AucusT 26, 1915] 
NATURE 
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chemical work, however, had been done to explain the 
cause of these differences; a certain number of 
analytical investigations had been made, but these 
aimed rather at discriminating between the strong and 
the weak wheats than at the elucidation of the cause 
of strength. Under Mr. Hall’s guidance, Atkinson 
worked out the various analytical data for a series of 
wheats of known baking properties, and was thus 
able to eliminate the unsatisfactory methods, and fix 
attention on the better ones; in particular it was 
demonstrated that the percentage of nitrogen largely, 
but not entirely, affords a measure of strength in 
wheat. This information has proved valuable in sub- 
sequent studies of the problem. Capt. Atkinson then 
took an appointment as lecturer in agriculture at 
Reading, but later on went in for actual farming, 
a course he had always desired to follow. 
Caprain ArTHUR KeEttas, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), who 
was killed in action at the Dardanelles on August 6, 
was senior assistant physician at the Royal Asylum, 
Aberdeen. He was a graduate of the University of 
Aberdeen, having taken the degrees of M.B. and 
Ch.B. in 1906, and that of D.P.H. in 1907. In 1914 
he obtained the new diploma of psychiatry in the 
University of Edinburgh. His tenure of office at the 
Royal Asylum was a strikingly successful one; on 
both the therapeutic and the administrative sides he 
evinced gifts of no ordinary type. His work in the 
Physiological Laboratory of the University was 
characterised by qualities of a very high order, and 
marked him out as a man of notable promise as a 
scientific worker. Added to this his singular personal 
charm has made the sudden ending of his career to 
be widely and deeply deplored. 
WE regret to note the death, on August 20, at the 
age of fifty-one, of Mr. W. Hugh Spottiswoode, son 
of Mr. William Spottiswoode, a former president of 
the Royal Society. Mr. Hugh Spottiswoode was for 
a time a manager of the Royal Institution, to which, 
in 1899, he presented his late father’s collection of 
physical apparatus; he later gave his father’s mathe- 
matical MSS. to the London Mathematical Society. 
TuHE death is recorded in the Victorian Naturalist 
of Mr. F. Manson Bailey, of Brisbane, at 
the age of eighty-eight years. Mr. Bailey, who died 
on June 25. was Colonial Botanist for Queensland 
from 1881 until within a short time of his death. 
WE regret to record the death, on August 14, at 
the age of sixty-one years, of Capt. E. W. Owens, 
chief examiner of masters and mates. 
A BRONZE bas-relief—the work of Mr. S. N. Babb— 
is about to be erected in St. Paul’s Cathedral in 
memory of Captain Scott and his companions who 
perished in the Antarctic. At the request of the com- 
mittee responsible for the memorial an inscription for 
the memorial has been written by Lord Curzon, which 
reads as follows :—‘‘In memory of Captain Robert 
Falcon Scott, C.V.O., R.N., Dr. Edward Adrian 
Wilson, Captain Lawrence E. G. Oates, Lieut. 
Henry R. Bowers, and Petty Officer Edgar Evans, 
who died on their return journey from the South Pole 
in February and March, 1912. Inflexible of purpose, 
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steadfast in courage, resolute in endurance in the face 
of unparalleled misfortune. Their bodies are lost in 
the Antarctic ice. But the memory of their deeds is 
an everlasting monument.” 
In addition to his name being expunged from the 
list of honorary members of the laryngological socie- 
ties of Vienna and Berlin, in consequence of his 
having protested in a letter to the Times against 
the barbarities of Germany in the war, the name of 
Sir Felix Semon has been removed from the Inter- 
nationales Centralblatt fiir Laryngologie, which 
journal he founded twenty-five years ago. We learn 
from the British Medical Journal that, in consequence 
of this action, all the British editorial contributors to 
the Centralblatt who have had an opportunity of see- 
ing the declaration have withdrawn their names from 
and resigned their editorial connection with it. 
Among these are Dr. Peter McBride, Dr. H. J. Davis, 
Dr. Logan Turner, and Dr. Watson-Williams. They 
have taken this course as the only effective protest 
open to them against the affront to a British colleague 
for whom they entertain the highest respect involved 
in the removal of his name from an international 
journal founded by him. Their American collaborator, 
Dr. Emil Mayer, has also severed his connection with 
the journal as a protest against the step taken by the 
editor and publisher, 
WE notice, from the second edition of the “War 
List’’ of the Manchester Municipal School of Tech- 
nology, that the following members of the staff of 
the school have joined H.M. Forces on active service, 
in addition to those named in Nature of July 15th :— 
Prof. A. C. Dickie, department of architecture, 
2nd Lieut. Manchester University O.T.C.; F. S. 
Sinnatt, department of applied chemistry, Capt. Man- 
chester University O.T.C.; F. Bowman, department 
of mathematics, Naval Instructor; J. L. Owen, de- 
partment of applied chemistry, Lce.-Corpl. R.A.M.C. 
Sanitary Corps; W. W. Stainer, department of elec- 
trical engineering, 2nd Lieut. 3/4th Batt. Royal 
Sussex Regiment. 
THE twenty-sixth annual general meeting of the 
Institution of Mining Engineers will be held at Leeds 
on September 15, when the following papers will be 
communicated :—Some effects of earth-movement on 
the coal-measures of the Sheffield district (South 
Yorkshire and the neighbouring parts of Derbyshire 
and Nottinghamshire), Prof. W. G. Fearnsides; 
Compressed air for coal-cutters, S. Mavor; Gas- 
producers at collieries for obtaining power and bye- 
products from unsaleable fuel, M. H. Mills. During 
the meeting the Institution medal for the year 
Igt4-15 will be presented to Dr. J. S. Haldane, 
in recognition of his investigations in connection with 
mine air. 
THE annual exhibition of the Royal Photographic 
Society is being held as usual (it closes on October 2) 
at the Suffolk Street Galleries, and although it of 
necessity suffers in some ways by reason of the war, 
special efforts in possible directions have, we thinlk, 
brought the interest of the show fully up to its usual 
level. The contributions from America are note- 
