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[APRIL I, 1915 
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Hubrecht was a firm friend of England and a 
constant visitor at scientific meetings here; he 
could speak English like a native, and his death 
will be felt as a personal loss by a large circle of 
friends in this country. 1B) Wicd 

NOTES. 
Tue following resolution of the council of the 
Royal Geographical Society has been accepted by 
the fellows of the Society: ‘“‘The council, having | 
become aware that Sir Sven Hedin, K.C.1.E., | 
a subject of a neutral State, has identified himself 
with the King’s enemies by his actions and | 
published statements, orders that his name be removed 
from the list of honorary corresponding members of 
the society.” Dr. Sven Hedin has also been excluded 
from the Russian Imperial Geographical Society. 
TuE council of the Royal Geographical Society has 
made the following awards of medals and other prizes 
to be presented at the anniversary meeting on May 17: 
Founder’s Medal to Sir Douglas Mawson for his con- 
duct of the Australian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14; 
Patron’s Medal to Dr. Filippo de Filippi for his 
expedition to the Karakoram and Eastern Turkestan 
in 1913-14; Victoria Research Medal to Dr. Hugh 
Robert Mill for geographical research extending over 
many years; Murchison Award to Captain J. K. 
Davis, who commanded the S.Y. Aurora during the 
time of the Australian Antarctic Expedition; Bacls 
Grant to Mr. C. W. Hobley for his contributions to 
the geolory and ethnology of British East Africa; 
Cuthbert Peek Grant to Mr. A. Grant Ogilvie for his 
work in geographical investigation and research; Gill 
Memorial to Colonel Hon. C. G. Bruce for explora- 
tions in the Himalayas. 
THE annual general meeting of the Chemical Society 
was held at Burlington House on Thursday, March 25. 
The Longstaff medal for 1915 was presented to Dr. 
M. O. Forster, and the retiring president, Prof. W. H. 
Perkin, then delivered his presidential address on 
“The position of the organic chemical industry,” an 
abstract of which appears elsewhere in this issue. A 
vote of thanks to the president was proposed by Prof. 
H. E. Armstrong and seconded by Sir William Tilden. 
The new officers and members of council elected 
were :—President, Dr. Alexander Scott; Vice-Presi- 
dents, Prof. F. R. Japp and Prof. R. Threlfall; 
Treasurer, Dr. M. O. Forster; Ordinary Members of | 
Council, Mr. D. L. Chapman, Prof. F. G. Donnan, 
Mr. W. Macnab, and Dr. J. F. Thorpe. 
Tue sixty-eighth annual meeting of the Palzonto- 
graphical Society was held in the rooms of the Geo- 
logical Society, Burlington House, on March 26, Dr. 
Henry Woodward, president, in the chair. The report 
stated that most of the authors for whom space had 
been reserved in the annual volume, had failed to con- 
tribute owing to the circumstances of the war, and 
an instalment only of Mr. F. W. Harmer’s ‘* Mono- 
graph of Pliocene Mollusca’’ would form the issue for 
1914. Messrs. John Hopkinson, Clement Reid, S. 

Hazzledine Warren, and Henry Woods were elected 
new members of council. Dr. Henry Woodward was u 
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re-elected president, and Mr. R. S. Herries and Dr. 
A. Smith Woodward were re-elected treasurer and 
secretary respectively. 
Tne seventieth annual general meeting of the Ray 
Society was held on March 25, the president, Prof. 
McIntosh, in the chair. The report for 1914 stated 
that the number of members had increased and the 
finances were satisfactory, but a diminution of income 
was to be expected this year owing to the loss of 
German and Austrian subscribers on account of the 
war. For 1914 the ‘ British Marine Annelids,” vol. 
iii., part 1, by the president, had been issued, and for 
1915 two volumes were in preparation: the ‘‘ British 
Fresh-water Rhizopoda,”’ vol. iii., containing the filose 
Conchulina, by G. H. Wailes, and the ‘‘ Principles of 
Vegetable Teratology,” vol. i., containing non-vascular 
plants and the root, stem, and leaves of vascular 
plants, by W. C. Worsdell. Prof. W. C. McIntosh 
was re-elected president, Dr. F. Du Cane Godman 
treasurer, and Mr. John Hopkinson secretary. 
We notice with regret the announcement of the 
death on March 27 of Mr. J. J. Beringer, associate 
of the Royal School of Mines, and principal of the 
School of Metalliferous Mining, Camborne, Cornwall. 
Tue death is announced of Prof. F. A. Sherman, 
professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College, New 
Hampshire, from 1871 until his retirement as professor 
emeritus in 1911. Prof. Sherman died on February 25 
in his seventy-fourth year. 
We learn from Science that the Rockefeller Institute 
for Medical Research has made a grant of 4oool. to be 
used under the institute’s direction to further medical 
research work under war conditions, and is equipping 
Dr. Carrel’s new hospital in France with apparatus 
for research work in pathology, bacteriology, and 
surgery. 
THe death is announced, in his seventy-seventh 
year, of the Rev. Dr. S. J. Coffin, professor of astro- 
nomy since 1873 at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, 
in which institution he also occupied the chair of 
mathematics from 1876 to 1886. He was the author 
of a treatise on conic sections, and had revised ‘* The 
Winds of the Globe,’ by his father, Prof. J. H. Coffin. 
Tue Times correspondent at Ottawa states that in 
| the Canadian House of Commons on March 27 Mr. 
Hazen, Minister of Marine, expressed the opinion that 
Mr. Stefansson, the Canadian explorer, had been lost 
with his two companions. The Government, he said, 
is doing everything of a practicable nature to find the 
missing men, and three steamers now in the Arctic 
will set out to the rescue of the expedition as soon 
as the ice breaks up in the spring. 
Tne American Association of Immunologists will 
hold its annual meeting at Washington on May 10 
next, under the presidency of Dr. G. B. Webb, of 
Colorado Springs. The associaticn was founded in 
1913 for the purpose of bringing together the medical 
men of the United States and Canada who are en- 
gaged in the scientific study of immunity and bacterial 
therapy; to study the problems of immunology; and 
to promote scientific research in this department; to 
spread a correct knowledge of vaccine therapy and 
immunology among general medical practitioners. 
