December 29, 1904] 



NATURE 



215 



the Liilande prize to Mr. S. W. Burnham, for his work on 

 double stars ; the \'alz prize to M. de Campos Rodrigues, 

 for work done at the Lisbon Observatory, with especial 

 reference to the determination of the solar parallax by means 

 of the planet Eros; the Janssen medal to .M. Hansliy. 



Geography. — The Binoux prize, divided between M. 

 Baratier (for his work in connection with Colonel Mar- 

 chand's expedition in Central Africa), M. B^nard (for his 

 work on Arctic exploration), and M. Alphonse Berget (for 

 his book on the physics and meteorology of the globe) ; 

 the Gay prize to Mr. Bell Dawson, for his hvdrographic 

 work in eastern Canada; the Tchihatchef prize to Lieut. - 

 Colonel Lubanski, for his explorations in Indo-China; the 

 Delalande-Gu^rineau prize to M. Auguste Pavie, for work 

 in French China. 



Physics. — The Hebert prize to M. Georges Claude, for 

 his book on electricity for general readers ; the Hughes 

 prize to Lieut. -Colonel E. Arife, for his publications on 

 the theory of heat and chemical statics ; the Kastner- 

 Boursault prize to Captain Ferris, for his work on wireless 

 telegraphy. 



CItemistry. — The Jecker prize, divided between M^L 

 Freimdier, Minguin, and Lespieau ; the Cahour prize, 

 divided between .\I.\L Chavanne, Kling, and Binet du 

 Jassoneix; a Montyon prize (unhealthy trades), divided 

 between MJL Dupont and D^tourbe. 



Botany. — The Desniaziferes prize to M. Guilliermond, for 

 his work on cryptogams, especially fungi ; the Montagne 

 prize to >L Camille Sauvageau, for his work on alg« ; the 

 de la Fons-Melicocq prize is not awarded. 



Anatomy and Zoology. — The Savigny prize to ^L 

 Krempf; the Thore prize to M. d'Orbigny. 



-Medicine and Surgery. — A Montyon prize to M. Paul 

 Reclus, for his memoir on the proper use of cocaine in 

 surgery ; to M. Kermogant, for his work on exotic 

 pathology and hygiene ; and to M. Cazalbou, for his re- 

 searches on the trypanosomiases of the French .Soudan. 

 Mentions are also accorded to MM. P. Launois and Roy, for 

 their biological studies on giants ; MM. F. Bezan^on and 

 M. Labb^, for their treatise on haematology ; and to M. 

 Odier, for his work on the action of electricity and certain 

 poisons on nerve cells. MM. F. Marceau, P. Briquel, 

 J. Gagni^re, and R. Voisin are accorded citations. The 

 Barbier prize to MM. Prenant, Bouin and L. Maillard, for 

 their book on histology, and a mention to M. Pierre Lesage ; 

 the Breant prize (accumulated interest) to >L Fri*d?ric 

 Borel, for his memoir on cholera and plague in relation to 

 Mahometan pilgrimages; the Godard prize to MNL J. 

 Albarran and L. Imbert, for their memoir on tumours of 

 the kidney ; the Baron Larrey prize to M. Conor, for work 

 on typhoid fever, M. E. Lafforgue receiving a mention ; 

 the Bellion prize to M. Jules Delobel, for his book on 

 hygiene in schools, M. Gabriel Gauthier receiving a 

 mention ; the Mfege prize to M. G. Delamare, for his experi- 

 mental researches on morbid hereditv. 



Physiology. — .A Montyon prize to M. J. Jolly, for his 

 memoir entitled " Experimental Researches on the Indirect 

 Division of the Red Blood Corpuscles," a very honourable 

 mention being accorded to M. C. Fleig, for his work on 

 the mode of action of chemical stimulants on the digestive 

 glands; the Philipeaux prize to M. Cristiani, for his work 

 on thyroid grafting, an honourable mention being accorded 

 to M. Joseph No^ : the Lallemand prize, divided between 

 M. Maurice de Fleury (for his works on the nervous system) 

 and MM. J. Camus and P. Pagniez (for their memoir on 

 psychotherapy) ; the Pourat prize to M. J. Tissot, for a 

 study of the physical and chemical phenomena at high 

 altitudes; the Martin-Damourette prize, divided between 

 -M. .\. Frouin (looo francs) and M. Manquat (400 francs). 



