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summer of 1918, in seareli of more new land. 

 Stefansson, he said, intended to leave his pres- 

 ent base in April and hoped to reach Wrangel 

 Island, off the northern Siberia coast, in July 

 or August. He planned to spend the 1918-19 

 winter on the island and end his explorations 

 by sailing through the Behring Strait to Nome, 

 Alaska, in 1919. 



New Year honors in Great Britain, as re- 

 ported in Nature, include: E.C.B {Civil Di- 

 vision) : Mr. A. D. Hall, F.R.S., secretary of 

 the Board of Agriculture; Sir George New- 

 man, principal medical officer to the Board of 

 Education. C.B. {Civil Division) ; Mr. F. L. 

 C. Floud, assistant secretary to the Board 

 of Agriculture. Baronet: Professor James 

 Eitchie, Irvine professor of bacteriology. Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh. CLE. : Mr. P. H. Clut- 

 terfouck, Indian Forest Service, chief conserva- 

 tor of Forests, United Provinces. Knight- 

 hoods: Mr. W. N. Atkinson, who has contrib- 

 uted largely to a knowledge of the dangers of 

 coal-dust in mines; Dr. J. Scott Keltie, editor 

 of The Statesman's Year-Booh, and for many 

 years secretary of the Royal Geographical So- 

 ciety; Dr. A. Macphail, professor of the his- 

 tory of medicine, McGill University, Montreal. 

 In addition a large number of medical men 

 have received honors for services rendered in 

 connection with military operations in the 

 field. 



The lecture arrangements at the Eoyal In- 

 stitution include the following: Professor J. 

 A. Fleming, a course of six experimentally il- 

 lustrated lectures, adapted to a juvenile audi- 

 tory, on " Our useful servants : magnetism and 

 electricity " ; Professor W. M. Flinders Petrie, 

 three lectures on Palestine and Mesopotamia — 

 discovery, past and future; Professor Arthur 

 Keith, three lectures on the problems of Brit- 

 ish anthropology; Dr. Leonard Hill, two lec- 

 tures on (1) the stifling of children's health, 

 (2) the climatic adaptation of black and white 

 men; Sir R. T. Glazebrook, two lectures on the 

 National Physical Laboratory; Sir Napier 

 Shaw, two lectures on illusions of the atmos- 

 phere; Professor W. J. Pope, two lectures on 

 the chemical action of light; M. Paul H. Loy- 

 son, two lectures on the ethics of the war; 



Sir J. J. Thomson, six lectures on problems in 

 atomic structure. The Friday meetings will 

 commence on January 18, when Sir James 

 Dewar will deliver a discourse on studies on 

 liquid films. Succeeding discourses will prob- 

 ably be given by Professor J. Townsend, Pro- 

 fessor A. S. Eddington, Principal E. H. 

 Griffiths, Professor A. G. Green, Professor E. 

 H. Barton and Sir J .J. Thomson. 



At the annual meeting of the Washington 

 Academy of Science Dr. W. H. Holmes, of the 

 U. S. National Museum, gave an address on 

 " Man's place in the cosmos as shadowed forth 

 by modern science." 



A SERIES of illustrated lectures dealing with 

 science in relation to the war will be pre- 

 sented before the Washington Academy of 

 Science during the present year. The first ad- 

 dress of this series was given by Major S. J. 

 M. Aul, of the British Military Mission, on 

 " Methods of gas warfare," on January 17. 



Mr. W. C. Mason, British imperial entomo- 

 logist, died at thirty-three years of age on No- 

 vember 28, at Zomba, Nyasaland, of black- 

 water fever. 



Professor C. Christiansen, professor of 

 physics in the University of Copenhagen from 

 1886 to 1912, died on December 28, aged 

 seventy-four years. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The bond issue of $1,000,000 voted by the 

 legislature for the University of Tennessee has 

 been sold and it is expected that the money 

 will be immediately available. 



The Carnegie Corporation will defray the 

 expense of repairing the buildings of Dal- 

 housie University, Halifax, which were dam- 

 aged by the explosion on December 6. It is 

 estimated that the amount necessary for re- 

 pairs wiU be about $20,000. 



Miss E. C. Talbot, of Margam, has pre- 

 sented to University College, Cardiff, an en- 

 dowment of about $150,000 for a chair in pre- 

 ventive medicine. The first occupant of the 



