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devised by Professor Weidenreieh. It is to be 

 hoped that a precedent will be established by 

 this event, and that hereafter there will be 

 annually specially invited foreign guests, 

 whose presence and communications will add 

 much to the profitableness of our annual sci- 

 entific gatherings. 



King Edward has conferred the order of the 

 Indian Empire on Dr. Sven Hedin, the dis- 

 tinguished Swedish geographer and traveler. 



A KNIGHTHOOD has been conferred on Pro- 

 fessor W. A. Tilden, F.E.S., professor of 

 chemistry and now dean of the Royal College 

 of Science, London. 



Professor Julius Kuhn has retired from 

 the directorship of the Agricultural Institute 

 of the University of Halle, and is succeeded 

 by Professor Wohltmann. 



Dr. James Johnston Dobbie, F.E.S., di- 

 rector of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edin- 

 burgh, has been appointed principal chemist 

 of the British Government Laboratories, in 

 the place of Sir T. E. Thorpe, who has retired. 



At the Berlin Meteorological Institute, 

 Professor Kassner has been promoted to chief 

 of department and Dr. Henze succeeds him 

 as observer. 



Mr. C. L. Willoughby, dairyman and ani- 

 mal pathologist to the Georgia Experiment 

 Station, has resigned. 



Dr. a. M. Tozzer, of the department of 

 American archeology and ethnology of Har- 

 vard University, is in charge of an expedition 

 for research in Central America and British 

 Honduras on behalf of the Peabody Museum. 



The Bulletin of the American Geographical 

 Society states that Mr. Ellsworth Hunting- 

 ton, of Yale University, returned home early 

 in October, after a profitable journey of eight 

 months. After exploring the Dead Sea he 

 made expeditions into the wild border regions 

 of the Syrian Desert, the Negeb or South 

 Country, the Druze Mountains and the Leja 

 with its volcanic flows and went as far as 

 Palmyra and northern Syria. Throughout 

 the journey, special attention was paid to 

 climatic problems, and it was found that the 



l>henomena of Palestine agree with those of 

 Central Asia in a remarkable degree. In 

 early July, Mr. Huntington went up to Asia 

 Minor by way of the Cilician Palin and the 

 city of Adana. The months of July and Au- 

 gust were devoted to a study of the lakes of 

 Central Asia Minor. On the way home from 

 Turkey a flying visit was paid to Greece. A 

 study of the alluvial deposits which cover the 

 Olympian plain and from the midst of which 

 old Olympia has been excavated, yielded evi- 

 dence of the manner in which the climatic 

 history of Greece has been parallel to that of 

 regions 2,000 or 3,000 miles farther east. 



Mr. H. H. Turner, Savilian professor of as- 

 tronomy at Oxford University, gave a public 

 lecture on November 2.3, on " Possible Evi- 

 dence on having reached the North Pole." 



The Bradshaw lecture of the Royal College 

 of Surgeons will be delivered by !Mr. F. Rich- 

 ardson Cross on December 10, on " The Brain 

 Structures concerned in Vision, and the Vis- 

 ual Field." 



The inaugural meeting of the Illuminating 

 Engineering Society was held at the Society 

 of Arts, London, on November 18, when an 

 address was delivered by Professor Sylvanus 

 P. Thompson, the first president. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the monument 

 raised by international subscription to Pro- 

 fessor Jules Liegeois, was unveiled on Oc- 

 tober 24 at Damvillers, department of the 

 Meuse, his native city. The monument con- 

 sists of a bust and is on a granite pedestal in 

 the center of the public square of the city haU. 

 Besides an official delegation from the Uni- 

 versity of Nancy, other French and foreign 

 scientific men were present at this tribute to 

 the memory of the first juris-consult who 

 studied the relation of hypnotism and sugges- 

 tion to criminal law and legal medicine. 



The Rev. W. H. Dallinger, D.Sc. F.R.S., 

 the well-known microscopist and biologist, 

 died at Lee, England, on November 7, aged 

 sixty-seven years. 



