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follows: The Eight Hon. R. E. Prothero 

 (chairman), the Eight Hon. Sir Ailwyn E. 

 Fellowes (vice-chairman), the Eight Hon. E. 



D. Acland, the Eight Hon. Henry Hobhouse, 

 the Hon. Edward G. Strutt, Sir Sydney Olivier 

 (board of agriculture), Mr. W. W. Berry (De- 

 velopment Commissioner), Mr. S. W. Farmer, 

 Mr. E. L. C. Eloud (board of agriculture), Mr. 

 A. D. Hall (Development Commissioner), Mr. 

 S. Kidner, Mr. T. H. Middleton (board of 

 agriculture), Mr. A. Moscrop, Mr. H. Pad- 

 wick (National Farmers' Union), Mr. E. G. 

 Paterson, Mr. G. G. Eea, Mr. E. Savill, Mr. 

 Leslie Scott and Professor W. Somerville. Mr. 



E. M. Konstam (who has joined the depart- 

 m.ent for the duration of the war) is the secre- 

 tary of the committee. 



The 1916 volume of the Annals of the Asso- 

 ciation of American Geographers, which has 

 just appeared, contains a long descriptive art- 

 icle by Professor N". M. Fenneman on " The 

 Physiographic Divisions of the United States." 

 This is accompanied by a map, the work of a 

 committee of the association consisting of Pro- 

 fessors Fenneman, Blackwelder and D. W. 

 Johnson and Messrs. Campbell and Matthes, 

 of the U. S. Geological Survey. Separates and 

 copies of the map may be obtained on applica- 

 tion to Eichard E. Dodge, secretary, Washing- 

 ton, Conn. 



Professor Lafayette B. Mendel, of Yale 

 University, addressed the Sigma Xi Society 

 of the University of Chicago on February 2, 

 and also spoke to the students of the university 

 on the subject of " ISTutrition." 



Dr. HLiRRY N. Holmes, head of the depart- 

 ment of chemistry at Oberlin College, lectured 

 recently on " The Formation of Crystals " at 

 the Mellon Institute of the University of Pitts- 

 burgh; Franl^lin Institute, Philadelphia, and 

 the Johns Hopkins University. 



Surgeon-General Sir G. H. Makins, deliv- 

 ered the Hunterian oration before the Eoyal 

 College of Surgeons of England on "Wednes- 

 day, February 14, his subject being the influ- 

 ence exerted by the military experience of 

 John Hunter on himself and on the military 

 surgeon of to-day. 



On February 28 the Geological Society of 

 London will again have the opportunity of dis- 

 cussing the Piltdown man. The late Charles 

 Dawson had discovered further remains about 

 a mile away from the original locality, but in 

 gravel of the same age. These, which consist 

 of a molar from the lower jaw, a fragment of 

 the occiput, and a part of a frontal including 

 some of the orbital margin, will be laid before 

 the meeting by Dr. A. Smith Woodward. 



A movement has recently been initiated to 

 institute, at the Finsbury Technical College, 

 a reference library of chemical books in 

 memory of the late Professor Eaphael Meldola, 

 F.E.S., who formerly presided over this school 

 of applied chemistry. 



Charles J. White, professor emeritus of 

 Mathematics at Harvard University, died sud- 

 denly on February 12. 



Mr. John Tebbutt, of Windsor, ISTew South 

 Wales, where he conducted an observatory, has 

 died at the age of eighty-two years. 



The death in Eio Janeiro is announced of 

 Dr. Oswaldo Cruz, director of the Oswaldo 

 Cruz Institute of Pathology and Bacteriology, 

 Dr. Cruz was formerly director of the Brazilian 

 sanitary service. 



The spring meeting of the American Chem- 

 ical Society will be held in Kansas City, April 

 10-14. The program will be arranged as 

 follows : 



Tuesday iiight, April 10 — council meeting. 

 Wednesday morning, April 11 — opening session. 

 Wednesday afternoon, April 11 — opening session, 



continued, or section meetings. 

 Wednesday night, April 11 — smoker. 

 Thursday morning, April 12 — section meetings. 

 Thursday afternoon, April 12 — section meetings. 

 Thursday night, April 12 — banquet, or open. 

 Friday morning, April 13 — section meetings. 

 Friday afternoon, April 13 — excursions. 

 Friday night, April 13 — ^banquet, or open. 

 Saturday morning, April 14 — excursions. 



The Geological Department of the British 

 Museum has recently received, through Sir 

 John Eaglerome, K.C.M.G., an interesting 

 series of vertebrate remains from early Terti- 

 ary beds in southern Nigeria. These include 

 a huge carinate bird (Giganiornis eagleromei 



