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Among the British civil list pensions grant- 

 ed "in consideration of their circumstances" 

 during the year ended March 31, 1922, and an- 

 nounced in Nature are : Lady Fletcher, in rec- 

 ognition of the services rendered by her late 

 husband (Sir Lazarus Fletcher) to science, 

 £60; Dr. Francis Warner, in recognition of 

 the services rendered by him in his investiga- 

 tions into the mental and physical condition 

 of defective children, £100; Sir Greorge Green- 

 hill, F.R.S., in recognition of his services to 

 science and his ballistic work, £125 ; Mra. J. M. 

 Miller, in recognition of the services rendered 

 by her late husband (Dr. N. H. J. Miller) to 

 ■agricultural science, £50; Mrs. Alice Mabel 

 Ussher, in recognition of the services rendered 

 by her late husband (Mr. W. A. E. Ussher) to 

 geological science, £50; Mrs. Agnes E. Walker, 

 in recognition of the services rendered by her 

 late husband (Mr. G«orge W. Walker, F.R.S.) 

 to science, £75; the Misses Ellen C, Gertrude 

 M., Alice B., Katherine E. and Mary L. Wood- 

 ward, in recognition of the services rendered 

 by their late father (Dr. Henry Woodward, 

 F.R.S.) to geological science, £125. 



According to the Journal of the Washing- 

 ton Academy of Sciences, at a meeting of the 

 executive committee of the Institute for Re- 

 search in Tropical America it was decided to 

 . concentrate the efforts of the institute on the 

 establishment of a research station in Panama 

 near the Gorgas Memorial Institute which is to 

 be erected in the outskirts of the city of 

 Panama. The members are Thomas Barbour, 

 Harvard University; H. E. Crampton, Barnard 

 College (representing the New York Academy 

 of Sciences) ; A. S. Hitchcock, Smithsonian 

 Institution; A. G. Ruthven, University of Mich- 

 igan, and Dr. Witmer Stone, Philadelphia 

 Academy of Sciences. 



M. Daniel Berthblot, professor of physics 

 in the University of Paris, gave the lecture at 

 the joint meeting of the five French academies 

 held on July 17. 



Dr. Stephen Smith, distinguished for his 

 contributions to public health, died on August 

 26, in his ninety-ninth year. 



Gisbert Kapp, born in Austria in 1852, pro- 

 fessor of electrical engineering at the Univer- 



sity of Birmingham, died on August 10. 



Mr8. J. A. Owen Visger, author of books 

 on natural history, died in London on July 30, 

 at the age of eighty years. 



Hans Batterman, at one time director of 

 the astronomical observatory at the University 

 of Konigsburg, has died at the age of sixty-two 

 yeai-s. 



M. Louis Fave, known for his work on 

 oceanography, died on July 31 at the age of 

 sixty-nine years. 



The third annual meeting of the South- 

 western Geological Society will be held at 

 Dallas, Texas, on September 15 and 16. Visit- 

 ing geologists, who are in that part of the 

 southwest are invited to be present at this 

 meeting. 



The Gutierrez prize of 400 pesos will be 

 awarded by the Havana Academy of Sciences 

 for the best woi'k on the medical geography of 

 some part of Cuba. The Caiiongo prize of 200 

 pesos is offered for the best work on any scien- 

 tific subject, and the Gordon gold medal for the 

 best work on the "Physiological conception of 

 sleep." The competing articles must be sent 

 in anonymously, and be in the hands of the 

 secretary before March 30, 1923. 



An institute of theoretical and applied optics 

 has been established at Paris with a course 

 lasting two years and a laboratory for research. 

 A monthly journal has been established with 

 the name Bevue d'optique theoretique et instru- 

 mentale, which has the cooperation of the 

 French syndicate of makers of optical appara- 

 tus and instruments of precision. 



Nature states that a new biological station 

 for the study of limnological problems and for 

 research on the development of fresh-water 

 fishes has been established at the Lake of Trasi- 

 meiio, in Umbria. The University of Perugia 

 has assumed responsibility, and the director of 

 the station is the professor of physiology. Dr. 

 Osvaldo Polimanti. 



According to The Experiment Station 

 Record, the entomological laboratory and offices 

 of the Station Agronomique de la Guadeloupe 

 were recently destroyed by fire. Among the 

 material lost was the mailing list, and the sta- 



