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university course, or the equivalent, and the majority 
of whom are engaged in the many branches of in- 
dustry on which the science has a bearing. In other 
countries the strict equivalent of the word ‘ chemist ’ 
signifies, as it should, one who professes chemistry, 
and not in any case the pharmacist, druggist, or 
dispenser of medicines.” 
THE summer meeting of the Institution of Electrical 
Engineers will be held at Manchester and Liverpool 
on June 5-8. Visits have been arranged to important 
electrical works in the locality. 
A CONFERENCE of the Women’s Engineering Society 
will be held at the University of Birmingham on 
April 11-14. Particulars can be obtained from the 
general secretary, Miss C. Haslett, 26 George Street, 
Hanover Square, London, W.1. 
In the new edition of Zittel’s ‘‘ Grundziige der 
Palaontologie,’’ lately published, Profs. Broili and 
Schlosser refer to the tooth of the supposed ape-man, 
Hesperopithecus, from Nebraska, U.S.A., as being a 
problematical specimen. They state that it may 
perhaps be the first milk-molar of a primitive horse. 
THE Geological Department of the British Museum 
(Natural History) has just acquired the paleo- 
botanical collection of Dr. Dukinfield H. Scott. It 
comprises more than 3000 microscope slides, chiefly 
of British Carboniferous plants, on which most of Dr. 
Scott’s own researches have been based. It is a 
direct continuation of the Williamson collection 
which was acquired by the Museum in 1896. 
Ir is stated in the Chemical Age of March to, that 
at the annual meetings of the American Chemical 
Society to be held next month, Prof. F. G. Donnan 
and Principal J. C. Irvine will be among the British 
delegates. The subjects for discussion will include 
motor fuels, the history of coal tar dyes, insecticides 
and fungicides, and the chemistry of cellulose. 
Ir is stated in a Press dispatch from Oklahoma 
City appearing in Science, that an amendment pro- 
hibiting the purchase of books or copyrights teaching 
the theory of the evolution of the human race was 
inserted in the State Free Text Book Bill which 
passed the lower house of the legislature on February 
21. Only one dissenting vote was cast against the 
anti-Darwinian section. 
THE Mueller medal and fund have been awarded 
to Mr. J. H. Maiden, Government Botanist of New ; 
South Wales and director of the Botanic Gardens, 
Sydney, in recognition of his botanical work. The 
medal was founded in memory of the late Baron von 
Mueller, Government Botanist of Victoria, and is 
awarded at each meeting of the Australasian Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, which, in 1923, 
sat at Wellington, New Zealand. It has been 
awarded previously for botany, zoology, geology, and 
ethnology. 
Pror. HoRACE Lamp, late professor of mathematics 
in the Owens College and University of Manchester ; 
Lord Meston of Agra and Dunottar, formerly Lieut.- 
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Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh ; 
and Mr. G. Gilbert Scott, Royal Academician, have 
been elected members of the Atheneum Club under 
the provisions of Rule II. of the club, which 
empowers the annual election by the committee 
of a certain number of persons “ of distinguished 
eminence in science, literature, the arts, or for public 
service.” 
A symposium and general discussion on alloy 
resistance to corrosion will be held at the Department 
of Applied Science of the University, Sheffield, on 
Friday, April 13. The meeting is being organised 
jointly by the Faraday Society, the Sheffield section 
of the Institute of Metals, and the Manchester Metal- 
lurgical Society, and the scope of the discussion will 
include the new non-corrodible, non-ferrous alloys, 
such as stainless nickel silver and the nickel chromium 
alloys, as well as stainless iron and steel. A general 
introduction to the discussion will be given by Prof. 
C. H. Desch. Further particulars may be obtained 
from Mr. G. R. Bolsover, Brown-Firth Research 
Laboratory, Princess Street, Sheffield, or from the 
; secretary of the Faraday Society, to Essex Street, 
Strand, London, W.C.2. 
Farmers’ Clubs, Chambers of Agriculture, and 
other bodies or individuals interested in agriculture 
are invited to visit the headquarters of the National 
Institute of Agricultural Botany, Huntingdon Road, 
Cambridge, during the coming summer. They will 
be able to see trials of new varieties of wheat and 
barley in progress on the trial ground, and a collec- 
tion of different varieties of various farm crops 
growing in the field. The buildings of the Institute 
will also be open to inspection; these include the 
Official Seed Testing Station for England and Wales, 
where testing of seeds is always being carried out. 
The most interesting period for inspecting the In- 
stitute is from June to August, and all who wish to 
' take advantage of the invitation should communicate 
with the director of the Institute, Mr. W. H. Parker. 

Mr. T. SHEPPARD, the energetic Curator of the 
Hull Municipal Museum, by the publication of a 
series of pamphlets describing the collections in his 
charge, has done much to popularise the study of 
science and archeology, and has given an example 
to those in charge of similar collections. A recent 
publication is a list of the specimens of natural 
; history, antiquities, and applied art. The museum 
dates from 1823, and the specimens-collected by 
the Literary and Philosophical Society finally passed 
to the Hull Municipal Museum in 1902. Since then 
the collections, particularly of local scientific objects 
and antiquities, have been largely extended, and the 
museum now holds a high place among similar 
institutions. Its value has been largely increased 
by Mr. Sheppard’s continuous efforts to bring the 
collections to the notice not only of local visitors but 
of those from a distance. 

Tue British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Associa- 
tion has adopted a somewhat novel way of com- 
{ municating the results of its recent investigations 

