NEWS. 



The fifteen candidates .selected by the Council of tlie Royal Society to be 

 recommended for election into the Society this year are : — Prof. W. F. Barrett ; 

 Mr. Charles Booth; Surgeon-Major David Bruce; Mr. H. J. H. Fenton, 

 M. A. ; Mr. J. S. Gamble, M. A. ; Prof. A. C. Haddon ; Dr. Henry Head ; 

 Principal C. Lloyd Morgan ; Mr. Clement Beid ; Mr. H. S. H. Shaw ; Dr. E. 

 H. Starling ; Prof. H. W. L. Tanner ; Mr. B, Threlfall ; Mr. A. E. Tutton ; and 

 Prof. B. C. A. Windle. As will be seen, natural science is well represented, and 

 Natural Science also. 



Among the five new members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences are 

 C. E. Beecher, the palaeontologist, and E. B. Wilson, the embryologist. 



On April 27, at Cambridge, Prof. Sir William Turner and the Bev. Prof. 

 Thomas Wiltshire, were presented for the honorary degree of Doctor in Science. 



The M'Gill University of Montreal has conferred the degree of LL.D. on 

 Mr. Rudyard Kipling. 



The gold medal of the American Geographical Society has been awarded to 

 Sir John Murray, K.C.B. 



Both the gold medals of the Royal Geographical Society have this year been 

 awarded to Frenchmen. The recipients are Captain Binger and Mr. Foureau. 

 The former is well known for his work in West Africa, particularly his exploring 

 of the Kong country and of the vast and important area within the great bend 

 of the Niger. The other medallist, Mr. Foureau, is at present engaged on a 

 mission in the Sahara as one of the leaders of the Foureau-Lamy expedition. 

 He has done more, perhaps, than any other man to add to our knowledge of 

 the Sahara. The minor awards are four in number, and of these one goes to 

 the Swedish naturalist, Dr. Nathorst, for his exploration of the Spitzbergen 

 Islands and the seas between Spitzbergen and Greenland ; another to the Hon. 

 David Carnegie for his journey across the great interior desert of Western 

 Australia, described in his recently published book, Spinifex and Sand ; a third 

 to Mr. Albert Armitage for his scientific work with the Jackson-Harmsworth 

 Arctic Expedition ; and the fourth to Captain Sykes for three journeys in Persia, 

 during which he made important corrections and additions to the map of that 

 country, and has done much to clear up the geography of Marco Polo. 



Albert Lindstrom has been appointed honorary professor of anatomy at 

 Stockholm. 



The fourth Annual Congress of the South -Eastern Union of Scientific 

 Societies was held at Rochester from May 25 to 27, 1899, under the presidency 

 of Professor G. S. Boulger. 



The Ealing Natural Science and Microscopical Society are making a collection 

 of lantern slides to promote the study of natural science. They hope to obtain 



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