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Literary Gossip.
there
are
some
the
care
Pamphlets.
by Mr. W. T. Oldrieve; The Old Tol-
Dodd (J. Theodore), Welsh Disestablishment :
booth of
of Edinburgh,' extracts from
Correspondence with the Bishop of London,
original records by Mr. J. A. Fairley;
Bishop Welldon, &c. ; with an Appeal to the
Episcopate of the English Church, 3d.
' An Old Edinburgh Monument, now in
Judge on Circuit (A), by a Judge's Marshal, 6d. THE decision in the case of Flanders v. Perthshire,' by Dr. Thomas Ross; and
Sketches briefly the legal procedure of a judge Forrester on Tuesday last, in which The
on circuit, and suggests that the anomalies of
• The Society of Friendly Contributors of
the system are such that its abolition is feasible Pall Mall Gazette was sued for libel, will,
Restalrig,' by the Rev. W. Burnett. The
in the near future. A number of judicial centres we hope, do something to check extrava- previously issued volumes have rapidly
in our large cities are advocated, a method
which has been found practicable in Italy.
gant claims for satisfaction by persons
gone up in price.
Literature and Nationality : an Address, with who contend that their names have been
Hints for a Course of Reading, 3d. net.
GOSPORT, Dickens's birthplace, has
We deprecate the excessive generalization used to their disadvantage in fiction.
of the writer upon national literature in The sketch in question dealt with an already raised 6001. towards endowing
England. The decline of Elizabethan imperial-
imaginary person called George Flanders,
an additional nurse for the sick poor of
ism witnessed a corresponding declension of
the permeation of its spirit into literature. and Mr. George Charles Flanders of Hitchin Portsmouth. We agree with the donors
Except at spasmodic periods and through regarded it as a personal attack on himself. that this would have met with the
two forces has been partial ever since. The The Lord Chief Justice pointed out that no monument should be erected to
warmest approval of him who desired
nineteenth-century literature of introspection that the plaintiff had to satisfy the jury his memory.
and of solitary musing tended to stunt its
further blossoming. But
that an ordinary and reasonable reader
reflective measurements in this treatise as to of The Pall Mall Gazette would think that A LECTURE, under the auspices of the
interaction between literature and
what was published was a libel on a real Shakespeare Reading Society, on The
nationality.
Sanders (T. W. ), Small Greenhouses, ld.
person. He added that it did not require Kenilworth Revels,' will be given by Mrs.
The latest addition to the cheap One and All much intelligence to arrive at the verdict Carmichael Stopes on Tuesday evening
Garden Books, edited by Edward Owen Green-
ing. Mr. Sanders advocates that “ just as the for the defendant which was the result. next at the University Hall, Gordon
natural style in outdoor gardening has super We congratulate our contemporary, which Square.
seded the formal fashions of our ancestors, so
should natural and truly artistic effects be
is showing new vigour, on making a firm
brought into the greenhouse. "
stand in the case. Only last summer a
THE executors of Mr. Henry Labouchere
Thomson (C. Linklater), The Teaching of English, writer in our columns suggested elaborate have entrusted the writing of his bio.
.
Two lectures delivered to the students in expedients to avoid such dangers. His graphy to his nephew, Mr. Algar Thorold,
the Training Department at London University. | humour seems already justified.
who has published several books.
The autbor writes a flexible and lively style,
without dwelling upon the obvious. We are An interesting discussion has arisen
Mr. Thorold would be much obliged if
glad to notice that she riddles the old pedagogic in the daily press,
as a sequel to the persons possessing letters of biographical
theory as to the paramount importance of deputation to the Home Office last Wednes- be kind enough to send them to Mr. T.
interest from Mr. Labouchere would
instruction in grammar.
Wise (Tucker), Winter Health Stations : Montreux: day week on the
subject of demoralizing Hart - Davies,
which has attained popularity of recent years that a private conscience is generally greatest care will be taken of such letters,
Eight pages on the merits of Montreux, literature. Mr. John Murray's assertion
of Truth Office,
Carteret Street, Westminster. The
as a winter resort.
denied to a
public servant in the
FOREIGN.
matter of allowing him to refuse to sell and they will be returned in due course
Fine Art.
if desired.
Vaillat (Léandre), La Société du XVIII. Siècle lend" for love is to us more characteristic
for profit what he would be ashamed to
THE REV. W. J. COUPER of 26, Circus
et ses Peintres, 5fr.
