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POPULAB, SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Mr. James Winshurst, F.R.S., known 

 for his work in electricity; of Dr. John 

 Young, lately professor of natural his- 

 tory at Glasgow University; of M. 

 Pierre Lafitte, professor of the history 

 of science in the College de France; of 

 Professor Leonard Landois, professor 

 of physiology at Greifswald, and of Dr. 

 Morrill Wyman, one of the best known 

 American physicians. 



The Nobel prizes for 1902 were 

 formally awarded on December 10 the 

 prize in chemistry to Professor Emil 

 Fischer, of Berlin; the prize in medi- 

 cine to Professor Ronald Ross, of 

 Liverpool University, and the prize in 

 physics to Professor H. A. Lorentz, of 

 Leiden, and Professor P. Zeeman, of 

 Amsterdam. The value of each of the 

 prizes is about $40,000. The Desma- 

 zieres prize of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences has been awarded to Professor 

 Roland Thaxter, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, for his study on the parasitic 

 fungi of American insects. 



Professor F. W. Clarke, of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, has been invited to 

 deliver the Wilde lecture before the 

 Manchester Literary and Philosophical 

 Society next year on the occasion of 

 the celebration of the hundredth anni- 

 versary of the propounding of the 



atomic theory at Manchester by Dal- 

 ton. Dr. Edgar Smith, pi-ofessor of 

 chemistry in the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, has been elected president of 

 the American Philosophical Society. 

 Commander Robert E. Peary, U.S.N., 

 was elected president of the American 

 Geographical Society, New York, at its 

 annual meeting on January 27. Sir 

 William Turner, professor of anatomy, 

 has been appointed principal of the 

 University of Edinburgh. Professor 

 G. N. Stewart, of Western Reserve Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed professor 

 of physiology at the University of Chi- 

 cago, to fill the vacancy caused by the 

 removal of Dr. Jacques Loeb to the 

 University of California. 



The hundredth anniversary of the 

 birth of Heinrich Daniel Rhumkorff 

 was celebrated at Hanover on January 

 15. A tablet was placed on the house 

 in which he was born and a new street 

 was given his name. Professor W. 

 Kohlrausch made an address on Rhum- 

 korff's scientific work. Mr. Carnegie 

 has intimated to the provost of Green- 

 ock that he is prepared to present to 

 a properly authorized authority in the 

 town the sum of $50,000 to defray the 

 cost of the erection of a memorial to 

 James Watt. 



