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Professor E. J. Marey 

 News has been received by cable of the death on May sixteenth 

 of Professor E. J. Marey, member of the Institute of France and of 

 other learned societies. Professor Marey, whose scientific activities 

 have extended in many directions, is perhaps most popularly known 

 through his researches in connection with the application of chrono- 

 photography to the investigation of the complicated acts of animal 

 locomotion, which he carried successfully on to an analysis of the 

 movements of organic life of which there is no conscious knowledge. 

 In December, 1900, a grant was approved by the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution in aid of the experiments of Doctor Marey on the analysis of 

 air-currents by means of metro- and chrono-photography, a descrip- 

 tion of this successful and interesting research being published in the 

 appendix to the report of the Secretary for 1901. Latterly, Doctor 

 Marey was interested in the work of an international commission 

 established for the control and unification of the methods of registra- 

 tion in biological experiments. A special commission was formed, 

 of which Doctor Marey was made president, and steps were taken 

 for the foundation in this connection of an institute bearing his name. 



A Monument to Borghesi 

 The Smithsonian Institution has been informed that on September 

 3, 1903, a Committee of the Patrizi of San Marino was formed to 

 promote a public subscription for the erection of a monument to Bar- 

 tolemeo Borghesi in the city of San Marino, where the famous 

 archeologist and epigraphist spent the greater part of his life and 

 where he ended his days. On September 17 the Consiglio Principe 

 of the republic issued a decree applauding the initiative thus taken 

 and authorizing the regents to accept the invitation of the committee 

 to become its honorary presidents. Following this auspicious begin- 

 ning, the committee was still further favored with the gracious 

 approval of H. M. the King of Italy and of the President of the 

 French Republic. The committee now turns to the academies and 

 scientific institutions of Europe, to all those who cultivate numis- 

 matics and archeology, to the Patricians of San Marino and to the 

 consuls and friends of the republic, begging them by their contribu- 

 tions to aid in rendering due honor to their great fellow countryman. 



Till: LOBATCHEFSKY PRTZE 

 The Smithsonian Institution has been informed that at a formal 

 meeting held in February, 1904, the Phvsico-Mathematical Society 



