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Experiment Station — the first of its kind in the United States 

 — he became Director, and engas^ed in the important nutrition 

 investigations promoted l>y Congress in connection with the 

 Experiment Stations of the United States Agricultural Depart- 

 ment. The Carnegie Institution has granted £1000 in further- 

 ance of this work, and £1300 to Dr. .Arthur tjamgee, I'.K.S., 

 of Moutrenx. for the preparation of a report upon the results 

 so fai' attained. Professor .-Vtwater has published numerous 

 papers in physiologj'. 



Prof. W". B. Scott, of Princeton University, New Jersey, 

 is best known for his labours in the elucidation of the fauna 

 of Santa Cruz; also for investigations connected with the 

 Prmceton Expedition to Patagonia. The results of the latter 

 will be completed during the next few years in eight 

 volumes, somewhat after the model of the '• Challenger " 

 series of zoological reports. Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan has 

 given a subsidy towards the issue. The first instalment, 

 under the editorship of Professor Scott, bears ample testimony 

 to the importance of the researches, while being highly 

 creditable to American zoological workers. 



Prof. A. B. M.\c.\lllm, who holds the Chair of Physiology 

 in the University of Toronto, is well-known for his researches 

 in histology and physiology ; and is a teacher of repute. He 

 took a prominent part in the founding of the Canadian 

 Marine Biological Station at St. Andrews, North I^runswick, 

 as well as that at Canso, Nova Scotia. He is the author ot 

 many papers, including, " On the Distribution of Iron in Ani- 

 mal and Plant Cells" (Brit. Assoc. 1S1J7) ; and "On the 

 Localisation of Potassium in Animal and Plant Cells" (Brit. 

 Assoc. 1903). 



Prof. A. Lawrencic Kotch, a distinguished meti-orologist, 

 is Director of the Blue Hill Observatory, U.S.A., librarian of 

 the American Academy of Sciences, and a Chevalier of the 

 Legion of Honour. His observatory was established in 1885, 

 and from thence have been issued from time to time the 

 results of novel investigations of the upper air. He was the 

 first to obtain accurate meteorological records over the 

 Atlantic by means of cloud observations and self-recording 

 instruments lifted by kites. 



Prof. John DEwtv is Director of the School of Educa- 

 tion and Professor of Philosophy in the University of Chicago. 

 He held formerly similar positions in the Universities of 

 Michigan and Minnesota. Professor Dewey is an authority 

 upon ihe p.sychology of numbers, and author of a work on the 

 Theory ol Ethics. 



Prof. K. W. Wood, of the Physical Department ol the 

 University of Wisconsin, who belongs to the younger school 

 of American physicists, is well known in English scientific 

 circles. In igoo, he read a paper at the Royal Society on 

 the '• Photography of Sound Waves," and at the Society of 

 Arts on the " Diffraction Process of Colour Photography." 

 He is possessed of striking experimental originality, which 

 gives him such a mastery over simple forms of apparatus as 

 to make those accustomed to work only through the medium 

 of more elaborate means somewhat envious of his laboratory 

 and teaching methods. On the occasion of one of his summer 

 visits to San Erancisco, struck with the beautiful miniature 

 mirages to be seen during sunhght on certain of the flagstoned 

 sidewalks, he set himself with success to secure a photograph 

 of the phenomenon. At the recent meeting Professor Wood 

 contributed a paper on "Colour Photography." 



Prof. Ka.ms.\y Wright, Vice-President of Toronto Univer- 

 sity, is also Curator of the Biological Museum and Professor of 

 Biology in the University. His writings upon the comparative 

 anatomy of vertebrates are numerous, fie has prepared a 

 special report upon the Fish and Fisheries of Ontario. 



Foreign. — M. VvES Guyot was formerly Minister of Public 

 Works in Paris. The publications of the Cobden Club, of 

 which he is an honorary member, have made his writings on 

 economic subjects, and particularly on the tenets of Free 

 Trade, familiar in this country. .\1. Guyot was recently the 

 recipient of the " Guy " Medal of the Royal Statistical Society 

 for his paper, " The Sugar Industry on the Continent." 



Dr. Josef Korosi, Director of the Bureau of Municipal Statis- 

 tics at Budapest, is a distinguished member of the Hungarian 

 Academy of Sciences. Under his supervision valuable reports 

 are i=sucd from li.ne to time dealing with mortality and other 



branches of the science of Demography or Vital Statistics. A 

 voluminous paper on "N.ilality" was coininiinicated per- 

 sonally by him to llie Royal Society in i8y.;, and afterwards 

 published in the I'liilosophical 'Jrcinsitiiidiis. 



