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Dr. Dundas Grant, another on the complex- 

 ity of the chemical elements by Professor 

 Soddy, and one on breathlessness by Mr. J. 

 Barcroft. 



A MEMORIAL tablet to the late Sir William 

 Huggins and Lady Huggins, executed by 

 Henry Pegram, has been placed in the crypt 

 of St. Paul's Cathedral, and was unveiled on 

 March 29. The president of the Eoyal So- 

 ciety and the president of the Eoyal Astronom- 

 ical Society were the speakers. 



Dr. John K. Mitchell, noted as a neurolo- 

 gist and author, died at Philadelphia on April 

 10. He was fifty-seven years old, and was a 

 son of the late Dr. S. Weir Mitchell. 



The death is announced of Professor Angelo 

 Battelli, the distinguished Italian physicist. 

 He was born at Macerata Feltria (Pesaro) in 

 1862, and held chairs successively at Cagliari, 

 Padua and Pisa. He was a member of the 

 Chamber of Deputies. 



Dr. H. F. E. Jungeesen, professor of zool- 

 ogy in the University of Copenhagen and di- 

 rector of the department of vertebrates in the 

 university museum, died on February 6, aged 

 sixty-three years. 



J. RiEDiNGER, professor of orthopedics at the 

 University of Wiirzburg, has died at the age 

 of fifty-two years. 



The death is also announced of G. Argento, 

 professor of surgery at the University of 

 Palermo, aged seventy. He took a prominent 

 part in public health matters and the hygiene 

 of the hospitals throughout Sicily. 



It is reported from San Antonio that there 

 is widespread infection from hookworm among 

 the troops from Alabama, Mississippi and 

 Texas, but that the disease is now under con- 

 trol. 



At the recent St. Louis conference of agri- 

 cultural experts looking to production of 

 greater crops as an emergency measure, it was 

 recommended that the congress appropriate 

 $25,000,000 for use by the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture in such a campaign. Because of the 

 world shortage of food, it is scarcely possible 

 that the production of staple crops by the 

 farmers of the United States can be too great 



this year, and it is recommended that boys 

 under military age and men beyond the age 

 and those physically disqualified should be en- 

 rolled in the national army for labor and pro- 

 duction of food, munitions and supplies. 

 Other recommendations are for creation of an 

 agricultural body under the Council of Na- 

 tional Defence to supervise agricultural mat- 

 ters and for the vesting of wide authority in 

 the secretary of agriculture to regulate and 

 standardize food production and distribution. 

 The subcommittees and their chairmen were: 

 Production and Labor, Dr. Heniy J. Waters, 

 president of Kansas State Agricultural Col- 

 lege; Distribution, Clarence Ousley, of Texas; 

 Organization, President W. O. Thompson, of 

 Ohio State Agricultural College; Economy, J. 

 M. Hamilton, of Montana. 



The report of the Philosophical Institute of 

 Canterbury, New Zealand, for the year 1916, 

 as abstracted in Nature, records that the coun- 

 cil has recognized the importance of furthering 

 the national movement to advance scientific re- 

 search and extend the application of scientific 

 knowledge. Addresses on " Education and our 

 National Requirements " and " The Impor- 

 tance of Research to Industry and Commerce," 

 by Mr. G. M. Thomson and Professor T. H. 

 Easterfield, respectively, were arranged with 

 these ends in view. In order that matters 

 connected with research and the chemical ap- 

 plication of science should be constantly 

 watched, the council set up a special com- 

 mittee, with Dr. C. C. Farr as honorary secre- 

 tary. The New Zealand Board of Industries, 

 having invited the institute to send delegates 

 to confer with the board on matters affecting 

 post-war reconstruction, the council appointed 

 the president, with Dr. Farr and Dr. Hilgen- 

 dorf, to act. Application has been made for 

 part of the £250 granted by the government 

 for research; and investigations are being ar- 

 ranged on the phosphate rocks of Canterbury, 

 the deterioration of apples in cold storage and 

 the electrical prevention of frosting in orch- 

 ards. 



Mr. Charles Bailey, formerly connected 

 with the firm of Messrs. Ealli Brothers in 

 Manchester, has presented his herbarium of 



