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contribution to science was the inven- 

 tion of the laryngoscope fifty years ago. 

 Senhor Garcia was presented with a 

 portrait of himself by Mr. John S. 

 Sargent and received a number of con- 

 gratulatory addresses with decorations 

 from King Edward, Emperor William 

 and the king of Spain. 



The first John Fritz gold medal will 

 be conferred upon Lord Kelvin. This 

 medal is awarded by a joint committee 

 of the American Institute of Electical 

 Engineers, the American Society of 

 Mechanical Engineers, The American 

 Society of Civil Engineers and the 

 American Institute of Mining Engi- 

 neers to the man most representative 

 of, and eminent in, scientific advance in 

 the engineering field. — A medal in 

 commemoration of M. Alfred Cornu 

 will be struck by the French Physical 

 Society.— It is proposed to erect a 

 memorial in Jena to Professor Ernst 

 Abbe in commemoration of his ser- 

 vices to optical science and industry. 



The first Herbert Spencer lecture, 



established by Pandit Shyamaji Krish- 

 navarma, M.A., of Balliol College, was 

 given at Oxford on March 9, by Mr. 

 Frederic Harrison, M.A., honorary fel- 

 low of Wadham College.— Dr. H. A. 

 IiOrentz, professor of physics in the 

 University of Leyden, and Professor V. 

 F. Bjerknes, professor of mathemat- 

 ical physics in the University of Stock- 

 holm, will give courses of lectures at 

 Columbia University next year. 



Dr. Lewellys F. Barker, professor 

 of anatomy at the University of Chi- 

 cago, has been called to the chair of 

 medicine in Johns Hopkins University, 

 vacant by the removal of Dr. William 

 Osier to Oxford. At the same time Dr. 

 W. S. Thayer, associate professor of 

 medicine, has been advanced to a pro- 

 fessorship of clinical medicine. — Dr. 

 Frank Schlesinger, of the Yerkes Ob- 

 servatory, has been elected director 

 of the New Allegheny Observatory in 

 succession to Dr. F. L. 0. Wadsworth, 

 who has resigned. 



