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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LV, No. 1412 



EMILE CARTAILHAC AND OSCAR 

 MONTELIUS 



Peofessor Emile Caetailhac, of the Uni- 

 versity of Toulouse, died suddenly on Novem- 

 ber 25 last, at the age of seventy-six. Pro- 

 fessor Cartailhae, besides being a teacher, was 

 a museum curator, and of late years served 

 also as official guide to the local caverns of 

 arehffiological interest, but he nevertheless 

 found time for extensive field research and 

 publication. As dean of the French prehis- 

 torians, he was instrumental not only in giv- 

 ing tremendous impetus to scientific archseo- 

 logy but also in training several of the younger 

 men that still remain to carry on the work. 



OscAK MoNTELius, former antiquary to the 

 Realm of Sweden, succumbed to pneumonia 

 in Stockholm, on November 4, at the age of 

 seventj'-eight. His death marks the close of a 

 most distinguished career, for although pri- 

 marily in charge of the Swedish archaeological 

 collections in the National Museum at Stock- 

 holm and thoroughly in love with his task. 

 Professor Montelius concerned himself quite as 

 much with the prehistory of the rest of Europe, 

 as well as of the adjacent portions of Asia 

 and Africa. In many respects his work was 

 complementary to that of the late Gustav 

 Retzius and his writings are characterized by 

 the same breadth and profundity. Montelius 

 did more than any one else toward placing the 

 chronology of the Neolithic and Metal ages on 

 a sound basis. His death, coming so nearly at 

 the same time as that of Professor Emile Car- 

 tailhae of France, is a distinct loss to all stu- 

 dents of prehistoric archaeology. 



N. C. Nelson 



OFFICERS OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION 



The following, as we learn from Nature, 

 have been appointed presidents and recorders 

 (to whom all communications should be sent) 

 of the different sections of the British Asso- 

 ciation for the meeting to be held at Hull on 

 September 6-13 next under the presidency of 

 Professor C. S. Sherrington: Section A 

 (Mathematics and Physics) : President, Profes- 

 sor G. H. Hardy; Recorder, Professor A. 0. 

 Rankine, Imperial College of Science and 



Technology, S. W. 7. Section B {Chemistry) : 

 President, Principal J. C. Irvine; Recorder, 

 Professor C. H. Deseh, University of Sheffield. 

 Section C {Geology) : President, Professor P. 

 F. Kendall; Recorder, Dr. A. R. Dwerryhouse, 

 University College, Reading. Section D 

 {Zoology): President, Dr. E. J. Allen; Re- 

 corder, Mr. R. D. Laui-ie, University College, 

 Aberystwyth. Section E {Geography) : Presi- 

 dent, Dr. Marion I. Newbigin; Recorder, Dr. 

 R. N. Rudmose Brown, University of Shef- 

 field. Section F {Economics) : President, Pro- 

 fessor F. Y. Edgeworth; Recorder, Professor 

 H. M. Hallsworth, Armstrong College, New- 

 castle-upon-Tyne. Section G {Engineering) : 

 President, Professor T. Hudson Beare; Re- 

 corder, Professor G. W. 0. Howe, Elmswood, 

 Maiden, Surrey. Section H {Anthropology) : 

 President, Mr. H. J. E. Peake; Recorder, Mr. 

 E. N. Fallaize, Vinchelez, Chase Court Gar- 

 dens, Enfield, Middlesex. Section I {Physio- 

 logy) : President, Professor E. P. Cathcart; 

 Recorder, Dr. C. Lovatt Evans, National In- 

 stitute for Medical Research,' Mount Vernon, 

 N. W. 3. Section J {Psychology) : President, 

 Dr. W. H. R. Rivers; Recorder, Dr. C. Burt, 

 30 Princess Road, Regent's Park, N. W. 1. 

 Section K {Botany) : President, Professor H. 

 H. Dixon; Recorder, Mr. F. T. Brooks, 31 

 Ten- son Avenue, Cambridge. Section L {Edu- 

 cation) : President, Sir Richard Gregory; Re- 

 corder, Mr. D. Berridge, 1 College Grounds, 

 Malvern. Section M {Agriculture) : Presi- 

 dent, The Right Hon. Lord Bledisloe; Record- 

 er, Mr. C. G. T. Morison, School of Rural 

 Economy, Oxford. 



OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN 

 ASSOCIATION 



At the Toronto meeting of the council of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science there were elected, besides the offtcers 

 whose names were published in Science for 

 January 6, the following : 



Chairman of Section D: Otto Klotz, director 

 of the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa. 



Senretary of 'Section K: Frederick L. Hoff- 

 man (to retire at the end of 1924), Prudential 

 Life Insurance Company of America, Newark, 

 .S. J. 



