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Sir A. Mond, M.P., Mr. Arthur Pease, Mr. 

 E. E. Prothero, M.P., Sir Frederick H. Smith, 

 Mr. G. J. Wardle, M.P., together with the fol- 

 lowing gentlemen, who are presiding over the 

 Board of Trade committees on the position of 

 important industries after the war: Sir H. 

 Birchenough, Lord Faringdon, Sir C. G. Hyde, 

 Sir C. A. Parsons, F.B.S., Lord Bhondda and 

 Mr. G. Scoby- Smith. Mr. Percy Ashley, of 

 the Board of Trade, and Mr. G. C. TJpcott, of 

 the Treasury, have been appointed secretaries 

 to the committee. 



The trustees of the Beit fellowships for 

 scientific research, which were founded and en- 

 dowed three years ago by Mr. Otto Beit, in 

 order to promote the advancement of science 

 by means of research, have elected to fellow- 

 ships for 1916-17: Mr. H. N. Walsh, Cork 

 (extension for a second year) ; Mr. W. A. 

 Haward, Tufnell Park, and Mr. C. C. Smith, 

 Bristol. The three fellows will carry on their 

 researches in the Imperial College of Science 

 and Technology, London. 



Messrs. A. J. Grove and L. Harrison have 

 been appointed by the British War Office to 

 advise on entomological problems in connec- 

 tion with the military operations in Mesopo- 

 tamia. The services of Dr. W. A. Lamborn 

 have been lent by the Imperial Bureau of 

 Entomology to the War Office and he is now 

 attached to the expeditionary force in East 

 Africa. 



According to a cablegram from England 

 Lieutenant Sir Ernest Shackleton has again 

 failed to rescue the main body of his Antarctic 

 expedition left on Elephant Island and has 

 returned to the Falkland Islands. Sir Ernest 

 returned on board the steamer Emma from 

 Port Stanley. The ship was forced back by 

 heavy gales and ice and it was found impos- 

 sible to get near Elephant Island through the 

 pack ice. The ship was battered, the engines 

 were injured and the Emma was obliged to 

 proceed under sail. Sir Ernest, the corre- 

 spondent adds, recognizes that it is useless to 

 attempt to force a passage with a light ship 

 and he is waiting for the steamer Discovery to 

 come from England. 



Professor Samuel Wendell Williston, of 

 the department of geology and paleontology of 

 the University of Chicago, has given four lec- 

 tures on the afternoons of August 1 to 4 inclu- 

 sive, the subjects of the separate lectures 

 being : " The Earliest Land Animals — Amphi- 

 bians," " The Earliest Land Animals — Rep- 

 tiles," " The Evolution of Reptiles " and " The 

 Evolution of Mammals." 



The death, at the age of fifty-three years, is 

 announced of Elton Fulmer, professor of 

 chemistry and dean of the faculty in the Wash- 

 ington State College at Pullman. 



Frederick William Frankland, associate 

 actuary for the Equitable Life Assurance So- 

 ciety, died on July 26 at his home in New York 

 City. He was a son of the late Sir Edward 

 Frankland, and was born in Manchester, Eng- 

 land, sixty-three years ago. Mr. Frankland 

 came to this country nine years ago, and was 

 for some years connected with the New York 

 Life Insurance Company. He had written 

 many papers on mathematical, metaphysical 

 and sociological subjects. 



Dr. Rowland Cox, Jr., of Paterson, N. J., 

 who was for seven years instructor in opera- 

 tive surgery in the College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, Columbia University, has died in his 

 forty-fifth year. 



The death is announced of Ludwig Sieg- 

 mund Albert Neisser, professor of skin and 

 venereal diseases at the University of Breslau, 

 one of the distinguished German pathologists. 

 He was born sixty-one years ago at Breslau, 

 where his father was a physician, who trans- 

 lated several American works into German, 

 including G. M. Beard's " Neurasthenia." 



The secretary of war has submitted a sup- 

 plemental estimate of appropriation of $7,000,- 

 000 required for the service of the fiscal year, 

 1917, by the medical and hospital department 

 for the medical needs of an active military 

 force of 400,000 men, in addition to amounts 

 heretofore estimated for such purpose. 



Announcement is made that the Psycho- 

 pathic Clinic for Mentally Deranged and 

 Feebleminded Persons at the State Prison, 



