He was the first to determine quantitatively the rate and amount of diffusion of one metal in another in a series of classical experiments on gold and lead. This formed the subject of the Bakerian lecture of the Royal Society in 1896. The results of this work were also published in a series of reports to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, for it was at the instance of the Alloys Research Committee of that Institntion that he first began, in the year 1890, to investigate the effects of small admixtures of certain elements on ths mechanical and physical properties of metals. It was while he was engaged in this research that he invented the Recording Pyrometer, an instrument which has proved of great value, not only for scientific investigation, but also for practical metallurgy. It is used in metallurgical works, not only for laboratory experiments, but for recording the temperature of flues, of annealing and other furnaces, and of the blast for blast furnaces. His capacity for work also led him to be constantly nominated as a member of departmental and other Committees. Amongst others, he served as Chairman of the Inland Revenue and Customs Laboratoriee Committee, as a member of the Board of Trade Committee on the Deterioration of Steel Rails in 1896, and of the National Physical Laboratory Committee in 1897; besides undertaking such public work as was implied by being a member of the Executive Committee of the Inventions Exhibition in 1885, of the Council of the British Section of the Paris Exhibition in 1889, and of the Royal Commission for the Chicago Exhibition in 1893. Indeed there can be little doubt that it was his devotion to this and other public duties which broke down his health, and ultimately caused his death. He was made a C.B. in 1890 and a K.C.B. in 1899. He was President of the Iron and Steel Institute (1899-1901), General Secretary of the British Association (1897-1902), Vice-President of the Chemical Society and of the Physical Society, of which he was one of the founders, Honorary Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. In 1893 he was elected by the Committee a member of the Athenæum Club for distinguished eminence in science, and in 1890 he received the Legion of Honour from the French Government. He was the author of an "Introduction to the Study of Metallurgy," and of many papers published in the Philosophical Transactions, the Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. The Society of Arts has benefited no less than the other Institutions with which he was connected from his energy and public spirit. His work on Alloys is ully recorded in the five series of Cantor lectures on that subject, of which the first was given in 1884 and the last in 1901, and in a somewhat more popular and less technical shape than in his various papers and lectures. He had it in contemplation to re-issue these in the form of a book. He also read two papers before the Society on Alloys in Art Metal Work," and on "Rare Metals," besides one in association with Mrs. Lea Merritt on "Mural Painting." He was greatly liked by a large circle of friends, and his intimate associates will long miss the kindly genial humour which-especially in years before the pressure of work began to tell on a somewhat excitable and eager nature-brightened and enlivened all their intercourse with him. MEETINGS for the ENSUING WEEK. MONDAY, DEC. 1...SOCIETY OF ARTS, John-street, Adelphi, W.C., 8 p.m. (Cantor Lectures.) Prof. Vivian B. Lewes, "The Future of Coal Gas and Allied Illuminants." (Lecture II.) Royal