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NATURE 



[June 24, 1909 



Prof. ICdinond B^Taneck ; Schweizerische Naturforschcndc 

 Gcsrllschiift, Ur. P. Sarasin. 



Afriia. — University of the Cape of Good Hope; South 

 African College, I'rof. H. H. W. Pearson ; Grahamstown, 

 Rhodes University College, Bouchier F. llawkcsley; 

 Transvaal University College, Sir Richard Solomon, K.C., 

 K.C.B., K.C.M.G. ; Geological Society of South Africa, 

 Prof. A. C. Seward, F.R.S. 



Australia. — Adelaide University, Prof. W. H. Bragg, 

 F.R.S. ; University of Tasmania, J. .Sprcnt ; Royal Society 

 of Tasmania, the Hon. J. McCall ; Melbourne University, 

 Dr. C. J. Martin, F.R.S. ; Royal Society of Victoria, 

 Prof. A. Dendy, F.R.S. ; Sydney University and Royal 

 Society of Xew South Wales, Prof. A. Livcrsidge, F.R.S. 



Canada. — University of New Brunswick, Dr. C. C. 

 Jones; Nova Scotian Institute of Science, Dr. H. S. 

 Poole; Kingston, Queen's University, Prof. N. F. Dupuis ; 

 McGill University, Prof. E. W. MacBride ; Royal Society 

 of Canada, Prof. W. H. Ellis ; Toronto University, Dr. 

 R. A. Falconer and Prof. T. G. Brodie, F.R.S. ; University 

 of Manitoba, Prof. A. H. R. Buller. 



India and Ccyion..— .Allahabad University, Prof. A. W. 

 Ward ; Bombay University, Sir E. T. Candy ; Calcutta 

 University, Prof. S. Chandra Mahalanobis ; Geological 

 Survey of India, R. D. Oldham ; .Asiatic Society of Bengal, 

 Lieut.-Colonel II. II. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S.; Punjab 

 University, the Hon. Sir Lewis Tupper, K.C.I.E. ; Madras 

 University, Edgar Thurston ; Pcradcniya, Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Dr. J. C. Willis. 



New Zealand. — .Auckland University College, the Hon. 

 W. Pember Reeves ; Canterbury University College, Prof. 

 E. Rutherford, F.R.S. ; Philosophical Institute of Canter- 

 bury. T. V. Hodgson; New Zealand University, the Hon. 

 Sir Robert Stout, K.C.M.G., Prof. Sale, and Prof. J. M. 

 Brown ; Wellington, Victoria, University College, H. D. 

 Bell. 



Straits Settlements.— 'Rm-a\ Asiatic Society (Straits 

 Branch), J. B. Carruthers. 



In addition lo these representntives of institutions 

 abroad, delegfatcs were appointed by our own univer- 

 .sities, university collefjes, and scientific societies to 

 take part in the celebration, and many other distin- 

 guished j^uests were present. . The invitations to men 

 of science were, except in a few cases, confined to 

 naturalists, the committee havinsj decided not to invite 

 representatives of the physical sciences as such. H.ad 

 it not been necessary, on account of space, to make 

 this limitation, there is no doubt the celebration would 

 have been even more remarkable in character than it 

 was. The spirit of Darwin is the spirit of modern 

 science, and every investigator who lias been inspired 

 by it w-ould have welcomed an opportunity to assemble 

 with the object of commemoratintj the pfreatness of 

 the man and his work. No more brilliant assembly of 

 representntives of the biolotjical sciences throujjfhout 

 the world could, Iiowever, have been brouijht tojjether 

 than that which met on Tuesday at the opening of 

 the celebration. The committee, ;uid particularly the 

 honorary secretaries. Prof. .\. C. Seward and Mr. 

 j. \V. ("lark, .'ire to be congratulated upon the plan 

 of the celebration, and the very successful way in 

 which it lias been carried out. Not for many years 

 can Cambridge be the focus of so many investigators 

 of animate nature from far and near as it has been 

 this week. The celebration is of great historic signifi- 

 cance, and will long be remembered as a worthy 

 expression of the high estimation in which Charles 

 Darwin's memory is held throughout the scientific 

 world. 



NOTES. 



