
local manuals. Her later years were spent in London, ~ 
where she became a pillar of strength to the Folklore — 
Society, serving on the council and as _ president. 
In 1914 the Society published her admirable “ Hand- 
book of Folklore,” but the main work of her later days — 
was the collection of a great mass of materials fora new 
edition of John Brand’s “ Observations on Popular — 
Antiquities,” which was intended to become an encyclo- 
peedia of English folk beliefs. When her health broke 
down the task of editing this work was undertaken by 
Dr. E. Sidney Hartland. 
Current Topics and Events. 
TuE centenary of the death of Edward Jenner on 
January 26, 1823, was celebrated by the Academy of 
Medicine in Paris on Tuesday, January 23. At 3 P.M. 
a large meeting was held at the Academy in the Rue 
Bonaparte, when the president, M. Chauffard, gave a 
short address, which was followed by a long, critical, 
and yet eulogistic speech by M. Lucien Camus, and by 
communications on the subject of vaccination in detail 
from MM. Pierre Teissier, Jeanselme, d’Espine, and 
Sir St. Clair Thomson. The fine large hall of the 
Academy was crowded, the French Minister of Health, 
M. Strauss, and Madame Curie being present, in addi- 
tion to other distinguished people. The busts of 
Jenner and Pasteur were placed on the right and the 
left of the platform. After the ceremony a number 
of mementoes of Jenner in the form of letters by him, 
and of old cartoons commemorating or deriding 
vaccination, were shown in one of the halls of the 
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Academy. The president announced that com- 
munications in honour of the event had been received 
by him from learned societies in many parts of the — 
world. Sir Ronald Ross, a foreign associate of the 
Academy, who represented the British Ministry of 
Health, handed in also a letter from the president of 
the Royal Society, and other British societies were 
represented by Sir St. Clair Thomson and by Dr. 
R. O. Moon. Sir Almroth Wright, another foreign 
associate of the Academy, was also present. After 
the ceremony the president and council of the Academy, 
in honour of the commemoration, gave a dinner at the 
Club de la Renaissance Frangaise. j 
By the will of the late Prof. Emil Chr. Hansen, 
director of the Physiological Department of the Carls- — 
berg Laboratory, Copenhagen, and his wife, a fund — 
bearing his name was established in 1911 providing — 
