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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



meteorology at the University of 

 Berlin. 



The Bolyai prize of the Hungarian 

 Academy of Sciences has been awarded 

 to M. Poincare. — The eightieth birth- 

 day of Dr. F. A. March, professor of 

 English and comparative philology at 

 Lafayette College, was celebrated on 

 October 25, when Professor W. B. Owen 

 made an address of congratulation. 

 The trustees of the college have offered 

 to retire Professor March with full 

 salary, but he prefers to continue his 

 usual duties. 



Professor Robert Koch, who has 

 been at Amaris in West Usambara and 

 at Uganda to complete his researches 

 on trypanosomes and sleeping sickness, 

 expected to reach Berlin on October 23. 

 — Dr. Arthur Stabler, assistant in the 

 chemical laboratory of the University 

 of Berlin, has been sent by the minister 

 of education to Harvard University to 

 pursue studies in inorganic chemistry 

 under Professor T. W. Richards. 



The inaugural meeting of the British 

 Science Guild was held on October 30, 

 at the Mansion House, London. The 

 objects of the guild are (1) to bring 

 together as members of the guild all 

 those throughout the empire interested 

 in science and scientific method, in or- 

 der, by joint action, to convince the 

 people, by means of publications and 

 meetings, of the necessity of applying 

 the methods of science to all branches 

 of human endeavor, and thus to further 

 the progress and increase the welfare 

 of the empire; (2) to bring before the 

 government the scientific aspects of all 

 matters affecting the national welfare; 

 (3) to promote and extend the applica- 

 tion of scientific principles to indus- 

 trial and general purposes; (4) to 

 promote scientific education by en- 

 couraging the support of universities 

 and other institutions where the bounds 

 of science are extended, or where new 

 applications of science are devised. 