On June 28, 20. and possibly June 30, the third meet- 

 ing of the Solar Commission of the International Meteor- 

 ological Committee will be held, under the presidency of 

 .Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B. The Royal Society has 

 placed a room at the service of the commission, and the 

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meetings will commence at 11 a.m. each day. The follow- 

 ing members li.ive notified their intention of being 

 present : — .\I. A. Angot (France), Prof. H. Birkcland 

 (Norway), Prof. E. von Everdingcn (Holland), Sir Norman 

 I.ockyer (Cireat Britain), Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer (Great 

 Britain), Captain II. G. Lyons (Egypt), M. E. Marchand 

 (France), Prof. II. Mohn (Norway), Dr. W. N. Shaw 

 (Great Britain], M. .A. Silvado (Brazil), and M. Tcisserenc 

 dc Bort (France). This commission, it may be remem- 

 bered, was originated by the International Meteorological 

 Committee at the meeting in Soulhport in 1903, when 

 Dr. W. N. Shaw proposed that a commission should be 

 appointed to review and discuss meteorological observa- 

 tions from the point of view of their connection with solar 

 physics. Dr. .Shaw's motion was adopted, and Sir Norman 

 Lockyer, Dr. Shaw, Prof. Pcrnter, and M. Angot were 

 elected to serve on this commission, with power to add to 

 their number and to elect their officers. Since then two 

 meetings have been held, one at Cambridge in 1904 and 

 the other at Innsbruck in 1905. with Sir Norman Lockyer 

 as president and the late Sir John Eliot as secretary. 

 The forthcoming and third meeting of the coinmission 

 will be devoted chiefly, among other items, to the action'^ 

 taken with regard to previous resolutions concerning the 

 collection and publication of meteorological and solar data, 

 and also to an important statement submitted by Dr. 

 Shaw in relation to the selection of stations from ten- 

 degree square areas. 



Of the many scientific organisations, few have made 

 more rapid progress than the Association of Economic 

 Biologists. Founded in November, 1904, it has already 

 hi'ld conferences in Birmingham, Liverpool, London, Edin- 

 burgh, and Cambridge, and on July 13, 14, and 15 it 

 will meet at Oxford. .According to the programme, the 

 annual gener.il meeting will be opened by the president. 

 Dr. A. E. Shipley, F.R.S., on July 13, with an address 

 on some diseases of fish and birds associated with the 

 presence of parasites. The programme is a lengthy and 

 interesting one. Prof. G. H. F. Nuttall, F.R.S., and 

 Dr. Hadwen will read a communication on the successful 

 curative treatment of piroplasmosis, to be followed by 

 others by Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., on prcdaceous 

 insects and their prey, and Prof. W. Somerville, on 

 injurious fungi. " The Winter Breeding of the House- 

 fly " is the title of a paper by Mr. F. P. Jepson ; Mr. 

 .A: D. Darbishirc will contribute an important paper on 

 the application of recent discoveries in heredity to cconoinir 

 problems, and Dr. S. .A. Neave on the distribution of 

 Glossina palpalis and sleeping sickness. Other communi- 

 cations will be made by Messrs. W. E. Collinge, A. J. 

 Grove, C. Gordon Hewitt, C. H. Hooper, R. S. 

 MacDougall, G. W. Smith, and C. Warburton. On the 

 afternoon of Wednesday, July 14, Prof. Somerville and 

 .Mr. G. H. ("irosyenor will lead an excursion to Bagley 

 Wood. Furlhrr |>articulars of the meeting may be obtained 

 from Mr. Waltir E. Collinge, Uftington, Bcrkhamsted. 



The annu.il general meeting of the Research Defence 

 .Society will be held at the Royal Society of Medicine, 

 20 Hanover Square, W., on Friday, June 25, at five 

 o'clock. The Karl of Cromer, president of the society, 

 will take the chair. Other speakers will be Sir James 

 Dewar, Sir .A. Conan Doyle, the Hon. Walter Guinness, 

 and Prof. Starling. 



The sixth Ini.rnational Congress of Psychology will be 

 held in Genev.i on .August 3-7. M. Flournoy is to be the 

 president of ih. congress, and the general secretary is 

 Dr. E. Claparelj, 11 .Avenue de Champcl, Geneva. 



