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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Medal Struck in* Honor; of Captain Scott, Leadi 

 Antarctic Expedition. 



seventy-fourth year. Memorial ser- 

 vices were held in the University of 

 Michigan. Addresses were made by 

 President Angell, Dean Vaughan and 

 Dr. W. J. Herdman, of the medical 

 faculty, and Professor M. L. D Ooge, of 

 the literary faculty, and resolutions 

 which had been adopted by the various 

 faculties and classes, were read. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS. 

 We regret to record the death of 

 Alpheus Spring Packard, professor of 

 zoology and geology at Brown Univer- 

 sity: of George Bond Howes, Hux- 

 ley's successor in the chair of zoology 

 at the Royal College of Science, Lon- 

 don, and of Adolf Bastian, professor of 

 ethnology at Berlin. 



The Royal Geographical Society has 

 struck a special gold medal in honor of 

 Captain Scott, leader of the British 

 Antarctic Expedition, an illustration 

 of which is herewith reproduced. — The 

 British Astronomical Society has con- 

 ferred its gold medal on Professor 

 Lewis Boss, director of the Dudley Ob- 



servatory at Albany. — The Prussian 

 Academy of Science has awarded its 

 Helmholtz medal to Professor Ramon 

 y Cajal, professor of neurology at 

 i Madrid. 



The L niversity of Pennsylvania has 

 conferred the doctorate of science on 

 Dr. R. S. Woodward, president of the 

 Carnegie Institution; and the Johns 

 Hopkins University has conferred the 

 doctorate of laws on Professor William 

 Osier, who is about to assume the 

 regius professorship of medicine, at 

 Oxford. — M. Moissan, of Paris, and 

 Professor Wilhelm Ostwald, of Leipzig, 

 have been elected corresponding mem- 

 bers of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. 

 — M. Janssen, director of the observa- 

 tory at Meudon, and M. Moissan, pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at the Sorbonne, 

 have been elected members of the St. 

 Petersburg Academy of Sciences. — Pro- 

 fessor Svante A. Arrhenius, of Stock- 

 holm, Professor W. F. P. Pfeffer, of 

 Leipzig, and Professor W. Spring, of 

 the University of Liege, have been 

 elected honorary members of the Ger- 

 man Chemical Society. 



