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[December 30, 1922 



the newspaper press of the United States ended by 

 according to the work of the meeting serious and 

 satisfactory treatment. We commend this report to 

 any one who wishes to learn in a pleasant and easy 



manner of the extensive and varied work that is 

 carried out by a modern museum, and to those museum 

 curators who may desire inspiration in their daily 

 labours. 



Presentation to Sir Edward Sharpey Schafer, F.R.S. 



RATHER more than a year ago the suggestion 

 was made that the Edinburgh meeting of the 

 British Association would form a fitting occasion for 

 the presentation to Sir Edward Sharpey Schafer of 

 some token of their esteem from his present and past 

 demonstrators and fellow research workers in London 

 and Edinburgh. As so 

 many of those who had 

 been trained under Sir 

 Edward now occupy posts 

 in distant lands it was found 

 impossible to make the 

 necessary arrangements for 

 the presentation at that 

 early date. 



Prof. Halliburton, how- 

 ever, made a statement at 

 one of the largely-attended 

 meetings of the Physiology 

 Section of the Association, 

 expressing the desire of all 

 who had been associated 

 with their old master in the 

 prosecution of physiological 

 research to present him 

 with some mark of their 

 esteem and affection, and 

 indicated the form it would 

 probably take. 



Finally, it was arranged 

 that the presentation should 

 take the form of a full- 

 sized plaque (Fig. 1), and 

 that a medal replica should 

 be presented to each of the 

 many subscribers. The 

 medal shows in bold relict 

 the head and shoulders of 

 Sir Ed ward , and bears on the 

 reverse the inscription : — 



Sodali bene merito 



Sodales bene volentes y 



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The work was entrusted to Mr. C. d'O. Pilkington 

 Jackson, A.R.B.A., sculptor, and has been carried out 

 in an eminently satisfactory way. It is most artistic 



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and. moreover, an excellent portrait. The large 

 bronze plaque from which the medal was reduced has 

 been mounted on stone, with the inscription under- 

 neath it (Fig. 1). Sir Edward feels that it should 

 eventually come to the University of Edinburgh, 

 but at present it remains in the sculptor's studio 

 as he wishes to exhibit it 

 at the Royal Scottish 

 Academy. 



The large list of sub- 

 scribers includes many of 

 the leaders in physiology 

 and other branches of 

 medical science in this 

 and other lands, a few of 

 whom may be named — 

 Bavliss, Rose Bradford, 

 Halliburton, L. Hill, 

 MacWilliam, Mott, Starling, 

 in this country ; and 

 Hunter and Tait (Canada), 

 Jolly (S. Africa), Malcolm 

 and Mackenzie (New Zea- 

 land), Addis and S.Simpson 

 (U.S.A.), Row (India), 

 Itagaki and others (Japan). 

 Among the original sub- 

 scribers were two of great 

 distinction who have un- 

 fortunately passed away — 

 A. D. Waller and Benjamin 

 Moore. 



The recognition of Sir 

 Edward Sharpey Schafer's 

 invaluable services to phy- 

 siology by those who have 

 worked with him in the 

 laboratory is a matter 

 for sincere congratulation 

 W — — — in which all who have 



the interests of the develop- 



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at heart will join. All 

 will unite in expressing the hope that he has still 

 before him many years in which he will continue his 

 life-work. 



Obituary. 



F. B. Bryant. 



WE regret to record the death, on November 28, at 

 the age of sixty-three, of Mr. Frederick Beadon 

 Bryant, formerly Inspector-General of Forests to the 

 Government of India. Mr. Bryant received his pro- 

 fessional training at Nancy, joined the Indian Forest 



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Service in 1881, and was posted to the North-West Pro- 

 vinces and Oudh. Some of the earlier years of his service 

 were spent in the preparation of working plans for the 

 important sub-Himalayan forests lying between the 

 Ganges and the Sarda rivers. This early training, 

 together with some years of successful executive work 

 in his province, marked him out subsequently for the 