.\niong the general prizes, the Lavoisier medal was 

 awarded to Sir J. Dewar, for his work on the liquefaction 

 of gases ; the Berthelot medal to MM. Freundler, Minguin, 

 Lespieau, Kling, Binet du Jassoneix, Dupont, and Paul 

 \"illard ; the Jerome Ponti prize to M. Maurain ; the Tr^mont 

 prize to M. A. Guillemin ; the Gegner prize to M. J. H. 

 Fabre ; the Lannelongue prize to Mme. Vve. Xepveu ; the 

 Leconte prize to M. Ren^ Blondlot, for his work taken as 

 a whole ; the Wilde prize to M. Paul Villard, for his work 

 in physics; the Houllevigue prize to MM. Henri de la 

 WtuIn and Henri Hervi^-, for their work in aeronautics ; 



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the Saintour prize to M. Charles Fremont, for his experi- 

 mental researches on the elasticity of metals ; a Montyon 

 prize (statistics), divided between M. V. Lowenthal, for 

 twelve memoirs relating to the depopulation of France, and 

 M. Paul Razous, for his memoir on the mortality and 

 liability to disease in dangerous professions, MM. Henry 

 Gu^go, E. Maury, and Ott receiving mentions ; the Jean- 

 Jacques Berger prize is divided between MM. J. Resall 

 (6500 francs), A. Alby (3500 francs), Laurent (2000 francs), 

 Grimaud (1500 francs), and Retraint (1500 francs). 



UNIVERSITY .AND EDUCATION.iL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 

 Liverpool. — The arrangements for e.xcavations to be 

 made during the winter under the auspices of the university 

 institute of archseology, in Upper Egypt, have been com- 

 pleted, and the work will be begun at Hierakonpolis before 

 the New Year. The excavations have been placed as in 

 previous years at Beni-Hasan, Negadeh, and elsewhere 

 under the care of the university reader in Egyptian 

 archaeology. 



Dr. Norman Moore has been appointed a member of the 

 consultative committee vice Prof. Bertram C. .\. Windle, 

 F.R.S., who has resigned his membership upon appointment 

 as president of Queen's College, Cork. Dr. Moore is chair- 

 man of the board of advanced medical studies of the 

 University of London, and represents the Royal College of 

 Physicians upon the General Medical Council. 



The annual meeting of the Geographical Association will 

 be held at the Royal Colonial Institute, Northumberland 

 Avenue, London, W.C., on Friday, January 6, at 4 p.m. 

 The president, Mr. Douglas W. Freshfield, will be in the 

 chair. A report on the eighth international geographical 

 congress will be read by Mr. H. Yule Oldham, and there 

 will be a discussion on practical geography in schools. 



Ox December 20 Ladv Warwick distributed the prizes 

 gained by the students of the evening classes and of the 

 day secondary school of the Carpenters' Company at Strat- 

 ford. In the course of some remarks upon the school, she 

 said that England needed a better system of secondary 

 education, and it was now acknowledged that the .State 

 should take the matter in hand. But in the meantime the 

 city companies were doing a good work in bringing 

 secondary education to the doors of the people. 



The annual conference of the Public Schools Science 

 Masters' Association will be held at Westminster School 

 on Saturday, January 14, 1905. The following are among 

 the subjects to be discussed : — (i) the importance of in- 

 cluding both Latin and natural science in a scheme of 

 general education ; (2) recent proposals for school leaving 

 certificates ; (3) the use and misuse of terms in science teach- 

 ing ; (4) the possibility of teaching " scientific method " to 

 boys whose education is almost entirely literary and who 

 have no time for a regular course in chemistry and physics. 

 .Sir Michael Foster, K.C.B., is the president of the associ- 

 ation for the year. 



New buildings of the Willesden Polytechnic, erected at a 

 cost of about io,oooi., were formally declared open by Sir 

 W. Anson on December 21. After distributing prizes to 

 the successful students. Sir W. Anson remarked that poly- 

 technics marked what he hoped was becoming the modern 

 view of education, that it did not consist of independent 

 sets of studies, but was a composite whole, no part of 

 which did not rest upon or form a foundation for another 

 part. It should be borne in mind that a polytechnic did not 

 merely train a student In a handicraft. The object of such 

 an institution was to combine theory and practice, to teach 

 the student not only how to do a thing, but why it was 

 done in a particular way, so that he became not only skilful 

 in the craft upon which he was engaged, but got to under- 

 stand the scientific principles underlying his work. 



Mr. L. L. Price read a paper at the meeting of the Royal 

 Statistical Society on December 20 entitled " Accounts of 

 the Colleges of Oxford, 1893-1003, with Special Reference 



