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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Geological Survey, and of Professor 

 Franz von Leydig, the eminent zool- 

 ogist of Bonn University. 



The body of Emmanuel Swedenbourg 

 has been removed from the Swedish 

 church in London, where it was buried 

 on his death in 1772, and taken by a 

 Swedish man-of-war to Stockholm, 

 wnere it will be interred. — By the will 

 of Lord Kelvin, Lady Kelvin is ap- 

 pointed sole executrix, and all his 

 property is bequeathed to her. Accord- 

 ing to the inventory, the value of the 

 property is over $800,000. — The bill 

 providing a pension of $125 monthly 

 each to the widows of Drs. James Car- 

 roll and Jesse W. Lazear has passed 

 the congress by a unanimous vote. 



Professor Frederick F. Jones, dean 

 of the College of Engineering and 

 Mechanical Arts in the University of 

 Minnesota, has been elected dean of 

 the academic faculty of Yale Univer- 

 sity. Professor Jones graduated from 

 Yale College in 1884 and has been con- 

 nected with the University of Minne- 

 sota since 1S85. — At the University of 

 YV isconsin Professor Carl C. Thomas, 

 now head of the department of marine 

 engineering of Cornell University, lias 

 been elected to the professorship of 



steam engineering made vacant by the 

 death of Storm Bull. 



The Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory has awarded the Walker grand 

 honorary prize of one thousand dollars 

 to Dr. Grove Karl Gilbert, of the 

 Unitea States Geological Survey. This 

 award is made once in five years under 

 the terms of the will of the late Will- 

 iam Johnson Walker, a benefactor of 

 the society, " for such scientific investi- 

 gation or discovery in natural history 

 as the council may think deserving 

 thereof; provided such investigation or 

 discovery shall have first been made 

 known and published in the United 

 States of America." The previous re- 

 cipients of the Walker grand prize 

 have been : Alexander Agassiz, Joseph 

 Leidy, James Hall, James D. Dana, 

 Samuel H. Scudder and Joel A. Allen. 

 — The Rumford medal of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences has been 

 awarded to Dr. Edward G. Acheson, 

 of Niagara Falls, for his work with 

 the electric furnace. — Dr. William H. 

 Walker, professor of technical chem- 

 istry at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, has been presented by the 

 New York Section of the American 

 Chemical Society with the Nichols 

 medal. 



