Maech 19, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



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It is said that tte Ohio State legislature 

 once passed a bill establishing the value of it 

 to accord with the views of some circle- 

 squarer. It is perhaps scarcely fair to put in 

 the same class the bill now before the British 

 parliament. This biU " to promote the earlier 

 use of daylight in certain months yearly " — 

 formerly known shortly as the Daylight 

 Saving Bill — is down for a second reading in 

 the House of Commons. The operative . 

 clauses of the bill, as summarized in Nature, 

 are as follows : (1) From two o'clock in the 

 morning Greenwich mean time in the case of 

 Great Britain, and Dublin mean time in the 

 case of Ireland, of the third Sunday in April 

 in each year until two o'clock in the morning, 

 Greenwich mean time in the case of Great 

 Britain, and Dublin mean time in the case of 

 Ireland, of the third Sunday in September in 

 each year the local time shall be in the case of 

 Great Britain one hour in advance of Green- 

 wich mean time and in the case of Ireland one 

 hour in advance of Dublin mean time, and 

 from two o'clock in the morning Greenwich 

 mean time in the case of Great Britain, and 

 Dublin mean time in the case of Ireland, of 

 the third Sunday in September in each year 

 until two o'clock in the morning Greenwich 

 mean time in the case of Great Britain, and 

 Dublin mean time in the case of Ireland, of 

 the third Sunday in April in each year the 

 local time shall be in the case of Great Brit- 

 ain the same as Greenwich mean time and in 

 the case of Ireland the same as Dublin mean 

 time. (2) The time hereby established shall 

 be known as summer season time in Great 

 Britain and Ireland, and whenever any ex- 

 pression of time occurs in any Act of Parlia- 

 ment, deed, or^ other legal instrument, the 

 time mentioned or referred to shall, unless it 

 is otherwise specifically stated, be held in the 

 case of Great Britain and Ireland to be sum- 

 mer season time as prescribed by this Act. 

 (3) Greenwich mean time as used for the 

 purposes of astronomy and navigation shall 

 not be affected by this Act. (4) This Act 

 shall apply to the United Kingdom of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, and may be cited as the 

 Summer Season Time (Great Britain and Ire- 

 land) Act, 1909. 



The Dove Marine Laboratory at Culler- 

 coats, which is to be occupied as a depart- 

 ment of the Armstrong College, Neweastle- 

 on-Tyne, was opened on December 29 by the 

 Duke of Northumberland. From the account 

 in the London Times we learn that the new 

 building, which stands on the site of the old 

 baths, contains an aquarium 30 feet by 23 

 feet, and there are 11 fish tanks. There is 

 also a private aquarium, and provision is 

 made in 36 tanks for the storing of materials 

 for the workers for experiments, hatching and 

 the like. Against the west wall is a concrete 

 tank holding 15,000 gallons of salt water, 

 which will give a continual flow through the 

 various tanks, etc. In the center of the west 

 gable is the coat of arms of the Hudleston and 

 Dove families, and a polished granite tablet 

 near the entrance bears the inscription: 

 "Erected a.d. 1908 by Walter H. Hudleston, 

 M.A., F.E.S., for the furtherance of Marine 

 Biology and as a Memorial of his Ancestress 

 Eleanor Dove." Mr. W. H. Hudleston, the 

 donor of the building, presided. The Duke 

 of Northumberland congratulated the people 

 of Cullercoats on the new laboratory. He 

 said there was one at Plymouth, one at Port 

 Erin, in the Isle of Man, one in Lancashire, 

 and three in Scotland, and the new building 

 opened that day enabled them to fill up the 

 gap. If they were to study the habits of 

 fish and to give advice to those engaged in 

 the industry, it was absolutely necessary to 

 have these laboratories scattered up and down 

 the coast. The county council of North- 

 umberland was willing to contribute £100 per 

 annum to that institution. It was willing to 

 do more and to double that amount if the 

 borough of Tynemouth came forward and 

 subscribed £50. The duke paid a tribute to 

 the generosity of Mr. Hudleston and to Pro- 

 fessor Meek, who is to have charge of the 

 laboratory. 



At the thirty-first annual general meeting 

 of the Institute of Chemistry, held at 30, 

 Bloomsbury-square, W. C, Professor Percy 

 F. Frankland, the retiring president, in the 

 course of his address, said, as reported in the 



