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also found trypanosomes in about 30 per cent. of 
the wild game—namely, in the waterbuck, mpala, 
hartebeest, and warthog—but not in the elephant, 
rhinoceros, zebra, bushpig, or hunting dog; the 
trypanosomes found comprise three species— 
namely, T. pecorum, T. vivax, and T. rhodesiense, 
of which only the last-named is a human parasite. 
The work of Kinghorn and Yorke thus confirms 
and greatly extends the previous results of Taute 
(Zeitschrift fiir Hygiene, \xix., 1911, p. 553), who, 
by laboratory-experiments carried on in the Tan- 
ganyika district, found that T. gambiense could 
be transmitted by G. morsitans. There can now 
be no longer any doubt that the infection of sleep- 
ing sickness can be conveyed by G. morsitans as 
well as by G. palpalis, which was thought for- 
merly to be alone capable of transmitting the 
disease. Consequently the fact is established that 
sleeping sickness is not confined necessarily to 
regions coextensive with the distribution of 
G. palpalis, but can have a vastly wider range. 
From the administrative point of view this is a 
conclusion of the utmost importance, and, com- | 
bined with the apparently widespread occurrence 
of the trypanosome as a harmless parasite of wild 
animals in nature, one which greatly complicates 
the problem of checking the spread of sleeping 
sickness. 
NOTES. 
Tue list of honours on the occasion of the King’s 
birthday, which, was celebrated on June 14th, includes 
the name of only one fellow of the Royal Society, | 
Lieut.-Col. D. Prain, director of the Royal Gardens, 
Kew, who has been knighted. Among others upon 
whom a like honour has been conferred are Mr. 
B. G. A. Moynihan, professor of clinical surgery at 
the University of Leeds; Mr. C. H. Read, president | 
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of the Society of Antiquaries; Mr. J. Bland Sutton, | 
the distinguished surgeon; Dr. St. Clair Thomson, 
professor of laryngology and diseases of the throat at 
King’s College Hospital. Another honoured member 
of the medical profession is Mr. R. J. Godlee, presi- 
dent of the Royal College of Surgeons, who has been 
created a baronet. The Companions of the Order of 
St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.) include Dr. A. 
Balfour, director of the Government Research Labora- 
tory, Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum; Mr. J. 
Currie, principal of the same college; and Mr. J. M. 
Macoun, assistant botanist and naturalist, Canadian 
Geological Survey. Dr. G. A. Grierson and Dr. 
M. A. Stein have been appointed Knight Commanders 
of the Order of the Indian Empire (K.C.I.E.), and 
among the new Companions of the same Order 
(C.1.E.) are Mr. B. Coventry, director of the Indian 
Agricultural Research Institute; Mr. A. Chatterton, 
superintendent of industrial education, Madras; and 
Dr. P. C. Ray, professor of chemistry, Presidency 
College, Calcutta. Mr. C. E. Fagan, assistant secre- 
tary of the British Museum, has been made a Com- 
panion of the Imperial Service Order (I.S.O.). 
THE annual conversazione of the Institution of Elec- 
trical Engineers will be held at the Natural History 
Museum, South Kensington, on Thursday, June 27. 
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Tue twenty-third annual conference of the Museums 
Association will be held in Dublin on July 8-12, under 
the presidency of Count G. N. Plunkett, director of 
the National Museum of Ireland. The honorary secre- 
tary of the association is Mr. E. E. Lowe, The 
Museum, Leicester. 
WE regret to see the announcement of the death, 
at seventy-two years of age, of M. C. André, director 
of the Lyons Observatory and correspondant of the 
Institute of France; also of Prof. H. F. Weber, direc- 
tor of the Physical Electrotechnical Institute at 
Zurich, at sixty-nine years of age. 
In reply to a question asked in the House of Com- 
mons on Tuesday, June 18, Mr. Runciman said that 
the duties of the new horticultural branch of the Board 
of Agriculture and Fisheries will embrace all 
sections of the horticultural industry. The head 
of the branch will be Mr. A. G. L. Rogers, and 
he will have the assistance of an entomological expert, 
eight other expert outdoor officers with various tech- 
nical qualifications, and an adequate clerical staff. 
WE are informed that the Crocker Land expedition, 
which, as described in Nature of April 25, p. 207, 
was to have gone northward this summer under the 
leadership of Mr. George Borup and Mr. D. B. Mac- 
Millan, has been postponed to the summer of 1913, on 
account of the lamentable death of Mr. Borup and 
the impracticability of finding a substitute for him in 
the short time remaining before the expedition was to 
start. 
Tue death is announced on June 13 of Dr. Shad- 
worth H. Hodgson, at the age of seventy-nine years. 
Dr. Hodgson was distinguished as a metaphysician 
and philosopher, and was the author of the follow- 
ing works, among others:—‘‘Time and Space: A 
Metaphysical Essay,” issued in 1865; “‘ The Theory of 
Practice,” an ethical inquiry published in 1870; “‘ The 
Philosophy of Reflection,” in two volumes (1878); and 
“The Metaphysic of Experience,’ published in four 
volumes in 1898. He was the first president of the 
Aristotelian Society, and held the office for fourteen 
years. He was also an honorary LL.D. of Edin- 
burgh, a corresponding member of the French 
Academy of Moral Sciences, and a fellow of the 
British Academy. 
Fut. particulars are now available of the annual 
meeting of the Société helvétique des Sciences natur- 
elles, to be held at Altdorf on September 8-11, as 
already announced in Nature. The meetings will be 
presided over by Dr. P. B. Huber, and the first general 
meeting will be held on September 9, when the presi- 
dent’s address will be delivered and lectures given 
by Prof. Wiechert, of Géttingen, on atmospheric 
electricity, and by Prof. G. Bertrand, of Paris, on 
the chemical composition of living organisms. The 
second general meeting will be held on September 11, 
when Prof. Weiss, of Zurich, will lecture on atoms 
and molecules in the light of recent magnetic re- 
searches; Dr. P. Arbentz, of Zurich, on the structure 
of the Central Alps; and Dr. Paul Sarasin, of Bale, 
on the Swiss National Park. Numerous excursions 
