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[December lo, igoS 



Ills period of office. The establishment of a Press Bureau 

 is a particular instance of the advantages of combining in 

 an organic system what had previously been left to in- 

 dividual action. At the meeting of the council on Friday 

 last, the cordial thanks of the association were expressed 

 for .Mr. White's work, but it was resolved that the 

 assistant secretary should not be a member of the council ; 

 and as this was the chief condition under which he would 

 continue in office, his resignation was accepted. 



Mr. G. C. Lloyd has been appointed secretary of the 

 Iron and Steel Institute in succession to the late Mr. 

 Bennett H. Brough. Since 1904 Mr. Lloyd has been 

 secretary of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and 

 lie was previously assistant to Mr. Brough at the Iron 

 and Steel Institute. We are glad to see that the council 

 of the institute has decided to raise a fund to provide for 

 the education of Mr. Brough's two children, and to give 

 his widow a life annuity. A sura of about 5500?. is re- 

 <|uircd ; and it is a fine testimony to the high regard in 

 which Mr. Brough's memory is held to know that sub- 

 scriptions amounting to 2635/. were promised by members 

 of the council before the appeal was issued to members of 

 the institute by Sir Hugh Bell, the president. We are 

 confident that the appeal will be responded to generously, 

 not only by members of the institute, but also by numerous 

 other admirers of Mr. Brough's work for pure and applied 

 science. Subscriptions should be sent to the president, 

 Iron and Steel Institute, 28 Victoria Street, London, S.W. 



The director of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and 

 Biology, Philadelphia, U.S. .A., informs us that the 

 anatomical journals published by the institute are to be 

 sent regularly to Nature. We shall be glad to notice 

 from time to time any articles of outstanding importance 

 and wide interest in these publications. The Wistar 

 Institute, the only institution of its kind in the United 

 States, is an endowed institution, maintaining a free 

 museum of anatomy and a staff for the promotion of re- 

 searches in this subject. It is rapidly becoming the central 

 anatomical institute for research work in the United 

 States, and its publications are distributed to all the prin- 

 cipal laboratories of the world. As a central institute of 

 anatomy it attempts to bring together data, specimens, 

 and literature, and to interchange and distribute them to 

 investigators in such a manner as to promote anatomy 

 and aid those who are devoting their lives to the advance- 

 ment of human knowledge. To the technical aspects of 

 anatomy Nature cannot devote much space, but an 

 occasional note upon American progress in that science 

 will be of interest to all biologists. 



The following are among the lecture arrangements at 

 the Royal Institution before Easter : — Prof. W. Stirling, a 

 Christmas course of six experimentally illustrated lectures 

 on "The Wheel of Life," adapted to a juvenile auditory; 

 Prof. Karl Pearson, two lectures on albinism in man ; 

 Prof. A. \. Macdonell, three lectures on the architectural 

 and sculptural antiquities of India ; Dr. F. Walker Mott, 

 sLk lectures on the evolution of the brain as an organ 

 of mind ; Prof. J. O. Arnold, two lectures on mysteries 

 of metals ; Dr. Hans Gadow, three lectures on problems 

 of geographical distribution in Mexico ; Mr. A. D. Hall, 

 two lectures on recent advances in agricultural science ; 

 Prof. G. H. Bryan, tvifo lectures on aerial flight in theory 

 and practice ; and Sir J. J. Thomson, six lectures on 

 properties of matter. The Friday evening meetings will 

 commence on January 22, when Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace 

 will deliver a discourse on the world of life : as visualised 

 and interpreted by Darwinism. Succeeding discourses will 

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probably be given by Sir Frederic Nathan, Prof. J. G. 

 Frazer, Prof. H. A. Wilson, Sir Henry Cunynghame, the 

 Eari of Berkeley, Mr. S. G. Brown, Mr. R. Threlfall, 

 Mr. A. S. Eddington, and Sir J. J. Thomson. 



To-MORROw (December 11) a new wireless telegraphy 

 station is to be opened at Bolt Head, near Kingsbridge, 

 South Devon. The Postmaster-General is expected to be 

 present. The station is about fifteen miles south-east of 

 Plymouth, the Start being seven miles to the eastward, 

 and Prawle Point, where Lloyd's station is fixed, between 

 four and five miles. Bolt Head stands 350 feet above the 

 sea-level, which is considerably higher than the Marconi 

 station in Cornwall. The work was begun about six 

 months ago, and is estimated to cost about 10,000/. We 

 learn from the Times that an eight horse-power oil engine 

 with dynamo and electrical appliances has been put down. 

 The power is 110 volts, and there is large storage capacity 

 for night work. The radio-telegraphic instruments are a 

 combination of the Marconi and patents owned by the 

 G.P.O., and one or two of Mr. Marconi's staff have 

 assisted in- laying down the plant. If the experiment is 

 found satisfactory it is anticipated that the Government 

 will provide other stations. It is stated that the station 

 at Bolt Head will be open for public messages during the 

 first week in January. 



The German Government has decided to send an ex- 

 pedition to the southern part of German East Africa to 

 examine, and make a careful collection from, the remark- 

 able deposit of Dinosaurian bones discovered last year 

 by Prof. Eberhard Fraas in the Upper Cretaceous forma- 

 tion of Tendaguru, in the Lindi district. According to the 

 report of Prof. Fraas, published last August (Palaeonto- 

 graphica, vol. Iv., pp. 105-144, pis. viii.-.xii.), the deposit 

 resembles that of the famous Bone Cabin Quarry in 

 Wyoming, from which the American? have obtained so 

 many remarkable gigantic reptiles. The huge bones lie 

 weathered out on the surface of the ground, and can be 

 followed by digging into the sandy marl and sandstone 

 beneath them. Many of the bones are in their natural 

 relative positions, showing that at least some parts of the 

 skeletons were buried before their surrounding soft parts 

 had decayed ; and Prof. Fraas publishes a striking photo- 

 graph of a nearly complete hind limb and foot before 

 removal from the excavation in which it lay. All the 

 specimens brought back by Prof. Fraas for the Royal 

 Wiirttemberg Museum in Stuttgart, where they are now 

 mounted, belong to a large herbivorous Dinosaur which 

 he names Giganlosaurus. They appear to represent an 

 animal from 14 to 15 metres in length, closely related to 

 the well-known Diplodocus and Morosaurus from 

 Wyoming. The skull remains unknown, but both vertebrae 

 and limbs are represented by numerous specimens. Further 

 explorations will probably result in the discovery, not only 

 of the missing parts of Gigantosaurus, but also of other 

 reptiles which must have lived with it. 



In the death of Dr. E. T. Hamy, professor at the 

 Museum d'Histoire naturelle (1892), member of the 

 Academic des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres {1890) and of 

 the Academic de Medicine (1903), anthropologists have lost 

 a learned colleague and France an illustrious savant. 

 Jules Theodore Ernest Hamy was born at Boulogne-sur- 

 Mer in 1S42, and was always profoundly attached to his 

 native district, as is testified by the eleven memoirs on its 

 archseology published in the Memoirs de la SocUU 

 academique de Boulogne-sur-Mer, in the Bulletin de la 

 SociiU d'Anthropologie de Paris, and in the Revue 

 d' Anthropologic. He published his valuable pioneer work, 



