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tain appropriateness. The German 

 biographies are of course much better, 

 though by no means free from errors, 

 and there are many omissions. Thus 

 Professor Lenard who has just now 

 received a Nobel prize is not included. 

 The book will doubtless be improved in 

 subsequent editions; but even now it 

 is decidedly useful to those who have 

 relations with the public men and 

 scholars of Germany. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS. 



We regret to record the deaths of 

 Professor Albert von Kollicker, the 

 eminent anatomist and zoologist; of 

 Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, for- 

 merly Wayneflete professor of physiol- 

 ogy and regius professor of medicine at 

 Oxford; of Dr. Gustave Dewalque, for- 

 merly professor of geology at Liege, 

 and of Dr. E. Oustalet, professor of 

 zoology in the Natural History Mu- 

 seum of Paris. 



Dr. Henry S. Pritchett has re- 

 signed the presidency of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology to be- 

 come president of the Carnegie Founda- 

 tion for pensioning college professors. 

 — Dr. Friedjof Nansen will shortly go 

 to London as minister from Norway. — 

 Dr. George H. Darwin, F.R.S., Plumian 

 professor of astronomy and experi- 

 mental philosophy at Cambridge, has 

 been knighted by King Edward. — -Lord 

 Rayleigh has been elected president of 

 the Royal Society in succsssion to Sir 

 William Huggins. 



The statue of Benjamin Silliman has 

 been removed from its site on the old 

 campus of Yale University, near the 

 library, to a place between the Sloan 

 and Kent laboratories. — A bust of the 

 late Professor M. Nencki has been un- 

 veiled in the chemical department of 

 the Institute of Experimental Medicine, 

 St. Petersburg. — A memorial to Theo- 



dore Schwamm, regarded as the origi- 

 nator of the cell theory, is to be erected 

 in his native birthplace, Reuss. 



The Hayden memorial gold medal 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, has been voted to Dr. 

 Charles D. Walcott, director of the 

 United States Geological Survey. — 

 Medals were awarded by the recent 

 Congress of Tuberculosis to Drs. Koch, 

 of Berlin; Brouardel, of Paris; Bang, 

 of Copenhagen; Biggs, of New York; 

 Broadbent, of London; and von 

 Schroetter, of Vienna. — The French 

 Academy of Moral and Political Sci- 

 ences has decided to award the Fran- 

 cois-Joseph Audiffred prize, of the 

 value of $3,000, which is given in 

 recompense of the most beautiful and 

 greatest acts of self-devotion of what- 

 ever kind they may be, to Professor 

 Calmette, director of the Pasteur In- 

 stitute at Lille. 



The following is a list of those to 

 whom the Royal Society has this year 

 awarded medals: The Copley medal to 

 Professor Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeleef, 

 of St. Petersburg, for his contributions 

 to chemical and physical science; A 

 Royal medal to Professor John Henry 

 Poynting, F.R.S., for his researches in 

 physical science, especially in connec- 

 tion with the constant of gravitation 

 and the theories of electrodynamics 

 and radiation; A Royal medal to Pro- 

 fessor Charles Scott Sherrington, 

 F.R.S., for his researches on the cen- 

 tral nervous system, especially in rela- 

 tion to reflex action; the Davy medal 

 to Professor Albert Ladenburg, of 

 Breslau, for his researches in organic 

 chemistry, especially in connection with 

 the synthesis of natural alkaloids; 

 the Hughes medal to Professor Augusto 

 Righi, of Bologna, on the ground of his 

 experimental researches in electrical 

 science. 



