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Dulwich, Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Westminster, and Winchester), the British Museum, Chelsea Physic Garden, and Soane Museum. Its responsibilities include Kew Observatory, the Meteorological Office, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and the National Physical Laboratory ; and it is the custodian of the standard weights and measures, one set of copies being in its keeping.

In order that observations of the solar eclipse of April 28th, 1911, might be ob- tained, the Admiralty, at the request of the Council of the Royal Society, placed the services of H.M.S. Encounter at the dis- posal of the astronomers sent to Vavau, -in the Tonga Islands, by the Joint Perma- nent Eclipse Committee, and Capt. Colpmb and his officers and men rendered very efficient assistance. The weather was not favourable, and 120 of the 217 seconds of totality were lost. Under these adverse conditions one fairly good photograph was secured by the 3-foot coronograph with the Abney 4- inch lens of 33 inches focal length.

The expedition sent out by the Australian Government was, however, fortunate in selecting a station some two miles away, where much better weather conditions were experienced on the day of the eclipse.

Under ' Research on Tropical Diseases ' it is stated that reports have been received from Dr. Carpenter and Lieut. Fraser, and that the inquiry into sleeping- sickness has been continued. With the consent of the Colonial Office, Miss M. Robertson, a lady who has had considerable experience in the study of Trypanosomes, has been sent to Uganda to carry out research at the laboratory at Mpumu. The general object of the proposed investigations is

" the study of the development and transmission of pathogenic Trypanosomes, with a view to gaining some information as to how such forms have originated and may originate in nature."

In April last a letter was received from the Colonial Office asking whether the Royal Society would be willing to take charge of the work of a Commission to conduct an inquiry on the spot into the relation of the African fauna to the maintenance and spread of human trypanosomiasis, and secondarily of other trypanosome diseases of domestic animals. The suggestions were in the main approved, and the inquiry is now being carried on under the care of the Royal Society, Sir David Bruce being the Director of the Commission. A period of not less than three years will be necessary to carry out

the investigation adequately, and an ex- penditure of not less than 5,0001. per annum must be anticipated.

The number of Fellows on the 1st of January last was 475, and there were 45 Foreign Members.

By the courtesy of Mr. Harrison in lending me the ' Year-Book ' for 1912, and of Mr. Henry Frowde in affording me access to the commemorative volume as well as the new edition of the ' Record.' I have been able to bring my notes on the Society down to the present time.

JOHN COLLINS FRANCIS.

FULLWOOD: HALLE Y : PARRY: PYKE.

THE 'Domestic State Papers, 1633-4-5' (ed. Bruce), of which a set is in the Newberry Library, Chicago, contains several references to one Humphrey Fullwood of London, secretary to Sir John Coke. There is a letter dated 19 March, 1633/4, from Chris- topher Fullwood of Middleton (Derbyshire) to his brother, Humphrey Fullwood, Broken Cross Gatehouse, London, sending a warrant to prevent seizure of his estate at Middleton, to be shown to George Halley, in London, their cousin. The first clue to this last item, showing a connexion between the Fullwood and Halley families, was furnished me by Mr. Walter Young of Islington.

The Rector of Clowne, near Chesterfield, writes to Mr. Beevor, sending the following extract from the Clowne register :

" Christian, the daughter of Henry Mace, Clerk, subchantor of the Cathedrall and Metro- politan Church of St. Peter's in York, and wife of George Halley, Clark, Viccar of the same, was buried August the 21 Anno 1680. Certified the same day."

It appears that Phineas Mace was Rector of Clowne, 1663 to 1669, and that Henry Mace above mentioned may have been his brother or his son.

This George Halley, M.A. (fl. 1680), " a former Rector of Clowne, :> is mentioned also in the ' Churches of Derbyshire.' by the Rev. J. C. Cox, vol. i. p. 197. Richard Halle (1465) was Vicar of Sutton (ibid., vol. iii. p. 328), while ibid., vol. ii. p. 187, in a chapter on Eyam, there appears the name of William Hally, the bailiff of the lord Roger Extraneus. The oldest printed reference to the surname Halley in England, so far discovered by the writer, is this : Sir Thomas Halley, Knt., of Wyam (? Wyham, near Louth, in Lincoln- shire), whose daughter married Sir Robert