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central court between the two great laboratories, was 

 unveiled by Prof, von Graff, who spoke on behalf 

 of the International Zoological Congress, at the meet- 

 ing of which at Graz it was decided to erect and 

 place within the station a monument to the late Anton 

 Dohrn. Von Graff, in his appreciation of Dohrn's 

 work, referred more especially to the international 

 character which the station has developed under the 

 distinguished direction of its founder. The tablet 

 having been unveiled, Prof. Todaro, of Rome, an old 

 personal friend of Dohrn's, spoke on behalf of the 

 Accademia dei Lincei and the Italian Department of 

 Public Education. Dr. Wever, Consul-General for 

 Germany in Naples, made a speech representing the 

 Foreign Office and the Department of Public Educa- 

 tion in Berlin. Marchese del Carretto, Mayor of 

 Naples, spoke of the advantages enjoyed by the town 

 from the aquarium and marine station, and Admiral 

 Raggio Ducarne referred to the connection between 

 the Italian Navy and the zoological station. Wreaths 

 were placed at the base of the monument by the 

 speakers mentioned, and by many of the delegates. 

 After a speech by Prof. Reinhard Dohrn, son of the 

 late Anton Dohrn, and now director of the station, 

 the ceremony concluded. 



We regret to see the announcement of the death, 

 on April 14, of Herr Karl Hagenbeck, the owner of 

 the famous zoological park at Stellingen. 



The death is announced, at forty-eight years of age, 

 of Mr. Percival Spencer, the well-known balloon 

 manufacturer and aeronaut, who made many notable 

 journeys by balloon, and was closely associated with 

 developments of aerial navigation. 



At the annual general meeting of the Selborne 

 Society, to be held in the theatre of the Civil Service 

 Commission, Burlington Gardens, W., on Monday 

 next, April 21, there will be an exhibition by Mr. 

 John Glen of the portrait recently discovered which 

 claims to be that of Gilbert White. 



The death is announced of Prof. V. Dwelshauvers- 

 Dery, correspondant of the Paris Academy of Sciences, 

 in the section of mechanics, and of M. Louis Henry, 

 correspondant in the section of chemistry. Prof. 

 Dwelshauvers-Dery was born at Dinant in 1836, and 

 studied engineering at Brussels and Liege, obtaining 

 his degree as doctor of physical sciences at the latter 

 place in 1861, where he afterwards took charge of 

 the course of applied mechanics, and established a 

 laboratorv. He gave particular attention to the study 

 of steam engines. 



Sir Edward T. Candy, formerly judge of the Bom- 

 bay High Court, whose death at Great Shelford, near 

 Cambridge, on April 13, in his sixty-eighth year, 

 is announced, took an active share in the work of the 

 Bombay University, and was Vice-Chancellor for five 

 years (1897-1902). He was chairman of the provi- 

 sional committee of the Indian Research Institute now 

 established at Bangalore through the munificence of 

 the late Mr. J. N. Tata. On his retirement in 1903 

 he settled at Great Shelford, and he took a keen in- 

 terest in the affairs of Cambridge University. 

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A pioneer in telegraph engineering has been lost 

 by the death, at the age of eighty-two, of Mr. E. B. 

 Bright, on April 14. From an obituary notice in the 

 Engineering Supplement of The Times we learn that 

 with his young brother, afterwards Sir Charles Bright, 

 he joined the Electric Telegraph Company in 1847. 

 Within a year of entering this new field both became 

 inventors. Perhaps the most important of their early 

 j inventions was the system, devised in February, 1849, 

 ! of testing insulated conductors to localise faults from 

 a distant point, by means of a series of standard re- 

 sistance coils of different values, brought into circuit 

 successively by turning a connecting handle. In 1851 

 Charles left the Electric Company, and shortly after- 

 wards became engineer to the British Telegraph Com- 

 pany, while Edward joined the Magnetic Telegraph 

 Company, of which, in 1852, when only twenty-one 

 years old, he became manager. The brothers soon 

 found it necessary to devise fresh apparatus to com- 

 pensate for the inductive discharge resulting from the 

 long underground circuits by discharging to earth and 

 thus neutralising the recoil currents. From that time 

 until the spring of 1854 they carried out a series of 

 experiments on the great lengths of subterranean 

 wires under their control in order to investigate this 

 novel phenomenon. Edward Bright was largely re- 

 sponsible for the establishment of telegraphic com- 

 munication between the West Indian Islands by some 

 5000 miles of submarine cable. He was a member 

 of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a member of 

 council of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. 



The Royal College of Surgeons has awarded the 

 triennial prize, with which is given the John Hunter 

 medal, to Dr. W. Blair Bell, of Liverpool, for his 

 dissertation on the anatomy and physiology of the 

 pituitary body. The subject of the prize for the next 

 period is "The Human and Comparative Anatomy and 

 Physiology of the Cerebellum." The Jacksonian prize 

 for the year 1912 has been awarded to Mr. F. W. 

 Goyder, of Bradford, Yorks, for his dissertation on 

 the embryology and treatment of cleft palate. The 

 subject of the prize for the year 1914 is "The Patho- 

 logy, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Trigeminal 

 Neuralgia." 



A joint session of the Aristotelian Society, the 

 British Psychological Society, and the Mind Associa- 

 tion will be held in London on June 7 and 8. In 

 the afternoon of June 7 there will be a symposium, 

 "Are Intensity Differences of Sensation Quantita- 

 tive?" to which Messrs. C. S. Myers, Dawes Hicks, 

 H. J. Watt, and Wm. Brown will contribute. In the 

 evening there will be a discussion of a paper by Dr. 

 Arthur Robinson on memory. The subject of a sym- 

 posium on June 8 will be, " Can There be Anything 

 Obscure or Implicit in a Mental State?" and Messrs. 

 Henry Barker, G. F. Stout, and R. F. A. Hoernle 

 will take part. 



Whatever may be the subsequent effect, if any, of 

 the removal of the Royal Geographical Society from 

 its old centrally situated premises in Savile Row to 

 the "West End," there can be no question as to the 

 enhanced convenience and amenities afforded by the 

 new home at Kensington Gore, which the Society 



