








































Fer vARY 3 1923] 
for the award on Prof. Hanied’s birthday, May 8, at 
intervals of about two or three years, of a gold medal 
ing his effigy, and accompanied by a sum of at 
z000 kroner, to the author of a distinguished 
publication on some microbiological subject that has 
or peared in recent years in Denmark or elsewhere. 
le medal was awarded in 1914 to Dr. Jules Bordet, 
; s, for researches in medical microbiology, and 
in 1922 to Dr. M. W., Bejerinck, Delft, for researches 
in general microbiology. This year it is proposed to 
ward the medal to an author of experimental re- 
hes in marine microbiology. The award is made 
by a committee consisting of the Danish trustees of the 
fund together with at least two foreign microbiologists. 
‘The committee is composed this year of Prof. C. O. 
Jensen, director, Serum Institute of the Royal 
Veterinary and Agricultural College, Copenhagen ; 
. Johs. Schmidt, director, Physiological Department 
the Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen; Prof. 
P. L. Sérensen, director, Chemical Department of 
the Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen; Prof. H. H. 
Gran, University of Christiania, Norway, and Prof. 
©. A. Kofoid, University of California, Berkeley, 
‘U.S.A. Further particulars may be obtained from 
the president of the Board of Trustees, Emil Chr. 
e fansen Fund, Copenhagen (Valby). 

i 
THe question of training in Illuminating Engineer- 
g was discussed at the last meeting of the Illuminat- 
pe pasincering Society, an introductory paper being 
read by Mr. C. E. Greenslade and Mr. J. E. S. White. 
The authors discussed in some detail the planning 
f courses on illumination at technical colleges, 
Pp pointing out that special attention should be given 
t > practical applications of light, and that the aspects 
r lighting considered by architects should be dealt 
with besides purely technical matters. It was also 
uggested that occasional popular lectures on the 
ibject would be helpful, and that such lectures 
ould be particularly useful in schools, so that 
children might grow up with an appreciation of the 
efits of good lighting. It was pointed out that 
aere is a need for a suitable text-book for students 
most of the works available are somewhat 
borate, and that hints to lecturers on demonstra- 
ions and series of suitable lantern slides would also 
9e valuable. The discussion was opened by Dr. 
'. T. Chapman, of the Board of Education, who 
gested methods of improving the treatment of 
mination in existing courses, and Mr. Gaster 
ntioned that the Society had issued a circular 
eR colleges offering the co-operation of the 
nating Engineering Society in the framing of 
syllabuses and, if necessary, the provision of lecturers. 
omen all cases replies received had welcomed 
: ation of this kind. 
Tue presidential address of Capt. H. Riall Sankey 
te the Institute of Industrial Administration on 
* Training for Administration in Industry,”’ which was 
“delivered on October ro last at the London School of 
economics, has recently been published in the number 
Pot the Journal of Industrial Administration for 
_ Noy.-Dec., 1922. It gives a brief review of the work 
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of the Institute, and also contains the announcement 
that, at the instance of its advisory council, the 
Institute has prepared an examination scheme with the 
view of the award of diplomas and certificates in 
connexion with subjects bearing on the administrative 
side of the work in industry. The scheme is shortly 
to be put into force, when it is proposed to hold 
examinations in eight groups of subjects, namely : 
(1) design, specifications, and inspection ; (2) factory 
planning and plant management; (3) estimating, 
production methods, and rate fixing ; (4) production 
control (scheduling and regulation) ; (5) employment 
administration; (6) materials and _ purchasing ; 
(7) stores and transport management; and (8) pro- 
duction statistics and costing. The examination 
questions will be framed in relation to the administra- 
tive, in contradistinction to the strictly technical, 
aspects of the subjects enumerated above. Honours 
and pass certificates will be issued for each group of 
subjects, and it is intended at a later date to award 
diplomas to those who hold the qualifying number of 
certificates (the precise number has not yet been 
determined). 
AN article which appears over the initials H. B. in 
Le Temps of January 2, discusses the findings of the 
International Commission which, in September last, 
visited the sites at Ipswich on which Mr. Reid Moir 
claims to have found evidence for Tertiary Man. The 
investigations of the International Commission, which 
consisted of MM. Lohest, Fourmarier, Hamal-Nandrin 
and Fraipont (Belgium), MM. Capitan and Breuil 
(France), Messrs. MacCurdy and Nelson (U.S.A.), and 
Messrs. Reid Moir and Burkitt, afforded an exception- 
ally favourable opportunity for a careful examination 
and discussion of the evidence. The findings of the 
Commission, therefore, must carry great weight. 
According to the writer in Le Temps, the report 
presented to the International Institute of Arche- 
ology in Paris stated that the members of the 
Commission were unanimously of the opinion that 
Mr. Reid Moir’s specimens from the base of the 
“Crag ’’ were genuine artifacts and were found in 
deposits which were undoubtedly undisturbed, and 
belonged, beyond question, to the Upper Pliocene. 
After a careful examination of the characteristics of 
the specimens, in the course of which all giving rise to 
any doubt were set aside, the Commission held that 
they could have been produced by no natural cause and 
that their distinctive features were comparable with 
those of Mousterian implements about which there was 
not the least doubt. The writer concludes that we must 
inevitably accept the existence of man at Ipswich in 
the Pliocene period of the Tertiary epoch,—possibly 
not man himself as such nor even a direct ancestor, 
but a being who, in virtue of this industry, merits a 
place in the genus homo among the precursors of man ; 
and that the evidence carries back the first appearance 
of this being on the globe well beyond the 125,000 
years at which Osborn dates the beginning of the 
Pre-Chellean Age. 
THE annual report of the National Union of 
Scientific Workers shows that the Union has increased 
