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engaged in research, at £6,000. These grants 

 will be distributed by a committee of the privy 

 council, on the recommendation of the ad- 

 visory council, to promote the development 

 of scientific and industrial research in the 

 United Kingdom, and will be subject to such 

 conditions as the committee may think neces- 

 sary. The £1,000,000 grant in aid of indus- 

 trial research will be paid to the account of the 

 Imperial Trust for the encouragement of 

 scientific and industrial research. The expen- 

 diture of the trust will be audited by the 

 comptroller and auditor-general, but any bal- 

 ance remaining on the account will not be sur- 

 rendered at the close of the financial year. 

 Grants will be made by the directions of the 

 committee of the privy council over an agreed 

 period to approved trade associations for re- 

 search, to supplement the funds of the associa- 

 tions, and payments in respect of such grants 

 will not be liable to surrender by the grantees 

 at the end of the financial year. We under- 

 stood from Lord Crewe's remarks on Decem- 

 ber 1 that for the next five years or so about 

 £200,000 a year would be available for scien- 

 tific and industrial research, so that apparently 

 the grant of £1,000,000 is the sum which is to 

 be drawn upon for this purpose. The amount 

 estimated for salaries, wages and allowances 

 in the new department is £7,250, which in- 

 cludes £1,500 for the secretary and £850 for 

 the assistant secretary. Travelling and inci- 

 dental expenses are estimated to amount to 

 £800. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The annual meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, ar- 

 ranged to be held at Bournemouth in Septem- 

 ber next, has been cancelled. The two main 

 considerations which have led to this decision 

 are the restriction of railway communication 

 and difiiculties of accommodation on account 

 of buildings being required for various na- 

 tional purposes. There will probably be a 

 meeting of the general committee of the asso- 

 ciation in London to receive reports and 

 transact other business. The annual meeting 



will therefore be intermitted for the first time 

 in the history of the association since 1831. 



AccoEDiNG to a cable from Paris received at 

 Washington on March 29, the Gaudry prize 

 has been awarded by the Geological Society of 

 France to Dr. Charles D. Waleott, secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution. This medal was 

 established by the will of the late Professor 

 Albert Gaudry. 



Professor C. S. Sherrington, Waynflete 

 professor of physiology in the University of 

 Oxford, has been elected a corresponding 

 member of the Bologna Academy of Sciences. 



Professor Frederick E. Clements has re- 

 signed the chair of botany at the University 

 of Minnesota to accept a position with the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



Professor Albert Sauveur, professor of 

 metallurgy and metallography of Harvard 

 University, has been given leave of absence for 

 the first half of 1917-18. 



Dr. J. F. Illingworth, professor of ento- 

 mology. College of Hawaii, Honolulu, has been 

 granted a leave of absence for three years, in 

 order that he may carry on investigations for 

 the Queensland government. His headquarters 

 will be at Gordonvale, Cairns, North Queens- 

 land, in the midst of the sugar growing sec- 

 tion. An experiment station is to be devel- 

 oped, primarily for the study of the grub- 

 pest, which is such a scourge in certain cane- 

 growing areas. 



It is announced that Mr. A. D. Hall has 

 been appointed permanent secretary to the 

 British Board of Agriculture in succession to 

 Sir Sydney Oliver, K.C.M.G., now resigned. 



Professor W. J. Crook has resigned from 

 the South Dakota State School of Mines to en- 

 gage in practical work. 



Mr. Alessandro Fabbri has been appointed 

 to the post of research associate in physiology 

 in the American Museum of ^Natural History. 



Sir W. E. Garstin and Major-General Sir G. 

 K. Scott-Moncriefl^ have been elected honorary 

 members of the Institution of Civil Engineers 

 of Great Britain. 



Dr. Douglas W. Freshfield, president of 

 the Eoyal Geographical Society, has been 



