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will contribute a paper on the Keltic weights found at 

 Mclandra, which throw considerable light on the sub- 

 divisions of the pre-Roman pound in Britain. Excavations 

 on the interesting palaeolithic site at Ipswich, of which 

 accounts havu on two occasions been presented to the sec- 

 tion, have now brought to light a number of small imple- 

 ments which would appear to have been used as scrapers, 

 and further evidence as to the relations of the implement- 

 iff-rous strata, which will be described by Miss Layard. 

 Miss Layard also contributes an account of the excavation 

 of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Ipswich, which has pro- 

 duced, among other objects, fibula; of interesting types, rare 

 in (ireat Britain. .Mr. Rudler's paper on the " Red Hills " 

 of the east coast salt-marshes will describe the low mounds 

 of burnt earth of frequent occurrence on the estuarial 

 marshes of Essex, which it is now proposed to examine 

 systematically. 



' SiiCTiON I (Physiology). — Augusi 2 : Address by the 

 president, Prof. Gotch ; Report of committee on The meta- 

 bolic balance sheet of the tissues; Papers on physiology. 

 Augxist 3: The nitrification of sewage. Dr. George Reid ; 

 Papers on hygiene : Report of the committee for the in- 

 vestigation of the effect of climate upon health. .4t(^ii.s( 5 : 

 Discussion on the physiological value of rest, opened by 

 Dr. T. D. Acland.' Dr. Rivers, Dr. Myers, Prof. 

 McDougall are expected to take part. Papers on the 

 special senses, psychology and electrophysiology. Dr. 

 Bevan Lewis and Dr. Smith will give a demonstration on 

 improved methods of studying the central nervous system, 

 and a paper on the pericellular ple.xus and neuro fibrils of 

 the cerebral cortex. August 6 : Joint discussion with Sec- 

 tion B (Chemistry) on the factors which determine 

 minimum diet values, opened by Dr. F. Gowland Hopkins. 

 This, of course, has special interest, as much sociological 

 work has been done in York by Mr. B. Seebohm Rowntree 

 on the limits of diet. Prof, .'\rmstrong and other members 

 of the chemical section will take part. Papers on pathology. 

 August 7: General papers. 



Section K (Bot.^ny'). — At least three of the sessions of 

 this section will be devoted to special topics of current 

 interest, the proceedings in each opening with a general 

 paper or address dealing with the topic as a whole, followed 

 by more special papers and a general discussion. The 

 three topics chosen for the present meeting are as follows : — 

 (i) Some aspects of the present position of PaLneozoic 

 botany will be dealt with by Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., 

 and the conditions of growth of Carboniferous plants by 

 Prof. F. E. Weiss, Miss M. C. Stopes, and others. 

 (2) The nature of fertilisation and kindred problems, at a 

 joint session with Section D (Zoology). Mr. V. H. Black- 

 man will open the proceedings with a general address 

 setting forth the present position of the subject. Prof. 

 Farmer, F.R.S., is expected to contribute a paper on the 

 cytological features of apospory, and Mr. Doncaster one 

 on some cytological features of animal parthenogenesis. 

 Several eminent foreign botanists, distinguished for their 

 work on kindred topics, have promised to be present, 

 among them being Prof. Tschermak, of Vienna, Prof. 

 Johannsen and Dr. Ostenfeld, of Copenhagen, Dr. Rosen- 

 berg, of Stockholm, and Dr. Lotsy, of Leyden. (3) The 

 phylogenetic value of the vascular system of seedlings. 

 Mr. .\. G. Tansley and Miss E. N. Thomas will open the 

 proceedings, while Prof. Jeffrey, of Harvard, Messrs. A. W. 

 Hill, T. G. Hill, and Miss Ethel Sargant are expected to 

 contribute by papers or otherwise to the discussion. 



Dr. T. W. Woodhead, who has been spending the last 

 year at Zurich with Prof. Schroter, will communicate a 

 paper on ecological work in Switzerland, Mr. C. E. Moss 

 will give an account of survev work and mapping in 

 Somersetshire, while Dr. Fritsch and Mr. Walker will con- 

 tribute papers on algal ecology. Prof. Wyndham Dunstan, 

 F.R.S., is expected to give a general account of his work 

 on hydrocyanic acid in metabolism, but it is not yet certain 

 whether this will be presented to the botanical or to the 

 chemical section, .\mong other papers may be mentioned 

 Prof. H. H. W. Pearson's on the habitats and habits of 

 S. .African cycads, communicated by Mr. k. C. Seward, 

 F.R.S., and Mr. Hugh Richardson's on the vegetation 

 of Teneriffe. It is hoped that Dr. Blakeslee may be able 

 to be present and give an account of his work on sexual 



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differentiation in the Mucorinese, and also of his important 

 recent discoveries of sexual differentiation in the spores of 

 Marchantia. 