Institution, Albemarle-street, W., 5 p.m, Engineers, in the Theatre of the United Service In- stitution, Whitehall, S. W., 7 pm. Mr. Charles H. W. Biggs, "Depreciation of Plant and Works under Municipal and Company Management." Chemical Industry (London Section), Burlington house, W., 8 p.m. 1. Mr. Arthur Marshall, "The Influence of Impurities on the Specific Gravity of Sulphuric Acid." 2. Messrs. R. Forbes Carpenter and J. E. Linder, "The interaction of Sul- phurous and Nitrous Acids as affecting various Absorbents employed in Testing the Gases escaping from Vitriol Chambers." 3. Mr. Arthur Marshall, "Note on the Determination of the Strength of Camera Club, Charing-cross-road, W.C., 8 p.m. Mr. Cutliff Hyne," Arctic Lapland." Victoria Institute, 8, Adelphi-terrace, W.C., 4} p.m. Dr. T. G. Pinches, "The Babylonian Story TUESDAY, DEC. 2....Civil Engineers, 25, Great George-street, "High Speed Electrical Generating Plant." Pathological, 20, Hanover-square, W., 8 p.m. Zoological, 3, Hanover-square, W., 8 p.m. Dr. Hans Gadow, Features of Animal Life in Southern Mexico. 2. Dr. Einar Lönnberg, "The Variation of the Elk." 3. Mr. W. F. Lanchester, "The Crustacea collected during the Skeat Expedition' to the Malay Peninsula," (Part II.) WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3...SOCIETY OF ARTS, John-street, Adelphi. W.C., 8 p.m. Mr. Alfred Watkins, "Some Aspects of Photographic Development." Geological, Burlington-house, W., 8 p.m. Royal Archæological Institute, 20, Hanover-square, 1. Mr. C. R. Peers, "Benedictine Nunnery at Little Marlow." 2. Messrs. F. W. Mr. H. N. Sulivan, "The Use of Vertical Fire from the Sea against Ships and Dockyards." Entomological, 11, Chandos-street, W., 7 p.m. Archæological Association, 32, Sackville-street, W., Obstetrical, 20, Hanover-square, W., 8 p.m. THURSDAY, DEC. 4...Royal, Burlington-house, W., 43 p.m. Antiquaries, Burlington-house, W., 83 p.m. Linnean, Burlington-house, W., 8 p.m. 1. Mr. G. C. Bourne, "New and rare Corals from Funafuti." 2. Mr. E. A. Newell Arber, "The Morphology of the Flowers and Fruits of the Xylosteum section of Lonicera. 3. Mr. C. B. Clarke, "Note on Carex Tolmiei, Boott." 4. Mr. C. With, "New and Old Phalangiodes from the Indian Peninsula." Chemical, Burlington-house, W., 8 p.m. 1. Mr. W. N. Hartley, "The Absorption Spectra of Metallic Nitrates." (Part II.) 2. Mr. H. Crompton, "The Specific Heats of Liquids." Mr. M. O. Forster, "Studies in the Camphane Series." (Part X) "The constitntion of Enolic Benzoylcamphor." 4. Mr. M. O. Forster, "Note on the Isomeric Benzoyl Derivatives from Isom- trosocamphor." 5. Messrs. J. B. Cohen and H. D. Dakin, "The constitution of the Products of Nitration of Meta-acetoluidide." Civil and Mechanical Engineers, Caxton-hall, West- minster, S.W., 8 p.m. Mr. A. W. Manton, FRIDAY, DEC. 5...Civil Engineers, 25, Great George street, Geologists Association, University College W.C., 1. Miss Catherine A. Raisin, "The Formation of Chert." 2. Mr. A. K. Coomaras- MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 8 p.m. (Cantor Lecture.) PROFESSOR VIVIAN B. LEWES, The Future of Coal Gas and Allied Illuminants." (Lecture III.) WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 8 p.m. (Ordinary Meeting.) CLOUDESLEY BRERETON, "French Rural Education and its Lessons for England." THURSDAY, DECEMBER II, 4.30 p.m. (Indian Section.) Miss ELLA C. SYKES, "Domestic Life in Persia." Further details of the Society's meetings will be found at the end of this number. JUVENILE LECTURES. The usual short course of lectures adapted for a juvenile audience will be delivered on Wednesday afternoons, December 31st and January 7th, at 5 o'clock, by Professor EDWARD B. POULTON, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. (Hope Professor of Zoology in the University of Oxford), on the "Means of Defence in the Struggle for Life among Animals." LECTURE I.