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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Eleanor A. Ormerod, the English ento- 

 mologist; and Baron Adolf Erik Nor- 

 denskjold, the Swedish arctic explorer 

 and naturalist. 



Professor Rudolf Virchow will 

 celebrate his eightieth birthday on 

 October 13; a research fund is being 

 collected in his honor and he has been 

 made a knight of the Prussian order 

 'pour le merite,' this mark of imperial 

 favor having been long delayed, appar- 

 ently owing to his liberal politics. — 

 Professor A. W. Riicker, the physicist, 

 has been elected principal of the newly 

 organized London University. — Two of 

 the prizes created by the will of Alfred 

 Nobel will be awarded to Dr. Niels R. 

 Finsen of Denmark, for discovering the 

 light treatment for lupus, and to Pro- 

 fessor I. P. Pavlov, the Russian phy- 

 siologist, for his researches in nutri- 

 tion. — Dr. Patrick Manson has been 

 awarded the Stewart prize of the 

 British Medical Association for his re- 

 searches in pathology and tropical 

 diseases. 



Sir John Murray has returned from 

 a six months' expedition to Christmas 

 Island, during which he crossed the 

 island from end to end, the first occa- 

 sion on which it has been traversed. 

 — Prof. Frederick W. Starr, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, has completed 

 a four months' expedition among the 

 Mexican Indians. — Professor Engler, 

 director of the Botanical Garden at 

 Berlin, has visited the Canary Islands, 

 in order to study their flora. — Pro- 

 fessor C. L. Bristol, of New York Uni- 



versity, has left New York to direct 

 the Biological Station at Bermuda. 



An international botanical associa- 

 tion had its first meeting at Geneva 

 beginning on August 7. — The Fifth 

 International Congress of Criminal 

 Anthropology will be held in Am- 

 sterdam from September 9 to 14, 1901. 

 — The summer session of the American 

 Mathematical Society was held at 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., dur- 

 ing the week beginning on August 19. 

 — The American Forestry Association 

 will hold its meeting in affiliation with 

 the American Association at Denver on 

 August 27, 28 and 29. 



According to the census taken on 

 March 31, the population of England 

 and Wales was 32,525,716, being an in- 

 crease of 12.15 per cent, in ten years. 

 The increase in the preceding decen- 

 nium was 11.65. The percentage in- 

 crease of London was only 7.3 per cent., 

 its population now being 4,536,034. 

 There has, however, been a large in- 

 crease in the surrounding country, the 

 population of Middlesex having nearly 

 doubled. The population of Ireland is 

 4,456,546 and of Scotland 4,471,957. 

 The change in the population of Ireland 

 and of Scotland in the past sixty years 

 is remarkable: 

 Year. Ireland. Scotland. 



1841 8,197,000 2,620,000 



1851 6,574,271 2,888,742 



1861 5,798,967 3,062,294 



1871 5,412,377 3,360,018 



1881 5,174,836 3,735,573 



1891 4,704,750 4,025,647 



1901 4,456,546 4,471,957 