M. Vaillat writes a useful and interesting of the age than satisfactory. The Drive, Glasgow, is writing a book on the
book, rather on painting and its accessories than promise of fresh legislation suggests little Miller family, two members of which,
, ,
only inasmuch as it finds its reflection in the practical help, since laws made in advance George Miller of Dunbar and James
works of some of the minor figures. M. Vaillat of the public conscience must be largely
M. Vaillat of the public conscience must be largely Miller of Haddington, were printers and
writes well, but it is to be regretted that he futile. For ourselves, our duty seems to
futile. For ourselves, our duty seems to publishers (see the bibliography in Notes
has not chosen wider field. We propose to
return to the work next week.
be to devote as much space as possible to and Queries, Tenth Series, vol. xii. ). Mr.
advocating good reading, and confining Couper is anxious to receive any letters
Poetry and Drama.
Bertéval (W. ), Le Théâtre d'Ibsen.
our denunciations of bad work within the written by members of the family ; hints
Danchin (F. C. ), Études critiques sur Christophe briefest limits.
as to the present ownership of the many
Marlowe : En marge de la seconde partie de
"Tamburlaine. '
It is proposed to arrange a Gilbert papers brought together by George Miller
A short study of the text of the second half White Exhibition, consisting of relics and in reference to the business, &c. , and used
of ,' reprinted
Revue germanique. Such a brief sketch cannot manuscripts of the writer of the famous by him while preparing his "Latter
claim comprehensive settlement of the questions Natural History of Selborne,' with col- Struggles ’; a note of any Miller publica
it considers, but
within its limits it is fresh and lections illustrating his work and times. tion,
however, small
, written, printed,
.
It will be open on the 16th inst. to the
or published by any of the family (the
History and Biography.
Giraud (Victor), Nouvelles Études sur Chateau.
members of the Selborne Society, and publications of John Miller of Dunfermline
briand : Essais d'histoire morale et littéraire. to the public on the 17th. There
are set out in Dr. Erskine Beveridge's
Pasolini (Pier Desiderio), Catherine Sforza, 1463- has been no such attempt made
Bibliography of Dunfermline,' &c. , but
1509: Texte français et Introduction de Marc
pre-
Hélys.
viously, and it is earnestly hoped that might probably, be supplemented); the
This is a French translation of portions of all those who have objects of interest
names of any bookselling or publishing
Count Pasolini's biography of Catherine Sforza. which should form part of the exhibition firms that had business relations with the
The numerous documents which Count Pasolini
Millers of Dunbar and Haddington; and
printed in the Italian work have been omitted, will communicate with the Honorary
and M. Hélys has, with the author's approval, Secretary of the Selborne Society at any other relevant facts about the family.
Italian form the book is by far the most com- 42, Bloomsbury Square, W. C.
Original documents may be forwarded
prehensive life of Catherine Sforza that has
SIR JAMES BALFOUR PAUL presided at
for transcription direct to the publisher,
yet been written, but as only a single edition
Renaissance history will be glad to have this Club on Tuesday, when the Club was
Was printed, it is now rare, and students of the annual meeting of the Old Edinburgh Mr. Fisher Unwin, who will make himself
answerable for their prompt return.
version by M. Marc Hélys.
reported to be flourishing. Sixty-eight MESSRS. SMITH & ELDER announce
Philology.
applicants are awaiting a place as mem- a Centenary Edition of Robert Brown-
Slijpen (A. P. H. A. ), S. J. , Disputatio critica de bers. The fourth volume of the Club's ing's Works in ten volumes, printed in
Carminibus Horatii sex quæ dicuntur Odæ
Romanæ.
papers is at press, the contents including : large type on fine paper, with a preface
A dissertation for the Doctorate of Literature George Drummond, an Eighteenth-Cen-(bibliographical and explanatory) to each
at Amsterdam, the thesis being an inquiry into tury Lord Provost,' by Mr. William Baird ; leading
poem by Dr. Frederick G. Kenyon,
from Mommsen in 1889 onwards, concerning a continuation of the papers on 'The Principal Librarian of the British Museum,
the first six odes of the third book of Horace. Sculptured Stones of Edinburgh,', by Mr. giving the environment and literary
The argument goes to show that the odes form
one cycle.
