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We are notw enabled to give the names of those who 

 have signed the Art Memorial. 



Edward J. Poynter, P.R.A. 

 W. B. Richmond, R.A. 

 Fredk. Goodall, R.A. 

 G. W. H. Boughton, R.A. 

 Walter W. Ouless, R.A. 

 Ernest Crofts, R. A. 

 Thos. G. Jackson, R.A. 

 Hamo Thornycroft, R.A. 

 H. W. Armstead, R.A. 

 Harry Bates, A. R.A. 

 Alfred Gilbert, R.A. 

 Briton Riviere, R.A. 

 E. Onslow Ford, R.A. 

 William Holt, of Oldham. 

 John M. Jones. 

 W. P. Frith, R.A. 

 Frank Dicksee, R.A. 

 Phil. R. Morris, A. R.A. 

 George Frampton, A. R.A. 

 Hugh de T. Glazebrook. 

 Luke Fildes, R.A. 

 Val Prinsep, R.A. 

 Marcus Stone, W.h. 

 Colin Hunter, A. R.A. 

 G. F. Watts, R.A. 

 John R. Clayton. 

 Reginald Barratt. 

 Fredk. Smallfield. 

 Lewis F. Day. 

 Thos. J. Grylls. 

 Morant and Co. 

 L. Alma Tadema, R.A. 

 Andrew C. Gow, R.A. 

 Sydney P. Hall. 

 Alfred East. 

 John Charlton. 

 Oliver Murray, A. R.A. 

 C. E. Johnson. 

 J. Y. Hunter. 

 R. Phene Spiers, F.S.A. 

 Gordon Thomson. 

 John Tenniel. 

 Edmd. M. Wimpe*is. 

 Herbert Schmalz. 

 S. Melton Fisher. 



Cyrus Johnson. 



Frank Walton. 



Ernest A.Waterlow.P.R.W.S. 



Walter C. Horsley. 



Charles Fowler. 



J. D. Grace. 



Edwin Bale. R I. 



M. R. Corbet. 



Edith Corbet. 



W. J. Hennessy. 



H. R. Mileham. 



James E. Grace. 



Harold Rathbone. 



H. R. Hope-Pinker. 



H. Cecil Drane. 



Ct. E. Wade. 



Lionel Cust. 



Walter McLaren. 



Alfred Drury. 



Fanny W. Currey. 



W. Hounsom Byles. 



L. Fairfax Muckley. 



R. Falconer MacDonald. 



EHnor Halle. 



J. Fitz Marshall, R.B.A. 



May E. Gordon. 



A. T. Yowell. 



Mary Grace. 



Henry T. Wells. 



J. Calcott Horsley. 



William F. Veames. 



Seymour Lucas, A. R.A. 



Eyre Crowe, A. R.A. 



G. D. Leslie. 



Thos. Brock. 



W. Holman Hunt. 



Edward Burne-Jones. 



Arthur Severn. 



C. E. Halle. 



Thos. Stirling Lee. 



Gleeson White. 



Walter Crane. 



Carlisle. 



W. Q. Orchardson, R.A. 



NOTES. 

 In the presence of a brilliant and representative gathering of 

 citizens, the freedom of the City of Edinburgh svas conferred 

 upon Lord Lister on Wednesday, June 1 5. 



Germany owes most of her success in the commercial and 

 industrial world to her readiness to act upon the advice of her 

 men of science. The German Emperor has just given further 

 evidence that he understands the value of scientific opinion in 

 matters affecting national welfare, and recognises the importance 

 of technical education, by nominating Prof. Slaby, of the 

 Technical College at Charlottenburg, Prof. Launhardt, of the 

 Technical College at Hanover, and Prof. Intze, of the Technical 

 College at Aachen, to be life members of the Upper House of 

 the Prussian Diet. The Times correspondent at Berlin states 

 that while Prof. Slaby was delivering his lecture at Charlotten- 

 burg on Wednesday, he was interrupted by the receipt of a 

 telegram from the Emperor, which he proceeded to read to his 

 class. It was in the following terms : — " In recognition of the 

 importance which technical knowledge has acquired at the end 

 of our century, and in profound respect for the exact sciences in 

 general, I wish to confer upon the Technical College of 

 Charlottenburg a seat and a vote in the Herrenhaus, and I 

 nominate you as the most fit person to be its representative. — 

 William, I.R." Prof. Slaby, addressing the students, expressed 

 his sense of the significance of the step which the Emperor had 

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taken in conferring upon the technical colleges the right of 

 representation in the Upper House of the Prussian Diet, a 

 privilege which the Universities had long enjoyed. 



