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of telling him, without letting him know who has 

 ' sung ' him ; but the man who leaves the bone about 

 must, of course, be very careful to destroy his own 

 tracks. Have you ever heard of faith-healing? 

 Well, dying from bone-pointing is faith-dying! 

 Goggle Eye, after he had found the bones lying 

 about, knew exactly what was going to happen to 

 him — and of course it did." 



" You cannot change a blackfellow into a white 

 man, if you try; you only make a bad, cunning, sly 



Fig. i.— Tree-burial, south of the Roper River. From ' 



old blackfellow. I don't mean you can't make a 

 blackfellow into a better blackfellow. I know that 

 can be done, if he is kept a blackfellow, true to his 

 blackfellow instincts." \. ( '. H. 



NOTES. 



The Nobel prizes in science have this Mar been awarded 

 as follows: -Hie prize for physics to Prof. P. Lenard, of 

 the University of Kiel, for his investigations on kathode 

 rays; the prize for chemistry to Prof. Adolf von Bayer, ol 

 the University of .Munich, for the development in organic 

 chemistry and chemical industry resulting from his works 

 on organic colouring matters and hydro-aromatic com- 

 pounds; the medical prize to Dr. Robert Koch, for his 

 discoveries in connection with tuberculosis. The prizes, 

 consisting of a sum of about 7700/., an illuminated 

 diploma, and a gold medal with an appropriate inscrip- 

 tion, were presented b) King Oscar on December 10 at 

 the annual ceremony in commemi ration of the founder 

 ol the institution. 



The following note appeared in the Times of 

 December 7 :— Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, whose resigna- 

 tion of the post of director of the Royal Botanic Gardens 

 at Kew is announced, has held that appointment since 

 1885, and for ten years — 1875-1885 — before his promotion 

 he was assistant director. His successor, Lieut. -Colonel 

 David Pram, had a distinguished university careei at 

 Aberdeen and Edinburgh before he entered the Indian 

 NO. 1885, VOL. 73] 



Medical Service in 1884. Three years after his arrival in 

 India he was nominated curator of Calcutta Herbarium ; 

 in 1895 he became professor of botany at the Medical 

 College, Calcutta, and superintendent of the Royal Botanic- 

 Garden there, and in 1898 he was appointed director of the 

 Botanical Survey of India. He is forty-eight years of age. 



The German Anatomical Society has decided to erect a 

 memorial of its honorary president, the late Prof. Albert 

 von Kolliker. The memorial will be erected in Wurzburg, 

 with which the 

 famous teacher and 

 investigator was in- 

 timately associated. 



Prof. E. Riecki:, 

 professor of experi- 

 mental physics and 

 applied electricity in 

 the University of 

 Gdttingen, and also 

 director of the 

 Physic al Institute, 

 celebrated his six- 

 tieth birthday on 

 December 1 ; whilst 

 Prof. R. Fittig, 

 emeritus professor of 

 chemistry of the 

 University of Strass- 

 burg, celebrated his 

 seventieth birthday 

 on December 6. 



1 11 1: committee- 

 appointed to carry 

 the proposal of a 

 memorial to the late 

 Prof. Virchow into 

 execution has now, 

 we learn from the British Medical Journal, a sum of 

 400,./. at its disposal. Of this amount, 1800/. has been 

 contributed by subscribers and J200/. by the city of Berlin. 

 Three prizes, « > 1 the value respectively of 150/., 100!., and 

 50/., are offered for the best design of a memorial. Draw- 

 ings must be sent in before April, 1906. 



There is a movement on foot in German chemical and 

 technical circles to erec t a statue in Freiburg, Saxony, to 

 the memory of the late Prof. Dr. Clemens Winkler, who 

 was professor in the Royal Mining Academy at Freiburg, 

 and died in Dresden last year. 'The proposed memorial is 

 to lake the form of a large block of granite decorated with 

 a medallion picture of the deceased investigator and a short 

 ace coat of his life's work. 



I 111 French Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 

 has elected I>r. Arthur Evans, keeper of the Ashmolean 

 Museum, and Mr. Barclay, head keeper of the department 

 of coins and medals in the British Museum, corresponding 

 members of the academy. 



The thirteenth meeting of the International Congress of 

 Prehistoric Anthropology and Archaeology will be held at 

 .Monaco, under the patronage of Prince Albert the First, on 

 April 16-21, 1906. Particulars as to the congress may be 

 obtained from the general secretary, Dr. Verneau, 61 Rue 

 de Button, Paris. 



At a meeting of the British committee for the Marseilles 

 International Exhibition of Oceanographv and Sea 



1 The Little Black Pri 



