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delivered addresses on " Half a Century of Sanitary Progress and its 

 Results" and "On the Comparative Mortality of English Districts". 

 As remarked in the Zmicet (November 8, 1913, p. 1356), "he 

 probably influenced the sanitary development of this country more than 

 anyone else." He was Examiner in Hygiene and State Medicine for 

 the University of London, and for the diploma of Public Health at 

 Cambridge. He likewise served on various departmental committees, 

 including the annual Consultatory Committee on the Geological 

 Survey, under the Board of Education. To the Geological Survey he 

 rendered much assistance in the matter of water supply, and his 

 name appears on the title-page of memoirs dealing with the wells and 

 borings in Lincolnshire, Suff'olk, Kent, and Sussex (supplement). 

 Dr. Parsons became a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1877, and 

 a member of the Geologists' Association in 1911. He was an active 

 member of the Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society, 

 usually exhibiting at tbe meetings of the Geological Section some of 

 the fossils which he had collected. As President for the year 1912 he 

 delivered (on January 21 of this year) an address on "Plant Growth 

 and Soil Conditions ". H. B. W. 



PROFESSOR DR. ANTON FRITSCH. 

 We regret to record the death of our old friend Professor Dr. Anton 

 Eritsch, Director of the Royal Bohemian Natural History Museum, 

 Prague, which took place on the morning of November 15. Dr. Fritsch 

 had attained his 82nd year, and we hope to give some account of his 

 long scientific career next month. 



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Appointment of New Director to the Geological Sdrvet and 

 Museum. — The President of the Board of Education has appointed 

 Dr. Aubrey Strahan, F.R.S., to be Director of the Geological Survey 

 of Great Britain and Museum of Practical Geology, in succession to 

 Dr. J. J. H. Teall, F.R.S., who will retire from the post on January 5 

 next. Dr. Strahan, who was born in 1852, was educated at Eton and 

 St. John's College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal 

 Society in 1903, and is President of the Geological Society. He is 

 the Assistant Director of the Geological Survey of England and Wales. 



Dr. Teall, who was born on January 5, 1849, has been Director 

 of the Geological Survey and Museum since 1901. He is the author 

 of British Petrography, a Description of the Rocks of the British 

 Isles, 1888. 



Kent Coal-field. — Dr. Malcolm Burr has tabulated and printed in 

 the Colliery Guardian for October l(t, 1913, the available information 

 as to the strata revealed by the borings at Tilmanstone, Guildford, 

 Oxney, Maydensole, Ripple, Barfrestone, Goodnestone, Trapham, 

 Woodnesborough, Stodmarsh, Walmestone, and Mattice Hill. We 

 say ' available ' because, as the author notes, many of the bores being 

 made by chisel there were no ' cores ' of the softer beds. Detailed 

 reports are promised later by Mr. Arber and Mr. H. Bolton. 



