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NATURE 



[January 6, 1910 



Due Charles-Theodore, car Son existence ^tait une lecjon 

 pour les homines d'un rang ^lev^ qui se contentent de 

 vivre et de jouir ; elle en ^tait une ^galement pour les 

 humbles en leur apprenant de quelle fa^on il faut com- 

 prendre la vraie fraternity. Mais elle enseignait aussi a 

 lii jeunesse moderne, si rarement soucieuse de sa propre 

 digniti-, comment on traverse la vie dans toute la fi^re 

 simplicity qui ne veut rien devoir ^ personne. 



Et pour terminer cette existence admirable, le Due 

 Charles-Theodore, par 1 'expression formelle d'une derni^re 

 volonte, a maintenu jusqu'^ Tensevelissement de Sa 

 depouille, la simplicity de toute Sa vie : le concours des 

 personnalit(;s imp^riales et royales d^ji accourues a 

 Munich, celui de Tarm^e auquel Sa qualitd royale lui 

 donnait droit, celui des municipalites de la Bavifere oil 

 sans doute il n'existe pas un village qui ne Lui ait envoy^ 

 des malades, celui de six mille op6res qui Lui doivent la 

 vup, toutes les manifestations capables de flatter la vanity 

 humaine furent ^carl^es doucement ; et jeudi dernier Son 

 cercueil descendit, en presence de la famille seule, dans 

 le caveau princier. 



Cependant jamais fun^railles ne furent plus grandioses, 

 car tout un people ^tait consterne devant la perte irrepar- 

 able qu'il venait de faire. 



JVOTE5. 



We learn from the Times of January 3 that the will 

 of the late Dr. Ludwig Mond directs his trustees, on the 

 death of Mrs. Mond, to set aside two sums of 50,000/. 

 each, free of duty, one to be payable to the Royal Society 

 and the other to the University of Heidelberg. The will 

 provides that the income of the 50,000/. bequeathed to the 

 Royal Society " is to be employed in the endowment of 

 research in natural science, more particularly, but not 

 exclusively, in chemistry and physics, by providing rewards 

 for new discoveries and pecuniary assistance (including 

 scholarships) to persons pursuing scientific investigations, 

 and in supplying apparatus and appliances for laboratories 

 and observatories, and, so far as consistent with the Mort- 

 main and Charitable Uses Act, 1888, or other similar 

 provisions, in improving existing or in erecting new labora- 

 tories and observatories, and in such other manner as the 

 Royal Society shall decide to be best calculated to promote 

 scientific research, and also in providing, so far and in 

 such amounts as the council of the Royal Society shall 

 from time to time determine, for the publication and 

 circulation of the reports and papers communicated to the 

 said society, and for the preparation and publication of 

 catalogues and indexes of scientific literature which the 

 Royal Society may have undertaken or may in future, 

 undertake." Similar conditions govern the bequest to the 

 University of Heidelberg. Dr. Mond also left three 

 sums, each of 20,000/., one for the authorities of the 

 .\kademie der bildenden Kunste at Munich, to be applied 

 for the promotion of the arts of sculpture and painting ; 

 a second for providing pensions or occasional pecuniaiy 

 assistance to aged or disabled workmen of Messrs. 

 Brunner, Mond and Co., Ltd., or their successors, in the 

 works at Northvirich, Sandbach, and elsewhere ; the third 

 for the municipal authorities of Cassel. 



Sir James Dew.ir, F.R.S., has been elected a foreign 

 member of the Reale Accademia dei Lincei (Academy of 

 Sciences) of Rome, in the section of physical, mathe- 

 matical, and natural sciences. The King of Italy has 

 signified his approval of this election. 



M. EiViiLE PiCARD, vice-president of the Paris Academy 

 of Sciences, has been elected president for 1910, and is 

 succeeded by M. Armand Gautier as vice-president. 



The death is announced of Mr. W. Earl Hodgson, 

 author of books on "Trout-fishing," "Salmon-fishing," 

 and other works on fishing and popular natural history. 

 NO. 2097, ^'O^- 82] 



We notice with regret the death, on January i, of Sir 

 Edward L. Williams, in his eighty-second year. Sir 

 Edward Williams was well known as the designer of the 

 .Manchester Ship Canal, which took twelve years to con- 

 struct. He acted as chief engineer during the work of 

 construction and on the completion of the canal in 1894 

 was knighted by Queen Victoria. 



The annual general meeting of the Institute of Metals 

 will be held at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 

 Westminster, on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 18 

 and 19. The new president of the institute. Sir Gerald 

 Muntz, Bart., will deliver his presidential address on the 

 former day. 



It was announced by the president of the Chemical 

 Society at the last meeting that in view of the completion 

 o:' fifty years' fellowship by the past presidents Sir Henry 

 Roscoe, Sir William Crookes, Dr. Hugo Miiller, and Dr. 

 .\. Vernon Harcourt, the council has resolved to entertain 

 these fellows as guests of the society at a dinner to be held 

 some time at the end of May or beginning of June. 



The following appointments have been made to the 

 Indian Agricultural Service : — imperial agricultural 

 bacteriologist, Mr. C. M. Hutchinson ; supernumerary 

 mycologist, Mr. F. J. F. Shaw ; supernumerary agri- 

 culturist, Mr. G. R. Hilson. The two posts of assistant 

 superintendent recently vacant in the natural history 

 section of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, have been filled 

 by the selection of Mr. Stanley W. Kemp and Mr. F. H. 

 Gravely. 



We offer our congratulations to the Chemical News, 

 which has just completed the fiftieth year of its existence 

 and its hundredth volume. The Chemists' Club of New 

 York and the American Chemical Society have sent Sir 

 William Crookes messages of congratulation on the 

 jubilee anniversary of his editorship of the journal, and 

 the former institution has elected him an honorary member 

 in recognition of his services to the science of chemistry. 



The Geneva correspondent of the Times states that the 

 Swiss Federal Government has decided to send a scientific 

 expedition into the unexplored parts of Bolivia under the 

 leadership of Prof. O. Fuhrmann, of the University of 

 Neuchatel. The explorers will leave Switzerland for South 

 America on July i, and their object will be to study the 

 fauna, flora, and climate of the country. It is stated that 

 several English and American men of science are to join 

 the expedition at their expense. 



On Tuesday, January 18, Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., 

 will commence a course of three lectures at the Royal 

 Institution on "The Cultivation of the Sea," and on 

 Thursday, January 20, the Rev. C. H. W. Johns will 

 deliver the first of two lectures on " .-\ssyriology." The 

 Friday evening discourse on January 21 will be delivered 

 by Sir James Dewar, F.R.S., on " Light Reactions at 

 Low Temperatures," and on February 4 by Prof. W. 

 Bateson, F.R.S., on " The Heredity of Sex." 



The death is announced, in his sixty-eighth year, of 

 Dr. Charles B. Dudley. For a short time after his gradua- 

 tion at Y'ale he was an assistant in the department of 

 physics at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1875 he 

 had been the chief chemist to the Pennsylvania Railroad 

 Company, in which capacity he made important investiga- 

 tions relating to the composition of steel rails and of the 

 lubricating oils used on railways. He was president of 

 the .American Chemical Society from 1896 to 1898. From 

 1902 to 190S he was president of the American Society for 



