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a practical way the elements of civics, cultivate their 

 manners, and even give the children an increased 

 pleasure in poetry. Indeed there is scarcely a side 

 of education that is not improved in this way. We 

 are not in the least surprised, and we commend 

 Mr. Spurley Hey's report to all educationists as well 

 as to those museum authorities at whom our previous 

 remarks were aimed. 



Commander Frank Wild, leader of the Shackleton- 

 Rowett Expedition after the death of Sir Ernest 

 Shackleton, and Mr. John Quiller Rowett, who 

 financed the expedition, had the honour of being 

 given an audience by the King on Monday morning. 

 The King expressed his deep regret for the untimely 

 death of Sir Ernest Shackleton, and complimented 

 Commander Wild on the successful work accomplished. 



We much regret to announce the death on October 

 27, in his eighty-second year, of Mr. W. H. Wesley, 

 for forty-seven years assistant secretary of the Royal 

 Astronomical Society. 



The second annual meeting of the Deutsche 

 Gesellschaft fur Vererbungswissenschaft was held 

 in Vienna on September 25-27. Though technically 

 a meeting of the German society only, in fact the 

 congress was largely international in character, the 

 visitors including representatives from England, 

 America, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, Holland, and 

 the Scandinavian countries. Prof. R. Wettstein 

 presided, and the opening address was delivered by 

 Prof. E. Baur (Berlin). The principal discussions 

 were opened by Prof. Goldschmidt (Berlin) on " The 

 Mutation Problem," and by Prof. Ruedin (Munich) 

 on " The Inheritance of Mental Defects." Among the 

 papers which were read and briefly discussed were 

 the following : the modification of sex factors in 

 fungi, by H. Kniep ; relative sexuality, by H. 

 Hartmann ; experimenta cruris on the inversion 

 of sex, by R. Goldschmidt ; experiments with 

 hermaphrodite frogs, by E. Witschi ; linkage in 

 antirrhinum, by E. Baur ; the deficiency phenomenon 

 in Drosophila, by O. L. Mohr ; methods of obtaining 

 different sex-proportions in Drosophila, by G. 

 Bonnier ; polymery in butterflies, by H. Federley ; 

 parthenogenesis, gynandromorphism, and the deter- 

 mination of sex in phasmids, by H. Nachtsheim ; 

 Blakeslee's experiments on heredity in Datura, by 

 C. B. Davenport ; the influence of temperature on 

 the offspring of rats, by H. Przibram ; the influence 

 of light on butterflies, by E. Brecher ; genetic 

 studies in barley, by E. Schiemann ; vegetative 

 segregation in Lupinus angustifolius, by H. Roemer ; 

 transplantation and relationship, by Frl. Erdmann ; 

 the inheritance of Hasmophilia and its importance 

 for our conception of the nature of genes, by H. K. 

 Bauer ; and variability and the formation of species, 

 by P. Schlesinger. Demonstrations were arranged 

 in the zoological laboratory of the University and 

 in the Natural History Museum. Visits were made 

 to the Biologische Versuchsanstalt (where Prof. 

 Steinach demonstrated his transplantation experi- 

 ments in rats and guinea pigs) and to the principal 

 libraries and art galleries in the town. Prof. R. 



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Hertwig was elected president for the ensuing year, 

 and the society accepted his invitation to meet at 

 Munich in 1923. 



An international exhibition of technical, artistic, 

 and scientific photography, optics and cinemato- 

 graphy, with a section for the history of photography, 

 will be held in May and June of next year at Turin, 

 Italy. Information can be obtained from the 

 Comitato dell' Esposizione Fotografica, presso la 

 Cemare di Commerciodi, Torino, Italy. 



The council of the Hancock Museum has appointed 

 Mr. T. Russell Goddard, at present assistant curator 

 at the Sunderland Museum, to the position of curator 

 of the Hancock Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Mr. 

 Goddard was trained under Mr. Montague Browne, 

 and then worked on the staff of the Leicester Museum 

 under Mr. E. E. Lowe for six years, arranging and 

 classifying the local fauna and flora. Thence he 

 proceeded to engage in biological research work in the 

 laboratory of Dr. C. F. U. Meek, previous to his 

 appointment at Sunderland about two years ago. 



We have received the second quarterly issue for 

 this year of Process Work and the Printer, which 

 contains among other interesting items an article on 

 " The History of Printing Types," reprinted from 

 the Printing Supplement to the Manchester Guardian. 

 It is illustrated with many specimens from Guten- 

 berg's first type (1455) to those of the present day. 

 One of the three inset illustrations is a photogravure 

 in colour, but the original water-colour drawing is 

 of such a character that it is not possible to judge 

 of the quality of the reproduction. The editor states 

 that it marks a notable departure in photogravure 

 printing in that it necessitates the printing of a large 

 edition instead of only a few proofs as has hitherto 

 been the case in colour photogravure. 



The Cantor Lectures delivered recently before the 

 Royal Society of Arts by Prof. Arthur M. Hind, Slade 

 professor of fine art in the University of Oxford, on 

 " Processes of Engraving and Etching," are printed 

 in the Society's Journal for September 22. The 

 lecturer does not treat the subject as a practical 

 engraver, but from the point of view of the historian 

 and critic. He seeks chiefly to discriminate the 

 characteristics and limitations of the various processes, 

 and their peculiar fitness for certain kinds of work. 

 The subject is richly illustrated by reference to a very 

 large number of examples. Prof. Hind concludes by 

 stating that " perhaps the greatest danger to recent 

 etching has been its popularity ; the public has pre- 

 ferred a bad etching to a good woodcut or lithograph, 

 leaving these other arts a safer though less prosperous 

 field. It is perhaps on that account that some of the 

 best etchers are those who have exhibited least." 



Dr. Georg Berg has written to us with reference 

 to a review of his work on ore deposits published 

 in Nature of August 12, p. 205, to point out that 

 the reviewer has done him an injustice in stat- 

 ing ,that he restricts the term syngenetic deposits 

 to magmatic segregations. In this correction Dr. 

 Berg is undoubtedly right ; he does include among 

 syngenetic deposits such ore beds formed by sedi- 



