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NATURE 
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a very interesting new species of Cephalodiscus, 
of which a fine account has been given by Drs. 
S. F. Harmer and W. G. Ridewood, whose pre- 
vious studies of these strange types are well 
known. Thus we come, in the meantime, to the 
end of a valuable series of contributions to the 
marine zoology of the far south, contributions 
which do great credit to the investigators at home 
and to Dr. Bruce and his fellow-workers on the 
Scotia. We are told in the preface that there is | 
material for six more volumes, and we hope that 

FiG..2,—Ross Seal (Ovzatophoca rosst) and Dr. Pirie on board the Sco¢za. 
these will see the light in brighter days. 
sustain the standard of what has been 
published they will do well. 
If they 
already 

NOTES. | 
Ir is stated in the Pharmaceutical Journal that, in 
consequence of the war, the meeting of the Austra. 
lasian Association, which had been arranged to take | 
place in Hobart in January next, has been postponed | 
for a year, and that the Australasian Pharmaceutical 
Conference will not be held until January, 1917. 
Sir A. Sevsy-Bicce (Permanent Secretary of the 
Board of Education since 1911) has been appointed 
special secretary to the committee of the Privy Council 
for the organisation and development of scientific and 
industrial research. 
Mr. F. W. Hareorp has been appointed honorary 
adviser in metallurgy to the Munitions Committee. 
Pror. MeEtpora, writing as a member of the 
Advisory Council for the new Government scheme for | 
NO. 2389, VOL. 95 | 
the endowment of research, asks us to make it known 
that the article in the Evening News of August 2 
dealing with this scheme was not written by him 
and that he does not identify himself with all the 
statements and opinions contained therein. <A dis- 
claimer was inserted in the same paper on August 5. 
Tue gold medal of the Company of Dyers has been 
awarded to Prof. A. G. Green, University of Leeds, 
and to Mr. W. Johnson, a research student of the 
University of Leeds, for research work in connection 
with the art of dyeing. 
The special research which 
From ‘* Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of s.y. Scotia.” 
was the occasion of the award was an investigation 
into the constitution of aniline black. 
Tue Weber-Parkes prize of the Royal College of 
Physicians for 1915 has been awarded to Dr. Noel 
Dean Bardswell. 
Tue Paris Academy of Medicine has accepted the 
legacy of Dr. M. Sigaut of 8,000 francs, the interest 
of which will be used to establish a prize to be known 
as the Dr. Max Sigaut prize. The prize will be 
awarded every two years for the best memoir on early 
diagnosis and the best treatment in cancer of the 


Tue Secretary of State for the Colonies has ap- 
pointed a committee to consider and report upon the 
present condition and the prospects of the West 
African trade in palm kernels and other edible and 
oil-producing nuts and seeds and to make recom- 
mendations for the promotion, in the United Kingdom, 
of the industries dependent thereon. The committee 
as at present constituted is composed of Mr. Steel 
