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[November 4, 1922 



trematode (Strigea tarda), — M. Blanchard and G. 

 Lefrou : \ spin chaste found in the blood in a case 

 of haemoglobinuric bilious fever and its pathogenic 

 action. 



Diary of Societies. 



MONDA Y, November 6. 

 Royai Institution of Great Britain, at 5. — General Meeting. 

 Society of Engineers, Inc. (at Geological Society), at 5.30.— E. E. 



Turner : The Atlantic- Cruise of H.M. Airship R34. 

 Institution of Electrical Engineers (Informal Meeting), at 7 



F, Gill ami other-: Discussion on The Importance of Commercial 



Knowledge to the Engineer. 

 Aristotelian Society (at University of i Ion Club, 21 (lower Street). 



at 8. — Prof. A. N. Whitehead : Uniformity ami Contingency 



(Presidential Address). 

 Society ok chemical Industry (London Seetion) (at Engineers' 



Club, 39 Coventry street. W.l), at 8.— Dr. E. F. Armstrong : Some 



Problems in Chemical Industry. 

 Eoyal Institute of British Architects, at 8.30.— President ■ 



' Ipening Address. 

 Eoyai, Society of Medicine (Tropical Diseases and Parasitology 



Section), at 8.30. 



TVEsda Y, November 7. 



Eoyal College of Physicians, at 5.— Dr. E. 0. Moon : Philosophy 

 and tlie Post-Hippoeratic School of Medicine. (Fitz-Pa trick 

 Lecture). 



Eoyal Society of Medicine (Orthopaedics Section), at 5.30. 



Mineralogioal SOCIETY, at 5. 30.— Anniversary Meeting. — W. A. 



Richardson : The Frequency-distribution ..t Igneous Roi k-in Relat 



to Petrogenic Theories.— Miss Naggs : Crystallography of Organic 

 Compounds. — Dr. G. T. Prior : The Meteoric Iron of Karee Kind. 



1 ape Province, and the Met i.- st. me of Leeuwfontein, Pretoria, 



S. Africa. 



Zoological Society of London, at 5.30. 



Institution of Civil Engineers, at 6. 



British Psychological Society (Education Seetion) (at London 

 Day Training College), at 0.— E. J. G. Bradford : The Synthesis .,t 

 Geographical Information. 



iNsiiii mis ni \i tomobile Engineers (at Institution of Mechanical 

 Engineers), at 8. — J. D. Morgan : High-Tension Ignition. 



Royal Photographic society of Great Britain, at 8.— \v. L. F. 

 Wastell : Presidential Address. 



Royal Anthropological Institute, at 8.15. — Sir Arthur Keith: 

 An Account oi Mr. G. Despott's Excavation of the Cave of Ghar 

 1 la la in. Malta, and an Exhibit of Two Teeth of Neanderthal Man found 

 there. 



The Rongten Society (at Institution of Electrical Engineers), at 

 8.15. — Sir Humphry D. Rolleston : Acaite Constitutional Symptoms 

 due to Radiations. (Presidential Address.) 



Eoyal Society 01 Medicine (Pathology Section) (in Laboratory 

 oi Imperial Cancer Research Fund), at 8.30.— Dr. A. N. Begg : 

 Carcinomatous Infiltration of Nerves. — Dr. A. H. Drew: The Con- 

 ditions lor Growth in ritro. — Dr. W. Cramer: Blood Platelets. - 

 Dr. B. E. G. Russell: Intra-eerebral Tumour Hctcroplasty. — Dr. 

 J. A. Murray : Multiple Primary Cancer. 



WEDNESDA Y, NOVEMBER 8. 

 G] I'M, Society of London, at 5.30. — E. D. Oldham: The 



Earthquake of August 7. 1895, in Northern Italy.— R. D. Oldham : 



The Pamir Earthquake of February 18, 1911. — Dr. F. Di.xey : The 



Geology of Sierra Leone. 

 R0TAI so, iety of Medicine (Surgery: Sub-section of Proctologj I, .it 



5.30 si r Charles Symonds and others : Discussion on Gonorrhoea! 



Stricture of the Rectum and its Treatment. 

 Institution of Electrical Engineers (Wireless Section), at o. - 



E. L. Smith-Rose and B. H. Barlielcl : The Effect of Local Conditions 



on Eadio Direction-finding Installations. 

 Royal Society of Arts, at 8. — Lord Askwith : The Value of Strikes 



and Lock-outs. 

 I v- 1 n i Hon of Automobile Engineers, at 8. — Major F. Strickland 



and H. |[, Etieardo : The Low Compression, Moderate Speed Engine 



r. The High Compression, High-speed Engine. 



THURSDAY, November 9. 

 Eo\ U SOCIETY, at 4.30. — Probable Papers.— Prof. H. E. Armstrong: 

 studies ,m Enzyme Action. XXIII. Homo- and l(etem-l\tic En- 

 zymes. — Prof. A. V. Hill and W. E. L. Brown : The Oxygen-dissocia- 

 tion Curve of Blood and its Tllermodvnaiiiical l'.a-i-. Dr. II. 

 Hartridge and F. J. W. Roughton : The Velocity with which CO 

 replaces Oxygen from its Combination with Hiemoglc.bin. Part- I 

 and II.— L. T. Hogben : Studies on Internal Secretion. I. The 

 Effecl of Pituitary (Anterior Lobe) Injection upon Normal and 

 Thyroiilectoniised Axolotls.— L. T. Hogben and F. R. Winton : 

 lie Pigmentary Effector System. II. — A. Fleming and V. D. 