—"The Methods by which Animals hide in order to escape their Enemies and catch their Prey." LECTURE II. "The Ways in which Animals warn their Enemies and signal to their Friends." Members who desire tickets for the course are requested to apply for them at once. Each member is entitled to a ticket admitting two children and an adult.. A sufficient number of tickets to fill the room will be issued to members in the order in which applications are received. THIRD ORDINARY MEETING. Wednesday, December 3, 1902; SIR WILLIAM ABNEY, K.C.B., D.C.L., D.Sc., F.R.S., Vice-President of the Society, in the chair. The following candidates were proposed for election as members of the Society : Edwards, Reginald William, Brooklands, Churchlane, Aldershot. Niles, Marston, 140, Nassau-street, New York City, U.S.A. Saenz de Zumaran, Alfonso, Chargé d'Affaires de l'Uruguay, Legation Office, 104, Victoria-street, Westminster, S.W. Vigor, Rupert H., 15 and 17, King-street, West India Dock-road, Poplar, E. Visick, Charles, A.M.I.Mech. E., Messrs. W. Visick and Sons, Basset Works, Devoran, Cornwall. Wyatt, T. G., North Clifton Plumbing and Engineering Works, Guernsey, Channel Islands. The following candidates were balloted for and duly elected members of the Society :Aldrich, Orlando Wesley, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., Ph.D., Room 11, Wesley Block, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. Allen, F. Bowen, M. A., B. Sc., Director, School of Mines, Coolgardie, Western Australia. Argollo, Miguel, M. Inst.C.E., San Francisco Railway, Alagoinhas, Bahia, Brazil, South America. Armstrong, M. F., 8, Upper Wimpole-street, W. Aronson, Adolph, 39, Foster-lane, E.C. Bandinel, J. J. Frederick, B.A., Newchwang, North China. Barr, Mark, 25, Kensington-court-gardens, W. Beauchamp, Earl, K.C.M.G., Madresfield-court, Malvern Link. Beck, Isaac, M.I.Mech. E., Haymarket-chambers, 17, Haymarket, Sheffield. Begbie, Ernest, De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., P.O. Box 195, Salisbury, Rhodesia, South Africa. Behr, H. C., The Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa, Limited, P.O. Box 1167, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Bensusan, S. L., M.Inst.M.M., Equitable-building, Sydney, Australia. Bhatt, Parvatiprasad Vishvanath, 55, Blenheimcrescent, Notting-hill, W. Body, John Benjamin, M.Inst.C.E., Puente de Alvarado 15, Mexico City. Bose, S., Deputy Superintendent, Central Jail, Jubbulpore, India. Bostwick, H. R., Messrs. Collbran and Bostwick, Seoul, Korea. Bott, John, 37, Herne-hill, S.E. Bower, Edw. H. M., Port Office, Calingapatam, Ganjam District, India. Brebner, Captain Charles William, Villa des Roses, Rose-hill, Mauritius. Brelich, Henry, A.R.S.M., care of Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg and Co., Hankow, China. Browne, Hon. John E. D., The Neale House, The Neale, co. Mayo, Ireland. Brownell, Clarence Ludlow, 21, Hermitage-road, Richmond, Surrey. Budge, Edward Barnard, B.Sc., M.Am. Soc.C.E., Engineer in Chief, 1st Section, Chili State Railways (F. C. del E.), Estacion Bella Vista, Valparaiso, Chili, South America. Bullen, William Henry Chambers, 15, St. John'sroad, Richmond, Surrey. Burt, George Stephen, F.S.S., 4, Lothbury, E.C. Butcher, Charles