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als and rocks. They also proposed quite a number of pre- 

 miums for questions embracing many interesting problems 

 in the physical and natural sciences at the present day. 



COPLEY MEDAL GRANTED TO PROFESSOR MAYER. 



The Copley Medal, one of the highest prizes within the gift 

 of the Royal Society of London, has lately been adjudged to 

 Professor Julius Robert Mayer, of Heilbronn, as a recognition 

 of investigations which embrace some of the most profound 

 subjects of philosophy and physical science; as, for examj)le, 

 the forces of inorganic nature, organic movements in con- 

 nection with nutrition, celestial dynamics, the economical 

 equivalent of heat, etc. A medal was also granted to Dr. 

 Stenhouse for imj^ortant chemical researches, having special 

 application to the arts and to agriculture. 3 B, December 21, 

 1871,649. 



APPOINTMENT OF PROFESSOR RAMSAY. 



The vacancy at the Geological Survey office, caused by the 

 death of Sir Roderick J. Murchison, has been filled up by the 

 appointment of Professor Andrew Crombie Ramsay, LL.D., 

 F.R.S., as director-general. Professor Ramsay has for many 

 years been director of the Geological Survey and Professor 

 of Geology in the Royal School of Mines. 18 A, March 16, 

 1872,231. 



LOGAN CHAIR OF GEOLOGY IN MONTREAL. 



Sir William Logan, long well known as director of the Ge- 

 ological Survey of Canada, and as a geologist of high posi- 

 tion, has endowed a "Logan Chair of Geology" in the M'Gill 

 University, Montreal, with the sum of $20,000. Professor 

 Dawson will be the first Logan Professor ; and it is intended 

 that by means of this endowment he shall, as soon as possi- 

 ble, be relieved from other duties, so as to enable him to de- 

 vote his entire time to geology and paleontology. 12 A, 

 April 4, 1872, 414. 



ELECTION OF NEW MEMBERS OF THE LINN^AN SOCIETY. 



At the meeting of the Linnrean Society of London, held 

 May 2, Professor Joseph Leidy, of Philadelphia, and Profess- 

 or Notaris, of Genoa, were elected, on the recommendation 



