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in response to light, and on Friday evening Dr. 
R. A. Sampson, F.R.S., will deliver a discourse 
on a census of the sky. 
On Wednesday evening the members and asso- 
ciates are invited to visit the Manchester School 
of Technology, and to inspect the appliances and 
apparatus with which this great institution is pro- 
vided. 
‘The reception room will be the Whitworth Hall 
of the University, and accommodation will also 
be provided for all the sections (except Sections 
F, L, and M), for all the committees, for writing 
rooms, smoke rooms, and refreshments within 
the University precincts. 
For the convenience of men of business in 
Manchester, Section F (Economics) will meet in 
the Chamber of Commerce in Mosley Street. 
Sections L and M will meet in the High School 
for Girls in Dover Street, a few yards from the 
University buildings. 
Although there will be no long-distance ex- 
cursions of the usual type, some shorter excur- 
sions will be arranged of special, interest to 
members of particular sections. There will be, 
for example, some afternoon excursions to places 
of geological interest for members of Section C, 
and some short-distance botanical excursions for 
members of Section K. Arrangements will be 
made for the visit of some of the members in- 
terested in antiquities to Ribchester to attend the 
formal opening of the new Roman Museum, and 
on another occasion there will be an excursion to 
visit the Manchester Ship Canal. 
Opportunities will be afforded in the course of 
the week for members to visit some of the more 
interesting works, warehouses, and. factories of 
the district, but, owing to the circumstances of 
the war, the great armament factories, some of 
the chemical works, and businesses engaged in 
the manufacture of munitions of war, are unable 
to offer this vear similar invitations to the asso- 
ciation. 
The Rylands Library, Chetham Hospital, the 
Art Galleries, and other institutions of special 
interest, will be opened to members of the asso- 
ciation during the meeting. 
In the house of the Manchester Literary and 
Philosophical Society, members of the association 
will be able to inspect a series of original dia- 
grams made by John Dalton at the beginning of 
the nineteenth century to illustrate his lectures on 
the atomic theory. These diagrams have quite 
recently been discovered in the premises of the 
society, and have been cleaned, catalogued, and 
displayed for the inspection of the members. In 
addition to these diagrams, visitors may see an 
interesting collection of the instruments, appa- 
ratus, and personal effects of John Dalton, and 
some of the apparatus used by J. P. Joule in his 
experiments on the mechanical equivalent of heat. 
The association has arranged for a number of 
lectures by distinguished men of science for 
working-men audiences in Manchester and some 
of the neighbouring boroughs during the week. 
The programme of these lectures will be issued 
shortly. Sh) dle 18le 
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NOTES. 
THE council of the Physical Society of London has 
decided to sanction and adopt the letters F.P.S.L. as 
the official indication of fellowship of the society. 
WE regret to see the announcement of the death, at 
Pretoria, on June 28, aged forty-six, of Mr. Herbert 
Kynaston, director of the Geological Survey of the 
Union of South Africa; also, on June 6, at Calcutta, 
of Mr. H,. S. Bion, assistant superintendent, Geo- 
logical Survey of India. 
TuE second International Conference of the Society 
for Practical Astronomy will be held on August 16, 17, 
and 18, at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IIl., 
U.S.A. All persons interested in astronomy, and 
friends of the science, whether members of the society 
or not, are cordially invited to attend the regular 
sessions of the conference, and will be made welcome 
there. The programme will consist of papers from 
members, illustrated lectures on astronomical subjects, 
For at least two of the evenings 
excursions have been arranged to the Dearborn Ob- 
servatory of Northwestern University, in Evanston, 
Ill., and to the (private) Petrajtys Observatory, in 
South Chicago, IIl. 
Tue death is announced of Prof, J. F. Eykman, of 
Groningen, at sixty-four years of age. After studying 
at Amsterdam and at Leyden, and qualifying as a 
pharmaceutical chemist, Prof. Eykman was appointed 
director of a hygienic and chemical laboratory at 
Nagasaki, Japan; later he became professor of chem- 
istry in the University of Tokyo. In 1885 he founded, 
in the Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens, a laboratory for 
the chemical and pharmacological investigation of 
East Indian plants, but returned to Holland in the 
next year, being succeeded by the late Dr. M. Gres- 
hoff. Since 1897 he had occupied the chair of organic 
chemistry in the University of Groningen. Prof. 
Eykman was largely responsible for the compilation 
of the first Japanese Pharmacopeeia. His name is 
further associated with the so-called depressimeter—a 
simple apparatus for cryoscopic molecular weight deter- 
minations. 
EXETER COLLEGE, University of Oxford, which has 
already suffered a severe loss by the death of Dr. 
Jenkinson in the Dardanelles, has now been deprived 
of another of its members who had added to his work 
as a teacher the experience gained by investigation in 
a wider field. Capt. C. F. Balleine, a native of Jersey, 
entered Exeter College as a classical scholar in 1902. 
After a successful academic career, he took his degree 
in 1906, and was then elected to a senior scholarship 
in the same college ‘‘ for travel and research.”” Having 
spent some time in Germany, he joined Dr. Randall 
Maclver in an archeological investigation at Korosko 
in Upper Egypt. His work on that site was cut short 
by an attack of appendicitis, on recovery from which 
he returned home. Having been elected to a tutorial 
fellowship, still at his old college, he devoted himself 
assiduously to promoting the welfare, both mental 
and physical, of the students under his charge. 
Always keenly interested in military matters, he was 
a most efficient officer in the Oxford O.T.C. Soon 
