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vided among MM. Bertrand, Buisine and D. 

 Berthelot. The Vaillant prize in geology (4,000 

 fr.) was given to M. Cayeux, and the Estrade- 

 Delcros prize (8,000 fr.) to M. Munier Chalmas 

 for his worli on paleontology and geology. 



Professor William Ramsay gave an ad- 

 dress before the German Chemical Society, 

 Berlin, on December 20th, describing the newly 

 discovered gases and their relation to the peri- 

 odic law. He also gave a popular lecture on 

 the subject. 



Mb. Sydney Rowland has been appointed 

 Assistant Bacteriologist at the Jenner Institute 

 of Preventive Medicine. 



M. Teoost has received an anonymous gift 

 of 4,000 fr. for researches on the liquefaction of 

 air. 



The Honorable R. J. Strutt, who, as we re- 

 corded last week, has been awarded the Coutts- 

 Trotter Studentship in Science at Trinity Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, is a son of Lord Rayleigh, the 

 eminent physicist, formerly professor at Cam- 

 bridge University. 



Dr. Alfred A. Kanthack, professor of pa- 

 thology in the University of Cambridge and 

 Fellow of King's College, died at Cambridge, 

 on December 21st, at the early age of thirty- five 

 years. Dr. Kanthack was elected to the profes- 

 sorship in Cambridge a little more than a year 

 ago, succeeding the late Professor Roy. He is the 

 author of a ' Manual of Morbid Anatomy ' and 

 of a ' Handbook of Bacteriology ' and of numer- 

 ous and important original contributions to 

 these sciences. 



We regret also to record the death at Phila- 

 delphia, on January 5th, of Dr. E. Otis Ken- 

 dall, in his eighty-first year. He had been for 

 more than fifty years professor of mathematics 

 in the University of Pennsylvania, though re- 

 cently he had relinquished active duties. He 

 had also held the chair of astronomy in the Uni- 

 versity, was long dean of the scientific depart- 

 ment, and was in 1883 elected vice-provost, be- 

 ing honorary vice-provost at the time of his 

 death. Dr. Kendall was for twenty-eight years 

 one of the Secretaries of the American Philo- 

 sophical Society, and for the following twenty- 

 one years one of its Vice-Presidents. He was 

 the author of a text-book of astronomy and of 



various contributions to mathematics, as well as 

 of computations for the U. S. Nautical Alma- 

 nac and the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 

 Dr. Kendall will, however, be best remem- 

 bered as a teacher, being greatly honored and 

 beloved by many generations of college stu- 

 dents. 



The death is also announced, at the age of 

 sixty-four years, of Professor H. W. Vogel, of 

 the Institute of Technology at Berlin, known 

 for his researches in photography and spectros- 

 copy. 



Ground for the Horticultural Hall of the 

 New York Botanical Gardens was broken on 

 January 3d. The building will be 512 feet long, 

 60 feet wide, with a dome 90 feet high. 



The following lectures will be given during 

 the present season at the American Museum of 

 Natural History at three o'clock on Saturday 

 afternoon. 



Jan. 7. — An Exploration for Dinosaurs in the Eocky 

 Mountain Plateau Region. .De. J. L. Woetman. 



Jan. 14. — A Hunt for Fossil Camels and Horses in 

 Kansas and Colorado De. W. D. Matthew. 



Jan. 21.— The Bird Eocks of the Gulf ot St. Law- 

 rence Me. Frank M. Chapman. 



Jan. 28. — Exploration ot Zapotecan Tombs ot South- 

 ern Mexico Me. M. H. Saville. 



Feb. 4. — The Jesup North Pacific Expedition : Ar- 

 cbxological Exploration in British Columbia, 



Mr. Haelan I. Smith. 



Feb. 11.— The Jesup North Pacific Expedition : The 

 Indian Tribes of the State of Washington, 



De. L. Faeeand. 



Feb. 18.— Eocks of the State of New York as illus- 

 trated in the Museum Me. L. P. Geatacap. 



Feb. 25. — A Collecting Trip in Europe, 



De. E. O. Hovey. 



Mar. 4. — The Squirrels of North America, 



Dr. J. A. Allen. 



Mar. 11. -The Life Histories of Butterfliesand Moths 

 of the Vicinity of New York, 



Me. WM. BEDTENMiJLLER. 



Mar. 18. — The Hyde Expedition : Exploration of the 

 Kuins of the Pueblo ot Bonito, New Mexico, 



Me. George H. Pepper. 



Mar. 2.5.— Peoples of Asia— The Philippines to Japan, 



Professor albert S. Bickmore. 



On Thursday evening at eight o'clock lec- 

 tures will be given as follows : 



The New York Zoological Society. 



Jan. 12.— The Zoological Parks of Europe and The 

 New Zoological Park of New York City 



Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn. 



