November 24, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



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by a number of research fellowsbips instituted 

 by various dominion and foreign governments, 

 of -which the capitalized value is estimated ait 

 about £60,000, so that the total sum raised in 

 response to the appeal may be regarded as 

 being nearly £120,000. This sum is believed to 

 be the larg-est ever raised in any country as a 

 memorial to a man of science. 



The sum collected in cash includes subscrip- 

 tions from Great Britain and Ireland, America, 

 Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, 

 France, Greece, Holland, India, Italy, Japan, 

 New Zealand, Nonvay, Sti-aits Settlements, 

 Switzerland and Portugal. 



The following governments have instituted 

 fellowships of the value of £300 a year: Can- 

 ada, Greece, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, 

 Spain, Holland, while the Japanese government 

 has instituted a fellowship of the value of 4,320 

 yen (approximately £463). Frenei and Swiss 

 fellowships have been instituted, part of the 

 cash contribution in those countries being used 

 for the purpose. 



These fellowships are intended to lead to an 

 orientation of many of the most promising 

 young scientists of the world to England. 

 Chemists fi^om Norway, Sweden, Denmark, 

 Holland, Switzerland, Japan and the United 

 States are already at work in England. The 

 Italian and Greek fellowships are at present 

 vacant, and tlie Spanish felowship has not yet 

 been filled, although it has been provided. 

 Fellows are studying in London, and at Oxford 

 and Cambridge, at the Imperial College of Sci- 

 ence and Technology, Glasgow, and at Liver- 

 pool. A number of British fellows are also at 

 work. 



The Ramsay Committee has carried out a 

 number of the objects which were set out in the 

 original appeal. A sum of £25,000 has been 

 laid on one side for the purpose of a laboratory 

 of chemical engineering, to be established at 

 University College, London, where Sir William 

 Ramsay held his professorship for twenty-six 

 years. This building has not yet been erected, 

 though arrangements are now in progress. 



A sum of £14,000 was handed over to a body 

 of trustees, consisting of Sir George Beilby, 



Sir Hugh Bell, Lord Croiwe, Mr. H. A. L. 

 Fisher, Sir Donald MacAlister, Dr. J. C. 

 Irvine and Sir Robert Hadfleld, for the pur- 

 pose of founding Ramsay Memorial Fellow- 

 ships in Chemical Science for British students. 

 Each fellowship is of the value of £300. In 

 addition, a sum of £6,000 in respeot of Glasgow 

 subscriptions was handed over to the same trus- 

 tees to provide a feiUowship of £300 a year for 

 a Glasgow candidate. 



A medal has been struck fro'm a design of 

 the French sculptor, M. L. Bofctee. A sum of 

 £210 has been paid to University College, Lon- 

 don, for the institution of a Ramsay Medal 

 from M. Bottee's design, to be awarded annu- 

 ally to the most distinguished student of chem- 

 istry at University College. 



There remains a small balance of the Ramsay 

 Fund, after providing for the cost of the me- 

 morial tablet, the disposal of which has not yet 

 been definitely settled. 



THE ZEITSCHRIFT FOR PRAKTiSCHE 

 GEOLOGIE 



Dr. Philip S. Smith, acting director of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, permits us to print 

 the following letter from Dr. Franz Beyschlag, 

 president of the Geoloigischen Landesanstalt, 

 Berlin : 



On account of the sad financial conditions in 

 our oountrj' it is probably knoiwn to you that the 

 question of the existence of the Zeitschrift fiir 

 ■praktische Geologic, published by me and my col- 

 league Krusch, is at stake. Cost of printing and 

 postage have risen so high that we shall be com- 

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 time, unless help comes. Prom the request of 

 your librarian to the publisher of the Zeitschrift, 

 Williehn Knapp in Halle, I gather that there is 

 a lively demand in America for this Zeitschrift. 

 From that I conclude with right thait there is an 

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 that it is not unlikely that some subscribers can 

 be obtained. Therefore I would be especially 

 thankful to you if you would endeavor -to secure 

 in the interested circles there a considerable num- 

 ber of subscriptions. The publisher could send 

 the numbers regularly through the American 

 Institute in Berlin so that there would be no 

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