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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS. 



The Nobel prize for physics has been 

 awarded to Lord Rayleigh, professor of 

 natural philosophy at the Royal Insti- 

 tution. The chemistry prize is conferred 

 upon Sir William Ramsay, professor of 

 chemistry at University College. M. 

 Pavloff, professor at the Military Acad- 

 emy of Medicine at St. Petersburg, re- 

 ceives the prize for physiology and 

 medicine. The literature prize is 

 divided between M. Mistral, the Pro- 

 vencal poet, and Don Jose Echegaray, 

 the Spanish dramatist. The peace 

 prize has been awarded to the Institute 

 of International Law. 



Mr. Luther Burbank, whose impor- 

 tant work on plant-breeding was de- 

 scribed by President Jordan in the last 

 issue of the Monthly, has been ap- 

 pointed a special lecturer at Stanford 

 University. He has received a liberal 

 grant from the Carnegie Institution, 

 which will permit him to devote him- 



self to scientific work — Professor 

 Svante Arrhenius has been made head 

 of a laboratory for physical chemistry, 

 to be established at Stockholm by the 

 Nobel Institute. — Dr. Horace Jayne has 

 resigned the directorship of the Wistar 

 Institute of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Professor S. W. Burnham, astron- 

 omer at the Yerkes Observatory, has 

 been awarded the Lalande gold medal 

 of the French Academy of Sciences for 

 his researches in astronomy. — The 

 Lavoisier medal has been awarded to 

 Sir James Dewar. — Professor G. Semi 



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has heen made president for the Inter- 

 national Congress of Psychology to be 

 held at Rome from April 26 to 30 of 

 the present year. — Lord Kelvin has ac- 

 cepted the nomination of the council 

 for the presidency of the London Para- 

 day Society, in succession to Sir Joseph 

 Swan. 



