January 13, 1899.] 



SCIENCE. 



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The douor further proposes that part of the new 

 fuud shall he appropriated to the enlargement of the 

 buildings of the Institute at Chelsea, part to increas- 

 ing the at present sadly inadequate salaries of the Di- 

 rector and other members of the scientific staff, part 

 to the expenses of administration and maintenance, 

 and the remainder chiefly to founding valuable 

 fellowships and studentships, tenable for limited 

 periods, for research either in the laboratories of the 

 Institute or in centers of outbreaks of disease, -whether 

 at home or abroad. 



The conditions on which these fellowships and 

 studentships may be held are not yet determined 

 upon, but it is hoped to open them to all classes of 

 her Majesty's subjects. 



Lord Iveagb, in our opinion, deserves the gratitude 

 of the nation for thus munificently providing for the 

 cultivation, in the British dominions, of biology and 

 allied sciences for the good of mankind in an institu- 

 tion which henceforth will compare favorably with 

 any similar establishment in other parts of the world. 



It will be remembered that the British Insti- 

 tute of Preventive Medicine received from the 

 Jenner Memorial Committee the funds that it 

 had collected and altered its name in honor of 

 Jenner. It has recently taken possession of 

 new buildings on the Chelsea Embankment. 

 Dr. Allan Macfadyen is the Director. 



Lord Iveagh has at the same time under- 

 taken to rebuild the most unhygienic district 

 of Dublin, erecting upon it model workmen's 

 dwellings, recreation halls, etc. The cost of 

 the improvements are estimated at over £250,- 

 000. 



GENERAL. 



Peofessoe B. K. Emerson, of Amherst Col- 

 lege, has been elected President of the American 

 Geological Society in succession to Professor J. 

 J. Stevenson, whose address on ' Our Society ' 

 is published in the present number of Science. 



The American Society of Naturalists at its 

 recent meeting appropriated $50 towards the 

 support of the American University Table at 

 Naples, and $50 towards the support of the 

 Naturalists' Table at the Marine Biological 

 Laboratory at Woods Holl. It was voted that 

 the place of the next meeting be left with the 

 Secretaries of the several societies, who will 

 probably select New Haven. The following is 

 a full list of the officers for the ensuing year : 

 President, W. G. Farlow ; Vice-Presidents, H. 



C. Bumpus, W. H. Howell, F. H. Gerrish '■> 

 Secretary, T. H. Blorgan ; Treasurer, John B. 

 Smith ; Members of the Executive Committee 

 elected from the Society-at-large, Bashford 

 Dean, F. H. Herrick. 



At the annual public meeting of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences, on December 19th, the 

 Permanent Secretary, M. Berthelot, read a me- 

 morial notice of Brown-Sequard, the eminent 

 physiologist, who, it will be remembered, was 

 the son of a citizen of Philadelphia. Brown- 

 Sequard led a life full of vicissitudes, crossing 

 the Atlantic more than sixty times, until in 

 1878 he was elected Professor in the University 

 of Paris and was naturalized as a citizen of 

 France. The President of the Academy, M. 

 Wolf, called attention to the approaching bi- 

 centennial of the Academy and paid tributes to 

 the members who had died during the year : 

 MM. Aim6 Girard, Souillard, Pomel andCohn, 

 of Breslau. 



At the same meeting of the Academy the 

 prizes for the current year were awarded. 

 Three of these, as we have already announced, 

 were given to Americans — the Lalande prize to 

 Dr. Seth C. Chandler, the Damoiseau prize to Dr. 

 George W. Hill and the Henry Wilde prize to 

 Mr. Charles A. Schott. Another prize, the 

 Lallemand prize, was divided, and one half 

 given to Mr. Edward P. Allis, of Milwaukee, 

 Wis., for his memoir on 'The cranial muscles 

 and cranial first spinal nerves of Amia calva.^ 

 In addition to these four prizes coming to Amer- 

 ica, apparently only two other prizes were given 

 outside of France — the Janssen medal to A. 

 Belopolsky, of the Observatory at Pulkova, for 

 his contributions to astronomy, and the Des- 

 maziere prize to Professor de Toni, of Padua, 

 for his Sylloge Algarum. 



The Academy offered in all about fifty prizes, 

 the largest of these, the Breant prize, of 100,000 

 fr., was in part given to M. Phisalux for bis re- 

 searches on chemical vaccines. The LeConte 

 prize, of 50,000 fr., for an important scientific 

 discovery, was not awarded. The grand mathe- 

 matical prize (6,000 fr.) was awarded to M. 

 Morel, and the Poncelet prize (2,000 fr.), also 

 in mathematics, to M. Hadam. The Jecker 

 prize in organic chemistry (10,000 fr.) was di- 



