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illustrated ; Les Bases physico-chimiques de la Chimie 

 aiialytique, Herz, illustrated ; La Theorie des Courants 

 alter'natifs, A. Russell, illustrated. Harper and Brothers. 

 —The Life of the Universe, Prof. Svante Arrhenius. Long- 

 ttians and Co.— Spinning Tops and Gyroscopic Motion, 

 H. Crabtree, illustrated ; Electric Furnaces : the Produc- 

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 of Electric Furnaces, Prof. \V. Borchcrs, translated by 

 H. G. Solomon, part ii., illustrated. Macmillan and Co., 

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 Translation of Seneca's " Quasstiones Naturales," J. 

 Clarice, with notes on the subject-matter by Sir A. Geikie, 

 K.C.B., P.R.S. John Murray. — The Interpretation of 

 Radium,. F. Soddy (The Progressive Science Series), with 

 diagram's. The Oxford University Press. — Elements of 

 Non-Euclidean Geometry, B. J. L. Coolidge. Kegan Paul 

 and Co., Ltd. — Music: its Laws and Evolution, J. Com- 

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 «;arrett (International Science Series). The Rationalist 

 Press Association, Ltd. — The History of Astronomy, Prof. 

 G. Forbes, F.R.S. The University Tutorial Press. Ltd.— 

 Geometry, Theoretical and Practical, section vi.. Solid 

 Geometry (Euclid xi.l, W. P. Workman and A. G. 

 Cracknell. 



Medical Science. 

 F. Alcan (Paris). — Le Diabfete sucr6, Lepine ; Les 

 ali(5n4s Voyageurs, Joflfroy and Dupouy. Bailliere, Tindall 

 tind Cox. — Differential Diagnosis of Bacteriology, E. P. 

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 and Co., Ltd.— The Fluids of the Body, Prof. E. H. 

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 of Babylonia and Assyria from the Earliest Times until the 

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 too-ether with a Study of the Customs connected with 

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UNIVERSITY AND EDUC.^TION.AL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Birmingham.— Sir E. Ray Lankcster, K.C.B., F.R.S., 

 has been invited to deliver the Huxley lecture for the pre- 

 sent session. 



Dr. David Eraser Harris has been appointed lecturer 

 in physiology to succeed Dr. Rhodes, who has resigned. 



Cambridge.— The- Public Orator, Dr. Sandys, spoke as 

 follows on Thursday, March 4, in presenting Dr. Sven 

 Anders Hedin for the degree of Doctor of Science honoris 

 causa : — 



Scandlnaviae filium intrepidum, post tot pencula 

 pcregre suscepta denuo Britannis redditum, Acadeitiiae 

 totius nomine libenter salutamus. Salutamus quattuor 

 ■universitatum illustrium alumnum insignem, qui et Persiam 

 et Mesopotamiam ct Caucasi montes et regiones trans mare 

 Caspium late patentes olim peragravit, quique postea per 

 annos deccm Asiam mcdiam ter penetravit, ter scicntiarum 



