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[April io, 191, 



Manchester Cooperative Wholesale Society, 21/., 

 and many medical societies. Lord Strathcona has 

 sent a donation of ioo/., and Prof. Ehrlich, of 

 Frankfurt, has sent one of 500 marks. 



Committees for the purpose of collecting sub- 

 scriptions have been formed by the Universities of 

 Oxford, Cambridge, and Durham, and other 

 universities are also making efforts locally to pro- 

 mote the success of the memorial. Arrangements 

 have also been made for the formation of com- 

 mittees in the British Dominions beyond the seas 

 and in foreign countries. 



The proposed memorial will Lie of a threefold 

 character, and consists of (1) a simple marble 

 medallion bearing a sculptured portrait of Lord 

 Lister, to be placed in Westminster Abbey among 

 the monuments of the nation's illustrious dead; 



(2) a larger and more conspicuous monument, to 

 be erected in some public place in London, and 



(3) the founding- of an International Memorial 

 Fund, from which either grants in aid of re- 

 searches bearing on surgery or rewards in recog- 

 nition of important contributions to surgical 

 science will be made, irrespective of nationality. 

 A considerable sum of money is required to carry 

 out these proposals. Donations should be sent 

 to the treasurers of the fund at the Royal Society, 

 Burlington House, London. W. 



NOTES. 



Sir Oliver Lodge has been elected president of the 

 British Association, in succession to the late Sir Wil- 

 liam White, for the meeting; to be held in Birmingham 

 next September. 



The Lord Mayor has given permission for the 

 annual meeting of the British Science Guild to be held 

 at the Mansion House on Wednesdav, Mav 21, at 

 4 p.m., when he will preside, and Sir William Mather, 

 P.C. (Lord Haldane's successor to the presidentship), 

 will be present. The annual dinner of the guild will 

 be held on Monday, May 26, at the Trocadero 

 Restaurant. The g-uild has recently been considering 

 the important question of pure milk and the Govern- 

 ment Milk Bill, and has drawn up a report in con- 

 nection with it. A report has also been prepared on 

 national education, and it will be presented to the 

 Government in connection with the contemplated 

 organisation of our educational system. 



Lord BuRGHCLERE, chairman of the Royal Commis- 

 sion on Historical Monuments, Sir Thomas R. Fraser, 

 F.R.S., professor of materia medica and clinical medi- 

 cine, University of Edinburgh, and Mr. E. H. Tenny- 

 son-D'Eyncourt, Director of Naval Construction, 

 Admiralty, have been elected members of the 

 Athenaeum Club, under the provisions of the rule of 

 the club which empowers the annual election by the 

 committee of a certain number of persons of "distin- 

 guished eminence in science, literature, the arts, or 

 lor public services." 



The death is announced, on April 7. at sixty-nine 

 years of age, of Mr. F. G. Smart, fellow of the 

 Linnean and the Royal Geographical Societies. 

 NO. 2267, VOL. 91] 



Mr. G. C. Curtis is starting for Hawaii in order 

 in carry out a commission to construct for the geo- 

 logical museum at Harvard a relief model of the 

 volcano Kilauea. 



Prof. Ira N. Hollis, who has been head of the 

 department of engineering- at Harvard since 1893, has 

 resigned his chair in order to accept the presidencj 

 of the Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass. 



The death is announced, in his seventy-sixth year, 

 of Prof. H. Alexan Bezjian, teacher of physical science 

 in the Central Turkey College, Aintab, Turkey-in- 

 Asia, and described by The Times as "one of the most 

 distinguished scientific men that Turkey has yet pro- 

 duced." 



The medical faculty of the University of Birming- 

 ham has suffered a severe loss by the sudden death 

 of Prof. Jordan Lloyd, who had been a member of 

 the University staff since the foundation of the Uni- 

 versity, having previously occupied the chair of surgery 

 at Mason College since 1891. 



The summer meeting of the Institution of Mechan- 

 ical Engineers will be held in Cambridge, and will 

 begin on Monday, July 28. On the following day the 

 Yice-Chancellor of the LTniversity, the Mayor of Cam- 

 bridge, and the members of the local committee will 

 receive and welcome the president, Sir H. Frederick 

 Donaldson, K.C.B., and the council and members 

 of the institution, in the Senate House of the Univer- 

 sity. Papers will be read and discussed on that and 

 succeeding days, and there will be visits to engineer- 

 ing works, laboratories, and places of interest in Cam- 

 bridge, as well as various social functions. 



On Tuesday next, April 15, at three o'clock, Prof. 

 W. Bateson will deliver the first of two lectures at 

 the Royal Institution on the heredity of sex and some 

 cognate problems, in continuation of those delivered 

 before Easter, and on Thursday, April 17, Prof. J. 

 Garstang will begin a course of three lectures on the 

 progress of Hittite studies. The Friday evening dis- 

 course on April iS will be delivered by Dr. T. M. 

 Lowry on applications of polarised light, on April 25 

 by Prof. J. Garstang on Meroe : four years' excava- 

 tions of the ancient Ethiopian capital, and on Mav 2 

 by Mr. H. G. Plimmer on blood parasites. 



A joint meeting of the Institution of Electrical 

 Engineers and the Societe Internationale des Elec- 

 triciens will be held in Paris on May 21-24. The 

 inaugural meeting on Wednesday, May 21, will be 

 held at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers. The 

 programme includes papers and discussions on the 

 electrification of railways; long-distance transmission 

 of electrical energy ; lighting by means of vapour-tube 

 lamps; and wireless telegraphy. There will be a re- 

 ception and banquet at the Palais d'Orsay by invita- 

 tion of the Societe Internationale des Electriciens; a 

 kinematograph demonstration by M. Gaumont ; visit 

 to the aerodynamical laboratory of M. Eiffel at Auteuil ; 

 reception by M. Eiffel at the highest platform of the 

 Eiffel Tower, and inspection of the wireless installa- 

 tion, as well as many other social functions. 



