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of Chemistry of the Paris Academy of Sciences, in 

 the room of the late Professor Kekule. Professor 

 Mendelejev received twenty-eight votes; Pro- 

 fessor Fischer, of Berlin, twenty-two, and Sir 

 William Crookes, five. 



It is expected that either M. Risler, Direc- 

 tor of the Agricultural School, or M. Rous, 

 Sub-director of the Pasteur Institute, will be 

 elected to the chair in the Section of Agricul- 

 ture of the Paris Academy of Sciences, in the 

 room of the late M. Aime Girard. 



We learn from Nature that Mr. J. G. Baker, 

 F. E. S., has retired from the post of curator of 

 the herbarium at Kew, in which he is succeeded 

 by Mr. W. Botting Hemsley, F. R. S. 



The Swiney prize has been awarded for the 

 present year to Dr. I. Dixon Mann for his book 

 on forensic medicine and toxicology. The prize, 

 which is awarded every fifth year by the So- 

 ciety of Arts and the Royal College of Physi- 

 cians, is of the value of £200. 



The Geological Society, London, will this 

 year make its awards as follows : The Wollas- 

 ton Medal to Professor Charles Lapworth ; the 

 Murchison Medal to Mr. B. N. Peach, and a 

 second Murchison Medal to Mr. John Home ; 

 the Lyell Medal to Lieut. -General C. A. Mc- 

 Mahon ; the Bigsby Medal to Professor T. W. 

 Edgeworth David ; the Wollaston Fund to 

 Professor J. B. Harrison ; the Murchison Fund 

 to Mr. James Bennie ; the Lyell Fund is divided 

 between Mr. Frederick Chapman and Mr. John 

 Ward. 



The annual meeting of the New York Acad- 

 emy of Sciences will be held on February 27th. 

 The President, Professor H. F. Osborn, will 

 make the annual address, the subject being 'The 

 Succession of Mammalian Fauna in America 

 compared with that in Europe during the Ter- 

 tiary Period.' 



Mr. Robert L. Jack, Government Geologist 

 of Queensland, has been appointed to supervise 

 the collection of exhibits sent by Queensland 

 to the forthcoming Greater Britain Exhibition in 

 London. Mr. Jack expects to reach England 

 this month. 



Mr. S. a. Knapp, a special agent of the 

 Department of Agriculture, has arrived at San 



Francisco, returning from an expedition to 

 Asia, where he has secured seeds of agricultural 

 products that might with advantage be culti- 

 vated in the United States. 



The St. Petersburg Academy of Medicine has 

 elected as honorary members from Great Britain 

 Sir William MacCormac, Sir William Tur- 

 ner, Loi'd Rayleigh, Sir William Stokes, Dr. 

 MacEwen, Dr. Thompson and Dr. Lauder 

 Brunton, and from Germany Professors Walde- 

 yer, of Berlin ; Streda, of Konigsberg; Kiihue, 

 of Heidelberg, and Schwalba, of Strasburg. 



The death is announced at the age of 53 of 

 Dr. Joseph Coats, since 1894 professor of pa- 

 thology at the University of Glasgow. He was 

 the author of a well-known manual of pathol- 

 ogy and of a work on tuberculosis as well as 

 of numerous minor contributions. The death 

 is also announced of Sir Alfred Roberts, one of 

 the most eminent members of the medical pro- 

 fession in Australia. 



We also learn with regret of the deaths of 

 Dr. Gottlieb Gluge, emeritus professor of phys- 

 iology and anatomy in the University of Brus- 

 sels, at the age of 86 years, and of Dr. Constan- 

 tino Vousakis, professor of physiology in the 

 University of Athens. 



News has reached Paris of the death of M. 

 Potter, killed while making geographical ex- 

 plorations in Central Africa. 



The will of the late M. Louis Pierson, of 

 Mircourt, gives 100,000 fr. to the Paris Acad- 

 emy of Sciences for a biennial prize to be 

 award to the Frenchman who has made the 

 most important discovery in physical science. 



By the will of the late C. T. Mitchell, of 

 Hillsdale, Mich., that city receives his resi- 

 dence and an endowment of $10,000 for a 

 public library. 



The Physical Society of Berlin, establi.shed 

 in 1845, decided at its meeting of January 5th 

 that it would hereafter be known as The Ger- 

 man Physical Society. The object of the 

 Society is to advance physical science by the 

 following means : (1) The publication of pro- 

 ceedings especially for the prompt issue of 

 short communications. (2) The publication of 

 a year-book on the progress of physics. (S) 

 Cooperation in the publication of De Annalen 



