AUGUST 14, 1902] 
Prof. Pasquale Villari has been recently elected president of the 
Academy. The report of the vice-president, Signor Blaserna, 
shows that in the past year the Academy has issued three 
volumes of Proceedings, containing 192 pages and notes, a 
volume containing memoirs relating to moral sciences, and 
notices of excavations, brought out under the auspices of the 
Minister of Public Instruction, and four parts, with 160 plates, 
of the ‘‘Codex Atlanticus” of Leonardo da Vinci. The Academy 
has taken part in the meetings of the International Association of 
Academies, and in work connected with the Royal Society’s 
“‘ International Catalogue of Scientific Literature.” The ob- 
servatory on Monte Rosa has been considerably enlarged, a fund 
for this purpose having been founded by Queen Margherita, whose 
name the edifice bears; it is now available for researches in 
meteorology, physics and physiology. A fresh field of study has 
been opened up in the island of Crete, and an expedition, pre- 
sided over by Prof. Halbherr, has taken a prominent part in the 
excavations proceeding in that island. 
OF the three royal prizes offered by the Reale Accademia 
dei Lincei for the year, that for physics has been awarded to 
Prof. Cantone, of Pavia, for his researches in the phenomena of 
elastic equilibrium outside the limits of Hooke’s Law. Prof. 
Cantone has obtained phenomena in elasticity closely resembling 
the phenomena of magnetic hysteresis, which are appro- 
priately described as ‘‘ elastic hysteresis,” and the laws of which 
account fora large number of observed facts. The prize for 
archzeology has been conferred on Prof. Gherardo Ghirardine, 
of Padua, whose work, while covering an extensive range, has 
been of especial interest in connection with the antiquities of 
the Veneti. The prize for history is unawarded. Under the 
Santoro foundation, an extraordinary prize has b2en awarded to 
Mr. Marconi, who, Signor Blaserna remarks, ‘‘is generally 
recognised as the first who had the fertile idea of making use of 
Hertzian waves, not for sending signals to a distance of a few 
metres, as had already been done by Righi, Lodge and other 
investigators, who deserve the credit for having first started in this 
direction, but for making them the basis of a system of telegraphy 
properly so-called.” Of the two prizes offered by the Minister 
of Public Instruction, that for history has been divided, awards of 
700 lire being made to Profs. Cogo (Genoa), Segre (Massa) and 
Sorbelli (Bologna), and premiums of 400 lire to Profs. Luiso 
(Lucca), Santini (Florence) and Strazulla (Messina). The 
Ministerial prize for mathematics has been divided into two 
prizes of 1300 lire, awarded to Profs. Giuseppe Bagnera 
(Messina) and Domenico de Francesco (Naples), and a premium 
of 700 lire has been assigned to Prof. Michele de Franchis 
(Melfi). The division of these prizes affords ample evidence of 
the activity of members of the Italian teaching profession in the 
matter of research. The proceedings of the meeting concluded 
with an address by Prof. G. Gloria on ‘‘The Position of the 
World in Modern Astronomy.”’ 
Tue Advisory Committee appointed by the King in connec- 
tion with the erection of a sanatorium for tuberculosis in England 
announces that 180 essays were sent in in competition for the three 
prizes. The Advisory Committee consists of Sir William 
Broadbent, Sir R. Douglas Powell, Sir Felix Semon, Sir 
Hermann Weber and Dr. Theodore Williams. The prizes 
have been awarded as follows :—First prize, value 500/., Dr. 
Arthur Latham, with whom is associated as architect Mr. W. 
West (London). Second prize, value 200/., Dr. F. J. Wethered, 
with whom are associated as architects Messrs. Law and Allen 
(London). Third prize, value 1oo/., Dr. E. C. Morland, with 
whom is associated as architect Mr. G. Morland. 
GILBERT WHITE’s house at Selborne is again for sale, and 
the suggestion is made by Mr. E. A. Martin, member of the 
council of the Selborne Society, that it should be purchased as 
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a permanent memorial of the father of British naturalists. The 
house, known as The Wakes, is situated in the main street of 
the village of Selborne, and is in much the same condition as it 
was in White’s time. 
TuE British Pharmaceutical Conference is being held at 
Dundee as we go to press. The members were formally 
received by the Lord Provost of Dundee on Monday, and on 
Tuesday the opening meeting was held at the University Col- 
lege, when an address was delivered by the president. 
REUTER’s AGENCY is informed that the Prince of Monaco 
has presented a quantity of deep-sea apparatus to Mr. W. S. 
Bruce for the Scottish Antarctic Expedition, including trawls, 
nets, water-bottles for obtaining samples of water from great 
depths for physical examination, thermometers and other 
similar apparatus, 
THE annual meeting of the French Association for the 
Advancement of Science was held last week at Montauban, in 
the South of France, when an address on the development 
of wireless telegraphy was delivered by M. Carpentier, presi- 
dent of the Association. Electric traction was the chief sub- 
ject of discussion at one of the general meetings. Since the 
last meeting the Association has received a legacy of two 
thousand francs from M. E. Lamy, and one of thirty thousand 
francs from M. Guilleminet. 
THE following papers will be brought before the Section of 
Physiology at the Belfast meeting of the British Association :— 
“* The Estimation of Small Quantities of Urea,” Mr. Barcroft ; 
‘** Nerve-Regeneration,” Prof. W. D. Halliburton, F.R.S., and 
Dr. F. W. Mott, F.R.S. ; *‘The Morphology of the Camel’s 
Brain,” Dr. W. Page May ; ‘“‘The Hydrolysis of Glycogen,” 
Dr. W. A. Osborne and Mr. S. Zobel; ‘‘Some New Features 
in the Intimate Structure of the Human Cerebral Cortex,” 
Dr. John Turner ; (1) ‘* The Paths of Conduction for Volitional 
Impulses, (2) ‘‘ The Functions of the Pituitary Body,” Prof, 
SE. A. Schafer, F.R.S. 
THE committee entrusted by the Society of Arts to award 
the Shaw prize for industrial hygiene has awarded a gold 
medal, or a prize of 20.. to Mr. James Tonge, jun., of West- 
houghton, Lancashire, .or his hydraulic mining cartridge—an 
appliance for breaking down coal in mines without the use of 
explosives. The prize, under the conditions laid down by the 
testator (Mr. Benjamin Shaw), is given ‘‘ For any discovery, 
invention, or newly-devised method for obviating or materially 
diminishing any risk to life, limb or health, incidental to any 
industrial occupation, and not previously capable of being so 
obviated or diminished by any known and practically available 
means,” 
ON August 5 a statue erected to the memory of Pasteur was 
unveiled at Dole, the birthplace of the great chemist. The 
following account of the ceremony is given by the French 
correspondent of the Chemzst and Druggist :—Nineteen years 
| ago, on July 14, 1883, the Doloise municipality commemorated 
the fact by placing a marble slab on the modest house where he 
was born on December 27, 1822, in the Rue des Tanneurs, now 
called Rue Pasteur. For the inauguration of the statue the 
townspeople had made extensive preparations, and all the local 
notabilities, including the members of Parliament, were present. 
The Government was represented by M. Trouillot, Minister of 
Commerce, who made the distribution of medals and decora- 
tions that is customary here on such occasions. He afterwards 
proceeded to the ceremony of unveiling the monument, and 
made an interesting speech, in which he traced the life of 
Pasteur. The Minister referred to it as an incessant struggle 
against death and suffering, which ended in victory for the 
He also spoke of the advantages suffering humanity 
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