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NATURE 
[AucusT I, 1912 
Ir has been decided to place a bust of Lord Lister 
in the Royal College of Surgeons, and Sir Thomas 
Brock, R.A., is to be asked to undertake the execution 
of the work. 
A MEMORIAL window to the late Hon. C. S. Rolls 
and Mr. C. S. Grace was dedicated on Friday last 
at All Saints’, Eastchurch, Sheppey, by the Archbishop 
of Canterbury. The design is of two whole-length 
female figures with the respective legends, “* Having 
done all to stand” and “Turn ye to the stronghold ye 
prisoners of hope.’”’ The inscription reads :—‘ To the 
Glory of God and in memory of Charles Stewart Rolls 
and Cecil Stanley Grace, Aviators, July, December, 
tg10. This window is given by friends, A.D. 1912.” 
Pror. Hernrich Rusens, professor of physics in the 
University of Berlin, has been elected president of the 
German Physical Society. 
Tue Moxon gold medal of the Royal College of 
Physicians (awarded every third year to the person 
deemed to have most distinguished himself by observa- 
tion and research in clinical medicine) has been awarded 
to Sir David Ferrier, F.R.S., and the Murchison 
memorial scholarship, founded in memory of Dr. 
Charles Murchison, has been awarded to Dr. W. Rees 
Thomas. 
By the will of the late Sir James Inglis, a former 
president, the Institution of Civil Engineers has re- 
ceived the sum of soool. towards the cost of its new 
building now in course of erection. 
Tue inaugural address to the Summer School of 
Town Planning, which is to be held at Hampstead, 
is to be delivered on Saturday next by the Marquis 
of Crewe. The school is being held under the 
auspices of the London University Extension Board, 
and the course will extend from August 3 to 17. The 
lectures and demonstrations are intended to be of 
special value to municipal engineers, architects, and 
surveyors, but most of the lectures will be of interest 
to others who are concerned with town planning from 
the more general aspect of civic and economic pro- 
gress. 
Tue sixth Pan-American Congress, in connection 
with the Latin-American Medical Congress and the 
Congress of Hygiene, is to take place at Lima from 
August 3 to 10. There are to be eight sections devoted 
respectively to anatomy and physiology; bacteriology 
and parasitology ; medicine; surgery ; hygiene; physics, 
chemistry, natural history, pharmacology; veterinary 
medicine; odontology. 
Tue sixth International Congress of Radiology is to 
be held at Prague from October 3 to 8 next, under 
the presidency of Prof. Julius Stoklasa, rector of the 
Technical High School of Prague. The Radium In- 
stitute at Vienna and the laboratories of Joachimsthal 
will be visited, and an exhibition is being arranged. 
WE learn from The Chemist and Druggist that a 
movement is on foot for the establishment, in Bang- 
kok, of a Pasteur Institute. It is intended that at the 
institute not only shall rabies be dealt with, but that 
attention shall be paid to bacteriology, and opportuni- 
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ties afforded for the study of all kinds of disease. The 
Minister of the Interior is to provide the build- 
ing, and the salaries of the staff are to be paid 
by the Government. 
Srers have been taken to form sections of ophthal- 
mology and tropical medicine in connection with the 
Royal Society of Medicine, and it is hoped that both 
sections will be in active operation by the beginning 
of the next session. 
LowrnHer Lopce and grounds of two acres, facing 
Hyde Park, and having frontages to Prince’s Gate 
and Kensington Gore, have been purchased by the 
Royal Geographical Society as its headquarters. 
According to The Times, the reception-rooms on the 
ground floor will provide accommodation for a 
museum, a map-room, a council-room, a_reading- 
room, and a secretary’s office. On the first floor, 
overlooking the gardens, are some fine rooms suitable 
for a library, while close to them are others which 
will be used as reading-, writing-, smoking-, and tea- 
rooms. Above these are rooms affording ample 
accommodation for the society’s school of instruction, 
the map draughtsmen, and other officials of the 
society. The house has a good basement and exten- 
sive attics, which will provide storage for books or 
maps sufficient to meet requirements for many years. 
As the society wishes to tale possession of its new 
premises without incurring any financial liabilities, an 
appeal is about to be made to the fellows to subscribe 
towards the cost. The society will probably enter 
into occupation in the beginning of next year. 
A cOLLEcTION of 117 Hawaiian birds has been pre- 
sented to the University of California by Miss A. M. 
Alexander, for inclusion in the California Museum of 
Vertebrate Zoology. According to Science, the collec- 
tion is of especial importance seeing that, in conse- 
quence of the clearing of forest lands for cultivation 
in the Hawaiian Islands, some of the species repre- 
sented in Miss Alexander’s gift have become extinct. 
Tue first report of the Explosions in Mines Com- 
mittee [Cd. 6307] appointed by the Home Secretary 
to inquire into the causes and means of prevention 
of coal-dust explosions in mines, although only of a 
preliminary character, clearly indicates that the Com- 
mittee, which consists of Sir Henry Cunynghame, 
Mr. R. A. S. Redmayne, Captain A. H. P. Des- 
borough, Prof. H. B. Dixon, and Mr. W. C. Blackett, 
intends thoroughly to test the capabilities of inert 
dusts to act as a substitute for water, either in those 
cases in which water is considered to be inapplicable 
or as an alternative in all cases. It gives a short 
account of the recent history of the coal-dust question ; 
describes, with plans and photographic illustrations, 
the new experimental station at Eskmeals, in Cumber- 
land; refers to the proposed use of stone dust as a 
means of preventing explosions; and concludes with 
an account of observations on the effect of dusts upon 
health. The last-named subject was specially inquired 
into on behalf of the Committee by Dr. Beattie, pro- 
fessor of pathology at the University of Sheffield. The 
results of Dr. Beattie’s experiments on guinea-pigs, 
which are given in an appendix, are found to cor- 