John Geddie; Discoveries at Holyrood,'history of the poems, marking the steps
‘
a
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in the poet's literary development and played by British, French, and German King of Denmark made Prof. Thomsen
career at which each was written, and diplomacy last summer is provided. A a member of the highest Danish order, as
adding any necessary explanation of comprehensive appendix contains all the Knight of the Elephant. The Royal
things recondite.
official documents needed for a thorough Academy of Sciences celebrated the birth-
The edition will be limited to 750 understanding of the subject, thus per- day of their President by a special meeting
copies for sale, 500 in this country, and mitting of the author's statements being in his honour, at which Prof. Thomsen
250 in the United States, and will be sold checked at every vital stage of the narra- indicated the publication of a new volume
in sets only. Each volume will have as a tive. Five maps accompany the volume, dealing with all the Turkish inscriptions
frontispiece a portrait of Browning repro- illustrating the secret treaties between from Mongolia and Eastern Siberia, the
duced in photogravure, several of these France and Spain in relation to Morocco, key to which he discovered some years ago.
appearing for the first time. The poems and the negotiations between France and
THR CONGRESS OF ORIENTALISTS is due
will be arranged in their chronological Germany over the French Congo.
order, and it is expected that Vols. I. and II.
to open at Athens on April 4th; but
MESSRS. COLLINS of Glasgow are bringing the usual“ bulletins as to the pro-
will be ready on May 7th, the subsequent out, in a revised, and cheap edition gramme, steamer and railway fares,
ones following at short intervals, so
as to be completed in the centenary year.
(with portrait frontispiece), Miss Betham- accommodation, and the like have not
Edwards's first novel, “ The White House yet been issued, and the Athenian autho-
* The Memoir of the late Bishop King,' by the Sea,' reviewed by us as far back rities seem remarkably chary of informa-
which the Right Hon. G. W. E. Russell as January 30th, 1858.
tion on the subject.
has written in response to the wish ex-
pressed by the Bishop's literary executors lish next Thursday Mr. Christopher Stone's and Schiller are to be published with
MESSRS. CHATTO & WINDUS will pub- The letters exchanged between Goethe
will be issued by the same publishers
towards the end of this month. It will
new novel, “ The Shoe of a Horse. ' The critical notes. The owners of the originals,
have as a frontispiece a photogravure book is an experiment in Ruritanian the Goethe-Schiller Archives in Weimar,
portrait of the Bishop from a drawing by romance, with much fighting and a strong have entrusted the editorship to Prof.
George Richmond.
love-interest.
Leitzmann in Jena and Dr. Graff in
Weimar.
MR. FALCONER MADAN, whose biblio-
THE lectures arranged by most of the
In the current Mercure de France Dr•
graphy of printing at Oxford, 1468-1640 learned bodies in Paris are now announced.
(The Early Oxford Press '), was published At the Collège de France the Abbé Loisy Guède examines the picturesque accounts
in 1895, has now completed a new work will discourse on "Sacrifice in the Ancient which Casanova left of his escape, after
dealing with the books which concern
Roman Religion,' on Wednesdays and fourteen months' detention, from a Vene-
Oxford. The forthcoming book bears the Saturdays; and M. P. Monceaux on tian prison, and arrives at the conclusion
title, “Oxford Books,' Vol. II. , a fresh
The Letters of St. Augustine,', on Mon- that the tale is incredible, and not even
title-page being issued by the Oxford days and Tuesdays. At the École des invented to screen accomplices.
University Press for Vol. I. , mentioned Hautes Études there are a great crowd
above. The new volume is to a large of distinguished “ conférenciers,” among the
second volume of his souvenirs d'un
M. ÉMILE BERGERAT has just published
extent a detailed survey of the Oxford whom it will be sufficient to mention M.
Enfant de Paris,' under the title of “La
pamphlets, proclamations, and treatises Fossey on · Babylonian Boundary-Stones,
of the Civil War, 1642-8, with indexes M. Amélineau on . The Book of the Dead Phase Critique de la Critique, 1872-80.
and illustrations. The earlier part is a
and the Pyramid Texts,' and M. Eugène AMONG the new novels just published
supplement to the former book, and de Faye on Gnosticism. At the Faculty in Paris are 'La Neige sur les Pas,' by
the opportunity has been taken to
of Letters at the Sorbonne they are to have, M. Henry Bordeaux ; and 'La Trans-
incorporate corrections and additions, among others, M. Adolphe Lods on · The fuge,' a study of Parisian manners by
and add brief annals of Oxford history. Religion of Israel, M. Foucher on “ The T. Trilby. La Bonne Fortune de Toto,
The author's aim has been to present in Vedic Texts,' M. Lichtenberger on The a roman dialogué by
the two books a standard account of the Legend of the Graal,' and M.
