...Sir Ernest Rutherford on "The Nuclear Constitution of the Atom." SIR JAMES DEWAR has been elected a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences in the section of general physics in succession to the late Prof. P. Blaserna. THE Institute of Research in Animal Nutrition...

...Geneva is far less transparent than that of the sea. DR. JAHKS PAOET, of London, has been elected a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences in the section of medicine and surgery, replacing M. Boutsson, deceased. MR. LP GRATACAP recently read before the Natural...

...militaire 32 bis. during 1916. Sm JOSEPH LARHOR, of the University of Cambridge, has been, elected a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences in the section of geometry. PRESIDENTS of sections of the British Association have been appointed as follows: A (Mathematics...

...American Chemical Society, and Dr. William A. Noyes, present president. SIR JAMES DEWAR has been elected a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences in the section of physics in succession to the late Professor P. Blaserna. THE National Research Council has appointed...

...meeting of the council in July for the presentation of diplomas. SIR JAMES DEW AH has been elected a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences in the section of general physics in succession to the late Professor P. Blaserna. PROFESSOR HORACE LAMB, Sir Thomas...

...that of Dr. Harrison. DB. PB BERLOTY, director of the Ksara Observatory in Syria, has been elected a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences in the section of geography and navigation, in the place of P. Colin. THE Budapest Veterinary Academy has conferred the...

...CAMILLE MATIGNON, professor of mineralogical chemistry at the University of Paris, has been elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in the section of chemistry. THE nomination of Professors T. Madsen and P. Teissier as honorary foreign members of the Royal Academy...

...THEODORE W. RICHARDS, director of the Qibbs memorial laboratory at Harvard University, has been elected a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences, in the section of chemistry. DR. SIMON FLEXNER, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, has been elected an...

...American Chemical Society, and Dr. William A. Noyes, present president. SIR JAMES DEWAR has been elected a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences in the section of physics in succession to the late Professor P. Blaserna. THE National Research Council has appointed...

...ultra-violet rays, the amber glass seems unnecessary. AT the annual meeting of the Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker in Leipzig, Prof. Gisbert Kapp, as...pointed out in the periodic series of known elements. MendeleelT had shown that a metal might probably exist intermediate in its properties between aluminium...