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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



his publications have covered a wide 

 field. His book on 'Sight' is the best 

 English treatise on this subject; he 

 published standard works on geology 

 and recently a work on zoology. His 

 special papers on these subjects and on 

 education and philosophy are numerous 

 and valuable. He Avas a member of 

 the National Academy of Sciences, 

 president of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science and 

 president of the Geological Society of 

 America. He died in the Yosemite 

 Valley on July 6 ; it seems fitting that 

 death should have come suddenly in 

 the midst of the mountains that he 

 studied and loved. A biographical 

 sketch of Joseph Le Conte, with a por- 

 trait, was published in The Popular 

 Science Monthly for January, 1878. 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



Dr. John Fiske, eminent for his 

 contributions to the theory of evolu- 

 tion and to American history and 

 widely known for his popular writings 

 and lectures, died on July 4. We re- 

 gret also to record the death of Pro- 

 fessor Peter Guthrie Tait, who, for 

 forty years, held the chair of natural 

 philosophy at Edinburgh and made im- 

 portant contributions to physical 

 science. 



A COMMITTEE, Consisting of Pro- 

 fessors Ira Remsen, J. S. Ames and W. 

 H. Welch, has been appointed at the 

 Johns Hopkins University to arrange a 

 memorial to the late Professor Henry 

 A. Rowland. 



M. Laveran, who discovered the 

 malaria parasite, has been elected a 

 member of the Paris Academy of 



Sciences in the section of medicine, and 

 M. Zeiller a member in the section of 

 botany. — The following fifteen candi- 

 dates have been elected members of the 

 Royal Society: Professor Alfred Will- 

 iam Alcock, Mr. Frank Watson Dyson, 

 Mr. Arthur John Evans, Professor John 

 Walter Gregory, Captain Henry Brad- 

 wardine Jackson, Mr. Hector Munro 

 Jylacdonald, Mr. James Mansergh, Pro- 

 fessor Charles James Martin, Major 

 Roland Ross, Professor William Schlich, 

 Professor Arthur Smithells, Mr. Michael 

 Rodgers, Mr. Oldfield Thomas, Mr. 

 William W'atson, Mr. William Cecil 

 Dampier Whetham, and Mr. Arthur 

 Smith Woodward. 



Professor James Dewar, the emi- 

 nent chemist, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the British Association to fol- 

 low Professor A. W. Riicker, and will 

 preside at the Belfast meeting in 1902. 

 Professor A. S. Packard, who has held 

 since 1878 the chair of zoology and 

 geology at Brown University, has been 

 elected a foreign member of the 

 Linnean Society of London. 



Professor William James, of Har- 

 vard University, gave his course of 

 Gilford Lectures on the psychology of 

 religion at Edinburgh during May. 

 — Professor J. H. van't Hoff, of the 

 University of . Berlin, gave in June 

 limited number of lectures on physical 

 chemistry at the University of Chicago. 

 — Dr. William Z. Ripley, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, has 

 been invited to deliver the second 

 Huxley Memorial Lecture before the 

 Anthropological Institute of Great 

 Britain. The first lecture was given 

 last year by Lord Avebury, and was 

 published in this Journal. 



