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THE Osiris prize of 100,000 francs has been awarded by the Academies of the Institute of France to Gen. Ferrié, C.M.G., Director-General of French Military Telegraphs, in recognition of his work in the development of wireless telegraphy for war purposes. Gen. Ferrié has been well known as an acknowledged authority on wireless matters for many years, and as the head of the French military wireless telegraph services it fell to him to initiate the whole organisation of the wireless arrangements in the fighting forces of France during a period when greater advances were being made than at any other time in its history. He was responsible for the equipment and working of the famous Eiffel Tower station and for the installation of the powerful station at Lyons in 1917, as well as for the completion of the still more powerful station near Bordeaux commenced during the war by the American Army. Gen. Ferrié had much to do with reducing the thermionic valve from a laboratory appliance to a piece of everyday wireless apparatus and in devising wireless equipment for aircraft, and in earlier days was one of the first successful experimenters with the electrolytic detector. In recognition of his work the honorary degree of D.Sc. has been conferred upon him by the University of Oxford.