DECEMBER 10, 1932] NATURE 887 work on the taxonomy of Hymenomycetes. Myco• Hume-Rothery. The award is made by a joint logical classification is emerging from a state of chaos, committee of the Royal Society and the Armourers and the student or amateur will be able to orientate and Brasiers' Company. much lmowledge which formerly puzzled him. The address is published in the Transactions of the Society MR. COLIN HARDIE, fellow and classical tutor of (vol. 17, pp. 16-34, 1932) and will serVe as a valuable Balliol College, Oxford, has been appointed to guide to the most important literature on the subject. succeed Mr. Arthur Hamilton Smith as director of the British School at Rome as from January 31, 1933. Physical Society's Exhibition THE twenty-third annual exhibition of scientific Srn HENRY DALE, director of the National Institute instruments and apparatus, arranged by the Physical for Medical Research, will deliver the Harrison Society, will be held on January at the Imperial memorial lecture of the Pharmaceutical Society of College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, Great Britain on December 13. The title of Sir S.W.7. It will be open in the aftemuons from 3 P.M. Henry's lecture will be "Therapeutic Problems of until 6 P.M. and again in the evenings from 7 P.M. the Future". At the conclusion of the lecture, the lmtil 10 P.M. The leading manufacturers of scientific Harrison Medal will be presented to Sir Henry Dale. instruments will be exhibiting their latest products in the Trade Section. The Research and Experi• To commemorate the bicentenary of the birth of mental Section will contain contributions from most Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the yam spinning of the important research laboratories in Great frame, the N ewcomen Society has arranged for a Britain, and there will be a special sub-section public lecture to be delivered on December 14, at devoted to experiments of educational interest. In 5.30. The lecture will be given at the Science Museum, addition, the work submitted for the craftsmanship South Kensington, S.W.7, by Mr. Frank competition by apprentices and learners will be on Nasmith. view. Discourses will be delivered each day at 8 P.M. as follows: January 3, Dr. Allan Ferguson: "Surface MR. A. ABBOTT, formerly chief inspector for Tension and its Measurement" ; January 4, Mr. R. A. technical education at the Board of Education, hM Watson Watt: "Cathode Ray Oscillography"; been awarded the Institute Medal of the Textile January 5, Mr. F. Hope-Jones: "Time Measure• Institute. Mr. Abbott WM formerly assistant secre• ment: Old and New". Members of institutions and tary to the Department of Scientific and Industrial scientific societies may obtain tickets from their Research and did much work in connexion with tl),e secretaries ; tickets may also be obtained from the establishment of the Cotton Research Association. Exhibition Secretary, I, Lowther Gardens, Exhibition Road, S.W.7. Admission on January 5 will be free, THE twentieth annual meeting of the Indian without ticket. Science Congress will be held at Patna on J anuacy under the presidency of Dr. L. L. Fermor, Announcements director of the Geological Survey of India. The THE Euchan prize of the Royal Meteorological Congress will meet in nine sections, namely, agri• Society for 1933 has been awarded to Mr. David culture, mathematics and physics, chemistry, Brunt, for papers contributed to the Quarterly zoology, botany, geology, medical and veterinary Journal and Memoi1·s of the Society during the years research, anthropology and psychology. The local secretaries are Dr. K. S. Caldwell and Prof. Kamta Prashad, both of the Science College, Patna. PRoF. G. ELLioT SMITH, professor of anatomy in University College, London, has been appointed APPLICATIONS are invited for the following appoint• Fullerian professor of physiology at the Royal ments, on or before the dates mentioned :-An Institution to succeed Prof. J. B. S. Haldane, whose assistant teacher of engineering science, handicraft tenure of office expires next January. and drawing at the Radcliffe Technical Colleg&-The Secretary of Education, Town Hall, Radcliffe, near THE Lawrence research studentship of the Royal Manchester (Dec. 14). An executive engineer and Society has been awarded to Miss P. A. Clapham, an assistant engineer {mechanical) to the Government who proposes to work at the London School of of Madras for harbour works at Cochin-The High Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on helminthic Commissioner for India, General Department, India infestation and nutritional deficiency. House, Aldwych, W.C.2 (Dec. 23). A public analyst A DISCUSSION on ''T Chemistry of the Sterols to the City of St. Albans-The Town Clerk, Municipal and Bile Acids", to be opened by Prof. I. M. Offices, St. Albans (Dec. 31). A principal at the Heilbron, H. Harrison professor of organic chemistry Handsworth Technical Colleg&-The Chief Education in the University of Liverpool, will be held at the Officer, Education Office, Margaret Street, Birming• Chemical Society on Thursday, December 15, at ham (Dec. 31). A University reader in psychology 8 P.M. at Bedford College, London-The Academic Regis• trar, University of London, S.W.7 (Jan. 26). A DR. ULICK R. EVANS has been elected to the University reader in physiology at Guy's Hospital research fellowship in metallurgy of the Annourers Medical School-The Academic Registrar, University and Brasiers' Company, in succession to Dr. W. of London, S.W.7 (Feb. 17). No. 3293, VoL. 130] © 1932 Nature Publishing Group