Section L (Educational Science). — August 2 : Presi- 

 dential address, Prof. Michael E. Sadler ; Report on health 

 in schools, Prof. Sherrington ; Medical inspection of schools 

 and colleges. Sir Lauder Brunton, Sir Henry Craik ; 

 Physical training. Dr. I'^thel Williams, Major Norman ; 

 The education of workpeople, Hugh O. Meredith. 

 August 3 : Curriculum of primary schools and the train- 

 ing of teachers in such schools ; Report of committee on 

 the courses of practical, experimental, and observational 

 studies most suitable to elementary schools : general prin- 

 ciples. Sir Philip Magnus, M.P., subcommittee report on 

 arithmetic and mensuration. Prof. R. A. Gregory, sub- 

 committee report on nature-study, Hugh Richardson. 

 Contributions to the discussion will be made by Principal 

 Burrell, T. S. Dymond, Prof. Green, J. C. Hudson. 

 Training for the home duties of women. Report of sub- 

 committee on Domestic studies, Geo. Fletcher. The follow- 

 ing will contribute to the discussion : — Miss Mary E. 

 Marsden, Prof. A. Smithells, Miss Maud Taylor, Prof. 

 H. E. Armstrong, Mrs. Margaret Pillow, B. S. Rowntree, 

 Mrs Marvin, Miss Romlcy Wright. August 6 : The balance 

 of subjects in the curriculum of the secondary school and 

 the training of teachers for such schools, T. E. Page, Hon. 

 and Rev. E. Lyttelton, Rev. E. C. Owen, Arthur Rowntree 

 (Leisure pursuits), Gidley Robinson (Preparatory schools), 

 C. M. Stuart, J. H. Leonard, Miss E. E. C. Tomes (Train- 

 ing), Prof. Raymont (Training) ; The uncertainty of educa- 

 tional values in the absence of scientific experiment. Dr. 

 E. P. Culverwell ; The demonstration school as a field for 

 scientific research in school teaching. Prof. J. J. Findlay. 

 August 7 : Inspection and examination of schools, C. M. 

 Stuart, J. L. Holland, Geo. Fletcher, and others; The 

 teaching of modern languages. Prof. Wyld, Prof. Robert- 

 son ; Experiments and results in elementary modern 

 language teaching conducted since i8q2. Prof. J. J. Findlay; 

 (joint meeting with Sections A and G) The teaching of 

 mechanics by experiment, C. E. Ashford. 



NOTES. 



The death of Prof. Drude by his own hand at the early 

 age of forty-three is a serious loss to physical science. 

 Born at Brunswick in 1863, he made his mark first as a 

 pupil of Voigt at Gottingen, and his series of papers in 

 which he applied the electromagnetic theory of Maxwell, 

 as developed bv Herz, to the problems of light, stamped 

 him as a physicist of the first rank. These appeared in 

 Wiedemann's Annalen in the years 1896-9, and as more 

 fully developed in the author's " Physics of the Ether " 

 and his text-book of optics, have received recognition in 

 these columns. Among them may be specially noted his 

 theory of the magneto-optic phenomena of iron, nickel, 

 and cobalt, 1897 ; the theory of anomalous dispersion, 1898 ; 

 and of electric dispersion, i8gg. Drude was also an ex- 

 perimenter, and was able to devise and carry out critical 

 experiments to test, where necessary, fundamental points of 

 his theorv. In 1900 he succeeded Wiedemann as editor of 

 the Annalen der Physik, and under his capable guidance 

 that well-known journal has fully maintained its reputation, 

 while only last year he was called to Berlin as professor 

 of physics in succession to Warburg, now president of the 

 Reichsanstalt. The physics school of the University of 

 Berlin has suffered severely in recent years, and the loss 

 of the brilliant physicist who had so recently joined them 

 will be deeply felt by his friends and colleagues. 



The report on the civil hospitals and dispensaries in 

 the United Provinces states, says the Pioneer Mail, that 

 five cases of snake-bite have been successfully treated at 

 Gorakhpur with Dr. Calmette's anti-venene and per- 

 manganate of potash. They seemed bad cases, and almost 



