May 8, 1902] 
; NOTES. 
THE following fifteen candidates have been selected by the 
council of the Royal Society to be recommended for election into 
the Society :—Mr. H. Brereton Baker, Prof. Henry T. Bovey, 
Prof. Rubert Boyce, Mr. John Brown, Mr. William Bate Hardy, 
Mr. Alfred Harker, Mr. Sidney S. Hough, Mr. Robert Kidston, 
Mr. Thomas Mather. Mr, John Henry Michell, Mr. Hugh 
Frank Newall, Prof. William M. Flinders Petrie, Mr. William 
Jackson Pope, Mr. Edward Saunders and Dr. Arthur Willey. 
Tue gold medal of the Linnean Society of London has this 
year been awarded to Prof. Rudolf Albert von Kolliker, of 
Wiirzburg, in recognition of his distinguished contributions to 
zoological science. The medal will be presented at the forth- 
coming anniversary meeting, which will be held at Burlington 
House on May 24. 
WE are glad to learn that Prof. Rudolph Virchow has now 
recovered in what may be termed a highly satisfactory manner 
from the serious accident with which he met a few months ago. 
A few days ago he was able to leave Berlin for the country, 
where he will reside for some months to come, leave of absence 
having been granted him for the whole summer term. In the 
meantime, his duties of lecturing and examining will be under- 
taken by his three principal assistants. 
Art the annual meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 
held on April 29, Mr. J. C. Hawkshaw was elected president 
and Sir William White, K.C.B., Mr. F. W. Webb, Sir Guilford 
Molesworth, K.C.I.E., and Sir Alexander Binnie were elected 
vice-presidents of the Institution. 
News from the Swedish Antarctic expedition under Dr. 
Otto Nordenskjold has been received by the Wew York Herald. 
The expedition has disembarked at Snow Hill, Louis Philippe 
Land, accompanied by the surgeon, Dr. Eklof, Lieutenant 
Sobral and two sailors. From Cape Horn Dr. Nordenskjold 
tried to sail the Avéarctéc directly south, but too many icebergs 
were encountered and there was danger of the ship being im- 
prisoned in the ice for a long time, so he decided to change 
his course. The expedition will remain at Snow Hill until next 
summer. 
THE conversazione of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 
will be held in the Natural History Museum, South Kensing- 
ton, on Tuesday, July 1. In view of the fact that the Tram- 
ways and Light Railways Congress will then be sitting, and 
many of the foreign delegates to the Congress are likely to 
attend the conversazione, and that the Incorporated Municipal 
Electrical Association will also open its convention in London 
on the following day, one of the large side galleries will be 
opened for the conversazione in addition to the central hall of 
the Museum. 
THE seventh annual congress of the South-Eastern Union of 
Scientific Societies will be held at Canterbury on June 5-7. 
On Thursday, June 5, the president-elect, Dr. Jonathan 
Hutchinson, F.R.S., will deliver the annual address. The 
following papers will be read during the meeting :—‘‘ The Marine 
Aquarium, without Circulation or Change of Water,” by Mr. 
Sibert Saunders ; ‘‘ Recent Researches on Mimicry in Insects,” 
by Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S. ; ‘‘ The Preservation of our In- 
digenous Flora, its Necessity, and the Means of Accomplishing 
it,” by Prof. G. S. Boulger and Mr. E. A. Martin; ‘*‘ Borings 
in the Neighbourhood of Canterbury,” by Mr. W. Whitaker, 
F.R.S.; ‘‘ Mycorhiza, the Root Fungus,” by Miss Annie Lorrain 
Smith. There will be an excursion to the South-Eastern Agri- 
cultural College, Wye, by the kind invitation of the principal, 
Prof. A. D. Hall, who will explain the valuable experimental 
work now being carried on in connection with the college. 
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THE Lawes Agricultural Trust Committee has appointed Mr, 
A. D. Hall, principal of the Agricultural College, Wye, to 
succeed the late Sir Henry Gilbert, F.R.S., as director of the 
Rothamsted Experimental Station. Principal Hall, who 
graduated at Oxford, and has since distinguished himself by his 
successful development of Wye College as a centre of agri- 
cultural education, will thus carry on the experiments which 
were jointly conducted by Sir John Bennet Lawes and Sir 
Henry Gilbert for nearly sixty years, and are now of world- 
wide fame. It is confidently expected that not only will the 
continuity of past work be maintained, but that agricultural 
science will be advanced in many new directions at this well- 
known centre of research. 
THE 7Zimes announces the death, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, of 
Mr. John Glover, the inventor of the ‘‘Glover Tower,” the 
introduction of which represented a great advance in the 
manufacture of sulphuric acid. Mr. Glover did not patent 
his invention, and never derived much pecuniary profit from 
it, but chemical manufacturers know the value of the boon he 
conferred on them, and the Society of Chemical Industry testified 
to the importance of his work by awarding him in 1896 its 
gold medal for conspicuous service to applied chemistry. 
THE death of Prof. H. von Pechmann, in sad circumstances, 
on April 24, is a great loss to the science of chemistry in 
Germany. He had been ill for a long time past, suffering, it 
would appear, from an incurable nervous trouble and frequent 
attacks of mental depression. That he might be restored to 
health he was granted a long leave of absence, and on resuming 
his duties was seemingly better than he had been for some time. 
But soon after his return he again become depressed and, while 
in that state, put an end to his life by taking strong sulphuric 
acid in his laboratory. Prof. von Pechmann was only fifty-two 
years of age, having been born in 1850, and the University of 
Tubingen will feel his loss very keenly. Appointed to the chair 
of chemistry at the last-mentioned University in 1895 in succes- 
sion to Prof. Lothar Meyer, his skill in teaching and his personal 
charm were such that the number of students under him in- 
creased very considerably and, as a consequence, the enlarge- 
ment of his laboratory and lecture-theatre was regarded as 
necessary. The late professor was a native of Niiremberg, and 
descended from an old Bavarian family of great social influence. 
THE council of the Institution of Civil Engineers has made 
the following awards for papers read and discussed before the 
Institution during the past session :—a Telford medal (in standard 
gold) to Mr. W. M. Mordey, and a George Stevenson medal (in 
standard gold) to Mr. B. M. Jenkin ; a Watt medal (in standar 
gold) to Mr. J. A. F. Aspinall ; and Telford premiums to Messrs. 
W. C. Copperthwaite, A. H. Haigh and J. Davis. The council 
has also awarded the Howard quinquennial prize of the Insti- 
tution to Mr. R. A. Hadfield (of Sheffield) for his scientific 
work in investigating methods of treatment and new alloys of 
steel, and on account of the importance, in industry, of some 
of the new products introduced by him. The presentation of 
these awards, together with those for papers which have not been 
subject to discussion and will be announced later, will take place 
at the inaugural meeting of next session. 
THE seventy-third anniversary meeting of the Zoological 
Society of London was held on April 29, the chair being 
taken by the Duke of Bedford, K.G., president of the 
Society. The report of the council announced that the 
Prince of- Wales had become a vice-patron of the Society. 
In February last the council awarded the gold medal of the 
Society to Sir Harry TH. Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B. Sir 
Harry Johnston received the silver medal of the Society in 
1894 in acknowledgment of his zoological investigations in 