Dk. Paul Guoth is Professor of Mineralogy and t'ryslal- 

 lography in the University of Munich, and Keeper ot the 

 Collection of Minerals. His studies have earned for him a 

 European reputation. In 1877 he established the ZcUschrift 

 fiir Kiystiilloi^i-tiphic- und Mincralofiic, and in 190.;, to mark the 

 ^5lh year of issue of the journal under liis (;ditorship, an 

 linglish Conuiiittce of Mineralogists, (ieologists, and others 

 presented the Professor with his portr.ait, painted by Griilzner, 

 of Munich. On the occasion of his visit here, the University 

 of Cambridge conferred on him tlu^ degree of Doctor of 

 Science. 



Dk. A. SoMMEKFKLD is Profcssor of Mechanics in the Royal 

 Technical School, Aachen, Prussia. In a paper on the 

 " Scientific Results and Aims of Modern Ap[)lied Mechanics," 

 lately published, he has emphasised the desirability of a more 

 practical application of the principles of mechanics from the 

 teaching standpoint. 



Pkof. Oscak Mo.ntki.ius of the State Museum of History 

 and of Numismatics, Stockholm, is eminent for his researches 

 upon the ancient civilisation .and antitiuities of Sweden and 

 other Scandinavian countries. It may \n: mentioned that the 

 subject of his contribution at Cambridge- namely, the evolu- 

 tion of the lotus-ornament — had already received attention at 

 the hands of Mr. W. H. Goodyear in the Amcruan Juurmil 

 of Archicoloi;y, iSyi, in his paper, " The Giainmar of the 

 Lotus." The results of Professor Montelius' study will be 

 awaited with interest. 



M. Hi:;>ui BEcyUEKEL, Professor of Physics in the Hcole 

 Polytechnicpie, Paris, has a world-wide reputation on account 

 of his epoch-making experiments with the mineral uranium, 

 whence has sprung the new knowledge, " radio-activity." 

 In i8g6 he discovered that salts of uranium emitted a radia- 

 tion which was capable of affecting a photographic plate after 

 traversing thin metallic screens ; also that the rays possessed 

 the power of making gas through which they passed a 

 conductor of electricity. Many will recall Professor J. J. 

 Thomson's evening lecture at the British Association meeting 

 of igo2, " Becquerel Rays and Radio-Activity." Professor 

 Becquerel comes of a line of distinguished physicists. His 

 grandfather and father were both foreign Members of the 

 Royal Society, the former a Copley Medallist of that body ; 

 while the Professor himself has received its Riimford Medal. 

 He was awarded the great Physics prize of the Nobel Institute 

 last year, conjointly with M. and Mine. Curie. 



Dr. Ekich von Duvgalski, Professor of Geography in the 

 University of Berhn, was Scientific Director of the recent 

 German Antarctic Expedition in the Gnu\s, which sailed early 

 in igo2, and returned last year after accomplishing much 

 successful work. Dr. von Drygalski read a paper dealing with 

 the results of the Expedition before the Geographical Section 

 of the Association. 



Du. R. LivY, ot the Italian Ministry of War, Rome, is a 

 distinguished anthropologist. His attendance at Cambridge 

 was specially sought in ortler that his experience in methods 

 of anthropometry might be available in discussions in Section 

 H. on the advantage of a British anthropometric survey. Dr. 

 Livy has recently embodied the results of anthropometric 

 investigations among the troops of the Italian Army in the 

 work, "Anthropometric Milit.iires." 



Comparative Legislation.— Included in the second part of 

 Vol. V. of the "Journal of Comparative Legislation" (John 

 Murray) are articles on Englisli and Continental inilitary 

 cjdes, by J. E. K. Stephens; " Obeah " in Jamaica, by S. 

 Leslie Thornton ; International Railway Transport, by G. C. 

 Pnillimore; and contributions concerning the Antwerp Con- 

 ference, by Mr. Justice Kennedy and T. G. Cower, K.C. ; and 

 on a Council of the Empire by the Hon. W. P. Reeves and 

 Professor T. E. Holland, K.C. Sir John .M.acdoiiell writes on 

 Contracts for Labour, and the Lite Sir William Rattigan on 

 the great jurist Bartolus. The volume is prelaced by a portrait 

 and a biogiap.iical no. ice of the Rt. Hon. R. B. Ilaldane. 



