NATURE 
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NOTES. 
The retirement, on August 15, of Sir Patrick Man- 
son, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., from ‘the post of medical 
adviser to the Colonial Office is announced. The 
duties hitherto discharged by him will in future be 
divided, and the Secretary of State for the Colonies 
has appointed Sir J. Rose Bradford, K.C.M.G., 
F.R.S., to be senior medical adviser, and Mr. C. W. 
Daniels to be junior medical adviser to the Colonial 
Office in London. It is also announced that Mr. 
W. T. Prout, C.M.G., has been appointed medical 
adviser to the Colonial Office in Liverpool. Sir 
Patrick Manson has been appointed a Knight Grand 
Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 
recognition of his eminent services in connection with 
the investigation of the cause and cure of tropical 
disease. 
Tue Secretary for Scotland has appointed a com- 
mittee to advise the Board of Agriculture for Scot- 
land in matters relating to forestry. The following 
gentlemen have accepted the invitation to serve on 
such an advisory committee:—Mr. John D. Suther- 
land (chairman), the Right Hon. R. C. Munro- 
Ferguson, M.P., Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Bt., Sir 
W. S. Haldane, and Mr. R. H. N. Sellar. 
Pror. L. E. Bouvier, of the Jardin des Plantes, 
has been appointed ‘“‘Ray Lankester Investigator ”’ 
for 1912-13, and in the course of this month will 
enter into occupation of the Ray Lankester table in 
the laboratory of the Marine Biological Association 
at Plymouth. At the request of the trustees, the 
nomination for this first appointment was made by 
Sir E. Ray Lankester, K.C.B., F.R.S. 
Ar the forthcoming meeting of the British Asso- 
ciation in Dundee an innovation will be made which 
foreshadows a widening, in some measure, of the 
interests and scope of the association. It has been 
suggested recently from various quarters that, instead 
of the one lecture to.the “operative classes" hitherto 
given during the annual meeting by a lecturer ap- 
pointed by the association, a larger number of lectures 
should be arranged for the benefit of the classes of 
citizens at the place of meeting who do not, as a 
rule, join the association. A somewhat similar idea 
underlay the arrangement, in 1909, of two ‘popular 
lectures to the citizens”? of Winnipeg, with the special 
conditions obtaining in that city in view. But on the 
present occasion three such lectures will be provided, 
and will be given in the Gilfillan Hall, Dundee, on 
Thursday evening, September 5, by Prof. Benjamin | 
Moore, on “Science and National Health’’; on Satur- 
day, September 7, by Prof. E. C. K. Gonner, on 
“Prices and Wages ’’; and on Tuesday, September 10, 
by Prof. A. Fowler, on “The Sun.” 
Tue following are among the subjects to be dealt 
with in Section E (Geography) of the forthcoming 
meeting of the British Association. The president, 
Colonel Sir C. M. Watson, proposes to deal with the 
geography of the Sudan, taking up the story where 
Sir Samuel Baker left it, when he presided over the 
section at the last Dundee meeting. There will be 
other papers on the Sudan and adjoining countries. 
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| Desert conditions will be treated of by Mr. H. Hard- 
ing King (the Libyan Desert) and Mr. J. N. Draco- 
poli (Mexico). Part of one morning will be devoted 
to the Antarctic regions, Sir Clements Markham con- 
tributing a paper on Antarctic discovery, and 
Dr. W. S. Bruce opening a discussion on the Antarctic 
continent. There will also be lectures by Sir Wm. 
Willcocks on irrigated Canada, and by Dr. H. M. Ami 
on recently opened-up regions of the Dominion. 
IN response to a joint appeal made by the Royal 
Society of South Africa and the South African Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science to the Union 
Government, a sum of 500l. has been voted during the 
current financial year as a grant-in-aid for the purpose 
of assistance in scientific werkein or relating to South 
Africa. A scheme for the administration of this and 
future funds available for the same purpose on lines 
| similar to that of the Government Grant Fund of the 
Royal Society has been prepared by a joint committee 
representing the two above-mentioned societies. 
A MOVEMENT is on foot to erect in Westminster 
Abbey a memorial window to the late Lord Kelvin. 
To further the interest of the scheme a large com- 
mittee composed of representatives of engineering 
societies of the British Empire and the United States 
of America has been formed. The honorary treasurer 
of the fund is Dr. J. H. Tudsbery, 12 Dartmouth 
Street, Westminster. 
In future the Sleeping Sickness Bureau will be 
known as the Tropical Diseases Bureau, and the 
offices will be in the Imperial Institute. In October 
next the ‘‘Sleeping Sickness”’ and ‘“‘ Kala-azar Bul- 
letins ’ will give place to the ‘‘ Tropical Diseases Bul- 
letin,” in which will be published summaries of all 
the current literature of tropical and subtropical 
diseases. A quarterly ‘‘ Tropical Veterinary Bulletin ”’ 
will also be issued by the bureau. 
A GOLD medal has been awarded by the Royal Hor- 
ticultural Society to Prof. R. Newstead, F.R.S., of 
the University of Liverpool, for his exhibit of insects 
injurious to cultivated plants on the occasion of the 
Royal International Horticultural Exhibition held in 
London in May last. 
Tue American medicine gold medal for 1912 has 
been awarded to Dr. W. C. Gorgas, Ancon, Panama, 
as the American physician who in the judgment of the 
trustees has performed the most conspicuous and note- 
worthy service in the domain of medicine during the 
past year. 
Mr. B. G. Cooper has been appointed secretary of 
the A€ronautical Society of Great Britain in the place 
of Mr. T. O’B. Hubbard, who is resigning the posi- 
tion. The appointment will take effect from August 
14. 
Revurer’s AGENCY announces the arrival, at Port 
Chalmers, of the Aurora, Dr. Mawson’s Antarctic 
exploration. ship. All the members of the expedi- 
tion were in good health. 
Ir is proposed to acquire the estate of Corstorphine 
Hill as the site of Zoological Gardens for Edinburgh. 
The estate will cost 17,000l., and 8000l. will be re- 
quired for an initial collection of animals. 
