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apparatus of the uterus, at Guy's Hospital; 

 Dr. J. L. Rosedale : The chemistry of normal 

 and pathological tissue with special reference 

 to the protein and nuclein constituents, at St. 

 Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London; 

 Mr. R. Hilton: The study of the blood gases 

 in various stages of pulmonary collapse pi'o- 

 duced by artificial pneximonthorax; the condi- 

 tion of the circulation in the collapsed lung, 

 at the LfEnnec Hospital, Paris, and at St. 

 Bartholomew's Hospital ; Mr. A. St. G. J. M'C. 

 Huggett : The investigation of the function of 

 the placenta in relation to the passage of gases 

 and other substances from the mother to the 

 fcBtus and the cause of foatal apnosa, at the 

 Sherrington School of Physiology, St. Thomas's 

 Hospital, and at the Brown Animal Institution 

 at Vauxhall; and Mr. Y. D. Allison: The inves- 

 tigation of the nature and properties of a 

 hitherto undescribed substance which has a 

 strong bactericidal, bacteriolytic and bacterio- 

 inhibitory action — named lysozyme, at the 

 Institute of Pathology and Research, St. Mary's 

 Hospital. Fourth j^ear fellowships of the an- 

 nual value of £400 have been awarded to Dr. 

 D. Keilin: The life-histories of protozoa patho- 

 genic to insects; the life-history, anatomy and 

 phj'siology of insects, at the Monteno Institute 

 for Research in Parasitology, Cambridge; and 

 Mr. I. de B. Daly : Auriculo-ventricular block, 

 at the Institute of Physiology, University Col- 

 lege, London. The trustees of the Beit Scien- 

 tific Research Fellowships have re-elected Mr. 

 H. L. Riley and Mr. W. A. P. Challenor to 

 fellowships for the year commencing Septem- 

 ber, 1922, and elected Mr. H. W. Buston to a 

 fellowship for the same period. All the fellows 

 are required to carry out their research at the 

 Imperial College of Science and Technology. 

 Mr. Riley will continue his research on "The 

 Atomic Weight of Silver, and the Dielectric 

 Constants of Dry Gases" in the chemistry de- 

 partment, and Mr. Challenor will continue his 

 work on "Ring Formation in the Aromatic 

 and Aliphatic Series of Organic Cliemistry" 

 in the chemistry department, both under the 

 direction of Professor H. B. Baker. Mr. Bus- 

 ton will carry out investigations on "Nitrog- 

 enous Metabolism in Plants" in the biochem- 



istry department under the supervision of Pro- 

 fessor J. B. Farmer. 



THE SECOND NATIONAL HIGHWAY 

 CONFERENCE 



Plans for a second national conference for 

 the study of highway engineering and highway 

 transport education are being prepared by the 

 Highway Education Board, of which Dr. John 

 J. Tigert, U. S. commissioner of education, is 

 chairman. Teachers of highway engineering 

 and highway transport, officials in charge of 

 highway construction programs, members of 

 the automotive industry and kindred fields, to- 

 gether with representatives from other coun- 

 tries, are being invited to attend. The confer- 

 ence will be held in Washington from October 

 26 to 28 inclusive, and, according to the tenta- 

 tive program, this period will be devoted to the 

 intensive study of highway and engineering 

 problems. 



According to a statement of the program 

 committee, the object of the conference is "To 

 review the field of highway engineering and 

 highwa3' transport education in the light of ex- 

 panding state and federal highway programs 

 and the rapidly increasing social and commer- 

 cial use of the higliways; to discuss general and 

 special courses in undergraduate and graduate 

 curricula; and to exchange views on educa- 

 tional trends arising from these developments 

 in the national transportation system." 



Members of the program committee charged 

 with the duty of arranging an adequate pro- 

 gram are : Professor T. R. Agg, professor of 

 highway engineering, Iowa State College ; Pro- 

 fessor Arthur H. Blanchard, professor of civil 

 engineering. University of Michigan; Professor 

 C. J. Tilden, professor of engineering mechan- 

 ics, Yale University; Professor Lewis W. Mc- 

 Intyre, professor of civil engineering, Univer- 

 sity of Pittsburgh ; H. G. Shirley, chairman of 

 the Virginia State Highway Commission, Rich- 

 mond, and Dr. Walton C. John, U. S. Bureau 

 of Education, Washington, D. C, chairman. 



Seven principal committees will function as 

 the chief activities of the conference, but a 

 program of unusual and exceptional merit, it is 

 said, is being arranged. Tentatively the com- 



