Obituary notes and biographies

Sir Joseph Banks. Sir Joseph Banks, the autocrat of philosophers. The Bartchworth Press. London, 344 pp. 8°. sh.25/.. By H.C. Cameron. Dr P.J.S. Cramer, late director of the General Agricultural Experiment Station, Buitenzorg and extra-ordinary professor of tropical agricultural economy at Utrecht University died at Wassenaar, Holland, March 23, 1952, in the age of 72.