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NATURE 
[APRIL 21, 1923 

Jacksonian Prize for the year 1922 on “‘ The effects 
produced by radium upon living tissues, with special 
reference to its use in the treatment of malignant 
diseases,’’ was awarded to Mr. H. Sidney Forsdike, 
of the Soho Hospital for Women. Sir Arthur Keith 
was elected Vicary lecturer for the ensuing year. 
Dr. H. H. Date, head of the department of bio- 
chemistry and pharmacology of the Medical Research 
Council, the Rev. G. Milligan, Regius professor of 
divinity and Biblical criticism in the University of 
Glasgow, and the Very Rev. Dr. W. F. Norris, Dean of 
York, have been elected members of the Atheneum 
Club under the provisions of the rule 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.”’ 
Tue Institute of Physics admits physicists to a 
grade of associate membership, and it is believed that 
there must be a large number of young physicists at 
present outside the Institute who are eligible for this 
grade. All students and others who have conducted 
a year’s work of satisfactory research are eligible if 
they have a degree of approved honours standing, or 
if they pass the equivalent examination of the Insti- 
tute. Ultimately, it is probable that the associate 
group will be much larger than that of fellowship, 
and that new fellows will be selected mainly from 
it. The Institute has now an appointments register, 
and many applications for young physicists have been 
received from manufacturing firms and research 
laboratories. Regulations for admission to the 
Institute can be obtained from the secretary, Mr. 
F. S. Spiers, 10 Essex Street, Strand, London, W.C.2. 
Ar the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society 
held on April 9 the president announced that H.M. 
the King had been pleased to approve the award of the 
Royal Medals as follows: The Founder’s Medal to 
Mr. Knud Rasmussen for his exploration and research 
in the Arctic regions during the last twenty-five years ; 
the Patron’s Medal to the Hon. Miles Staniforth Cater 
Smith for his explorations in the unknown interior 
of Papua. The council has awarded the Murchison 
Grant to Capt. A. G. Stigand for his map of Ngami- 
land ; the Back Grant to Mr. B. Glanvill Corney for 
his studies in the historical geography of the Pacific ; 
the Cuthbert Peek Grant to Messrs. R. A. Frazer and 
N. E. Odell to assist them in continuing their explora- 
tions of Spitsbergen ; and the Gill Memorial to Capt. 
Augiéras for his journey in 1920-1921 from Algiers 
to Mauritania. 
PRELIMINARY notice has been issued of the arrange- 
ments for the Hull congress of the Royal Sanitary 
Institute to be held on July 30—-August 4. An 
inaugural address will be delivered by the Right Hon. 
F. R. Ferens on the first day of the meeting; on 
July 31, Sir Alexander Houston will lecture on “ A Pure 
Water Supply,’ and a popular lecture on “ Industry 
and National Welfare’’ will be given by Mr. B. 
Seebohm Rowntree on August 2. The congress will 
meet in four sections dealing with sanitary science, 
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engineering and architecture, maternity and child 
weltare including school hygiene, and personal and 
domestic hygiene, respectively, and there will be 
numerous conferences of sanitary inspectors, health 
visitors, medical officers of health, veterinary in- 
spectors and representatives ofssanitary authorities. 
During the congress, a Health Exhibition will be held 
in the Wenlock Barracks. 
THE annualreport of the director of the Field Museum 
of Natural History, Chicago, for 1921, is written by 
D. C. Davies, who succeeded the late F. J. V. 
Skiff on December 19 of that year. The chief event 
chronicled is the re-opening of the museum in its new 
building (which is, we believe, in Grant Park) on May 
2, 1921. The opportunity has been taken to place on 
exhibition for the first time a skull of the northern 
mammoth, found in gold-mining at a depth of too 
feet at Woodchopper Creek, Alaska. The specimen 
is represented on a Plate. Among accessions is to be 
noted the collection of Lower Paleozoic fossils made, 
chiefly from Ohio localities, by the late C. B. Dyer. 
The bird collection has been enriched by a large 
number of albinos and specimens of abnormal colora- 
tion. The removal of the museum has led to a large 
increase in the number of visits, especially by school 
children. 
Ar the Boston meeting of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science in December last, the — 
centenary of the birth of Gregor Mendel and Sir 
Francis Galton was celebrated by a series of addresses 
which are published in the March number of the 
Scientific Monthly. Prof. E. M. East dealt with 
“Mendel and his Contemporaries.’”’ Prof. T. H. 
Morgan, in a paper on “The Bearing of Mendelism 
on the Origin of Species,’ points out that small 
mutations are really the material on which Darwin 
chiefly relied to furnish a basis for evolution. He 
also discusses the question of species sterility, and 
points out difficulties of evolutionary interpretation 
which may arise from the occurrence of parallel 
mutations. Dr. J. Arthur Harris compares the in- 
fluence of Mendel and Galton on the history of 
biology, and concludes that the latter has had a more 
varied and far-reaching effect on the history of science. 
Finally Prof. G. H. Shull asks for donations to a 
“Galton and Mendel Memorial Fund,’’ the money to 
be applied to the publication of expensive illustrations 
in the journal Genetics. 
WE have received from Messrs. Ridsdale and Co., 
of Middlesbrough, a report on the second period of — 
three years in the preparation and use of a series of 
chemical standards prepared by this firm, with the 
voluntary co-operation of a number of analytical 

chemists throughout the country. The report was 
submitted to a meeting of the co-operators held 
recently at York. Very thin turnings of steel are 
now being used to facilitate the determination of 
carbon by combustion. The series of standards now 
available includes the whole range of carbon steels, 
together with four alloy steels, two cast irons, and a — 
basic slag. Certain resolutions were passed at the 
meeting, urging the desirability of extending the use 