 Allison : Further Observations on a Bacteriolytic.' Element found 

 in Tissues and Secretions. 



London .Mathematical Society (at Koval A-ti mica] Society) 



(Annual General Meeting), at 5. -Presidential Address. H. W. 

 Kichmon.l : The Mathematical Problems oi Shell- Flight.— W. R. 

 Burwell : Asymptotic Expansions and generalised Hypergeometric 

 Functions.— W. L. Ferrar: Determinants whose Elements are De- 

 terminants.— A. Kerekj;irt6 : Transformation ol Variables in a 

 Multiple Integral. -1 Kri-lmamaehari and M. I'.li. cm i-enaran : 

 (1) The Properties oi Certain Numbers (2) Contribution to the 

 Evaluation of I'.rsvrumetri. Determinants. I,. .1. Mc.rdell : Trigo- 

 nometric Series involving Algebraic Numbers.— H. \V. Richmond : 

 Analogues of Waring's Problem for Rational Numbers. 



Royal College of Physicians, at 5. — Dr. R. O. Moon : Philosophy 

 and the Post-Hippoeratic School of Medicine. (Fitz-Patrick Lecture.) 



The Women's Engineering Society (at 26 George street. Hanover 

 Square), at 6.15. — A. P. M. Fleming : Research. 



Optical Society (at Imperial College ol Science and Technology), at 

 7.30.— Dr. R. s. Clay : The History of the Photographic Lens. 



Royal SOCIETY OF Medicine (Neurology Section), at 8. — Clinical 

 Meeting. 



Institute of Metals (London Section) (at Royal School of Mines), 

 at 8. — Prof. H. C. H. Carpenter : The Production of Large Crystals 

 of Aluminium and some of their Properties. 



FRIDA F, November 10. 



Association of Economic Biologists (at Imperial College of Science 

 and Technology), at 2.30.— Dr. E. s. Russell: The Work of the 

 Fisheries Laboratory at Lowestoft. — sir Sidney F. Harmer : The 

 Present Position of the Whaling Industry. 



Royal Astronomical Society, at 5. 



Eoyal Society of Medicine (clinical Section) at London Hospital), 

 at 5. 



Physical society of London (at Imperial College of Science and 

 Technology), at 5. — G. Temple: The Homographic Treatment of 

 the Symmetrical Optical Instrument. — Prof. A. O. Raukine and 

 C. J. Smith : The Structure of the Sulphur Dioxide Molecule. — 

 A. S. Houghton : The Thermal Effect of Vapours on Rubber. — 

 J. T. Robin : Demonstration of an Apparatus for Testing the 

 Tensile strength of Gas Mantles. 



Institution of Mei hanicax Engineers (Informal Meeting), at 7. 



Junior Institution of Engineers, at 7.30. — A. Macaulay : The 

 Development of Ball and Roller Bearings. 



Royal SOCIETY OF Medicine (Ophthalmology Section), at 8. 



SATURDAY, November 11. 



British Psychological Society (at King's College), at 3. — Miss L. G. 



Kildes : A case of Word Deafness. — C. Fox: The Influence of 



Subjective Preference on Memory. 



PUBLIC LECTURES. 



SATURDAY, November i. 



MONDAY, November G. 

 Middlesex Hospital Medical School (in Physiology Lecture 



Theatre), at 5. — Prof. Swale Vincent : Secretion and Internal 



Secretion. Succeeding Lectures on November 9. 13, 16, 20, 23, 27, 



and 30. 

 Gkesham college, at 6. — Sir Frederick Bridge: Music. Succeeding 



Lectures on November 7, 8, and 10. 

 ( m ci London Y.M.C.a. (186 Aldersgate Street), at 6. — Sir Leonard 



Rogers : Insects and Disease : Some Triumphs of Medical Science. 



WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 

 Charing Cross Hospital Medic al School, at 3. — sir Arthur Keith : 



Evolutionary Tendencies in Man's Body (Huxley Lecture). 

 London Hospital Medical School, at 4. — Dr. P. Kidd : Forty 



Years in the History of Tuberculosis (Schorstein Memorial Lecture). 

 University College, at 5.30. — I. C. Grondahl : Norway. Succeeding 



Lectures on November 15, 22, 29, and December 6. — At 6.15. — A. W. 



Flux: The Fon-iirii Exchanges (Newinarch Lectures). Succeeding 



Lectures on November 15, 22, 29, December 6 and 13. 



THURSDAY', November 9. 



University College, at 5.15. — Prof. J. E. G. de Montmorency : 

 customary Law in London ami other English City Areas. Succeed- 

 ing Lectures on November 16, 23, 30, December 7 and 14. — At 5.30. 

 — E. R. Vincent : The Palio of Siena, an Historic Italian Festival. 



King's College, at 5.30. — Miss Hilda D. Oakeley : The Stoic Philo- 

 sophy. Succeeding Lectures on November 10, 23, 30, and December 7. 



FRIDAY, November 10. 



University College, at 5.15. — Dr. T. E. Gregory : International 

 Exchanges. — C. Tate Regan: Problems of Evolution, with Special 

 Reference to Fishes. Succeeding Lectures on November 17 and 24. 



Bedford College for Women, at 5.30. — Dr. M. Cary : Ancient 

 Geographical Exploration. 



SATURDAY, November 11. 



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