APRIL I, 1915] 
NATURE 
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Tue Board of Agriculture ana Fisheries announces 
that with a view of obtaining further information on 
their growth, migrations, and general life-history, a 
number of salmon and sea trout have been marked 
by means of a ring or wire, with or without a label or 
tag attached. Rewards will be paid for all such 
marks returned to the Board, with or without the fish, 
with information as to the date, time, place, and 
method of capture. When the entire fish is not sent 
full particulars of its weight, length, sex, and condi- 
tion should also be given, and a portion of the skin or 
flesh of the fish to which the mark is fixed should be 
cut out. Postage and carriage need not be prepaid, 
and parcels and letters should be addressed to the 
Board at 43 Parliament Street, London, S.W. 
Pror. H. Ropinson, who occupied the chair of civil 
engineering at King’s College, London, from 1880 to 
1902, died on March 24, at seventy-eight years of age. 
From a short obituary notice in the Times we learn 
that Prof. Robinson had charge of many important 
works, including railways, water supply, sewerage, 
and electric lighting, an example of the latter being 
the successful installation at St. Pancras. He 
engineered the first public hydraulic power scheme in 
this country at Hull, and took an active part in pro- 
moting the distribution of energy in other towns by 
hydraulic power, compressed air, and electricity. Prof. 
Robinson was a fellow of King’s College, of the Sur- 
veyors’ Institution, and of the Sanitary Institute, and 
a past-president of the Society of Engineers. 
WE notice with much regret the announcement of 
the death, on March 23, at fifty-three years of age, of 
Dr. S. G. Rawson, principal of the Battersea Poly- 
technic, London. Dr. Rawson was educated at 
Charterhouse School, the Royal College of Science, 
University College, London, and University College, 
Liverpool. He afterwards became lecturer in chem- 
istry at University College, Liverpool, and in 1895 
he was appointed principal of the Technical College, 
Huddersfield. In 1903 he was appointed director of 
education to the Worcestershire County Council, and 
in September, 1907, he became principal of the 
Battersea Polytechnic. Dr. Rawson was a doctor of 
science of the University of London, an associate of 
the Royal College of Science, fellow of the Institute 
of Chemistry and of the Chemical Society, and, since 
January, 1914, was chairman of the council of the 
Association of Technical Institutions. 
WE regret to announce the death of Mr. James 
Kearney, who for the last thirteen years has been in- 
spector in charge of the photo-engraving section of 
the Egyptian Survey Department. He was originally 
in the Royal Engineers, and accompanied Sir G. 
Graham’s expeditionary force to the Sudan in 1885 
as photographic expert. He was then for several 
years attached to the Solar Physics Committee at 
South Kensington, and will be remembered by many 
old students of the Royal College of Science, London. 
In 1893 he went to West Africa with the British 
Eclipse Expedition as expert photographer, and again 
in 1906 he was with the party who observed the solar 
eclipse at Aswan. During this period he several times 
received the thanks of the Royal Society. From 1893 
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to 1902 he was one of the instructors at the Schoo! of 
Military Engineering at Chatham, which he left to go 
to Egypt. His wide experience of his subject and 
originality have largely influenced the development of 
the reproduction of maps by the Egyptian Survey 
Department, and practically all their maps now are 
reproduced by the photo-metal process. 
Tue following are among the arrangements for lec- 
tures at the Royal Institution after Easter :—‘‘ The 
Animal Spirits,’ Prof. C. S. Sherrington; ‘‘ Advances 
in the Study of Radio-active Bodies,” Prof. F. Soddy; 
“The Evolution of Steel: Influence on Civilisation,” 
Prof. J. O. Arnold; ‘‘The System of the Stars: (1) 
Star Colour and its Significance; (2) The Stellar 
System in Motion,”’ Prof. A. S. Eddington; Advances 
in General Physics,” Dr. A. W. Porter; ‘‘The Move- 
ments and Activities of Plants,’ Prof. V. H. Black- 
man; ‘‘ Method of Presenting Character in Biography 
and Fiction,’’ Wilfrid Ward; ‘‘Modern Artillery,”’ 
Lieut.-Col. A. G. Hadcock; ‘‘ Photo-electricity ’’ (the 
Tyndall Lectures), Prof. J. A. Fleming; ‘‘ Colouring 
Matters of the Organic World: (1) Colouring Matters 
of Nature; (2) Dyes, the Creation of the Chemist,”’ 
Dr. M. O. Forster. The Friday evening discourses 
will begin on April 16. Mr. Stephen Graham will 
deal with ‘“‘The Russian Idea” and Major P. S. 
Lelean with ‘‘ Military Hygiene at the War’’; they 
will be followed by Canon Pearce, Sir John Jackson, 
Sir Ernest Rutherford, Dr. H. Walford Davies, Profs. 
F. G. Donnan and O. W. Richardson, and Mr. 
Edward Heron-Allen. 
Ir is an axiom in business that to be successful the 
merchant must provide what the public wants. He 
may try to educate the public by advertisement and 
other means, but it is the public demand alone that 
regulates the quality of the supply. The population 
of this country demands a white loaf of light texture 
made from the finest portion of the wheat berry, and 
bakers and millers have made it their business to 
supply this want. Even at the height of the standard 
bread boom it is stated that the demand for this article 
did not reach 5 per cent. of the total. Whether the 
public taste is the most satisfactory on scientific 
grounds is possibly open to question; the subject was 
discussed in an article in these columns on January 7. 
In the opinion of nearly everyone qualified to judge, 
our bread is good enough in quality, and the fact 
remains that the public will take no other. The 
Bread and Food Reform League holds the contrary 
view, and recently presented a memorial to the Presi- 
dent of the Local Government Board. The Times of 
March 26 reports the presentation of this memorial 
under the heading, ‘‘A Notable Protest.” The list of 
signatories contains a number of notable names, but 
those of experts who can speak with authority upon 
the subject are not prominent, which is typical of the 
national attitude towards scientific knowledge. Mr. 
Samuel expressed the opinion that it is impracticable 
to undertake at the present time legislation on the 
lines suggested by the memorial. 
WE regret to record the death of Lady Huggins, at 
Chelsea, on March 24, after a long illness. From the 
time of their marriage in 1875, Lady Huggins was 