Ernest, 273, Finchley-road, South Hampstead, N.W. Buxton, John Henry, Senr., Clumber cottage, Montague-road, Felixstowe, Suffolk. Campbell, David B., 112, Clifton-park Avenue, Belfast. Carolis, W. D., 18, Kayman's-gate, Colombo, Ceylon. Chapman, Walter William, F.S.S., 5, Claremontroad, Tunbridge Wells. Chetty, Rao Saheb T. Namberumal, B.A., 144-5, China Bazaar-street, Sowcarpett, Madras, India. Close, Henry Gaskell, 101, Eaton-square, S.W. Dana, Prof. Charles Edmund, 2013, De Lancey-place, Philadelphia, U.S.A. Danvers, Ernesto, F.S.S., M. Inst. E.E., 475, Piedad, Buenos Aires, South America. Das, Hari Das, Raghunathganj, Murshedabad, India. Davy, Joseph Burtt, Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., and College of Commerce, University of California, U.S.A. Daw, Frederick R. Williams, The New Zealand Crown Mines Company, Limited, Karangahake, near Auckland, New Zealand. Deerhurst, Viscount, Dynes Hall, Halstead, Essex. De Marillac, Count Ernst, Wynberg, Cape Colony, South Africa. Desborough, Captain Arthur P. H., R.A., Home Office, Whitehall, S.W. Donnelly, Francis, M.S. Chem. Industry, 335, Hyderoad, Ardwick, Manchester. Donovan, Fergus, Royal Colonial Institute, Northumberland-avenue, W.C. Douslin, H. B., Public Works Department, Matabeleland District, Rhodesia, South Africa. Dunham, Henry V., Casein Company of America, 37, Scheepmakershaven, Rotterdam, Holland. Edwards, Arthur M., Barncote, Reigate, Surrey. Ellis, Frederic Richard, F.C.S., 15, Shadwell-road, Bishopston, Bristol. Etherington, John Francis, Hersham, Surrey. Gallagher, J. Walter, Bangkok, Siam. Gheury, Maurice Edmund Joseph, F.P.S., 12, Cressy-road, Hampstead, N.W. Gilfillan, W. H., Surveyor-General's Department, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. Gilkison, T. T., Mombasa, East Coast of Africa. Girouard, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Edouard Percy, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Gleed, Richard C., Flodden-house, 21, Floddenroad, S.E. Goldblatt, D., Cape Town, South Africa. Goold, William Tom, M.I.Mech. E., Tuthill-house, Lydney, Gloucestershire. Gray, Robert Whytlaw, 7, Orme-court, W. Halcrow, James Benjamin, 56, West-side, Wandsworth-common, S.W., and 5, Moorgate-streetbuildings, E.C. Hamilton, John James, 1, Barkston-gardens, S. W. Hardy, James Henry, The Municipal Technical School, Halifax. Harper, Edgar Josiah, County-hall, Spring-gardens, S.W. Harris, Morrie J., Municipal Surveyor, Mafeking, Cape Colony, South Africa. Hawkesley, Charles, M.Inst.C.E., 30, Great Georgestreet, S.W. Hawkins, Edward, Manor Estate, Sidcup, Kent. Henriques, Cecil Quixam, M.I. Mech. E., 59, Sussex gardens, Hyde-park, W., and 15, Victoria-street, Westminster, S.W. Heyer, A. E., Rosebank, Cape Town, South Africa. Hill, Walter Wellesley, Admiralty Harbour of Refuge Works, Peterhead, N.B. Hilton, Ernest Frederick, 23, The Boltons, South Kensington, S. W., and Constitutional Club, W.C. Hipwell-Howitt, Arthur George, 2, Studdridgestreet, Hurlingham, S.W. Hke, Saw, Hsipaw Sawbwa Gyi, Hsipaw, Northern Shan States, Burma. Hoffmann, John J., M.Inst.M.M., Rand Club. Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Horne, James Edward, M.A., 8, Earlsfield-road, How, Thomas William, 1, Delahay-street, S.W. Jennings, Sydney J., Messrs. H. Eckstein and Co., P.O. Box 149, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Kelynack, T. N., M.D., M.R.C.P., 53, Harleystreet, W. Kevorkian, Hagop, 3 Victoria-avenue, Bishopsgatestreet, E.C. Kilmer, Frederick B., Messrs. Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A. Kimber, Harry Watkins, Messrs. Dick, Kerr and Latif, Khan Bahadur Abdul, Bopatla, Kishna District, Leeds, Edward Lambert, The Brown Hoisting Machinery Co., 39, Victoria. street, S. W. Legg, Hugh G., P.O. Box 358, Cape Town, South Africa. Le Roux, S. D., P.O. Box Ico, Salisbury, Rhodesia, South Africa. Letcher, John Teague, Truro, Cornwall. Letcher, Thomas Henry, St. Day, Scorrier, Cornwall. Lithgow, William T., Kingston Shipbuilding Yard Port Glasgow. Littlewood, E. T., M.A., B.Sc., Wynberg High Lonsdale, Earl of, Lowther Castle, Penrith. McConnell, John, Lanzi, Campiglia Marittima, Mace, Prof. William Harrison, A.M., Ph.D., 127, College-place, Syracuse, New York. U.S.A. McGregor, John, Maitland, near Cape Town, South Africa. Marsden, Alfred, A.M.I.Mech. E., Oakley Works, Mokhber-ed-Dowleh, His Excellency (Hossien Goli Naylor, John Alfred, A.M.I.Mech. E., 15, Cromford Neville, Harry, J.P., Indwe, Cape Colony, South Africa. Northcroft, G. A., Director of Public Works, Government Offices, Bloemfontein, Orange River Colony, South Africa. Offen, Charles Rose Witcher, F.S.S., Home for Boys, Cumberland-road, Bristol. Owtram, B.. Chinese Eastern Railway Company, Mining Department, Yen-tai District, New chwang, China. Paddock, George Harrie, Mill Bank, Wellington. Salop. Pape, Eric, Farragut-building, Massachusetts-avenue, Boston, Massachussetts, U.S.A. Parker, Sir Gilbert, D.C.L., M.P., 20, Carlton House-terrace, S.W. Parkes, George W., The Frictionless Engine Packing Company, Limited, Hendham Vale Works, Harpurhey, Manchester. Parnacott, Alfred Edmund, 12, Queen Adelaideroad, Penge, S.E. Pearse, Cecil, Ipoh, Perak, Federated Malay States. Pearson, Charles Fellows, Redington-lodge, Redington-road, Hampstead, N. W. Peel, Hon. William Robert Wellesley, M.P., 52, Grosvenor-street, W. Peregrino, F. Z. S., The South African Spectator, Cape Town, South Africa. Pincus, Fritz, P.O. Box 3, Lourenço Marques, Portuguese South East Africa. Pordage, Frederick, Entebbe, Uganda, viâ Mombasa, East Africa. Quin, Stewart Blacker, 1, Lombard-street, Belfast, Rana, Brigadier-Col. Kumar Nur Singh, Bahadur, Assoc. Inst.C.E., Superintending Engineer, Khatmandu, Nepal, India. Rao, P. V. Ranganatha, B.A., B.L., Pudukotah, Native State, South India. Reeve, Wybert, F.R.C.S., 1, Bishops mansions, Fulham Palace-road, S.W. Rogers, George Henry, B.Sc., Regent house, Canterbury-street, New Brompton, Kent. Sadgrove, Edwin J., 22, Surrey-street, Strand, W.C. Sano, Tojiro, Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., The City Waterworks, Kobe, Japan. Savage, Edward Alex., A.Inst.E.E., 56, Draytongardens, South Kensington, S. W. Seward, Frederick John, East London, South Africa. Sheridan, René, Bangkok, Siam. Shipway, Lieut.-Colonel R. W., V.D., Grove-house, Chiswick, W. Shockley, William Hillman, care of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Co., Limited, 31, Lombardstreet, E.C. Smith, Charles Horace, 25, Howard-street, Bradford. Smythe, Francis, A.M.Inst.C.E., The Municipal Offices, Finchley, N. Stead, Alfred, F.R.C.I., Clement's inn, W.C. Steuart, T. B., Castlegilmour, Sanquhar, N.B. Sutton, J. R., M.A., Kenilworth, Kimberley, South Africa. Tays, Eugene Augustus Hoffman, M.Am. S.C.E., Fuerte, Sinaloa, Mexico. Thomas, Arthur, M. Inst. M.M., Zalamea la Real, Huelva, Spain. Thomson, A. S., Lodna, Jherria P.O., Bengal, India. Tompson, Captain George Morris, M.Am.S.C.E., Parker-road, Wakefield, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Turnbull, Alexander, M.D., 7, Lansdowne crescent, Notting hill, W. |