Picavet on eleventh edition.
whole printed literature of the University Ammonius Saccas and Plotinus. The
The death is announced at Edinburgh
and City of Oxford up to the year 1650.
on Saturday last of Dr. A. Taylor Innes,
programme of the Musée Guimet has not
who made many contributions to Scottish
MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. announce yet reached us.
history, particularly on its ecclesiastical
for early publication a new work in verse
by Mr.
Alfred E. Knight, to be entitled brates the 70th anniversary of his birth, published more than forty years ago, is
To-MORROW Prof. Georg Brandes cele-side. The Law of Creeds in Scotland,'
Philistia—and a Soul : a Wander Book. '
The poem is in dialogue form, and traces
an event which will be celebrated in still recognized as an authoritative work,
various in Denmark.
ways
the progress of a soul, disturbed and
and was freely quoted by Bench and Bar
fascinated by the intellectual restlessness
His publishers, Messrs. Gyldendal, are
in the great Church controversy of a few
of the age, along some of the dark avenues issuing an illustrated édition de luxe of years back. His other published writings
of thought until it emerges in the light his William Shakespeare,' and the various included Church and State : a Historical
of simple Christianity.
Scandinavian magazines and literary Handbook ' (1890); Studies in Scottish
The same firm will publish next Tuesday weeklies are all publishing special numbers History' (1892); John Knox' in the
“ Famous Scots” series (1896); and
* Ruins of Desert Cathay,' a personal
The Scottish Church and the Crisis of
narrative of explorations in Central Asia At the National Library in Copenhagen 1907. '
and Westernmost China, by Dr. M. Aurel a collection of literary objects dealing
Stein.
with him will be formed into a Brandes week at the age of 80 removes almost the
THE death of Vernon Lushington last
A NEW book which Messrs. Smith & Archiv, to which the Professor has pro- last surviving contributor to The Oxford
Elder promise, · Morocco in Diplomacy,' | editions and translations of his works, I William Morris, Burne-Jones, and their
mised to present all MSS. , the various
and Cambridge Magazine of 1856, which
is from the pen of Mr. E. D. Morel.
The author's objects are to present to
letters, &c.
companions carried on for a single year.
the public a connected narrative of ANOTHER eminent Danish scholar, Vil. He won the lifelong gratitude of Burne-
Morocco's relations with the Powers helm Thomsen, celebrated his 70th birthday Jones by introducing him to Rossetti.
in the course of the last twenty years, on the 25th ult. Besides congratulatory The event meant so much more to the
with special reference to the events telegrams from many universities and introduced than to the introducer that,
of the last decade ; and to convey a students of languages in many countries, while Burne-Jones could never forget
juster view of German action and policy a number of international scholars pre- the occasion, Lushington was wont to
than has obtained hitherto. A search- sented through a deputation a special confess that he had no recollection of it
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un-
of such schools, the present writer believes published his observations (made in a deep
that the influence of the teacher and of pit at Potsdam) that the daily bending of
SCIENCE
school-life is all for the good of the child- the earth's crust was measured with any
much more so than that of many homes. precision. According to his calculations,
The authors suggest that home-training for the earth at Potsdam yields apparently
the growing girl is more essential than that more readily to forces acting north and
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
of the school: their system would make the south than to forces acting east and west.
merry-hearted child, who likes school and Prof. Love's investigations of possible causes
IN Heredity and Society (Longmans) loathes the toil of domestic duties, a house of this phenomenon, the ellipticity of the
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. D. Whetham return to hold drudge from twelve years old.
meridians and the turning of the earth,
the theme which they dealt with in 'The There is no doubt that the tendency of do not provide any satisfactory explanation,
'
democracy is to legislate for the benefit of It is to be hoped that the experiments will
concern our falling birth-rate, especially the the existing individual, careless or ignorant be repeated in many places distributed over
fact that the fall is most marked amongst whether the results are for the good of the earth, so that local peculiarities may be
the more desirable part of the community. the race.
But we know that this has been eliminated.
