AUGUST 1899] NEWS 155 
Mr. G. A. Stonier has been appointed specialist in mining under the 
Geological Survey of India. Mr. Stonier holds the De la Beche medal for 
mining at the Royal School of Mines, London, of which institution he is an 
associate. He has had a wide experience in New South Wales, where he was 
employed as geographical surveyor, and was for several years a member of the 
Government Prospecting Board. 
Dr. Adolph Fick, professor of physiology in the University of Wiirzburg, 
has resigned at the age of 70 years. 
The Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 have approved the 
nomination by the University College of North Wales of Mr. Robert Duncombe 
Abell, B.Se., to a Science Research Scholarship of the value of £150 a year. 
Mr. Abell is about to enter the University of Leipzig, where he proposes to 
engage in research under the direction of Professor Wislicenus. 
Mr. James Muir, instructor in Agriculture to the Somerset County Council, 
has been awarded the prize of 500 guineas offered by the sulphate of ammonia 
committee for the best essay on the utility of this salt in agriculture. 
The Isidore Geoffroy Saint Hilaire Grand Silver Medal of the Société 
nationale d’acclimatation de France, has been awarded to Prof. Cossar Ewart 
for his breeding experiments (in reference to which he has also received the 
Neill Prize from the Royal Society of Edinburgh), and to Miss Ormerod for her 
entomological work. 
The University of the Cape of Good Hope has conferred the honorary 
degree of D.Sc. on Mr. Alexander W. Roberts, of Lovedale, who has interested 
himself in astronomical observations there. 
Yale University has conferred the degree of LL.D. on Prof. C. 8. Minot, 
and Hobart College on Prof. W. K. Brooks, two of the most outstanding 
representatives of biology in America. 
Prof. H. A. Pilsbry, of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, 
whose work on Mollusca is familiar to students, has received the degree of 
Doctor of Science from the University of Iowa. 
The following have been elected foreign members of the Royal Society :— 
Prof. L. Boltzmann, of Vienna; Dr. Neumayer, of Hamburg Observatory ; Dr. 
Anton Dohrn, of Naples; Prof. E. Fischer, of Berlin; and Dr. M. Treub, of 
Buitenzorg Botanical Gardens. 
Sir W. T. Thiselton Dyer, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., has been elected to an honorary 
studentship at Christ Church, Oxford. 
The first Nobel prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and for the 
promotion of peace, each of the value of 15,000 kroner (about £2500), will be 
conferred in 1901, on the 18th December, on the anniversary of Nobel’s death. 
Any one making application for one of the prizes is thereby excluded. 
We are glad to learn that Mr. Oldfield Thomas has returned to the British 
Museum (Nat. Hist.) completely restored to health. 
Prof. Angelo Mosso has gone to America to deliver a lecture on the ‘“ Psychic 
Processes and Movement” at the anniversary celebrations at Clark University, 
Worcester, Mass. 
Prof. W. C. Brégger, of the University of Christiania, has accepted an in- 
vitation to deliver the second course of the George Huntington Williams 
memorial lectures at the Johns Hopkins University in April 1900. Prof. 
Brégger is the most prominent Scandinavian geologist, and is well known for 
his memoirs upon the geology of Southern Norway. He will lecture upon 
modern deductions regarding the origin of igneous rocks. The first course was 
given two years ago by Sir Archibald Geikie on the “ Founders of Geology.” 
