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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LV, No. 1416 



cable, be made from the platinum dish be- 

 queathed to the society by Dr. Messel. 



A STATUE of Emil Fischer was recently un- 

 veiled on the Luisenplatz, Berlin, opposite the 

 statue of Robert Koch. A bronze bust of the 

 chemist, who died in 1919, was also presented 

 recently to the Chemical Institvite by Dr. H. 

 Fischer. 



Dr. Peaece Bailey, of New York City, 

 known for his contributions to neurology and 

 psychiatry, died from pneumonia on February 

 11 at the age of fifty-sis years. 



Sir William Christie, astronomer royal 

 from 1881 to 1910, died on January 22, in the 

 seventy-sLxth year of his age. 



H. J. Cotterill, for many years professor 

 of applied mathematics in the Royal Naval 

 Collie, Greenwich, died on January 8, at the 

 age of eighty-six years. 



It is stated in Nature that at the recent 

 meeting of the Hull Museums Committee the 

 curator reported that when in London recently 

 he heard that the specimens in the museum at 

 the Royal Albert Institute, Windsor, were in 

 rooms which were required for other purposes, 

 and that there was an opportunity of obtain- 

 ing the collections. He consequently visited 

 Windsor, with the result that the whole of the 

 specimens are now in Hull, and among them 

 are many valuable additions to the antiquities 

 and geological and natural history series 

 already there. Particular mention may be 

 made of some pre-historic Bronze Age and 

 Stone Age weapons, a large collection of 

 Roman lamps and pottery, Greek vases, and a 

 miscellaneous series of medieval antiquities. 

 Qtherwise the objects are such as were to be 

 found in museums of this character in the 

 early part of the last century. A handbook to 

 the collections, written by Mr. J. Lundy, was 

 published many years ago. 



It is announced that the first five commercial 

 research fellowships instituted by the executive 

 council of the British Empire Exhibition for 

 competition among the chambers of commerce 

 in the United Kingdom have now been award- 

 ed. The successful competitors are the cham- 

 bers of commerce of London, Glasgow, Nor- 



wich, Warrington and Oldham, which will each 

 nominate a fellow. The value of each fellow- 

 ship is not less than £500, and will include a 

 first-class return ticket to the dominion or 

 crown colony to which the selected candidate 

 will proceed. The subjects of research will be : 

 the best means of promoting inter-imperial 

 trade in a selected staple industry and the 

 methods whereby the British Empire Exhibi- 

 tion can further the interests of this trade. 

 The fellow will further investigate the poten- 

 tial resources in raw materials in the dominion 

 or colony visited and the best means for ex- 

 ploiting them in the mutual interest of the 

 dominion and England, and also report on the 

 measures to be taken to insure that these un- 

 developed resources shall be adequately rep- 

 resented at the British Empire Exhibition and 

 brought to the attention of interested financial 

 and industrial groups. 



A COURSE of six public lectures on the "Cur- 

 rent work of the Biometric and Eugenics La- 

 boratories" will be given in the department of 

 applied statistics and eugenics, University Col- 

 lege, London, February 15, 22, March 1, 8, 15 

 and 22, 1922. The order of the lectures is as 

 follows: "Sidelights on the evolution of man: 

 from the knee-joint," by Professor Karl Pear- 

 son; "On the inheritance of intelligence," by 

 Miss Ethel M. Elderton; "Scheme of anthro- 

 pometric measurements in the biometric labora- 

 tory," by Dr. Percy Stocks; "The relation of 

 caries in the teeth of school children to health 

 and home conditions," by Mr. E. C. Rhodes; 

 "On the inheritance of certain types of blind- 

 ness," by Dr. Julia Bell; "On occupational 

 mortality," by Dr. M. Greenwood. 



We learn from the Fisheries' Service Bulle- 

 tin that at the second meeting of the Interna- 

 tional Committee on Marine Fishery Investi- 

 gations held recently at Boston, the members 

 present were William A. Pound and Dr. A. G. 

 Huntsman, representing Canada, and Drs. 

 H. F. Moore and H. B. Bigelow, representing 

 the United States. D. James Davies, the 

 member for Newfoundland, and Dr. R. E. 

 Coker, one of the members for the United 

 States, were unable to attend. Mr. Davies 

 sent a cablegram indicating that Newfoiind- 