They remark that, in order to maintain the the fate of all civilizations when power
Another line of attack on the problem
pumbers of any section of our population has passed from the hands of the cultured of the earth's constitution is provided by
in similar circumstances in future genera few into those of the toiling millions. The observations of the modes of propagation
tions, a minimum of four children per family latter, with a wider outlook on life's possi- of earthquake shocks. Seismology is a
is requisite, and an analysis of statistics bilities for themselves and an increasing science of considerable complexity, and it
shows that “ ' the thrifty skilled artisan, knowledge of their strength, determine to is interesting to notice that there is reason
the prominent professional man, the land relieve themselves of the narrow bonds to believe that some of the tremors which
owner of good family, have all halved their within which their existence has been con- reach an observatory must have been con-
output of children in the course of the last fined. Who can gainsay them ? No ques. fined in their passage to the crust of the
forty years. " In fact, the increase that tion of the effects of such action on posterity earth, the isostatic layer, whereas others,
does take place in our present popula- has hitherto stayed their efforts to utilize the quick-moving ones, pass through the
tion comes mainly from the worst part of their power for what they believe to be for core.
it—the diseased, the thriftless, and the their own advantage. Many are now found This book will be a revelation to any
feeble-minded stocks. Their conclusion is who believe in the dawn of a new era, when reader who may be inclined to think that
that our social legislation and philanthropic such individualism will not hold the field; there is no more room for mathematical
endeavours are directed on wrong lines ; but the present reviewer does not expect to research of the first order.
that by the ever-increasing burden of local live to see such a day.
and general taxation we are crushing out
those whose energies are most needed by
the nation, and unduly shielding the weak Some Problems of Geodynamics. By
SOCIETIES.
and the unsound, who, instead of being A. E. H. Love. " (Cambridge University
encouraged to live and perpetuate their Press. /The most romantic episode in the
BRITISH ACADEMY. -Jan. 24. —Sir C. P. Ilbert
kind, would be better eliminated altogether. history of mathematical science is
in the chair. -Prof. F. C. Burkitt read a paper on
There is truth in these words of warning, Neptune, the fruit of the investigations of Namorsa
doubtedly the discovery of the planet The Syriac Tradition of New Testament Proper
He first considered the forms of
and the arguments by which they are sup-
ported are advanced in an attractive fashion; founded to commemorate the name of John Forms bring us at once into questions of the
Adams and Leverrier. The Adams Prize, personal and geographical names in the ancient
but, as we pointed out in noticing the
Couch
authors' former work, the disease is, in a
sense, incurable, and the trend
of civilization, Cambridge University who make contribu- their identification. Even to render correctly the
tions of sufficient value in the subjects into Syriac is impossible without being acquainted
as shown by history, is by many regarded as which
inevitable. States are no more immortal list of winners includes
are periodically announced. The
with the way they were spelt in the original
some of the
Hebrew. The fact that the Syriac versions of the
than individuals. Thoughtful members of
the community, however, should be grateful ticians. The subject for 1910 was 'Some
most distinguished of living mathema- New Testament spell such names correctly is
therefore a proof that the translator was already
to those who point to the “. .
' handwriting
on the wall. ” Unfortunately, it is easier to Constitution or Motion of the Earth, and
Investigation connected with the Physical familiar with them in a source derived from
Hebrew; in other words, he was familiar with
dotect the tendency than to suggest a remedy. Prof. Love's essay, to which the prize was
the Old Testament in Syriac. The difficulty lies
in those names that do not occur in the old
Mr. and Mrs. Whetham devote two adjudged, deals with a great variety of Testament : how does the Syriac translator
chapters to the position of women in social problems with the powerful analysis of render them?
life. They draw attention to their nume- which he is a master,
The lecturer said that, while these
rical increase and the apparent disinclina- The connecting thread in the whole dis-
are in many cases spelt intelligently, yet there are
instances of downright blunders, which show that
tion of those who marry to undertake the cussion is the isostatic theory. It is well the translator could have had no special source
duties of motherhood : in their view the known that the simple hypothesis that the of tradition or information to go upon. Such
woman should be concerned with the future earth is a fairly uniform sphere, with
is “ Joarash " for Jaïrus, where the translator
of the race, the man with the maintenance mountains plastered on in some places and
failed to see that the name intended was Jair.
of the present generation; and, if the woman ocean basins dug out in others, is not con-
Certain names, such as “ Catne " for Cana of
has to enter into competition with the sistent with observations of the value of
Galilee, seem to rest upon local identifications.
