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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 



We record with regret the deaths of 

 Mr. Francis Blake, inventor of the tele- 

 phone transmitter and other electrical 

 apparatus; of Dr. Thomas Volney 

 Munson, who while engaged as a 

 nurseryman at Dennison, Texas, made 

 valuable experiments on the breeding 

 of fruits, especially in viticulture; of 

 Professor George Augustus Koenig, 

 professor of chemistry at the Michigan 

 College of Mines; of M. Louis Paul 

 Cailletet, the distinguished French 

 chemist, known especially for his work 

 on liquefaction of gases; of M. Leon 

 Teisserenc de Bort, the French meteor- 

 ologist, known for his work with cap- 

 tive balloons; of Dr. Otto Schoeten- 

 sack, professor of anthropology at 

 Heidelberg, and of Dr. Yujiro Motora, 

 professor of psychology at Tokyo. 



The Elisha Kent Kane gold medal 

 of the Geographical Society of Phila- 

 delphia was presented to Professor 

 William Morris Davis, of Harvard 

 University, on January 28, and the 

 Culver medal of the Geographic Society 

 of Chicago, on February 19. — Professor 

 George Herbert Palmer, Alvord pro- 

 fessor of natural religion, moral philos- 

 ophy and civil polity, and Professor 

 Francis Peabody, Plummer professor 

 of Christian morals, have given their 

 final lectures at Harvard University. 

 Professor Palmer has served the uni- 

 versity for forty-three years and Pro- 

 fessor Peabody for thirty-eight years. 

 - — Professor J. Hadamard, professor of 

 analytical and celestial mechanics in 

 the College de France, has been elected 

 a member of the Paris Academie des 

 Sciences in the section of geometry, in 

 succession to the late Professor Henri 

 Poincare. 