The preliminary programmes of the sections of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science are beginning to 

 be published. Section A (Mathematics and .Astronomy) 

 announces twenty-five papers, and reports of five committees. 

 Section C (Chemistry) announces that on Tuesday, August 23, 

 under the auspices of the American Chemical Society, the 

 morning session will be devoted to the subject of analytical 

 chemistry, led by Dr. P. De P. Ricketts, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity ; the afternoon to teaching of chemistry. Dr. F. P. 

 Venable, University of North Carolina. On Wednesday, 

 August 24, the Association will make an excursion to Salem as 

 gue-sts of the Essex Institute. On Thursday, August 25, the 

 morning will be given to inorganic chemistry, led by Dr. H. 

 L. Wells, Yale University ; the afternoon to organic chemistry. 

 Dr. Ira Remsen, Johns Hopkins University ; and the evening 

 to physical chemistry, Dr. T, W. Richards, Harvard Uni- 

 versity. On Friday, August 26 (Harvard Day), in one of 

 the Harvard University rooms, the subject of physiological 

 Chemistry will be opened by Dr. E. E. Smith, New York ; 

 President Eliot will dehver an address to the Association at 

 large in the evening. On Saturday, August 27, the morning 

 will be given to agricultural chemistry, led by Dr. H. A. 

 Weber, Ohio University ; and the afternoon to technical 

 chemistry. Dr. N. W. Lord, Ohio University. 



The issue of the Revue Scientifique of June 11 contains an 

 interesting critical notice of the Royal Society's International 

 Catalogue scheme by M. Charles Richet, a well-known expert 

 in such matters. M. Richet fears that the apathy which the 

 public manifest towards all such enterprises may make it difficult 

 to obtain the necessary funds from subscriptions. He cordially 

 welcomes the proposal to issue the catalogue in two forms — as 

 slips and in book form— but regards the preparation of slips of the 

 character suggested as a work of great difficulty on account of 

 its magnitude. Being an ardent advocate of the Dewey system, 

 he naturally deplores the fact that it has been put aside ; but 

 yet finally expresses his conviction that all advocates of the 

 system will rally, without hesitation, to the system proposed by 

 the Royal Society, which, being advocated by such a body, has 

 the greatest chance of success. Of the scheme as a whole, M. 

 Richet writes: "C'est une belle oeuvre a accomplir : et le 

 plan est excellent, dans son ensemble. Nous esperons done 

 fermement que tous les savants de France et de I'^tranger 

 preteront leurs concours actif a cette magnifique publication." 

 If all receive the proposals in the same generous spirit of appre- 

 ciation and self-abnegation, there can be little doubt of the 

 success of the enterprise. 



Prof. O. C. Marsh, Yale University, New Haven, has been 

 elected a Foreign Member of the Geological Society. 



Prof. B. Grassi, M. Hippolyte Lucas, and Dr. August 

 Weismann have been elected honorary members of the Ento- 

 mological Society of London. 



The death is announced, at the age of seventy-two, of Sir 

 James Nicholas Douglass, F.R.S., late Engineer-in-Chief to the 

 Hon. Corporation of Trinity House. During his tenure of this, 

 post he carried out many important engineering works both at 

 home and abroad, such as the Wolf, Longships, Great and 

 Little Basses, Eddystone, and Muricoy lighthouses, and he 

 effected numerous technical improvements connected with light- 

 houses and their illuminating apparatus, as well as in buoys and 

 beacons. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 

 1883, and retired from his post at the Trinity House in 1892. 



