NA TURE 



[May 12, 1904 



Royale des Sciences, Prof. L^on Fredericq and Prof. 

 Chevalier Edouard Descamps. Budapest. — Magyar Tudo- 

 manyos Alodemia, M. Charles Than and M. Ignatius 

 Goldziher. Christiania. — Vidensl<abs Selskabet, Prof. H. 

 Mohn and Prof. G. Guldberg. Copenhagen. — Kongelige 

 Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Prof. J. L. Heiberg and 

 Herr' Paulsen. Goitingcn. — Konigliche Gesellschaft der 

 Wissenschaften, Prof. E. Ehlers, Prof. F. Leo, 

 Prof. F. Kielhorn and Prof. E. Riecke. Leipzig. — 

 Kgl. Sachsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Prof. 

 Dr. Flechsig and Prof. Dr. Credner. London. — Royal 

 Society, Sir William Huggins, .Mr. \. B. Kempe, Prof. 

 Larmor, Mr. Francis Darwin, Sir Michael Foster, Lord 

 Kelvin, Prof. Armstrong, Mr, George Darwin, Prof. 

 Forsyth, Sir David Gill, Prof. Liversidge, Sir Norman 

 Lockyer, K.C.B., Prof. Schuster, Dr. Waller, Sir William 

 Ramsay, K.C.B., Mr. Bateson and Prof. Milne. London. — 

 The British .Academy for the Promotion of Historical, 

 Philosophical, and Philological Studies, Lord Reay, Right 

 Hon. James Brvce, Sir R. C. Jebb, Dr. Caird, Sir C. P. 

 Ilbert, K.C.S.L, Right Hon. Sir A. Lyall, G.C.I.E., 

 K.C.B., and Prof. Rhys Davids. Madrid. — Real Academia 

 de Ciencias, Senior Jos^ Echegaray and Prof. Santiago 

 Ramon y Cajal. Municli. — Kgl. Bayerische Akademie der 

 Wissenschaften, Prof. Ferdinand Lindemann and Prof. Karl 

 Krumbacher. Paris. — Acad^mie des Inscriptions et Belles 

 Lettres, M. Georges Perrot, M. Emile Senart, M. le Comte 

 de Lasteyrie, M. H. Omont, M. M. Collignon and M. J. 

 I^air. Paris. — ,'\cademie des Sciences, M. Mascart, M. 

 Gaston Darboux, M. Henri Poincar^, M. H. Moissan, 

 M. A. de Lapparent and M. A. Giard. Paris. — .^cad^mie 

 des Sciences Morales et Politiques, M. Georges Picot, M. 

 Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, M. Glasson, M. le Comte de Franque- 

 ville, M. Boutroux, M. le Baron de Courcel, M. Henri 

 Joly and M. Paul Meyer. Rome. — R. .'Vccademia dei 

 Lincei, Prof. Giacomo Ciamician and Count L'go 

 Balzani. St. Petershiirg. — Acad(5mie Imp^riale des Sciences, 

 Msr. A. S. Famintzin and Prof. C. H. Salemann. Stock- 

 holm. — Kongl. Vetenskaps Akademien, Prof. G. Retzius 

 and Prof. S. E. Henschen. Vienna. — Kaiserliche Akademie 

 der W'issenschaften : A. — Mathematish-naturwissenschaft- 

 liche Klasse, Prof. Viktor von Lang, Prof. Sigmund Exner, 

 Dr. Edmund Mojsisovics, Edler von Mojsvar, and Prof. 

 Heinrich Obersteiner. B. — Philosopisch-historische Klasse, 

 Prof. Theodor Gomperz, Prof. Joseph Karabacek and Prof. 

 Leopold von Schroeder. Washington. — National .'\cadeniy 

 of Sciences : Its foreign members — Sir Archibald Geikie and 

 Prof. E. Ray Lankester. 



NOTES. 



The following candidates selected by the council of the 

 Royal Society were duly elected at the meeting on Thursday 

 last. May 5 :— Dr. T. G. Brodie, Major S. G. Burrard, Prof. 

 A. C. Di.xon, Prof. J. J. Dobbie, Mr. T. H. Holland, Prof. 

 C. J. Joly, Dr. Hugh Marshall, Mr. Edward Meyrick, Dr. 

 Alexander Muirhead, Dr. G. H. F. Nuttall, Mr. A. E. 

 Shipley, Prof. M. W. Travers, Mr. Harold Wager, Mr. 

