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MAT OLE 
[JUNE 1, 1899 
This evening a banquet will be given by Pembroke 
College, at which many of the distinguished guests and 
older colleagues of Sir George will be entertained in the 
hall of the College, which he entered as a freshman in 
1837. During the evening the University will entertain 
about one thousand visitors and residents at a con- 
versazione in the Fitzwilliam Museum, an interesting 
feature of which will be the presentation by Lord Kelvin 
of two busts, executed by Mr. Hamo Thorneycroft, of 
Sir George Stokes—one to the University, and the other 
to Pembroke College. 
On Friday at Ir a.m., in the Senate House, the 
addresses of congratulation will be presented to the 
Vice-Chancellor, and handed by him to Sir George Stokes. 
Some sixty-five different institutions from all parts of the 
world will be represented. At 7 o’clock the delegates 
and their hosts will be entertained at luncheon by the 
Vice-Chancellor at Downing College, and at 2.45 a 
second congregation will be held in the Senate House, at 
which the Chancellor, the Duke of Devonshire, will 
preside. At this congregation, the honorary degree of 
Sc.D. will be conferred on Profs. A. Cornu and J. G. 
Darboux of Paris, on Prof. A. A. Michelson of Chicago, 
on Prof. M. G. Mittag-Leffler of Stockholm, on Prof. G. 
H. Quincke of Heidelberg, and on Prof. W. Voigt of 
Gottingen. A gold medal struck in honour of the 
occasion will be presented to Sir George Stokes by the 
Chancellor, and replicas will be sent to all the Uni- 
versities and learned societies who are represented at the 
Jubilee. 
Later in the afternoon a garden party will be held in 
the grounds of Pembroke College, and in the evening the 
University will entertain the delegates and guests at a 
dinner given in the hall of Trinity College. The 
Chancellor will take the chair, and amongst other dis- 
tinguished guests who have accepted invitations may be 
mentioned the Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, the 
Bishop of Ely, the President of the Royal Society, the Vice- 
Chancellors of the Universities of Oxford, Aberdeen, and 
London, the Earl of Rosse, Lord Kelvin, Lord Rayleigh, 
Lord Blythswood, the Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, 
Monsignor Molloy, and many others. 
There will be a special meeting of the Cambridge 
Philosophical Society, at which some of the foreign 
members will, it is expected, read papers. This will 
probably take place on Monday, June 5. Many of the 
guests will leave Cambridge for London to take part in 
the anniversary celebrations of the Royal Institution. 
NOTES. 
A MEETING for discussion will be held at the Royal Society 
on Thursday next, June 8. The subject to be discussed—pre- 
ventive inoculation—will be introduced by M. Haffkine. 
ARRANGEMENTS for the sixty-ninth annual meeting of 
the British Association at Dover, in September next, are 
making The local committees are 
actively at response to the appeal of 
the hospitality committees over 1500/7. has already been 
subscribed. As previously announced, the president of the 
meeting will be Prof. Michael Foster, and the pre- 
sidents of the various sections are to be :—Mathematical and 
physical science, Prof. J. H. Poynting ; chemistry, Mr. Horace 
T. Brown ; geology, Sir Archibald Geikie ; zoology, Mr. Adam 
Sedgwick ; geography, Sir John Murray, K.C.B. ; economical 
science, Mr. Henry Higgs; mechanical science, Sir William 
H. White ; anthropology, Mr. C. H. Read; physiology, Mr. 
J. N. Langley; botany, Sir George King, K.C.I.E. The 
first general meeting will be held at the Connaught Hall 
on Wednesday, September 13, at 8 p.m. precisely, when 
Prof. Michael Foster will deliver an address; on Thursday 
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work, and in 
evening, September 14, at 8 30 p.m., there will be a soirée 
in the School of Art; on Friday evening, September 15, at 
8.30 p.m., a discourse will be delivered by Prof. Charles 
Richet, on ‘‘La vibration nerveuse’’; on Monday evening, 
September 18, at 8.30 p.m., a discourse will be delivered 
by Prof. Fleming, F.R.S., on ‘‘The Centenary of the 
Electric Current”; on Tuesday evening, September 19, at 
8.30 p.m., there will be a soirée in the School of Art; on 
Wednesday, September 20, the concluding general meeting 
will be held at 2.30 p.m. Excursions to places of interest 
in the neighbourhood of Dover and to the continent will be 
made on Thursday, September 21. Members of the Asso- 
ciation Frangaise pour l’Avancement des Sciences will visit 
Dover on Saturday, September 16. Members of the British 
Association are invited to visit Boulogne on Thursday, 
September 21. 
THE following naturalists have been elected foreign members 
of the Linnean Society :—M. Adrien Franchet of Paris, Prof. 
Emil Christian Hansen of Copenhagen, Dr. Seiitsiro Ikeno of 
the Imperial University, Tokyo; Prof. Eduard von Martens of 
Berlin, and Prof. Georg Ossian Sars of Christiania. 
THE gold medal of the Linnean Society, which was pre- 
sented at the anniversary meeting on May 24, has this year been 
awarded to Mr. John Gilbert Baker, of Kew, in recognition of 
his important contributions to botanical science. Amongst these 
may be mentioned his Syzopsis Filicum, his monographs of the 
daffodils and roses, handbooks on the Amarylideae, [rideae, 
Bromeliceae, and the fern allies; three volumes on the Com- 
posttae in Martins’s ‘‘ Flora Brasiliensis,”’ and several papers on 
Malagasy botany, the Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles, the 
Bulbous Flora of the Cape, and the Zegumznosae of British 
India, ‘‘ Flora of the English Lake Country,” and numerous 
papers communicated to the /owrna/ of the Linnean Society, the 
Journal of Botany, and other periodicals. 
Ar the annual meeting of the Victoria Institute, to be held 
on June 19, an address will be delivered by Sir Richard 
Temple. 
THE anniversary meeting of the Royal Geographical Society 
will be held on Monday next, June 5. The Society’s annual 
conversazione will be held in the Natural History Museum on 
Wednesday, June 7. 
THERE will be no Friday evening discourse at the Royal 
Institution to-morrow (June 2), as Mr. H. G. Wells, who was 
to lecture on ‘‘ The Discovery of the Future,” is in too weak a 
state of health to do so, 
AT the recent annual meeting of the American Academy of 
Art and Sciences, Mr. Alexander Agassiz was elected president 
of the Academy. The Rumford medal was awarded to Mr. 
Charles F. Brush, of Cleveland, for ‘‘ the practical development 
of electrical arc lighting.” 
A REvTER telegram dated Helsingfors, May 26, says :— 
“©The collected pieces of the aérolite which fell at Bjurholm 
some time ago have been sent here, and placed in the geological 
museum. The largest piece is said to weigh 206 Russian 
pounds, while all the parts together weigh 850 Ibs.” 
Dr. L. A. BAUER has resigned his position as assistant 
professor of mathematics and mathematical physics at the 
University of Cincinnati, in order to accept the position of chief 
of the newly-formed division of terrestrial magnetism of the 
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. To this division has 
been assigned the magnetic survey of the United States and the 
countries under its jurisdiction, and the establishment of magnetic 
observatories. Dr. Bauer has also been appointed lecturer in 
