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THE AL UMNI JO URN A L . 



Atmosfera de las altitudes yel bienstar 

 del hombre. 



Mr. C. L. Madsden ("Geo.") Hel- 

 singor, near Copenhagen, Denmark. 



Thermographical Studies . Mr. F. A. 

 R. Russell, of London, Vice-President of 

 the Royal Meteorological Society of Great 

 Britain; "The Atmosphere in relation 

 to Human Ljfe and Health." 



HONORABLE MENTION WITH BRONZE 

 MEDAL. 



M. E. Deburaux-Dex and M. Maurice 

 Dibos ("Spes"); of Rouen, France : 

 " Etudes des courants aeriens continen- 

 taux et de leur utilisation par des aero- 

 stats long-courriers." 



Doctor O. Jesse, of Berlin : "Dieleuch- 

 tenden Nachtwolken." 



Doctor A. Loewy, of Berlin ; "Unter- 

 suchungen iiber die Respiration und Cir- 

 kulation unter verdiinnter und verdich- 

 teter sauerstoffarmer und sauerstoffreicher 

 Euft." 



Mr. Alexander McAdie ("Dalgetty"), 

 of Washington : "The known properties 

 of atmospheric air considered in their re- 

 lationships to research in every depart- 

 ment of natural science, and the import- 

 ance of a study of the atmosphere con- 

 sidered in view of these relationships : 

 the proper direction of future research in 

 connection with the imperfections of our 

 knowledge of atmospheric air and the 

 conditions of that knowledge with other 

 sciences." 



Mr. Hiram S. Maxim, of Kent, Eng- 

 land : "Natural and Artificial Flight." 



Doctor Franz Oppenheimerand Doctor 

 Carl Oppenheimer ("E pur si muove"), 

 of Berlin, Germany : "Ueber atmosphari- 

 sche Euft, ihre Eigenschaften und ihren 

 Zusammenhang mit dem menschlichen 

 Eeben." 



HONORABLE MENTION. 



Mr. E. C. C. Baly, of University Col- 

 lege, Eon don : "The decomposition of 



the two constituents of the atmosphere 

 by means of the passage of the electric 

 spark." 



Professor F. H. Bigelow, of Washing- 

 ton : " Solar and Terrestrial Magnetism 

 and their relation to Meteorology." 



Dr. J. B. Cohen, of Yorkshire College, 

 Eeeds, England : " The Air of Towns." 



Dr. F. J. B. Cordeiro, U. S. N., of 

 Washington : "Hypsometry," 



Professor Emile Duclaux, of the 

 French Institute, Paris, France : " Sur 

 l'actinoraetrie atmospherique et sur la 

 constitution actinique de 1' atmosphere." 



Professor Dr. Gieseler, of Bonn, Ger- 

 many . "Mittlere Tagestemperaturen von 

 Bonn, 1848-88." 



Doctor Eudwig Ilosvay von Nagy 

 Iloosva, Professor in the Royal Joseph 

 Polytechnic School, Budapest, Hungary: 

 "Ueber den unmittelbar oxydirenden Be- 

 standtheil der Euft." 



Doctor A. Magelssen, of Christiania, 

 Norway : " Ueber den Zusammenhang 

 und die Verwandtschaft der biologischen, 

 meteorologischen und kosmischeu Er- 

 scheinungen." 



Doctor A. Marcuse, of the Royal Ob- 

 servatory, Berlin, Germany: "Die at- 

 mospharisehe Eutt." 



Professor C. Nees, of the Polytechnic 

 School, Copenhagen, Denmark: "The 

 use of kites and chained air-balloons for 

 observing the velocity of winds, etc." 



Surgeon Charles Smart, U. S. A., of 

 Washington : "An Essay on the Prop- 

 erties, Constitution and Impurities of 

 Atmospheric Air, in relation to the pro- 

 motion of Health and Longevity." 



Doctor F. Viault, of the Faculty of 

 Medicine, Bordeaux, France : "Decou- 

 verte d'une nouvelle et importante prop- 

 riete physiologique de l'Air atmosphe- 

 rixue (action hematogene del' air rarefie. 

 — Science. 



NOTE. — The Hodgkins Fund, from which 

 these prizes were drawn, was established in Oc- 



