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[September i 6, 1922 



gardens of the Yorkshire Museum by the president, 

 Mr. W. H. St. Ouintin, and a number of congratu- 

 latory addresses from national as well as local learned 

 bodies will be read by their representatives. Later, 

 the gathering will go in procession to the Minster, 

 where a short service will be held and an address 

 delivered by the Bishop of Beverley. 



The following have been appointed to the Board 

 of Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery : the 

 Earl of Ilchester, Sir Martin Conway, and Mr. W. B. 

 Hardy, in place of the late Viscount Bryce, Sir 

 Edward Conway, and Viscount Harcourt, respectively. 



The sixty-seventh international annual exhibition 

 of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain 

 will be opened on Saturday, September 16, by Mr. 

 S. J. Solomon, president of the Royal Society of 

 British Artists, at 35 Russell Square, W.C.i. 



The Harveian Oration of the Royal College of 

 Physicians of London will be delivered at the college 

 at 4 o'clock on Wednesday, October 18, by Dr. Arnold 

 Chaplin. Sir Maurice Craig is to deliver the Bradshaw 

 Lecture (on " Mental Symptoms in Physical Disease ") 

 on November 2. The FitzPa trick Lecture will be 

 given bv Dr. R. O. Moon on November 7 and 9. The 

 subject will be " Philosophy and the Post-Hippocratic 

 School of Medicine." 



It has been decided that an Institute of Paint and 

 Varnish Technologists shall be founded, and a dinner 

 is to be held shortly to inaugurate the new Institute. 

 The objects of the Institute will be the dissemination 

 of practical and scientific knowledge by reading and 

 discussing papers, the improvement of technical educa- 

 tion, the promotion of research, and the establishment 

 of close relations with the Government and with 

 societies interested in the products of the industry 

 and their application. Applications to attend tin- 

 inaugural dinner should be forwarded to H. D. 

 Bradford, 42 Ribblesdale Road, S.W.16. 



At a conference of the leading societies in North 

 America that deal with biological subjects, recently 

 held in Washington, it was decided to recommend 

 to the constituent bodies the formation of a Federa- 

 tion of American Biological Societies. The members 

 of the federation are to be societies, not individuals, 

 and the governing body is to be a council consisting 

 of two representatives from each society ; the council 

 is to choose an executive committee from its own 

 members. One of the first questions to come before 

 the council, if and when constituted, will be the im- 

 provement of biological publications, and a committee 

 is already studying the question in co-operation with 

 a committee from the Division of Biology and Agri- 

 culture of the National Research Council of the 

 United States. 



In our issue of April 15, p. 486, reference was made 

 to the preparations in progress for the celebration in 

 France of the centenary of the birth of Pasteur. A 

 committee was formed in this country, under the 

 chairmanship of Sir Charles Sherrington, in support 

 of'the commemoration measures, among which were 



the promotion of an exhibition of hvgiene and 

 bacteriology in Strasbourg and the erection of a 

 statue of Pasteur before the University. Various 

 amounts have been sent to France from time to 

 time by the British committee, in addition to which 

 it is now stated that a sum of nearly 850/. is to be 

 forwarded to the general treasurer of the fund, 

 M. T. Hering. The British committee has expressed 

 the wish that should the amount be greater than 

 that the French committee desire to spend on the 

 statue of Pasteur, the excess should be devoted to 

 some other form of permanent memorial in the 

 University of Strasbourg. 



The programme has been issued of the meetings 

 of the Institute of Metals to be held during the session 

 1922-23 under the presidency of Mr. Leonard Sumner. 

 The annual May lecture will be delivered on May 2 

 by Dr. YV. Rosenhain. The Scottish Local Section, 

 which has arranged for six meetings in Glasgow, will 

 be under the chairmanship of Mr. James Steven ; 

 membership is open to all local members of the 

 Institute, and applications should be addressed to 

 the hon. secretary, Mr. H. H. A. Greer, 50 Wellington 

 Street, Glasgow. The chairman of the Sheffield 

 Local Section is Prof. C. H. Desch, and the hon. 

 secretary, H. P. Gadsby, 193 Sandford Grove Road, 

 Sheffield ; an important event in the Sheffield pro- 

 gramme is a joint meeting with the Faraday Society 

 for a symposium on stainless and non-corrodible allovs 

 to be held on February 9 at Sheffield. 



The third International Conference of " Psycho- 

 technique applique a l'orientation professionnelle " 

 will meet this year at Milan on October 2-5. In 

 order to prevent waste of time it has been decided to 

 limit the discussions to the following subjects : — ■ 



(a) What is meant by vocational aptitudes ? (Lahy) ; 



(b) Natural aptitudes and acquired aptitudes (Decroly, 

 Patrizi) ; (c) The psychological analysis of work 

 (Gemelli, Lipmann) ; (d) Vocational guidance and 

 Taylorism (Bauer) ; and (e) An international unifica- 

 tion of tests and individual ratings (Claparede, Mira, 

 Myers). A short paper of about twenty minutes' 

 duration will be given on each subject in order to 

 guide the discussion, and the language used will be 

 French. The general session will be occupied with 

 these subjects, but other meetings to discuss more 

 detailed problems will be held in rooms specially set 

 apart for the purpose. Papers presented at the 

 meeting will be grouped together according to the 

 relationship between them. A room will be reserved 

 for the exhibition of tests, instruments, etc. Those 

 desirous of attending are asked to communicate with 

 the Secretary, III me Conference Internationale de 

 Psychotechnique, Milan (XIV.), via S. Barnaba 38. 

 October 5 will be spent in visits to scientific and 

 industrial establishments in the neighbourhood of 

 Milan. 



Dr. M. J. Sirks takes exception to the notice of 

 his handbook of heredity published in Nature of 

 July 22, p. in. He deprecates especially the charge 

 of affirming that mutations have been actuallv pro- 



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