Such local identifications are referred to by
man for the latter object, both the family gravity in various places. Actually, the Origen about 250 A. D. , and, as the old Syriac
and the race suffer. They say truly that rocks which underlio the mountains are version agrees with Origen in certain identifications,
the demand for the equalization of the lighter than those under the plains, so that notably that of Bethabara, it has been held that
status of men and women seems to come the mountains may be thought of as floating upon, Origen. But the Syriac does not follow
invariably from the classes where the mar. up above their surroundings. The isostatic Origen's fanciful etymologies, and in other
riage and birth rates have become abnorm. theory starts with this idea, and makes it respects shows independence of him. Their
to the colonies or elsewhere for the large about 70 miles the pressure is uniform, the in other words, to the rising custom of pilgrimage
ally and dangerously low. But
is emigration definite
by assuming that at a depth of occasional agreement is therefore to be assigned
aumber of unmarried women of the English excesses of height in the superincumbent to the Holy Places. Illustrations of the influence
middle classes a practicable remedy ? The
mass being compensated by defects of of the Syriac versions are to be found in the
majority would decline to go, preferring density. Prof. Love shows that on this spelling Bethesda for Bezatha, and in the identifica-
the varied interests of spinsterhood in Eng. theory the strength of the crust necessary
tion of the Nazareth (or Nazara) of the Gospels
land to the drudgery of domestic life in
with a town called Nasrath. The Nazareth of the
to prevent the collapse of the continents into
distant corners of the world.
Gospels is really unidentified: there is actually
the oceans is well within the strength of
some reason to suppose that Chorazin is the
Mr, and Mrs. Whetham draw a distinction common rocks, and he makes it highly place meant.
between the terms training ” and “ educa- probable that the same remark applies to A brief discussion followed, in which the Rev.
tion, and bring a formidable indict. the strength of the sides of mountains. As
Dr. Gaster and Dr. Buchanan Gray took part.
ment against the present system of national it can be proved that the simple plastic
“training. ” Those responsible for it are theory which we have mentioned would
ROYAL. --Jan. 25. - Sir Archibald Geikie, Presi-
well aware of its faults, but we think the require impossibly strong rocks, the evi.
dent, in the chair. -Papers were read as follows :
authors are unduly pessimistic both in this dence in favour of the approximate truth Determination of the Coefficient of Interdiffusion
and other respects. "Nor do we agree with of the isostatic hypothesis is cogent.
of Gases and the Velocity of Ions under an
their strictures on the “ spinster influence The existence of tidal motions in the
Electric Force, in Terms of the Mean Free Paths,'
of the great majority of the teachers in our solid earth has been realizod for a long while,
by Prof. John s. Townsend. A method was de-
scribed by which an expression for the rate of
elementary schools. With a large experience ' but it was not until 1907 when Herr Hecker interdiffusion of gases may be easily found, either
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on the ordinary supposition that the effect of a neolithic flakes were found. These excavations WED. Entomological, 8. -'On the Comparative Anatomy of the
Gepital Tube in Male Coleoptera,' Mersra. D. Sharp and
collision makes all subsequent directions of motion at the Roman level were made by means of
Muir: On somo hitherto imperfectly known South
of the molecules equally probable, or without galleries, and were chiefly instructive in showing
African Lepidoptera,' Mr. Roland Trimen; Notes on Aus-
tralian and Tasmantan Seydmzenida, 'Mr. A. M. Lea.
specifying in any way the effect of a collision. how fruitless it would be to dig below the Norman
Geological, 8. -'On an Iplier of Longmyndian and Cambrian
*Note on the Scattering of a-Particles,' by Dr. level.
Rocks at Pedward wine, Herefordshire,' Dr. A. H. Cox.
H. Geiger. In a previous paper experiments Excavations meanwhile had been proceeding
Society of Arts, 8. -The Influence of Ozono in Ventilation,'
Messrs. L. Bill and M. Flack.
were described on the scattering of the a-particles in the south-east section of the area, and resulted Thurs. Royal Institution, 3 - The Phenomena of Splashes,' Lecture II. ,
by foils of various materials and thicknesses. in the discovery of a building containing ovens,
Prof. A. M. Worthington.
Royal Academy, 4. -'Some Draughtsmen of the Sixteenth
The present note dealt with a theoretical examina- probably the bakery and brewhouse. Finally,
Century:
Bramante, Da Sangallo, Du Cerceau, De l'Orme,'
tion of the question. The scattering was con- those parts of the northern area left unexcavated
Prof. R. T. Blomfield.
Royal, 4. 30. -The Spectrum of Comet Brooks (1911 C). ' 81r N.
sidered as the result of a multitude of small in former seasons were dug out, thus completing
Lockyer; 'A Chemically Active Modification of Nitrogen
deflections of the a-particle by the individual the excavation of this part of the site of Old
produced by the Electric Discharge, III. , the Hon. R. J.
Strutt: The Atomic Weight of Radium, Mr. R. Whytlaw.
atoms of the matter traversed.
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