310 



SCIENCE 



[N. 8. Vol. XLVI. No. 1187 



Clerk, Professor H. S. Jackson and Mr. E. 

 Tlirelfall (K.B.E.) ; Dr. Garrett Anderson, 

 Professor H. B. Baker, Mr. L. Bairstow, Pro- 

 fessor W. H. Bragg, Professor S. J. Chapman, 

 Mr. W. Duddell, Mr. F. W. Harbord, Pro- 

 fessor F. W. Keeble, Dr. Mary A. D. ScLarlieb 

 and Professor J. F. Thorpe (C.B.E.) ; Pro- 

 fessor J. C. McLennan (O.B.E.). The follow- 

 ing have, among others, been appointed Com- 

 panions of Honor: The Hon. E. Strutt and 

 Professor Ripper. 



According to the London Times the pro- 

 gram for the autumn meeting of the Iron and 

 Steel Institute, held at the Institution of Civil 

 Engineers on September 20 and 21, included 

 the following papers : " Present practise in 

 briquetting of iron ores," by G. Barrett and T. 

 B. Rogerson ; " Microstructure of commer- 

 cially pure iron between Ar^ and Ar^," by W. 

 J. Brooke and F. F. Hunting; " The influence 

 of heat treatment on the electrical and thermal 

 resistivity and thermo-electric potential of 

 some steels," by E. D. Campbell and W. C. 

 Dowd ; " New impact testing experiments," by 

 G. Charpy and A. Cornu-Thenard ; " Heat 

 treatment of gray cast iron," by J. E. Hurst; 

 " Effect of mass on heat treatment," by E. F. 

 Law ; " Investigation upon a cast of acid open- 

 hearth steel," by T. D. Morgans and F. Rogers ; 

 " The acid open-hearth process," by F. Rogers; 

 " The Eggertz test for combined carbon in 

 steel," by J. H. Whiteley, and " Failure of 

 boiler plates in service, and investigation of 

 stresses occurring in riveted joints," by E. B. 

 Wolff. 



The autumn meeting of the Institute of 

 Metals was held in the rooms of the Chemical 

 Society, London, in Burlington House, on Sep- 

 tember 19. The papers presented were : " Ex- 

 periments on the fatigue of brasses," by Dr. B. 

 Parker Haigh ; " Hardness and hardening," by 

 Professor T. Turner ; " The effects of heat at 

 various temperatures on the rate of softening 

 of cold-rolled aluminium sheet," by Professor 

 H. C. H. Carpenter and L. Taverner; "A 

 comparison screen for brass," by 0. W. Ellis; 

 " Further notes on a high temperature thermo- 

 stat," by J. L. Haughton and D. Hanson; 

 "Principles and methods of a new system of 



gas-firing," by A. C. lonides ; " Fuel economy 

 in brass-melting furnaces," by L. C. Harvey, 

 with additional notes by H. J. Tates ; " The 

 effect of great hydrostatic pressure on the 

 physical properties of metals," by Professor 

 Zay Jeffries, and the " Use of chromic acid and 

 hydrogen peroxide as an etching agent," by S. 

 W. Miller. 



We learn from Nature that donations and 

 promises towards the Ramsay Memorial Fund 

 received by the treasurers amount so far to 

 £21,352, including £835 from members of the 

 British Science Guild; £500 from Sir George 

 Beilby, and £100 each from Lord Rosebery, the 

 Company of Clothworkers, and the Salt Union, 

 Ltd. Professor Orme Masson, of the Univer- 

 sity of Melbourne, has undertaken to act as 

 the representative and corresponding member 

 of the committee for Australia. As already 

 announced. Professor C. Baskerville, of the 

 College of the City of New York, is acting in 

 a similar capacity for the United States. 



Charles Lee Crandall, emeritus professor 

 of railway engineering and geodesy in Cornell 

 University, died at his home in Ithaca on 

 August 25, aged sixty-seven years. 



Dr. Lewis Atterbury Stimson, professor of 

 surgery in Cornell Medical College, died on 

 September 17, in his seventy-fifth year. 



Mr. Walter E. Archer, known for his work 

 on English sea fisheries, died on August 19 

 at Sand, Norway, at the age of sixty-two years. 



Major A. N. Leeds, the English paleontolo- 

 gist, died on August 25 at the age of seventy 

 years. 



The first of the four volumes of the 

 Decennial index to Chemical Abstracts was 

 issued September 20. This first volimie, which 

 contains a little over 1,000 pages, is devoted to 

 authors, A to K. The completed index will be 

 virtually a complete record of the world's ac- 

 complishments in chemistry during the period 

 1907 to 1916. 



The War Industries Board has requested 

 the subcommittee on fertilizers to make an 

 immediate survey of the nitrate of soda con- 

 sumption and requirements in the fertilizer 

 industry. Blanks are being mailed to the en- 