 G. T. Walker, and Prof. W. W. Watts. 



.^N influential committee has been formed for the purpose 

 of striking a medal in honour of the memory of the late 

 Prof. Cornu. The committee includes many members, 

 foreign associates and correspondants of the Institute of 

 France, as well as other leaders in the scientific world. 

 The medal will be in bronze, silver bronze and silver, and 

 the price will be 15 francs, 20 francs, and 50 francs re- 

 spectively. Subscribers for the medal are invited to send 

 their subscriptions to M. E. A. Martel, S rue .Minars, 

 2'' Arrondissement, Paris. 



."Vt its meeting on Monday, May 9, the .Academy of 

 Sciences of Paris elected Prof. Barrois, of Lille, to fill the 

 vacancy left in the section of mineralogy by the death of 

 the illustrious Fouqu^. This recognition of the claims of 

 one of the most distinguished geologists of the present day 

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will be welcomed far and wide, and nowhere more warmly 

 than in the British Isles, where M. Barrois has many 

 attached personal friends, and where he has himself done 

 so much to illustrate the geology of this country. 



As was generally expected, Prof. Rothpletz has been 

 appointed to the chair of geology in the university at Munich 

 and to the directorship of the State geological collections — 

 the posts left vacant by the death of the lamented K. von 

 Zittel. He has long- been connected with the university, 

 and has gained a wide reputation as an accomplished field 

 geologist and a good palaeontologist. His researches into 

 the tectonics of the Alps have attracted much attention in 

 this country, where he has many personal friends, and where 

 he has made many geological excursions. ' 



At a meeting of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences 

 on -April 21, Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., was elected a 

 foreign associate of the academy. 



A Reuter message from Cape Town reports the arrival 

 there of the steam yacht Scotia — the vessel in which the 

 Scottish Antarctic Expedition sailed. 



The death is announced of Mr. Eli Sowerbutts, who for 

 the last twenty years had acted as secretary of the Man- 

 chester Geographical Society, which he was largely instru- 

 mental in founding. Mr. Sowerbutts wms in his seventieth 

 year. 



Prof. Emile Bourquelot, of Paris, Sir Henry Little- 

 john, and Dr. J. Wilson Swan, F.R.S., have been elected 

 honorary members of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great 

 Britain. The following have been elected corresponding 

 members of the society : — Prof. E. Perrot, Paris ; Prof. 

 Heinrich Beckurts, Brunswick ; Prof. Carl Hartwicb, 

 Zurich ; Mr. S. T. Dunn, of the Hong Kong Botanical 

 Gardens; and Dr. G. W. Parker, British Guiana. 



The following have been elected honorary members of the 

 Royal Institution :— Prof. E. H. Amagat, Prof. L. P. 

 Cailletet, Prof. J. M. Crafts, Prof. H. A. Lorentz, Prof. 



E. W. Morley, Prof. E. C. Pickering, Prof, and Madame 

 Curie, Prof. H. L. Le Chatelier, Prof. G. Lippmann, Prof. 

 J. W. Bruhl, Prof. G. H. Quincke, Prof. E. Fischer, Prof. 



F. W. G. Kohlrausch, Prof. H. Landolt, Prof. L. Boltz- 

 mann. Dr. H. Kanierlingh Onnes, Dr. G. Lunge, Prof. 

 P. T. Cleve and Prof. P. Zeemann. 



Prof, van 't Hoff offers through the medium of the 

 Zeitschrift fiir physikalisclie Cheniie a prize of 60/, for the 

 best and most complete synopsis of the literature of catalytic 

 phenomena. Competitors are required to send in their 

 papers before June 30, 1905, to the editors of the Zeitschrift, 

 2 Linndstrasse, Leipzig, and the judges are Profs. 

 van 't Hoff, .Arrhenius and Ostwald. 



An international congress on philosophy h;is been 

 arranged to take place at Geneva from September 4 to & 

 under M. Ernest Naville as honorary president and Prof. 

 Gourd as acting president. The languages used will be 

 English, French, German and Italian. The congress will 

 be divided into five sections, dealing with history of philo- 

 sophy, general philosophy and psychology, applied philo- 

 sophy, philosophy of the sciences, and history of science. 

 The secretary is Dr. Ed. Claparfede, 11 Champel, Geneva. 



The British Fire Prevention Committee offers a gold 

 medal and a purse of 20/. for the best fable for children 

 calculated to serve as a warning against the danger of 



