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vincial geologist, Bureau of Mines, Toronto, 

 Ontario; or from Mr. Cole. 



An excursion of ten days after the meeting 

 to the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Coast 

 is contemplated. Accommodation in the 

 special train will be limited to 150 invited 

 members, including 25 ladies. 



Those proposing to attend the "Winnipeg 

 meeting can obtain from any railway ticket 

 agent in eastern or western Canada a standard 

 convention certificate which when properly 

 validated in Winnipeg will enable them to re- 

 turn over the same route to the initial start- 

 ing point without charge. Such certificates 

 will be sold from August 16 to August 23 and 

 will be valid for return until October 31. The 

 fare from Quebec or Montreal to Winnipeg 

 is $36. 



It will be remembered that members of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science will be admitted as full members 

 of the British Association, for the Winnipeg 

 meeting (and entitled to receive the volume 

 of Proceedings), on payment of a fee of $5 

 (half the regular fee). It is important that 

 those intending to be present should send in 

 their names as soon as possible; printed mat- 

 ter bearing on the meeting will be gladly 

 furnished by the local secretaries, the Univer- 

 sity of Manitoba, Winnipeg. 



THE DARWIN CENTENARY AT CAMBRIDGE 

 The program of the commemoration began 

 on the evening of June 22, when Lord Eay- 

 leigh, the chancellor of the university, wel- 

 comed to Cambridge the delegates, of whom 

 there were two hundred and fifty, including 

 thirty from the United States. On the fol' 

 lowing day addresses were presented by the 

 delegates and speeches were made by the 

 chancellor, Professor Hertwig, Professor 

 MetchnikofP, Dr. Osborn and Sir E. Eay 

 Lankester. In the afternoon there was a 

 garden party at Christ's College, where Dar- 

 win was a student. There had been arranged 

 there an extensive exhibition of portraits, 

 manuscripts and other objects. To Christ's 

 College the American delegates presented a 

 bronze replica of the bust of Darwin by Mr. 



Couper, presented by the New York Academy 

 of Sciences to the American Museum of 

 Natural History. In the evening there was 

 a dinner with addresses by Mr. Balfour and 

 Professor Poulton. This was followed by a 

 reception at Pembroke College. On Thurs- 

 day honorary degrees were conferred on 

 twenty-one delegates whose names have al- 

 ready been printed in Science and Sir Archi- 

 bald Geikie, president of the Eoyal Society, 

 gave the Eede lecture on Darwin as a geol- 

 ogist. In the afternoon there was a garden 

 party at Trinity College given by members of 

 the Darwin family. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Simon Newcomb, the great astronomer, born 

 in Wallace, Nova Scotia, on March 12, 1835, 

 died from cancer at his home in Washington 

 in the early morning of July 11. 



Among the honors awarded on the birthday 

 of King Edward are knighthoods to Mr. 

 Francis Galton, Professor J. Larmor, Mr. E. 

 H. I. Palgrave and Professor T. E. Thorpe. 

 Sir Dyce Duckworth and Mr. Henry Morris, 

 president of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, 

 received baronetcies ; Dr. W. Schlich was ap- 

 pointed a Knight Commander of the Order 

 of the Indian Empire (K.C.I.E.) and Mr. 

 James Stuart has been made a privy coun- 

 cillor. 



The University of Manchester has con- 

 ferred its doctorate of science on Professor 

 Theodore W. Eichards, professor of chemistry 

 at Harvard; Dr. Otto Wallach, professor of 

 organic chemistry at Gottingen, and Pro- 

 fessor Henry E. Armstrong, professor of 

 chemistry in the City and Guilds of London 

 Technical Institute. 



In connection with the Darwin centenary 

 celebrations Mr. Erancis Darwin has been 

 elected a foreign member of La -Societe Hol- 

 landaise des Sciences, Harlem, and a member 

 of the American Philosophical Society, and 

 Professor Sir George Darwin and Mr. Francis 

 Darwin have been elected corresponding mem- 

 bers of the Senckenbergische Naturforschende 

 Gesellschaft, Frankfort, honorary members 



